It wasn't a pretty win, but it was still a really good win for the now second seed Boston Celtics.

I'll talk about it right now on the Locked-on Celtics podcast.

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Hey there, welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics podcast after I know it's jarring that I cut all of that intro down and you just got that end.

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different intro. The whole point is to get to right to get to the point of the show, which I am

not doing right now, but I've heard that the intro is now jarring.

So I'm explaining it. I've cut it down. We're going to start getting right to the point of this show. So thank you for subscribing. Thank you for listening, watching a show on YouTube. The show is free. It's available everywhere. Bonus podcasts when they play on the weekends, which they're doing twice this weekend. So two bonus episodes coming up. If you're new to the show, I'm John Corrales, beat writer for Boston Sports Journal.

I've been covering the Celtics in some form for about 20 years, doing this podcast for 10, and I've written a couple of books about the team as well. Today's show is brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app. Use the code Lockdown NBA for $20 off your first purchase of tickets, maybe to a Celtics game. So go check that out. Today we're getting into a win. Technically it's a win. The Celtics had more points than the Chicago Bulls, and that's about the best thing I could say about this game. But actually, this is a good win. And I'm going to talk about that in just a second. Later on, we'll get into the whole seating thing. And we'll get into Anthony Simons and Peyton Pritchard, who finally hit another buzzer-beater, which he was very happy about. But let's just get right to it because this was not the prettiest game in the world which we expected this the Celtics uh coming off

of the long road trip like they said it amfordy simon said it after the game we knew that that we

were probably not going to play well we all expected it you no one goes on a five game business

trip right you're going a long business trip in five different

cities over 10 days. You don't come back and go to work on Monday, rip raring to go, right? You come in, you're like, can I get a couple of days off, please? But you can't because the schedule is relentless. So they have to come in here. They have to play this game. I will say right up front.

I do think the Celtics were a little bit lucky in this game

because the Chicago Bulls absolutely. in here they have to play this game. I will say right up front, I do think the Celtics were a little

bit lucky in this game because the Chicago Bulls absolutely sucked. I want to give the Celtics

defense enough credit, but also I want to be fair and say that they gave up a lot of shots that

the Bulls easily could have made.

But the players who were out there for them,

in general,

were not as good as the players that are normally out there for them.

They were missing a few guys.

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