Anfernee Simons’ EXPLOSIVE Comments | Has Joe Mazzulla ALREADY Won Over New Celtics?

Anfernee Simons’ EXPLOSIVE Comments | Has Joe Mazzulla ALREADY Won Over New Celtics?

Are things a little bit sad around the Boston Celtics? Plus, if I was a Portland Trailblazers fan, I’d be really angry at Anthony Simons. We’ll talk about it all right now on the Locked On Celtics podcast. Uh-huh. Yep. Y ready to see who else could it be? What they going to say now? Screaming like JT coral recept every game, every practice. Prime time Jeff White on the sideline. Rain and Jace. How we started raising business. How we finish. Locked on Celtics Pod, home of the winners. Hey there. Welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics podcast right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network where it’s your team every day. Your team is the Boston Celtics and I talk about them every Monday through Friday. It’s a free podcast. It’s available everywhere podcast exists. It’s on YouTube so you can get in there and get into the comment section. Share your thoughts with your fellow everydayers, the people who are with me every Monday through Friday. And with me, I’m John Carales, beatw writer for Boston Sports Journal. I’ve written a couple of books about the team. I’ve been doing a version of this job for about 20 years or so. And this time, my job is taking me to Celtics training camp where they’ve had a couple of practices and it’s just I think the word of the camp is pace. We’ll talk about that. We’ll talk about Joe Missoula and his impact on the new guys. We’ll talk about Anthony Simons and why uh if I’m a Blazers fan, I would not want to be paying attention to what Anthony Simons is talking about. But let’s get to a couple of early takeaways here with Tom Westerhome. Tom, how are you? I am good, man. How are you? I’m great. You can find Tom Celtics’s work at boston.com. Uh Tom, we’re a couple of days into camp. The Celtics actually have a an off day on Thursday, so this is just a kind of process everything. Maybe there’s a film session. Guys are going to be in the gym. I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of individual work, but it’s a chance to take a a little bit of an assessment quickly. Uh do you have any big takeaways from the early going of Celtics camp? Yeah, I mean it’s it’s such a strange vibe in the start in the start of this camp. I mean it’s it’s such a strange it’s going to be such a strange season, right? And I think that you get a weird like I think everything feels very uncertain right now. There’s just like I like I nobody knows what to make of anything. Um everything, you know, these guys are all getting to know each other. Um, I think to me the the biggest quote like the the most I I think the the quote that kind of captured the vibe the best was Jaylen talking about it feels a little bit sad around here right now. I don’t you know I don’t I miss like you know Jaylen paraphrasing like I miss Luke Cornett you know like the guy just gota like there’s there’s a bunch of guys who are gone. miss I I miss uh Chris Taps Porzingis, right? Like a lot of guys are not here and it it feels different and and I think that it’s like the Wolverine meme of him laying in the bed with the the picture frame and it’s just like Luke and KP and Drew and he’s just like a Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And I think I I think that it was this part of the season was always going to feel like this, right? it was always going to feel a little bit just like well this is this is different. I don’t I don’t know about this. Um so I mean I think it’s interesting and I mean I know we can get into it but like I think that there’s a I think that it’s it’s very possible and very um yeah I think it’s very possible that this this could turn very quickly into not sad, right? Like I think it’s important to remember that. I think you know Brad always talks about never get too high, never get too low. And I I think that’s really important right here, right? Because it’s like we don’t know what’s going to happen this season. It’s I it’s going to be weird. We know we we can make like a lot of very educated guesses as to what’s going to happen this season, but like as of right now, it’s fine to feel a little sad when you look out there and you don’t see Drew Holiday and you don’t see Chris Porzingis, if that makes you sad. I don’t know a lot of Celtics fans have kind of soured on him pretty quick, but it’s fine to look out there not and feel sad that Luke Cornet isn’t out there, but things I mean it’s a long season. A lot of things are going to happen and like there will be some good, some bad, but like there could be some good. This could be a this could be a low point. Like this right now before games even start could be the low point when you don’t see Drew Holiday out there. I don’t know. That’s my big takeaway is just how early it is, how uncertain everything is at this stage. Yeah. The the Jaylen quote from the um from media day where he says, “It’s a little bit sad. A lot of the guys have spent a lot of time with, we had such a great group over the last couple of years. To see them not be around anymore obviously is going to have an effect on our team, but we’ve got five new players that we’ve got to get onboarded and acclimated into the system.” So there’s the original like you know things were so good and you know what things were really good things were great and things were better even I think we can barely say that quite confidently and and like even Brad Stevens acknowledged that like the guys that they had in the locker room the past two seasons good guys quality people you know good like the locker room was as positive and uncontroversial a place as you’re going to find in the NBA a league that thrives on petty crap, you know, like everywhere you look, people are taking shots and there were no shots being taken. No, in in the Celtics locker room. Uh, but all of these all of these great people are gone. And that’s, you know, Drew KP KP became one of Jaylen’s great friends. Al Horford him. Yeah. Yeah. We’re seeing him being introduced in Golden State with like wearing a Golden State jersey and it’s like watching that you’re like, “God, that looks so weird.” But it it’s just you gotta you got to get past it because as Jaylen said, there are five new players that you have to get onboarded. You have no choice. I think last year was such an aberration that, you know, it was easy for guys to kind of let their guards down a little bit. What happened this past off season is normal. That’s normal NBA stuff. It’s going to get more normal, too. Yeah, it’s going to get a lot more normal. But having five guys come in and be new guys, that’s how the league generally works. And you know, h on top of it, having your your you know, one of your superstars start the season, you know, watching from the sidelines. So, um yeah, I I I think that’s a great place to start because this is such a different training camp. you’re on top of learning all of these new guys, they’re learning a new style of play, like this is a completely new Boston Celtics. They’re playing faster. They’re not playing the same style of offense. They’re not playing the same style of defense, which we’ll get to in a second, but like the defense that they played before, you can’t play the same style. So everything about how they’re playing on the floor, there’s some carryover, but that’s just some building on some things that you did before, but it’s still a new offense, a new defense, a new approach, playing fast versus playing that walk up, look for mismatches kind of offense. the the mentality is different, the the leaders are different, the role players, everything about this team has some level of newness to it. And I think the first couple of practices probably hammered that home because one thing I heard from everybody being there is, man, we’re really running. We’re really getting after it. We’re lots of guys screaming. Like we talked to uh It sounds exhausting. I’m not. So, man, I I saw assistant coaches walking off like full sweat. Just full pouring sweat. Like you’re like you probably lost like three pounds coaching. How is that like how does that translate to the players have to like execute everything that you’re sweating like that was a great coaching? How can coaching be a bit better workout than what I’m doing at the gym, right? That doesn’t make sense. Well, I mean, it it does given we we just talked about this the other day, how the assistant coaches run with NBA players. It’s like, you know, I try to get to the gym pretty consistently. Uh I’m not out there running with NBA players. Uh so, you know, yeah, I was I was trying to be like cool about it and you had to pull back the curtain. It makes perfect sense. And I’m 52 at the gym. There’s no possible way that I’m working as hard as they are. I’m just trying to get through it. How do I make my knees not hurt as much? Um, but I tell you what, you want my first takeaway? My first takeaway is if I’m a Portland Trailblazers fan, I am angry about Anthony Simons. I am angry about what he is saying. I will play you the quotes that I’m like, wow. When I heard I was like, oh man. Okay, that is coming up next. Today’s show is brought to you by Pelaton. Pelaton is shaping the future of fitness. Talking about fitness, uh if you don’t get a chance to run around on the floor with NBA players, try the new Pelaton crossraining tread plus powered by Pelaton IQ. It’s their most advanced equipment yet, designed to give you real time guidance and endless ways to move. 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I host Lockdown NBA game night on Wednesdays with Jake Madison. Uh during the season, it’ll be all the games played on Tuesday night, uh breaking everything down. And then the afternoon show covers all the big storylines in the NBA. So go check that out. Two podcasts on the same feed there. All right, Tom. Uh Anthony Simons like I I I love the fact that he I know that the first part of his quote from media day kind of made the rounds and was like uh really defense is about you wanting to try and like it’s that simple. Um which is that’s like the first thing about if I’m a Portland fan like oh oh so you so you didn’t want to try you didn’t care about that. And and before you keep going, I would like to just say he’s right. He’s right. No, he’s right. That’s just defense. I mean, you can have physical tools that that like add on for sure, but like most of most people in the NBA have those physical tools. Anthony Simon certainly does. So, yeah, but he didn’t use them in Portland. He didn’t use them there. The Portland Trailblazers, a rebuilding team, looking for their stars, looking for their next generation. And Simons is there scoring, scoring, scoring, and not playing defense. And they’re like, so they ended up trading him. The Blazers traded him, a guy you love for Drew Holiday on a bad contract, what ended up being like a bad contract. Yeah. And you know, Holiday is in his mid30s. Like, and they were like, we’d rather have this guy than Anthony Simons. partly because like what more message do you need to send? You you just got traded for one of the best still at this age, one of the best defenders, individual defenders in the league. Like we love your offense. That’s great. You’re one of, you know, Jordan Pool like like you got like plenty of guys out there that can score and put up numbers. I think he’s I think he’s a definitely a richer man’s Jordan Pool. I will say but but but he’s in class right now. Your point is well taken. Yes. Right. He’s in that class. He’s that’s the that’s the team picture that he’s in. Yeah. And so to hear him say basically say like Yeah. The you know defense is effort and I just I just got to do it and like what were you doing for the past few years with the same tone of voice as somebody who’s like being told like I mean veggies are good for you. I gotta I gotta eat them. Gotta eat them. I don’t know. I mean, if I gota Tuesday at practice, a Wednesday at practice, Anthony Simon says this about the defense that he’s learning. And just just listen. That’s one of the first things when I got here, that’s the first things we worked on is just being a playmaker in that way. um whether it’s um stabbing at the balls, you know, trying to steal the ball, look at passing lanes, um being in the right spot each every time. And so that’s one of the things we we drilled for the first I know four weeks I was here, you know, before training camp. So, um those things, you know, something I never really worked on or, you know, been taught and so I was happy that, you know, that was the focus and you know, we could see, you know, the impact on those four weeks of, you know, just working on that stuff. So on one hand, the Celtic side, let’s the Celtic side is he’s been at camp like four weeks before. So he’s basically a month. Yeah, he showed up early. Showed up early. Yeah. Has been working on the defensive principles, is excited about them, it seems. It seems um the Celtics are going to have to take chances to force steals and Oh, get the ball. Yeah. you know, get get out there and like turn get those turnovers that Joe has been talking about for a couple years. Like this is the year you have to start getting those turnovers. Uh because side note, you don’t have the defense that the Celtics had before. Holiday White, Jaylen, Jason Porzingis protecting the rim or Horford protecting the rim. You didn’t have to gamble for steals. In fact, gambling for steals would put you out of position and that’s not the that’s not the type of defense you want to pull out of position. That’s the defense. Let’s just challenge shots. We got rebounders. Let’s grab the rebounds and let’s just go to the other end of the floor and run our very efficient offense. Slower but still very efficient and let’s just score points and and win games. But now you have to take more chances because you don’t have you can’t just challenge shots because your rebounds rebounding is not as good. You don’t have the same level of defenders. You’re gonna if you just give up certain shots, you’re going to get burned. So Simons is part of that. So great. I’m psyched to hear Simons be part of that. But on the Portland side, like if I’m hearing that from a Blazers perspective, I’m like, “Buddy, are you never you’re telling me you were never taught defense?” So either Simons is taking shots, which probably is true. Um or or Chanty Bilips should be like fired and never coach again. I think I think it’s obviously Simons is like, “Oh yeah, you traded me. Watch Watch me throw you under the bus. Yeah, exactly. Again, remember what I said before, petty league. Like, this is the pettiness right here. It’s hilarious from this side, but man, it is wild. I missed it so much. It’s so beautiful to have some soap opera back in our lives. Oh my god, it’s it’s been missing. It’s been missing. You know, Jaylen’s like, I’m a little bit sad. It’s like sure for sure I mean for sure counterpoint the content though it will be better. No, I mean I was like we never worked on defense. I was never even taught defense. I didn’t even know. I blacked out after I crossed half court. I blacked out for 24 seconds and I crossed back over. I’m like, “Oh, what? Oh, we’re back on offense.” You could stand in front of the guy and then move your feet and stay in front of the guy. Did you guys Do you guys know? Hortland never told us we could stand in front of a guy. I stand between the guy and the basket. I thought that was illegal. Chanty Bulips told me it was illegal. That’s the next step. I mean, it’s it’s very funny. And like, you know, I think I think to your point though, right? It’s like I think if you’re the Celtics, this is great because what you’re getting is an Anthony Simons who one seems spurned enough by being traded to lob these to lob these shots at at his old team. But I think more importantly, right, I I think you’re getting an Anthony Simons who okay, like I I like I I don’t know, but it seems like you’re getting an Anthony Simons who got traded to the Celtics, looked around and said, “Oh, dip. I got traded to the Celtics.” Like, this is this is a real team. Like, I got traded. My teammates are now Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum. These are wellrespected veterans at this point in the NBA who are winners. And like I just got traded to a team that like, you know, is really focused on winning. I mean, that’s great. If you’re the Celtics, you’re getting a guy who’s like like, okay, yeah, should he have tried on defense a little bit before this? Should he have learned a little bit more about defense before this? Yeah, absolutely. But like, you know, that’s a that’s promising sign. He showed up a month early to work on defense. It’s like it’s like it’s like a breakup where, you know, she’s like, “Yeah, he never paid attention to me. Like, we never he never gave me flowers. Never did me anything nice.” And like the new girlfriend’s like, “What are you talking about? Buys me flowers all the time.” Yeah. You know, cooked me dinner last night. Like I never asked for it. He’s just he’s just doing he writes me notes. He’s he’s like perfect boyfriend. I don’t know what you’re talking about. And the other is like what? That doesn’t make any sense. That’s not that. No. No. You’re talking about Anthony Simons. You’re talking. You’re talking about Anthony Simons. Anthony. No. No. Anthony, right? You’re talking about No. Anthony. Anthony. The guy with the prayer hands tattoo on his shoulder. Yes. Oh, no way. Yeah. That that’s that’s where we are. From a Boston perspective, it is great. It is great because obviously I I will take a year of spiteful defense out of Anthony Simons than, you know, over the the the year of like, well, he’s just who he is and we got to deal with it. You know what I mean? Like that’s and let’s not rule out like the Joe Mazula aspect in all of this and we’ll come back and talk about because Joe the new guys the way they talk about Joe is for the people who are like not into Joe Mazoula. This this should be like one of the early takeaways as well. Just two days in. I think this Simon stuff, some of the other stuff like Joe Missoula, I think is already should be winning people over. We’ll we’ll come back. 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You if you’re playing fantasy basketball, locked on fantasy is the way to go. All right, let’s get back to the conversation here because Anthony Simons and his defense like I think one of the important things was Joe Mula and it was revealed at practice on Wednesday. It was Joe that initiated the conversation about the defense and Joe was basically like, “Hey, you got to be better. You’re not as bad as people say you are, but like you gota you got to be better.” And this I called that. I said that. I called that. I said that. that I call. Anyway, continue. This is This is not the place for victory laps. Okay. Anyway, I was right about Well, that’s that’s bad news for me because I do them all the time. This is lock this is locked on victory lap for sure. Uh you hear you hear um Simons talk about Joe and like, “Yeah, this guy is, you know, doesn’t want to be called coach. Just just call me Joe.” And um which I think is normal but also kind of indicative. Um and Joe’s like, “Yeah, I’m just I’m just a guy. I’m basically their same age. You don’t call me coach. I’m just Joe.” Um, but and you you you can tell the guys appreciate um I think somebody said it too where I think it was Simons who’s like this guy cares about who you are personally and so when he gets on you in practice, you don’t take it personally because you know he’s he’s he he cares about like who you are. Ask about the kids. He’ll come by the house. He’ll do these things and like in return he’s just like I’m going to coach you and you got to listen and when I say thing like Joe’s going to get frustrated. He’s going to MF people and Simons has said it. I talked to Josh Min a little bit. Josh Min’s like all in on Joe Mazula already. So for anybody who’s just been a Joe Mazula hater, the new guys who’ve come in and joined the team, there’s no incentive for them to be, you know, uh, crazy Joe Missoula lovers, but they immediately have taken to him. And I I think when we talk about Simon’s defense and him finally like coming through and playing it, some of it is petty, like I’ll I’ll do it because Portland traded me and, you know, I’m going to do it just to spite them. But also, Joe Mazul is asking for it and he’s been really good to me, so I’m gonna kind of do it for him, too. Yeah, for sure. I mean, you know, it’s I think that’s one of the things that I’m the most interested in watching this year because we’ve talked we talked during the offseason about like how this is an interesting year for Joe Mazula because, you know, like the the Eric Spolster thing, right, where it’s like he walks in to to the Heat and he’s coaching, you know, like super duper stars and it’s like, okay, wow, you oh, did you win championships with that team? You must be so good. But then it turns out like no, he’s actually like an awesome like one of the best coaches that we’ve seen in the last two decades. And it’s like, you know, I I I think that there’s some real potential for that with Missoula. You know, I think certainly, you know, the X’s and O’s will be interesting. The the the schematics will be interesting this season, but I think, you know, you don’t just like it doesn’t just happen that you get a team of veteran stars to buy in. Like that doesn’t just happen by accident, you know, like that doesn’t just happen because they want to win. That the coach also has to inspire them and has to has to have the kind of personality that can that can connect with you and and he’s he did such a good job on a team full of Yeah. Okay. The guys are all good guys for sure, but good guys can clash too, you know, like good guys cannot get along too. Like it doesn’t always go smoothly. And Joe Misoula has been so good at at getting people to buy in and so much, you know, that’s Simons is a perfect example of this, right? Because the thing that Simons needs to do is the part of the game that requires almost exclusively buyin. Like defense is all about just buying in. Like it it’s one of the reasons like, yeah, okay, he, you know, he’s talking about how how Portland didn’t teach him X, Y, and Z. It’s possible Portland’s coaching staff just isn’t as good at getting people to buy in on things as Joe Moula is. Like that seems very plausible to me. And and I think what’s one of the most underrated things about Joe Mazula. It’s one of the things that the people who don’t like him really miss, you know, because it’s hard to quantify, right? Sure. If you’re not if you’re not on the inside, it’s it’s hard to it’s hard to quantify like the way that he connects with players and the way that he gets the best out of players. But like he’s got a pretty good, you know, the track record so far is pretty good. Not bad. So, I’ll point to this. Anthony Edwards recently was talking about how the Minnesota Timberwolves need to be more together. Like, you can say you’re together, you can say you’re brothers, but you got to live it. You got to be that. And I think people will by and large say Chris Finch is one of the best coaches in the NBA. And that first of all is true. Chris Finch is an incredible coach. Um has gotten the the most or I would say the most, it’s hard to say not being in Minnesota, but he’s gotten if not the most close to the most out of his team and um for Anthony Edwards to be like, “Yeah, we still need to be more together.” That’s that’s not something you’ve heard about the Celtics. If nothing else, they are together. And I think and I I will say that the the Missoula critics will be like, “Yeah, that’s all great. We’re not questioning that. We’re questioning the three-point shooting and the volume of three-pointers and the the in-game execution and stuff like that.” Which, you know, we’ll see. We’ll see. I think the other side of the Missoula stuff is well, it’s obvious that this year’s team is not going to shoot as many three-pointers. And speaking of victory laps, I plan on taking one this year. I’m already stretching out for it because I have been saying over the past two seasons, I’ve been trying to tell people this is not about three-pointers. It’s about the best shot available. And this Celtics offense over the past two years, Holiday, White, Tatum, Brown, Porzingis, Horford, Sam Hower off the bench, Pton Pritchard off the bench, everybody there is a three-point shooter. At least at the very worst, you’re a good or an average three-point shooter, right? Jaylen Brown had a down year, but like most guys are at least around average. So, it makes sense. You shoot those shots and you you attack a defense, they collapse and you kick it out, catch and shoot three-pointers for all of these guys. It makes perfect sense. This year’s team is not gonna do that, right? And so, what’s happening with this this year’s team? We’re already hearing it. We’re already seeing it. It’s going to be uptempo, push the ball, early attacks, multiple attacks. They’re going to play a different style. We’re going to see a different style of defense. I mean, offense. We’re going to see fewer three-pointers. We’re going to see that stuff. People see what happened over the past two years and with no real context said, “Well, this is Joe Mazula’s philosophy.” You haven’t ha haven’t seen him with these other guys to say, well, is it his philosophy or did he do the actual smart thing that a coach should do, which is coach to his personnel, which is what he actually did? And this year, he’s going to coach to his personnel. And that’s going to require the things we talked about, more chances taken on defense, trying to force more turnovers, more steals, all of that. getting into your offense quicker, starting your offense earlier in the shot clock, multiple attacks, you know, screens all over the place, cuts all over the place, and trying to score that way. So, yeah, that’s all important. Yeah, I I think that there’s probably like a connection to to the Joe Mazoula cares about his his players as people and thinks about his players as people and then is able to play to his personnel partly because he’s thinking about these guys individually, you know, because I mean, of course, like Yeah. I mean, yeah, he’s asking about their kids. He’s asking about like, you know, their home lives, you know, he wants them to to feel welcome. He wants them to to to be a part of the team. And then also he’s also thinking about them as basketball players individually. He’s not trying to force them into some my I’m guessing right. I don’t think he’s I don’t think he’s going to try to force them into some mold that he thinks it should be. I think you’re right. I think that he’s he’s looking at the strengths of these guys as people and as players and is going to try to take that and turn that into a winning basketball team. if this team has enough talent for that that you know I’m I’m interested to see but I I think that that’s one of the reasons that I I do think that you know we ear in the summer when we talked about like yo is this team going to be a lottery team and it’s like probably not because I think there’s enough talent on this team and I think Joe Missoula is going to get that talent out by being cognizant of everybody’s strengths and and yeah putting those on and putting those in a position to succeed. My final word is going to be um by getting to know people the way he does, you figure out how to coach guys. Exactly. You know exactly who can take what. Um this is where I lean on a little bit of my personal experience, especially in college, where my coach my coach would yell at me when somebody else messed up because there were guys on the team that really couldn’t take it from him, but I could. And so he would yell at me and that’s that that was just understanding all right Carales can can handle this. Uh I probably screwed up too. So but like this if I if I yell at this guy he’s going to throw into a shell and I’m this is not going to be that’s not going to be how he responds. Uh, and I think that’s how you when you get to know guys the way Joe knows them, it’s who can take it, who can’t, how do you talk to this guy, how because then you observe in their family life, how do you interact with how does he interact with his wife? How does he interact with his kids? You start to understand like, okay, this is this is who this person is. And so, when it comes to coaching, you can how do I get the most out of this guy? Well, this is how he gets this is how his family gets the most out of him. this is how I’m going to get the most out of him. Yeah. And so that that is all super important and that that is NBA coaching. Uh all right. Well, we’ll see. Thursday off day for the Celtics, but Friday, Saturday they will practice. And so that’s all going to be in the Monday show. For now, wrapping this up. Tom, thank you so much. Appreciate as always. I appreciate all of you listening, watching the Everydayers here Monday through Friday. The show’s free so you don’t have to pay for anything. Shows daily Monday through Friday when the season starts Friday game, Saturday game, postgame podcast here. So make sure you’re you’re subscribed. Plenty of stuff here. It’s all available for you everywhere. 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