Boston Celtics starters REVEALED? | Joe Mazzulla’s MAGIC TOUCH with players

Boston Celtics starters REVEALED? | Joe Mazzulla’s MAGIC TOUCH with players

Joe Missoula is up to his old tricks again at practice. Plus, has he revealed his starting lineup? It’s all right. Now on the Lockown Celtics podcast. [Music] Uh-huh. Yuck. Be ready. It’s the season. Who else could it be? What they going to say now? Screaming like JT coral. We kept the madness every game, every practice. Prime time white on the sideline. Rain and Jace how it started. Raise a business. How we finish locked on Celtics pod, home of the winners, baby. Hey there. Welcome back to the Locked On Celtics podcast right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. Where does your team every day? Your team is the Boston Celtics and I talk about them every Monday through Friday. The show is free. It’s available everywhere. It’s on YouTube. Watch the show there. Get into the comment section. Become an everydayer. Join me for every Monday through Friday show daily on your favorite podcasting app. I’m John Corales, beat writer for Boston Sports Journal. Been doing a version of this job for about 20 years now. I’ve written a couple of books about the team as well. So, join me on this journey, won’t you? FanDuel is the sponsor of today’s show. Right now, if you’re a new customer, you bet $5. If your bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets. So, go ahead to fanduel.com to get started. Uh today is very Joe Mazoulacentric day and later on we’ll talk about the starting lineup and not the starting lineup that I was pushing for but I think we can put the pieces together from the videos that we’ve seen from practice and come to come up with a starting lineup that at least we can expect to start the preseason. Uh we’ll talk a lot about Joe and Joe’s fun way to start practices. Just another Joe Joe being Joe moment. We’re going to do it with Tom Westerhome. Tom, how are you, my friend? What’s up? How are you, man? I’m good, man. I’m good. You know, we’re a few days away from uh preseason games, so crazy. This is like I was like happy to be back and happy for media day. Like, okay, we’re good. And then you’re like, okay, we still can’t see everything that’s happening, so we got to wait for preseason games. Uh, but the the Celtics social team between your Tik Toks and your Instagrams and tweets and YouTubes, you can piece together a lot of the things that are happening in practice. Uh, I I got to start with Spikeball. Tom, are you a Spikeball guy? I I’ve I’ve dabbled. Yeah. I uh I mean, you know, I live in uh I live in a beach town now. You know, spikeball is a nice thing to to bring to the beach and and play a little bit. It’s a It’s pretty It’s a good time. Seems like a fun I’ve never played spikeball. Um I Yeah, I mean the key to the key to spikeball is angles. It’s all about you gota you got to hit the angles. I mean, you know, you gota you got to be unpredictable. Um I’m sure these are all things that Joe likes is that like the key to spikeball is to like really, you know, like you can hammer it as hard as you want, but if you hit that thing hard straight down onto the net, it’s going to go super high. The other team’s going to have a real good chance to to get to it. You’re way better off just just being sneaky by like, you know, doing some tricky stuff like be be unpredictable. Be ungovernable. That’s That’s the key to uh like It’s funny to me because, you know, Joe’s always using like these crazy like he he What was he doing last year? I know he had football and they had like other crazy little games and stuff and um he’s always looking for something to kind of get the guys going and watching these spikeball videos I’m like you know this is actually not only is it like a good warm-up good camaraderie you know gets the competitive juices flowing this actually seems like a hell of a drill for basketball. Yeah, like you said, like you you you’re sliding. You have to be like on your toes. You have to read what the defense what the other guy’s doing with the ball. You have to like react quickly, communicate with your teammate, and it’s just a lot of like Yeah. unpredictable. You what does the situation call for? It It’s It’s very Mr. Miyagi, Karate Kid. You don’t realize that the wax on, wax off is a defensive, you know, karate move. And you don’t realize that, you know, paint the fence and all that stuff is, you know, another. You don’t realize that the spikeball stuff is, oh wow, we’re actually incorporating spikeball concepts into what we’re doing. It really is a a an interesting way, a Joe Mazoula way to to get these guys kind of used to moving with one another and working with one another. It’s kind of cool. Yeah. I mean, I think it’s cool because, you know, part of it, right, is like you you have these instant groups, right? Like you’re grouped immediately. Like it’s like, okay, this is this is a this is now your partner. You need to you need to learn how to communicate. Like you said, you need to learn how to communicate with this person. you need to learn how to work with this person. And hey, if you win with this person, you have that little bit of uh that little bit of dopamine, right? You got that little bit of like, oh, I remember. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I might not know Garza super well, but I did win not not just one, but two uh rounds of spikeball with that man. You know what? That guy’s okay. That guy’s okay. Like it’s a you know we were just talking yesterday like Jaylen you know is like oh like I’m sad to be missing my guys sad to be missing my uh the teammates. It’s like well this is a good way. Yeah. Like for for sure fair. I mean you know those were guys that you uh you played football with last year like you know these are these are guys that you made memories with over the last couple years but in a small little way in kind of a you know a get started way you’re making little memories with spikeball. like you’re you’re just kind of creating these little these little connections, these little micro connections. It was the baton to the baton handoff that I was thinking of last year, right? I forgot about the baton four by four. Like that was the baton re again. Again, little micro connections. I mean, in a literal sense there, right? Because it’s like you’re literally like you are holding the baton and then somebody else is holding the baton. Like you’re Yeah. Yeah. Little micro connections. It’s It’s funny that at this level, at the NBA level, something silly like spikeball is kind of exactly what a team like this needs. Um, and these all these little things, right? It’s it’s any team building thing. You see guys, you go bowling. Yeah. Little movie, you know, you you find these situations. I think it does show Joe has a real good grasp on just what the team needs in the moment. Um, and like h I got to ask him like we’re going to have practice on Friday. Like what made you think spikeball was the way to go and start your practices now? you know, like uh and and like was he at a beach and he saw people playing spikeball? He was like, “Aha, ah, that’s it.” So, it’s it’s just wild to me that I never would have thought that. Like, you know, whatever. What are they going to do? The that Frisbee game next. What’s that the one the Frisbee with the barrel? Oh, uh can Jam. Yeah. Yeah. Why not that? Why not? Sure. I mean, you know, find some uh you know, find some baskets. bring in a little a little disc golf next year. Yeah. Put it around the facility, you know. All right. The next one is up underneath the banners on the walkway. You got to get it up up onto the onto the walkway. Like just a big Frisbee golf thing as soon as you walk in the door at the Arbback Center. Here’s your Frisbee. There’s the target. Go. Be so much fun. It would be fun, honestly. I mean, spikeball would be fun. You know, like it’s funny, right? Because it’s like when you think Missoula, you think about a guy who does like, you know, he he’s like he likes to fight. He likes his martial arts. You know, you’re talking about, you know, you’re thinking about a guy who um super intense, always talking about like predators in the animal world, but like also, you know, it’s early in the season. He’s he’s these guys are going to be he’s got it set up so that his guys can have a good time. Like it’s not he’s not just he’s not just Mr. All inensity predator, you know, prey, whatever, whatever. Like it’s not just that. We’ll continue the conversation about Joe Missoula and we’ll get to the starting line lineup stuff when we come back. Today’s show is brought to you by Monarch Money. 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So find Locked On Locked on Fantasy Basketball on YouTube or wherever you listen to your podcast. All right, let’s get back to the conversation here. with Tom Westerholm and Joe Mazula. The the criticism for Joe is maybe some in-game stuff and and all of that, but you know, as a button pusher, I think he’s he’s he’s right where he needs it. He’s he’s kind of ball buster. Uh but he knows and I said this on the podcast before like he he’s gone to all of these things like guys talk about he’s like oh he’s come over and like been at my house and played with my kids and you know Chris Bucher got baptized and he was there for that and it’s not just like hey I’m going to show up and do this nice thing. Everywhere he goes to meet these guys and interact with these guys he’s taking in information. Joe is always gathering a dossier on people and so he knows who can take it, who can’t take it, how do I treat this guy? And so when you hear Anthony Simons talk about Joe is always giving me jabs about my defense, it’s because Anthony Simons can take it, can handle it, and is competitive enough where if the head coach is sitting there being like, “Yeah, hey what? Look at what we’re doing. We’re targeting Anthony. He’s the pigeon out here.” and you’re like motivates him to okay, I’ve got to do this. I got to I’ve got to be better at this. This is if if he’s going to get the most out of his team, all these little things add up for him to kind of get these guys to do what he needs them to do. Yeah, for sure. I mean, it’s funny, right? Because like Missoula would be uh I mean, I think Missoula would be good at a lot of jobs if he was like interested in them, you know? He seems to be a guy who like when uh when something piques his interest, he really gets, you know, very interested in it. But I think uh you know, he’d probably make a pretty good journalist, right? He likes to like find stuff out. Oh, sure. You know, he likes to he likes to get little little tidbits about people and it um seems to be a kind of a thing. But yeah, I mean I think I think that seems to be it’s funny that that’s so unique, you know, that that like all these coaches out there and it’s like, you know, well, why is what Missoula a lot of times what Missoula does it sounds it feels like common sense, you know? It’s like like oh like wow Missoula really like uh you know he looked at his at his roster and saw a bunch of three-point shooters like wow real real genius level stuff to like turn him into a three-point shooting team. Like, yeah. No, like that makes sense. Like, some of this stuff feels like common sense. It feels like common sense for the head coach of an NBA team to to spend a lot of time getting to know the the players on such a personal level. But, I mean, he clearly he has a gift for it, right? Like, that’s part of it. Clearly, he is he is he’s good at it um beyond I think probably the normal level. But um but it is funny when you just kind of say it out loud to just be like, “Oh man, you know, Missoula is Missoula’s he’s just so good at getting to know guys and it’s like, yeah, yeah. Don’t you doesn’t that sound like uh you know, kind of common sense?” But that that’s the beauty of it because he he’s he’s not encumbered by how he thinks he should act. And I think this is I think this is his world view. you know, you you hear him on the radio on 985 and they start asking him a bunch of questions like um like is it you know the the one about Tatum where they’re like uh is there is there you know a timeline for his return and he’s like well don’t we all have timelines for our return? like like he’s he just gets rid of a lot of the sports kind of pretense from every question that we we give him. And that listen when I’m asking him questions like I know that he he doesn’t buy into a lot of the canned premises of a lot of questions, right? And you know he he’s not he’s not like that. And that allows him to do this stuff. When you say it’s common sense, you’re like, “Yeah, not enough people have common sense.” It’s the the very simple, you know what? I’m just going to I’m going to go hang out with Jaylen Brown and go to one of his things. I’m going to go hang out with Derek White and go to something, you know, I’m going to go to his house and play with his kids, whatever. I mean, how excited do you think he was to to go to a baptism? Like he he must have been. I mean, like, honestly, knowing Joe, he was probably very like that might have been the highlight of the summer. Yeah, absolutely. But like, but now think about being Chris Buché. Yeah. You know, you’re just joining a team, you’ve made this decision, this personal decision, you’re doing you’re doing this, and then your coach shows up and it’s like that. how many people are showing up for that, right? It’s it’s your inner circle, right? You’re not it’s not a big public event. It’s it’s the people at his church, you know, however many people that is his his family and then his new head coach who has known him for like a day and now he’s there and you’re like, damn, you know, this this dude is like in it. Yeah. So, now you got Chris Bucher kind of like in your pocket. Yeah. And as I forget who it was that said it may it might have been Simons who’s like when when you know this guy actually cares about you personally. The stuff that he says to you in practice doesn’t matter because you know where it’s coming from is hey I want to win. you know this MF like curse, you know, whatever like the the dress down whatever that’s not because he has a thing against you, right? Which you know what it’s it’s ego, right? And for Joe, like a a a lack of ego or less ego than some other coaches who might be like, “Hey man, I here I am. I’m your coach. I’m in charge.” Blah blah blah. and they don’t take that time to make that connection or the right connection and you get that what does this guy have against me man what’s why is he why is he on me when Joe is on you after after practice he will like put his arm around you be like I love you know I love you but you got to be better you know and you’re like okay it’s coming from a straight basketball place and when it comes from a straight basketball place you can accept it and you can work on what you need to work on and that That to me just sums it all up. And okay, you want to get into some X’s and O’s and criticize Joe. Thi this really is at the heart of why Joe has had, if we’re being honest, a ton of success, has already won a championship and you know, if it wasn’t for some injuries, who knows how that Nick series would have gone. If Kristoff Spzingis was not sick, who knows how that Nick series would have gone, right? So, it’s that’s the the secret to his success. Yeah. And and you know, maybe common sense isn’t the right word. Maybe I I think what what it is to what it looks like to me is is is more of like almost like a sense of clarity, you know, like a clarity in in how to communicate with people, but but also like a clarity in like in like who he is and what’s important to him. And then like that clarity is so is so strong for Missoula that it then shows up then it shows up as super um just just just very real, you know, like very authentic to the other to to the people who who it impacts, right? So So when Joe Misoula is is saying like, “Okay, we need to be killer whales,” it doesn’t come across as coach speak. It doesn’t come across as like a bit. It just comes across as something that like you know Joe really like thought and was like you know this this is I think this is who we got to be you know or when yeah if he again if he attends Chris Buchche’s uh baptism it doesn’t come across as a coach trying to like win points with his with with his new player or like you know it doesn’t even really come across as like a guy like um necessarily like trying to make an impact. It It sounds more like a guy who’s like, “Oh, I’m this guy’s coach.” Like, “This guy’s important to me. Um, we’re about to have a very important relationship. It’s this level of clarity of like, okay, well, I should be here. This is this is something that like I should attend and I I want to attend and I’m, you know, I’m going to be there.” like yeah it feels like yeah it feels like a sense of clarity more so of just knowing who he is, who he wants to be, what he wants to do, and how he wants to have a relationship with these players. It’s also what allows him to put together a starting lineup of five guys when there are probably eight that think they should be starters. And you know, when when one of them has been a starter and says, “Oh, okay. I’m not going to be.” It allows him to kind of be like, “Hey, look, basketball only.” So, I think we have all like, if you pay close attention to a lot of the stuff that’s out there, think we know what the starting lineup is going to be. It’s not what I said, but we’ll tell you what it looks like when we come back. Today’s show is brought to you by FanDuel. NFL season is here. Baseball playoffs are going on. And right now, if you’re a new customer, you can bet $5. That’s it. $5 as your first bet. And if you win, you get 300 in bonus bets. So that’s it. Pick a bet, put down five bucks. 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Now, it’s not the starting lineup that I thought it was going to be or I was thinking it it should be, but it appears from the videos that it’s Payton Pritchard, Derek White, Jaylen Brown, Sam Hower, and Mish Kada. And uh Joe was very affusive in his praise of Sam Hower on 985 the sports hub which lends a little extra credence because he mentioned that Sam is what 32 and8 as a starter. So you know put that out there talked about how much he’s a he is a two-way player and he makes team you know his efficiency numbers his his on-off numbers are really good. So what do you think of that potential when when we see Wednesday night? What is it? Memphis, the first uh preseason game. Uh that being the starting lineup, it’s it’s it’s a weird starting lineup, man. Like it’s I mean, that’s my my first thought is just like, okay, so you’re going to be running, but you got Kada out there and it’s not like Hower’s like particularly speedy. I mean, you know, he’s useful in transition. he’s fast enough to, you know, to be a transition player and kind of, you know, space the floor in transition, but you don’t think to yourself like, you know, you don’t think to yourself of Sam Hower is a get the ball and go guy, right? Like, you know, that that’s one of the things that we’ve, you know, we’ve talked about is like, okay, you know, get it and go, like, get out, get out, get out, go, go, go. So, um, you know, I mean, there’s obviously a million ways around that. It’s it’s just an odd lineup. I I don’t know. It’ll be It’s probably fine. I I you know I I still kind of stand by my take that like you know I mean we’ll see if I’m right. I I still kind of think that Anthony Simons just I think he’s going to be I think he’s a little too good to be on the bench, but we’ll but that that matters here or there. Um you know and and you know we’ve talked about how like okay like if if you’re coming in with the second unit you have more opportunities to score that could be beneficial. I think the thing that I note the the thing that I note the most about this lineup is that no matter what it was going to be, it was always going to look weird. It was always going to be an odd grouping because this is an odd group of players. Yes. So, this is the odd grouping that we settled on. Like, all right, fine. Fair enough. Sure. See how it goes. And it might be situational. It could be that, you know, different guys get different different um opportunities and and maybe, you know, maybe Pritchard isn’t comfortable as a starter, you know, and and that goes away. Maybe Hower’s not comfortable as a starter and that goes away. So, you know, you have to give it a shot and see. Well, Hower and Pritchard have been here have been here. Pritchard was a sixman of the year. You can make the argument like he has earned this. Um, and you know what? Hower. Yeah. Right. It goes back to the Joe pressing the right buttons and all that stuff. You start the season, we’re not really worried about championship or anything like that. Right. Right. Even though Joe has said we’re we’re setting a a championship habit or whatever, however he’s putting it. Sure. Championship process. That’s what he said. Like, okay, fine. that that’s your way of saying we’re not competing, but we want to like we want to work like we would be competing. Okay, that’s great. That’s all fine. So, the message with this starting lineup seems to be you’ve been here, you’ve put in the work, you have earned this opportunity, and so Sam and Payton, you’re the guys, you’re the guys that we’re going to go with. They’re not going to have you, you know, sit here and think, “Hey, man. I put in all this work and here’s my chance to start.” And starting is still important to a lot of NBA players. No matter what they say, there’s a little extra something. You hear your name, you know, you know, Eddie Paladino is is screaming your name and you see your face in the jumbotron and that’s all fun. So, if you’re Joe, you say, “Okay, you guys have earned this.” if in, you know, by Thanksgiving the record isn’t exactly where you think it should be and the onoff numbers make certain other lineups more uh like make more sense. Then Joe can go to I’m just going to say Hower. Sure. Joe can go to Sam and be like, “You know what? The on-off numbers with this group are, you know, the numbers with this group are better and so we’re going to move you back to the bench and this is going to be the other group that we go with because it has the numbers have borne out this result.” And you know, because Joe has these relationships with these guys, you can do that. So, um I think I think just because it’s the starting lineup or or it seems to be the starting lineup, yeah, there’s no reason to think that by November, December, January, like by the All-Star break, you know, we might be doing podcasts on how many different starting lineups the Celtics have had. Yeah. You know, yeah, I I I think that’s like plausible to the point of being likely. Yeah. Because again, there’s so many weird iterations of this team. There’s just so many weird different looks that you can have um that it’s like they’re all strange. So there’s no way to hammer down one, you know? There’s no way to say like this is for sure the best group. I don’t know what the best group is. Nobody know you can’t tell yet. So yeah, at some point we’re gonna have to figure out uh where Jason Tatum fits back in. So you know, at some point Yeah. Like you know, Christmas. Yeah. Like November three it sounds like. Yeah. I you know, listen, just as an aside, I’ve been saying March. I’ve revised that to February. Yeah. Like I think February, Sunday, February 8th against the the Knicks. I’m like, “Oh, that’s such a juicy date. That’s such a perfect date.” Um, but now I’m like starting to look at the January schedule, starting to feel Januaryish. Yeah. Like, just see what that schedule might look like. So, yeah. But yeah, like that that’s I can’t wait to do the should Jason Tatum start or come off the bench podcast. Uh more starting lineup podcast. We’re gonna have a lot of chatter this year. Lot of Yeah. But you know, look, going back to the Sam Hower thing just real quick. I I went back and looked at his uh media day and you know, he talked about uh the let’s see here. Uh, I might be in situations like a ball screen or a second side action where I’m handling and I have to make the right decision or it’s a pass, a shot, whatever it may be. I’m excited for that. I’ve been working on things like that this summer a lot just in case that’s the spot I’m put and that’s that’s an important thing. Like he acknowledges I I think the Celtics offense is just going to be very when we talk about pace, I don’t even know that they’re going to be a big transition team. You can be a good pace team. Yeah, that’s true. Without transition. That’s definitely true. Yeah. And so the second side that that’s where I think Sam Hower is going to have to like show something and and the the work that he’s doing is going to be important because you you you bring the ball up, you start your offense at 18 on the shot clock. You start on the right side. Boom. Boom. Boom. Pick, pick, pick. Nothing. Nothing. Ball swings around to the other side and like the bigs. I think the bigs are going to have to be in incredible shape. The bigs are going to be like screening. Yeah. I think you’re I think we’re going to see Celtics bigs set like eight screens of possession. It’s just going to be over and over and over again until somebody frees up. And that means everybody else is going to have to put the ball on the floor. So obviously Pritchard is is used to that. Derek Jaylen, but you know, Simons obviously can do Sam Baylor Shyman, you know, if it’s Jordan Walsh out there, he’s going to have to do it. All of these guys are going to have to at some point if you’re on the wing, you’re going to have the ball in your hand. and you’re going to have to make a decision because if the if the offense runs the way it’s supposed to, it’s going to be heavy side to side, multiple attacks, and and if you can’t run a pick and roll and make a good decision, you’re not going to play. And that that might be the the place where Hower is his role is determined. Can you be the pick and roll ball handler? We know you can be the shooter, catch and shoot, and pull up and all that stuff. Can you be a pick and roll ball handler and make the right pass and then cut, relocate, and be a spot-up guy again? It’s if you’re not used to moving, you’re going to have trouble in this offense. It’s I’m not saying he’s going to be Steph Curry out there, you know, or the old Ray Allen plays, but you’re going to have to be doing multiple things. the days of just being a spot up guy, spacer, maybe you deck it as you attack a closeout. That’s not what this offense is going to be. You gota you got to do a lot more. That that’s going to be the most interesting part of things for like guys like Hower and the other guys, Shyman and those guys. Yeah. Get a nice before picture, you know, cuz uh because your after picture, you might you might be looking pretty shredded by the uh I know after after all this all this work you’re about to put in. It’s gonna be, you know, it’s gonna be a fun like I want I want a a team weighin. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because what what’s the collective weight on opening night? Yeah. What’s the collective weight when the season ends? And I bet you everybody loses like 10 pounds, you know. So that’s I mean they should trade for Anthony Davis. He apparently he needs to uh apparently need to lose some weight. Oh, but he loses that easy. He loses it easy. He loses it every year. Every year. Every year. This is what you do every year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Another another big win for Nico Harrison. Like simply cannot stop winning. Cannot stop winning. Fortune favors the bold, Tom. It does. Sure. All right. Yeah. Apparently it does. They got Cooper flag. So, I mean, yeah. Apparently fortune really does. Yeah. All right. We’re done. See you, Tom. Appreciate you. Always appreciate you, Tom. I always appreciate you listening, watching, doing whatever you do while you’re listening or watching, walking the dog, driving to work, in the shower, at the gym, at work. I’m not going to tell anybody, you know, just do what you got to do. But always be doing the podcast, listen to the podcast, watch the podcast, share your thoughts in the comment section on YouTube. That’s the place to go to share your thoughts on the podcast. Are we right? Are we wrong? Disagree with us, agree with us, shower praise upon us, whatever you want to do, especially that last part, but do it in the comment section. And then I would love it if you shared the podcast and tell everybody they should be listening to and watching the Lockdown Celtics podcast. Here on the Lockdown Podcast Network, it’s your team every day.

Joe Mazzulla is pressing the right buttons with the Celtics early in training camp. Can he get them to overachieve?

John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal discusses the Celtics using spike ball to mix things up at practice, and why that’s actually full of translatable skills that the Celtics can use. Tom Westerholm joins the show as they discuss Mazzulla’s magic touch with players and why it’s simplicity that makes it work. Plus, a little detective work from Celtics social posts reveals what could be the Celtics new starting lineup.

Tune in for inside looks at the Celtics unique approach to the preseason, and how it could translate to future success.

1:30 intro, Celtics starting out with spike ball
2:55 how spike ball can actually translate to on court success
11:20 Mazzulla pressing the right buttons
22:50 starting lineup revealed?

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