The Boston Celtics gave their fans an incredible Christmas gift with a nice win over the Sixers during a entertaining Christmas Day contest. We can only hope this win, coupled with the blowout over the Hornets serves as the turning point after a dispiriting 3 game losing streak... bottoming out in a home loss to the league worst Suns. Justin and Jon talked about the Celtics performance and whether there are building blocks of better days ahead. Has Tatum figured it out? In the show's second half...
Dec 26, 2018•41 min•Ep. 551
Michael Jackson sang about the Man In The Mirror, but Celtics Stuff Live this week talked about the Men In The Middle. The injury to Al Horford opened the door for Aron Baynes, Daniel Theis, and the Timelord, Robert Williams. How each player's strength augments the Celtics' attack and how each help the Celtics use more rim running in their offense as key pieces through the Celtics 3-1 week. In the show's second half, Justin and Jon looked at Gordon Hayward and Jaylen Brown as they return from il...
Dec 17, 2018•38 min•Ep. 550
Two absolutely dominating efforts against the Knicks and Bulls have the Celtics not only as winners of their last 5 games, but as the league's leader in Net Rating over their last 10 contests. Jon and Justin discussed why the team has not only continued to succeed with the Marcus Brothers (thanks Kevin McHale!) in the starting lineup, but now with Jaylen Brown and Terry Rozier finding their footing. How long will the team stay with this lineup? Do they even need to go back to the lineup they had...
Dec 10, 2018•49 min•Ep. 549
On this week's edition of Celtics Stuff Live, Jon and Justin seem to think so after a 3-0 week and, more importantly, the team playing the brand of basketball everyone expected of them entering this season. The CSL guys looked at the additions of the Marcuses (Morris and Smart) into the starting lineup as a catalyst for the improved play. But looking ahead, Jon and Justin discussed how to fit Jaylen Brown back into a train rolling down the tracks and does the emergence of Gordon Hayward force Br...
Dec 03, 2018•46 min•Ep. 548
The woes continue for the Celtics and the questions are beginning to pile up as everyone tries to understand how this team continues to disappoint. The word of this week is clearly "Purpose." The team seems to play without it, particularly offensively, as the team seems to sleepwalk through its aimless efforts in scoring the ball. But that isn't meant to mask the highly flammable nature of the team's pick and roll defense after J.J. Barea joined an ever growing list of players killing the C's fr...
Nov 26, 2018•39 min•Ep. 547
Despite a fantastic overtime win over the Raptors, the Celtics are once again struggling for consistency and an identity. Jon and Justin went in deep on what ails the Celtics and which prescription Mad Brad could cook up to get the team back to full health. Jon sees the issues as dependent on a change in the starting lineup and accompanying rotations. Justin is willing to go so far as to cue up significant roster moves... even after agreeing, to his chagrin, with Jon's preseason call for Baynes ...
Nov 19, 2018•46 min•Ep. 546
The Celtics have stunk for far too long. The painful slog of watching the C's after staying up to watch them finish a 1-4 roadtrip had Jon and Justin ready for changes in the team's approach. The oft discussed starting lineup got most of the attention with Hayward and Jaylen struggling the most of the team's starters. As for who to replace them in the starting lineup... you'll have to listen to find out. In the show's second half, the Sixers acquisition of Jimmy Butler came into focus. Jon predi...
Nov 14, 2018•43 min•Ep. 545
Perhaps the Celtics haven't yet found their groove, but the path remains cloudy. After arguably playing their best game of season against the previously undefeated Milwaukee Bucks, the Celtics offense again ground to a halt in Indiana Saturday night. Inconsistency from the Celtics starters has created issues for Brad Stevens as he tries to build chemistry and offensive flow, but building that consistency has been an issue. Jon and Justin took a closer look at Jaylen Brown as the canary in the co...
Nov 05, 2018•35 min•Ep. 544
With the Celtics finally becoming the Celtics again, in winning their last three games, Jon and Justin were feeling the Kyrie's #becool mantra. Kyrie's return to form against the Pistons on Tuesday night, following a haircut the previous day, had the guys feeling optimistic about Kyrie's return to his pre-injury form. Thanks to some questions from Twitter, the CSL guys weighed in on a variety of topics from Robert Williams role after the Theis injury to starting lineup changes (Brown for Smart?)...
Oct 31, 2018•46 min•Ep. 543
The start to the Celtics season has be a solid one, but the obvious slow starts from Kyrie, Gordon, and Theis have left the team looking less than supernatural. Jon and Justin broke down some of the icy numbers from Kyrie's shooting and where his performance thus far was surprisingly effective. In the show's second half, the guys gave the same treatment to Gordon Hayward after Gordon unthawed his shooting form in Toronto. Jon and Justin wrapped the show by looking at the CP3 - Rondo spit take an...
Oct 22, 2018•48 min•Ep. 542
Tonight the Celtics kick off the 2019 NBA season and Celtics Stuff Live has a preview of the opening night matchup with the despised Philadelphia 76ers. Can the Celtics rebound from a lackluster preseason to face Ben "The Coward" Simmons? Then, Jon and Justin took a look into the crystal ball and handed out preseason predictions on Celtics MVP, DPOY, 6th Man, and Most Improved. Then looking at a league wide perspective, guessed the number of Celtics wins, the top 4 in the East and West, who the ...
Oct 16, 2018•55 min
When Kyrie Irving dropped the bomb at last Thursday night's season ticket holder event that he intends on re-signing with the Celtics next summer, it settles so much of the Celtics future. Jon and Justin looked at what Kyrie's commitment does for the team and how it specifically impacts two players: Terry Rozier and Anthony Davis. In the show's second half, the Celtics' abysmal preseason effort was in the cross-hairs. Listless play on the defensive end, the ball sticking on offense and few paint...
Oct 09, 2018•39 min•Ep. 540
A 1-1 exhibition record seems appropriate given the inconsistency of the Celtics' start, but the trendlines are there for an incredibly successful season. Justin and Jon looked at the end of the Celtics bench's role in closing out both games and the play of Guershon Yabusele, Robert Williams, and the rest of the Yabu Tang Clan. Then the point guards came into focus from Terry Rozier's white hot start to Kyrie Irving's attempts to find his form following injury. While Gordon Hayward had a promisi...
Oct 01, 2018•43 min•Ep. 539
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Oct 01, 2018•6 min
Media Day is always filled with optimism, but the manner in which Kyrie Irving put to bed his desire to leave via free agency has greatly fed into that good ship lollipop vibe. Jon and Justin broke down Kyrie's comments and tried to figure out exactly how excited to be. In more somber news, Marcus Smart talked about the recent passing of his mom and how basketball is often the calm in the metaphorical storm around him. Jon and Justin gave their condolences on Mrs. Smart's passing, and talked abo...
Sep 26, 2018•36 min•Ep. 538
Celtics Stuff Live came back to the podcast airwaves as Celtics media day sits just 7 days away! Gordon Hayward's return to full health led Jon and Justin into a wide ranging discussion on the starting lineup choices for Brad Stevens for Opening Night against the Sixers and beyond. Jon refuses move off his stance that Aron Baynes will be starting to keep Horford fresh. Justin ain't buying it... at all. In the show's second half, the guys discussed reprehensible details of Jabari Bird's alleged a...
Sep 17, 2018•43 min•Ep. 537
We finally have a starting point for the 2019 NBA season... and our Boston Celtics will kick it all off for the NBA against the Philadelphia 76ers opening night. Justin and Jon extensively looked at that matchup and tried to determine how the Celtics might start that game... Horford and going small or Horford and Baynes and one of the C's talented wings sitting. One of those talented wings, Jaylen Brown, told CJ McCollum's podcast that he expects the Celtics to make the NBA Finals. In a Lebron-l...
Aug 10, 2018•52 min•Ep. 536
After a brief vacation break Celtics Stuff Live returned to a flurry of late July NBA news, including the signing of Marcus Smart to a four year contract at a cool $52 million. Smart has a pair of fans in Jon and Justin, who were overjoyed at his re-signing. Not only does it keep a crucial piece of the Celtics run to Banner 18 in 2019, but it also provides a mid tiered contract that is easily dealt for bigger fish. The guys also talked about Isaiah Thomas reaching out to Danny Ainge about the Ce...
Jul 30, 2018•53 min•Ep. 535
The Summer League Hospital Celtics may have only gotten 5 minutes from Robert Williams and have shut down the Ojeleye Factory and Jabari Bird for rest, but it seems the team has seen all it needs to see from Semi and Jabari. While the Summer League has been remarkably unremarkable, the amount of news from Vegas hasn't been voluminous but CelticsBlog's Keith Smith put out a comprehensive post with plenty of nuggets for Jon and Justin to discuss. In particular, the news of Guerschon Yabusele's les...
Jul 16, 2018•45 min•Ep. 534
Jon and Justin kicked off the show looking at the rocky, though still brief, tenure of Robert Williams. To say this kid has a lot of growing to do is only half true, with reports from Summer League practice that he is dunking with his elbows and swatting shots like he's on the beaches of Rio. Moving ahead, the continued restricted free agency of Marcus Smart again reared its head, as most of the money on the market is spent. Clearly today's report by Mark Murphy shows that Smart's representation...
Jul 06, 2018•37 min•Ep. 533
It's no Bob. It could be Robert or Rob. But, it is also Boo Butt. That's what Robert Williams prefers to be called by friends and family, but Jon and Justin are ready for Weird Celtics Twitter to do its magic in creating a new moniker for the newest member of the Celtics. Jon and Justin talked about the new archetype of a Celtics big man, whose athleticism and brute force know no equal in recent Celtics history. How Brad Stevens fits these strengths in with the current team will be fascinating. ...
Jun 25, 2018•41 min•Ep. 532
Celtics Stuff Live hosts it's 12th Annual Draft Night show. We pick up for the final hour of the show right before the Celtics select Robert Williams from Texas A&M. Joining us are Jeff Goodman from the new CLNS Media Podcast, The Good and Plenty Podcast along with Sam Sheehan from The Celtics Round Table on CLNS Media. Enjoy the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 24, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 531
It was 10 years ago today... The Celtics blew out the Lakers in Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals and clinched their 17th NBA championship. Then, as now, Celtics Stuff Live was on the air to break it all down. Jon and Justin relived that evening and the years of struggle (both the team's struggles and the struggles within the show) leading up to that night, and then made comparisons to the current squad. Then the battle began as Justin and Jon squared off as to why or why not the Celtics should be i...
Jun 18, 2018•46 min•Ep. 530
Apparently if you believe Stephen A. Smith's report, there is a chance the Celtics will have a shot at sitting down with James as he figures out Decision 3.0. Jon and Justin looked at the pros and cons (yes... there ARE cons) to Lebron James joining the Celtics and what that would mean to the franchise and the players on this roster. One player impacted, particularly, by the Lebron rumor is Kyrie Irving. The CSL guys talked about the kerfuffle over Kyrie's free agency and whether there is any tr...
Jun 12, 2018•46 min•Ep. 529
The first show of the off season for Celtics Stuff Live comes with mixed emotions. It was only a week ago the Hospital Celtics were vanquished by Lebron and Cavs, Jon and Justin still aren't ready to put their bitterness aside. But for their faithful listeners, the offseason talk has begun with a spirited discussion about the Celtics rotation in 2019. In the show's second half, Justin and Jon looked at the prospects of trading up into the top 7-8 in this year's draft. Who the Celtics would targe...
Jun 04, 2018•46 min•Ep. 528
The hospital Celtics just didn't have enough shots left in their doctor's bag to pull out one more "against all odds" win in the 2018 NBA playoffs. Horrendously poor shooting from the Celtics backcourt of Rozier, Smart, and Brown left the team lacking of enough offense to push ahead of a typical Lebron effort in Game 7. Jon and Justin looked back on the end of the Celtics season and gazed briefly into a future of where the franchise goes from here. Here's a hint... the future? It's pretty bright...
May 28, 2018•46 min•Ep. 527
After a pair of dispiriting performances in The Land, the Celtics return home with the series tied at two games a piece. Jon and Justin broke down Game 4 and talked about the Celtics inability to get stops when necessary. It goes without saying that officiating played a large role in this series, perhaps most notably Marcus Morris's aborted 4 point play which was called back due to a phantom foul. Look for Tony Brothers in Game 5. To wrap up the show, Jon and Justin looked ahead to Game 5 and wh...
May 22, 2018•46 min•Ep. 526
As Game 1's go, this was pretty nice. The Celtics blowout the Cavs to kick off the Eastern Conference Finals and Jon and Justin broke it all down. Once again the Celtics ultra switchable wings made it difficult for opposing offenses with Horford playing free safety. In the show's second half, the CSL guys looked at whether Lebron is on his way out. Are there clues in his approach? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 14, 2018•46 min•Ep. 525
"You got lucky..." That might be what Jayson Tatum told Joel Embiid after just missing a thunderous dunk on the Sixer big man, but it certainly doesn't resemble the Celtics 3-0 series lead over the Sixers. Justin and Jon broke down the amazing Game 3 victory in enemy territory and looked ahead to not only a Game 4 (with Justin in attendance) but also to a now likely Conference Finals date with Lebron James. The CSL guys looked at the psychology of this decisive series and whether long term damag...
May 07, 2018•44 min•Ep. 524
Giannis might think the Celtics were not the better team in their series with the Bucks but that won't matter when the Celtics start game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semis against the Sixers Monday night. Jon and Justin broke down the Celtics series with the Bucks. In particular, the value of the experience of key members of the Green (like Mook, Smarf, and Horford) helped carry them through game 7 and should be incredibly helpful against Philly (.... or is it Phila?) Wrapping up the show, the i...
Apr 30, 2018•44 min•Ep. 523
