Was Jaylen Brown Actually BENCHED? | Joe Mazzulla’s LINEUP Roulette

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Was Jaylen Brown truly benched, like he said, or does he need to believe he was? Is Joe Mazzulla’s unpredictable rotation the key to unlocking Boston’s next winning streak, or a sign of deeper uncertainty? John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal and Tom Westerholm break down Brown’s wild night against the Brooklyn Nets, weighing his monster 29-4-4 stat line against his eight costly turnovers. The conversation zeroes in on Mazzulla’s lineup roulette—from Sam Hauser’s gritty fourth-quarter heroics to the emergence of unlikely on-court combinations. Key topics include Brown’s rising usage rate, the fatigue factor shaping his approach, and the battle for the fifth starter spot between Hauser, Josh Minott, and Jordan Walsh. Can the Celtics’ supporting cast step up amid relentless roster experimentation? Get the inside scoop on Boston’s search for consistency—and what it means for their Eastern Conference ambitions.

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0:00.0	Did Jailer Brown really get benched against the Brooklyn Nets?
0:03.6	Did he have a good game or a bad game?
0:05.4	I'm still trying to figure that out.
0:07.1	Plus, where will Joe Bazula's lineup roulette settle?
0:11.1	It's all right now on the Lockdown Celtics podcast.
0:16.4	Uh-huh.
0:17.7	Yep.
0:19.6	Beantown.
0:21.0	Be ever ready.
0:22.3	It's the C's.
0:37.7	Who else could it be? What they're going to say now? Screaming like J.T. Corralic. We kept the madness. Every game. Every practice. Crime time. Depp and D. White on the sideline. Rain and Jace. How we started. Raise a Benice. How we finish. Locked on Celtics Pod home of the winners.
1:11.5	Hey, and welcome back to the Lockdown Celtics podcast. Right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network, where it is your team every day. Your team is the Boston Celtics. I talk about that Monday through Friday right here on the number one sports podcast network on the planet. It's the number one Celtics podcast on the planet. So thank you every dayers for making it that. This show is free. It's available everywhere. It's on YouTube. Get into the comments section. Share your thoughts with me. I'm John Corrales. If you're new to the show, I'm a beat writer covering the Celtics for Boston Sports Journal. I've been doing this job for about 20 years, 10 years on this podcast, plus I've got two books on the Celtics under my belt. Today show is brought to you by Fandul. New
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1:25.7	about Joe Missoula's lineups.
1:28.8	The Celtics broke this game open against Brooklyn a couple nights ago with a lineup that never has never played one second of basketball together.
1:37.5	And I don't even know if they played together in practice.
1:40.2	That's how weird the lineup was.
1:41.8	We'll talk about that in a little bit.
1:43.4	We're going to start with Jalen Brown because I still can't figure out if he had a good game or a bad game against Brooklyn.
1:50.9	And then after the game, he talked about how he was kind of, it made it sound like he was benched.
1:56.3	And I don't know if he really was.
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