Boston Celtics lose to the New York Knicks in a game Joe Missoula wanted to show us nothing,

but Jason Tatum showed us everything.

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Welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics podcast.

I'm John Corrales, Boston Celtics, lose to the New York Knicks and still have to wait to clinch the second seed.

Later on in the third segment, I'm going to save the Jason Tatum stuff for then

because he was very open.

Open and vulnerable Jason Tatum is kind of like the theme of the past couple of days.

And I'll get into that at the third segment where Tatum came away a winner,

no matter what the scoreboard said.

And the second segment, we'll get into concerns over the center spot and some of the positives.

But I want to start here with the biggest part of this loss to me to the Knicks is how the Celtics didn't really make any defensive adjustments that I saw.

They didn't come out and play the type of defense that anybody expected the we just did a

crossover show with gavin shawl of locked on nicks and we're talking about the

Celtics have this ability to put nemesh kata on josh hart you put a wing on Carl Anthony Towns, and then you play everybody else kind of straight up.

And instead, the Celtics played Kata on Kat and played Tatum on Josh Hart.

And they just kind of rolled with that.

And aside from, I don't know, one possession, two, a handful at the most,

the Celtics stuck with a traditional kind of defense.

And as we said in that crossover episode,

you play the Knicks with a traditional defense,

and they get to do the things that they do well.

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