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Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics Had A Gap Year After All | Tatum Was Most Important Development

Locked On Celtics - Daily Podcast On The Boston Celtics

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Boston Celtics fans relive a season of highs and heartbreaks, as postseason realities expose the limits of the roster’s surprising regular-season surge. Did Neemias Queta prove he can anchor the starting center spot, or will Brad Stevens seek reinforcements? The collapse against the Philadelphia 76ers and Joel Embiid’s playoff transformation spark questions about defensive strategy, bench scoring depth, and next season’s true contender status. John Karalis of Celtics On SI and Tom Westerholm break down Jayson Tatum’s return to form, the Celtics’ roller-coaster ride, and what this so-called “gap year” means for offseason priorities. Key discussions include potential moves using the mid-level exception, the futures of Payton Pritchard and Nikola Vučević, and whether a new bucket-getter is a must for a playoff run. With off-court dynamics, coaching decisions, and fan expectations in the spotlight, is Boston poised to turn heartbreak into hope next season?

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0:00.0

So it turns out this was a gap year after all.

0:02.4

We'll take one more look back before we look forward and try to answer some questions about this roster.

0:24.7

Hey, welcome back to the Lockdown Selfics podcast. I am John Corrales.

0:30.4

And today we're getting one more look back at this Celtics season now that it's over.

0:35.3

And before we take a look forward, later on in the show, we'll start looking forward at some of the questions and how the Celtics are going to start approaching their offseason. This is going to be a lot of what we talk

0:40.8

about as the as the offseason starts to progress. But this really was a gap year. And to talk

0:49.2

about that with me is, of course, our guy, Tom Western. Thank you.

0:54.4

Thank you.

0:54.8

I'm thrilled to be here to discuss once again the utility and usefulness of gap years.

1:00.7

They're good.

1:02.4

It's kind of funny.

1:03.6

So I mentioned this on yesterday's podcast.

1:06.1

I'll throw the analogy out to you that this was like, you those little used car places the little like little lots

1:14.0

that spring up alongside it's like Joe's used car a lot and he's got like 10 cars on there like that's

1:19.7

what this season was that it was that it was that little used car and like when you when you buy it's like

1:25.0

yeah this is kind of like an afford right now and I know it's not great but we're going, we're just going to, it's just going to get me to where I need to go.

1:31.8

Yeah. And you're like, but you know what? I know how to tinker with an engine. So you tinker with the engine a little bit, clean it up, blah, blah. And this starts driving great. you're like, wow, this is actually a better car, man.

1:41.7

You might have gotten a great deal on this car.

1:43.1

This was, you know what?

1:45.0

This is, what a, what a find this was.

1:47.8

This was. this is actually a better car man you might have gotten a great deal on this car this was you know what

1:44.6

this is what a what a find this was this was and like by march you like this you might have gotten

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