Celtics Unearth HIDDEN Talent in Vegas | Is Charles Bassey Boston’s Answer at CENTER?

Celtics Unearth HIDDEN Talent in Vegas | Is Charles Bassey Boston’s Answer at CENTER?

talking summer league and have the Boston Celtics stumbled onto their big of the future. Let’s talk about it right now on the Lockown Celtics podcast. [Music] Uh-huh. Bean ever ready. It’s the season. Who else could it be? What they going to say now? Screaming like JT Cares. We kept the madness every game, every practice. Prime time. Deon D White on the sideline. Raining J. How we started raise a business. How we finish locked on selfish pod, home of the winners, baby. Hey there. 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 and I talk about them Monday through Friday for the rest of July. August we dip into three days a week. September, same thing. Then October, bam, back up to five days a week as we get back into training camp and all of that stuff. Tons of free podcasting. It’s all right here wherever you get your podcast. Watch the show on YouTube. Get into the comments section. Share your thoughts with me, John Corales, beat writer covering the Celtics for Boston Sports Journal. Been doing a version of this job for about 20 years now. I’ve written a couple of books about the Celtics as well. Today’s show is brought to you by FanDuel. New customers. You get $150 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. So, go sign up at fanduel.com. Talking about summer league. Later on, we’ll get we’ll just kind of run through a lot of the people. Uh later in the third segment, we’ll get to uh Jordan Walsh and Amari Williams. I’ll save uh Hugo Gonzalez and Max Schulga for the second segment. Baylor Shyman in a few minutes, but let’s start. We’re going to start with what I mentioned right at the top of the show. The Celtics looking for bigs. They’re looking for front court help. And did they just happen to stumble onto Charles Bassie? I He wasn’t even on the summer league roster. He wasn’t even in the preview. He wasn’t even No one had an idea to even consider, hey, what does Charles Bassie bring and what could he bring to the Celtics? In a way, it’s kind of a little Lonnie Walker-ish. And when you say like, “Oh, wow. This guy was available and kind of fits a need and I I can see that I can see him helping.” I can definitely see going down that road with Bassie. The difference is that Walker had a history and I thought a track record of being able to score in the NBA and now his his NBA kind of he’s hanging on by a thread. Celtics obviously had him and cut him. He went overseas, came back, Philly had him and cut him. But regardless, this is not a Lonnie Walker segment. This is a Charles Bassie segment. Eagleeyed folks looked at a picture of Amari Williams practicing at summer league practice and they spotted Bassie in the background. And you know, when I went to to summer league practice, I was, you know, you you’re looking around, but sometimes you get so focused on like, okay, what’s what’s Ugo doing? What’s Schulga doing? What’s Williams doing? Um, we’re talking to Matt Reynolds. We’re talking to Brad Stevens. It’s running gun basically. And wasn’t a lot of like, oh wow, look at look at who what’s what’s Charles Bassie doing here. I mean, maybe maybe somebody said that, but it really wasn’t a big kind of revelation until he showed up at Vegas summer league. And he is kind of what the Celtics need. He’s a big athletic, bouncy center who against the uh the Knicks on Sunday put up a 22.13 rebound double double. And against the Grizzlies on Friday had 14 and 11. Uh a couple of blocks against the Grizzlies. What do you have against the Knicks? Uh three blocks, two steals, an assist. Kind of filling up the stat sheet. Uh this now this is where we have to be careful because it’s summer league and Bassie has four years of basketball mostly with San Antonio under his belt. Has played uh 130 something games. He he’s had a few starts in the NBA. So there’s a a a track record there. He has performed at the NBA level. And when a guy like that goes to summer league, okay, he’s an NBA player playing against summer league competition, especially as a big, there is a tendency to be able to do the the putback thing, the offensive rebounds, like four offensive rebounds against New York. Against Memphis, he had seven offensive rebounds. So haphazard, everything’s all over the place. It’s very easy for a big to be able to sneak in and grab an offensive rebound because a guy drives, for example, and like two or three guys will go trying to block the shot. It It’s very kind of amateur-ish in a way. There’s a lot of guys trying to make plays. They’re trying to make they’re trying to impress not just coaches, but scouts. It It’s It’s not your typical kind of basketball. So, I say this with a grain of salt where you look at Bassie’s rebounding and his impact there and second chance points and stuff like that. He is taking advantage of summer league competition and summer league defensive mistakes. So, I’m sure the numbers when you look at it like wow 22 and 13 that’s incredible. And it is in a general sense like you you’d rather see him put up 22 and 13 than not put up 22 and 13, right? I’ve said this uh on the podcast before many times when you’re evaluating summer league talent, success is less meaningful than failure. Failure at the summer league level, and I’ll get to that in a few minutes with uh a couple of these other players, failure at the summer league level means a little bit more to me than success because if you’re halfway decent, you should come in and have some success in these haphazard uh games against guys who don’t necessarily like they they’ve had three, four days of practice, right? They barely know each other. they don’t remember like they’re they’re they this is a very kind of thrown together like slap dash kind of basketball. So I understand that that’s probably fueling some of it, right? The the Spurs had Bassie. They chose not to keep Bassie and instead they brought in Luke Cornett and traded for Kelly Lin. So, there’s this feeling of, okay, what are we missing here? Because I look at this guy and I’m like, hey, he this this could be this could be very helpful. He could be very helpful. But if he was that helpful, why didn’t the Spurs keep him? He’s young. He’s, you know, he does all of these things. Why why would you pay that much money to Luke Cornet if you’ve got a guy like Bassie around? So Bassie Bassie hasn’t exactly lit lit up the NBA. And there there are things that the Spurs saw in him that made them think like, okay, we we’re just we can’t invest our money in this guy. But for the Celtics, look, you you’ve gone out and you’re trying to pick through the scrap heap, right? you you’ve gone to uh Minnesota and you picked up Luca Garza who just got cut. You’re you’re just trying to piece things together. So, why not bring in Bassie on an, you know, exhibit 10 contract or, you know, which is basically a camp contract. Bring him into camp. Let’s see. Let’s see what he can do. I’ve seen enough in two games where he’s he’s got the hustle, the drive, the nose for the ball. He can defend. He’s got decent instincts. I’ve seen him, you know, make decent reads defensively, get a couple of block shots off of that. You see him in drop coverage, recognizing what the ball handler is trying to do and react to that. Now, he might rely on his athleticism a little too much. And so I’m not going to go full Lonnie Walker, you know, a year ago or 11 months ago were like, “Oh my god, what a stroke of genius. I can’t believe they were able to get this guy and it was really a meaningless signing.” But I am going to say that he’s been impressive over two games. He is he plays a position of absolute need and the Celtics have JD Davidson who again I I just I just don’t evaluate him as a reliable NBA player. So he he his contract was picked up but it’s not guaranteed. So they can still cut him or you can trade one of these two two plus million dollar guys and sign, you know, to you have to open up the roster spot and then you can sign Bassie if you need to. So I I say bring him in. I say bring him into camp and let’s let’s see if he can compete. What’s if if he works out then great. if he um if it’s him and Garza together, then that that’s your front court, but at least there’s some NBA experience there in that front court. It it’s certainly not the best, but you’re like I don’t know. May I was going to say you could do worse. I don’t know. May maybe some people be like c can you I don’t know. So, so far two games, I think Bassie has earned at least a training camp invite. Baylor Shyman played okay. Uh, but he’s not shooting well. What does that mean? I’ll get into UO Gonzalez and the rest of those guys when I come back. Today’s show is brought to you by Hungry Routt. Meal planning, grocery shopping can be overwhelming. Uh, you got a list that’s a mile long. Things get expensive. You walk into the market, there’s people everywhere and people at home are, you know, picky eaters. you don’t know what you it it can be overwhelming. So, Hungry Root has this thing called smart cart technology. They recommend groceries, uh, recipes, even supplements tailored to your preferences. Whether you’re dairyf free, gluten-free, focus on gut health, or just trying to eat better, Hungry Root has you covered. They take the stress out of meal planning. So, uh, what you can do is like you don’t waste time at a grocery store or stress over what’s for dinner. They already have that figured out. And if you’re running around, it’s this is going to be especially helpful for me during the season where it’s practices and games and all over the place. I have picky eaters in the household. This is going to be a big help. And and frankly, I have nutrition goals that I have a tough time sticking to. So, uh I know that I can I I can get a little hand from Hungry Root and I don’t have to give up flavor or convenience. Take advantage of this exclusive offer for a limited time. 40% off your first box, plus a free item in every box for life. All you got to do is go to hungryroot.com/lockdownba. Use the code lockdown NBA. That’s hungry.com/lockdown NBA. Code lockdown NBA to get 40% off your first box and a free item of your choice for life. Thank you for making Lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. Go check out Lockdown NBA. That feed has two podcasts for you. One of them is locked on NBA game night, giving you a few big things from the summer league games. Uh I did that on Friday with Jake Madison. Just a few big takeaways from summer league games. Uh especially from like the big names who are out there. And then locked on NBA has all the league’s big stories covered. So basically locked on Celtics is your first listen. Locked on NBA and locked on NBA game night can be your second and third lessons. You get caught up on everything basketball. The Celtics uh are they have a couple of guys that that are, you know, hold overs, we’ll call them. Uh Baylor Shyman is one of them. Uh against the Knicks, I thought he played a a fairly decent game. I thought it was pretty good. Uh overall numbers, 13 points, eight rebounds, eight assists, three steals. Uh couple of turnovers. uh against Memphis. Uh did not shoot well, but still had five rebounds, four assists. Uh the other things are going to be the thing that we have to focus on because the shooting has not been there. Uh Shyman shot two of 14, one of eight from three against Memphis. He was one of seven from three against New York and uh six of 15 overall. But again, eight rebounds, eight assists, three steals, not bad. The the eight assists, impressive because it’s tough to get assists in in summer league. Uh getting in there to get rebounds, doing the other things when the shots not falling is important. I thought there was a stretch there, at least in the first half, especially where it really felt like, okay, Baylor Shyman’s an NBA guy. he is uh out there against summer league guys and he’s kind of picking them apart a little bit. The the vision, the court vision that that’s part of his game. We’ve we’ve seen it. We talked about it last year when he got drafted and saw that in summer league. His ability to find guys is important. And the okay, the shooting is also important, but I can’t really get caught up in makes and misses. If you only follow makes and misses, you you really run into some trouble with uh evaluating summer league because sometimes guys get hot and again the defense is not always great. So you get a guy who gets a a fivegame heater with some confidence against a a defense that is lacking, you can fall in love with the makes and and miss things that the guy is doing. So Shyman, you know, two of 15 from three, not good. And I would I would love to see he’s he is a three-point shooter, so I would love to see a six of seven like he did in Boston that one night. I’d like to see one of those games just to kind of level things off. Uh he was a 40% three-point shooter in the G-League, so I know he has it in him. He came in with the reputation of a shooter, so it’s very obviously there. He struggled shooting in limited opportunities with the Celtics last year. And so there’s that feeling of are we going down the um the Aaron Nesmith kind of road where guy comes in with this reputation not finding it in his early stages and then you know Nesmith goes to Indie and does find it you’re like oh okay that’s that that’s the absolute sniper that that we were missing here. So, I I would like to see Shyman hit a few shots, but as long as the shots that he’s getting, the one shot that he did hit against the Knicks was a logo shot, which was fun. But him setting up his teammates, seeing the floor, doing the other things while a shot isn’t falling is good. Like I said, there were stretches there where it felt like he he was um very clearly NBA level guy and the other guys on the floor weren’t. Uh I want to send a shout out to Jaylen Bridges who had had a nice game in this as well against the Knicks. 16 points. Uh he was six of 10, hit a couple of three-pointers. Uh I don’t know what Bridges is going to be. Yeah, I I would anticipate Bridges probably getting an exhibit 10, come to camp, get cut, go to Maine type of deal. So, uh that’s I think the um the path for him. Uh I I’m curious about Max Schulga, who has been the primary ball handler through these two games and has been impressive. I I think as as far as a guy who plays under control and is is trying to run the offense now, the the raw numbers aren’t going to pop out at you, but against New York, uh he had a couple crazy makes. Like he he was three of nine, I think all three of those makes were were kind of wild. So, uh, but he did he had a couple of assists, but two steals, just one turnover. And against Memphis, no turnovers. Uh, that’s going to be the the stat that I’m really really focused on. One turnover in two games as the point guard of a summer league team. Uh, I wrote on Boston Sports Journal that I I feel like being the point guard on a summer league team is almost like being the dance instructor for like an eight-year-old recital. If you’ve ever seen that, you know what I’m talking about. Trying to get a bunch of people who are completely focused on themselves and not really 100% on being part of the team and hitting all of the choreography at the same time. And like you’re the instructor and you have to be like, “No, okay. Okay, everybody, no. Do this. No, you go. No, do that.” And you’re like pointing and direct. That’s that’s a point guard in summer league where Schulga has to be like, “No, no, no, you go this way.” And no, you go that way. And guys are running into each other and it the timing is way off because everybody’s playing way too fast and guys are off on their own and people, you know, you’re supposed to run, you know, you A, B, C, D, E. and at like B somebody’s like, “Oh, I got a good match up.” Boom, they go. And that’s that’s the tough part. And so I think in that atmosphere, Schulga has kind of held his own and organized the Celtics fairly well. Is that going to make him the starting point guard? No. But for a guy that you drafted at the end of the second round, okay, let’s see. Let’s see what he do in Maine. I think Schulga can slide right into that JD Davidson role. Um, and I feel like I’m piling on a little bit with JD. It’s no, again, no disrespect to any of these guys. I think they’re all like JD Davidson’s one of the best basketball players in the world and he’s just not good enough to be a full-time NBA player right now. At least not for the Celtics. So, I think the smart thing to do would be if it’s not Bassie, it’s somebody else that you and maybe they acquire somebody. And I don’t know how the how it goes, but if you need to open up a roster spot, Davidson’s spot makes perfect sense. You have Schulga sliding into that spot. He’s the point guard for the main Celtics. Let’s see how he can handle that. It’s a step up from the summer league and it’s at least organized and people are playing for a certain cause and then let’s see let’s see how that goes and you know eventually you’re going to live in a world where Derek White’s not going to be part of the team anymore. Um, I mean, no matter what, he probably only has a few more years as a member of the Celtics, like in the NBA, you know, he’s not ancient, but he’s 31, I believe. So, I don’t think a guy of his build is is going to be like a a starting point guard, you know, five, six years from now. I think at some point it it starts to go away. That happens to everybody. So, you have to start to plan for some amount of that future, right? So, Schulga, I don’t know, intriguing. He’s an intriguing guy that you say, “Okay, he’s on a two-way deal. Let’s see what you do in Maine. Let’s see what you can do. Let’s uh Matt Reynolds, who’s a Celtics assistant coach, you might know him as the guy who does the replays. Uh he’s the head coach for the Summer Celtics, and he said, “Look, Schulga Schulga can play. He knows the game.” And I can see it. I can see it. Now, how that translates to the next level, I don’t know. But he’s a guy you look at him, you go, “Okay, interesting. Put him in the maybe pile, right? He’s in the maybe pile.” Um, and you go from there. Can he handle summer league? I mean, can he handle the G-League? Can he handle some spot minutes? I think getting him in Boston for some fourth quarter quoteunquote garbage time minutes would be beneficial. Let’s see what you got. Uh Ugo Gonzalez, Amari Williams, the the two and and Jordan Walsh. We’ll talk about all of those guys when I come back. Today’s show is brought to you by FanDuel. If you’re a new customer, sign up right now for FanDuel because you get a special offer. Make your first $ five dollar bet. If it wins, you get $150 in bonus bets. So whether it’s betting on the Red Sox or baseball or high stakes stock soccer action or tennis, we just had Wimbledon wrap up. Congratulations to the winners there. Uh you’re you’re you have an opportunity to make all of it a little bit more thrilling with some skin in the game at FanDuel. So they have new daily promotions keep giving you fun ways to bet. Your payouts are fast. So uh even regular season baseball games feel like mustwatch events and uh you know you got same game parlays so you can watch a bet ride like if you’re betting on baseball let that ride through the ninth inning and you feel like you’re part of the action. They also have the tools to make you uh set your limit, set your budget so you know whatever your disposable income, whatever you can afford to lose, that’s what you set your limit at so you don’t go overboard. Want to make sure that everybody’s having fun. If your if your choice is to bet on sports, please do so responsibly. New customers, you bet $5, you get 150 in bonus bets. If your first bet wins, open that FanDuel app today or visit fanuel.com to get started. Thank you so much for making lockdown Celtics your first listen every day. We got a lockdown for every team in pro sports. So, whatever your favorite baseball team is, uh your favorite football team, your favorite hockey team, uh we got locked on for that. So, make sure you’re subscribed wherever you found this podcast. Uh Ugo Gonzalez did not play in the second game. Brad Stevens said that it’s, you know, it was a scheduled basically scheduled day off. The guy went through a full season with Real Madrid. Their championship game was draft night and he stayed up after the game all through the morning like 6:00 in the morning just to get his name, hear his name called. Then he comes over and he starts practicing and plays in that summer league game and it’s it’s a bit much. So, uh, Brad seeing that was like, look, take the day off. We We see it. I think the one thing that we saw from Gonzalez is is the motor. Um, the desire to, you know, just hound people up and down the floor. When we talked to Jordan Walsh, he was like, “Oh, man. That guy’s a defensive menace.” Because he’s all over the place. And so you you hear even in the uh midgame interview like they caught up to him after halftime and he’s like super focused, super intense. So he seems like a true competitor. uh he didn’t shoot well, but he in that one game that he played 12 points, five assists, four rebounds, a steal, a couple of blocks, did have a few turnovers, but Brad Stevens said, “Hey, look, sometimes you saw him go one way and a guy was cutting three steps behind him on the other way, and you just got to get him on the same page.” Um, I’m certainly not going to make any evaluations after one game, but you got to like his his motor, his desire, um, his, you know, picking up full court, all of that stuff. Um, the vision is there. He made some really nice plays. I think he understands the game, so you could tell there just certain things that are translatable. You know, beating a guy off the dribble, drawing help, and then making the right pass after that. He he did that. Uh but again, just one game, but that’s something that he’s been doing. So, it just feels like he has a good kind of feel for things. Uh again, NBA basketball is different. The players are bigger, faster, stronger. The speed of the entire game is different. Uh the speed at which decisions need to be made is different. So that’s where you get the, you know, that separates the true pros from the guys who are good. You know, you’re the guys who are drafted and have the potential but never realize it. So what will make Ugo Gonzalez a a part of Boston’s future? It’s playing at that speed. probably slowing down while playing with that same intensity and making those same plays. Um the shot was there in the first game. He was three of five from three. That was nice to see. I’m not sold like you don’t want to fall in love with the makes. It’s a super high arcing shot. Um I’m not I need to see it fall more consistently. I’m kind of curious about it. I I want to take a real close look at that form and how it looks. It’s It’s a real like ceiling scratching kind of shot. it in a way not I don’t want to say it’s um it’s it’s well I don’t want to make comparisons but um it’s not Sam Hower in terms of consistency but Sam has this nice high arcing kind of floating shot but Gonzalez kind of has the same kind of angle the same kind of parabola to his shot so I don’t know if it’s going to fall consistently or not, but it’s that same kind of soft touch. I just I don’t I want to see it come off his hand a little bit more and see how he how it looks. So, nice a nice debut for him. Uh interesting guy. Amari Williams played a couple of games. Not a ton to to say about Amari other than the passing is legit. He made a pass to uh I think it was Jaylen Bridges in Yeah, I think Bridges was the cutter against the Knicks on Sunday and it was just a nice like Bridges took the step, you know, step towards the three-point line, then cut back door. Uh Amari hits him with a nice beautiful pass, nice leading pass uh at a nice at a tough angle and it got through. It was, you know, great great vision, great timing, all of that stuff. So, you look at it, you say, “Okay, the passing ability is legit.” Uh, again, can you do that at the next level? I don’t know. But when that opening was there, he hit it. So, that’s good. Uh, he’s, you know, set some decent screens. I don’t know about the rebounding yet, but, uh, we’ll see where that goes. But you say, “Okay, the passing is what we were sold on. The passing is there. Let’s Okay, let’s see what kind of passer he can be.” Nothing about his game makes me think, okay, this is a guy who can contribute right away, but the passing and the athleticism makes me think, okay, you can run the same kind of offense you ran with Robert Williams. you know, the the dribble handoffs, the high post stuff, and maybe he can make a lot of those same type of reads. And then can he develop those skills of faking the handoff, taking a dribble, and getting to the rim? Can he create uh can he roll effectively? Can he get in there and and pick up some offensive rebounds, some putbacks? That’s the next level of stuff. So again, the the the passing is is as advertised. Now, let’s see you let’s see him build on that. Uh, a couple of other notes here. I I saved Jordan Walsh for last or next to last. Uh, I just I’m starting to lose a little confidence in in Jordan Walsh. I just feel like he’s he’s had some like against the um the Grizz in the first game he had 17 points, six of 12, three of six from three. That was nice. Uh but none of those shots were I none of them were the types of shots where I’m like, “Okay, this is this is the maturity showing out. He is uh executing well.” No, he didn’t execute particularly well. I think his athleticism kind of carried the day and that’s that’s a trap that you have to be aware of. Uh athleticism will get a player points in summer league. So, you got to be careful about that. And I think some of his scoring was based on athleticism. He he hit a few shots which again you’re not going to fall in love with because sometimes shots fall, sometimes they don’t. They uh didn’t fall from three in in the first game against Memphis where um he was what one of six. Oh, I’m sorry. Against New York the second game where he was one of six. Uh in fact, he was two of 10 overall. He got to the line a bunch, but there were 58 combined fouls in that game. So, everybody got to the line. But Jordan got there 11 times. Um which is nice. I just I’m I’m struggling to see the path for Jordan to get there with the Celtics. Not saying he can’t get there. Um, but at this point, third year in summer league, I was just hoping for more from a guy who’s been in the NBA for a couple of seasons, has been with the big club, has seen it, has seen the speed. I wanted to see a little bit more in control. I still feel like after two years of summer league where he’s just playing too fast, still feel like he’s out there playing too fast. So, I don’t know if he’s having a tough time playing within himself. I think summer league is very easy to get sped up. It’s very easy to play too fast. And that’s why the guy and that’s why Max Schulga stands out. you say, “Okay, a guy who plays under control in that setting,” you’re like, “Okay, I like that he’s playing under control.” It may not result in any stats, but I like that he’s playing under control, and he’s not letting the whirlwind speed him up. I think Jordan still lets the whirlwind speed him up. So, I want it to work out for him. I just I’m starting to I’m starting to get that feeling of like I don’t know. I don’t know because your third year in summer league should be smoother than this. So he still has a few games to get it together. So I’m not I’m not saying I’m out, but I am starting to do that looking for the I’m looking at my watch. You know, when you’re getting ready to leave a party and you start looking at your watch and you’re like, “Okay, I’m gonna start looking for the opening here.” And unless somebody comes along and hits you with a great story, unless somebody comes along and hooks you to to stick around for a little while longer, you’re going to start like putting your plate away. You’re going to start like, “All right, I’m going to Where’s my coat?” or whatever. Like, that’s the stage where I’m at with Jordan. He still has time to keep me at the party, but I am starting to like make my way towards the door. The last thing I got to mention is uh Kenny Loftton Jr. who um I’m I’m I’m all set. I’m all set with him. Um I think he’s detrimental to the summer league team. I think he’s it’s too much. Uh he’s he’s clearly looking out for himself, which I don’t blame him for, but it’s it’s not what the Celtics need. He’s not giving them anything that they need. Uh but he’s he’s out there looking for basically his own thing for the most part. He he has kind of settled into uh making a couple of passes. The second game was much better than the first one. Uh mainly because he played in was it 12 18 minutes? 18 minutes against the Knicks versus I don’t know it was 18 minutes against the the the Grizzlies, too. So, it it just he played he played a little bit better against the Knicks. He was he wasn’t as ball dominant against the Knicks as he was against Memphis. Memphis, I was like, “Oh my god, get this guy off the floor.” But I’m all set with Kenny Loftton. Um he was the he was an MVP in China. I think that’s going to be great. Go become a legend in China. I just don’t think it’s happening for you here. So, sorry, but I don’t see it. I don’t see it. Celtics play again Monday night. This is the Monday show. So, Monday night 8:00 game. So, a little bit of a later podcast. I’ll I’ll focus on summer league again in that podcast. So, make sure you’re subscribed. Uh, you know, we’re we’re digging deep. We’re getting into the nitty-gritty here. And summer league is a fun time to uh react or overreact. If you have overreactions, I would love to hear your thoughts. Uh, see your thoughts on the YouTube page. Get into the comment section there. This show’s free, available everywhere. It’s available on YouTube. Great community building in that comment section there. Would love to see you in there uh sharing your thoughts. And then I would love you love it if you shared the podcast. Tell everybody they should be listening to and watching the Lockdown Celtics podcast right here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. It’s your team every day.

Boston Celtics’ summer league shakeup: Charles Bassey emerges as potential frontcourt solution.

John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal breaks down the Celtics’ unexpected discoveries and disappointments from Las Vegas. From Bassey’s double-double dominance to Jordan Walsh’s concerning struggles, this analysis covers it all. Max Shulga’s point guard potential and Hugo Gonzalez’s passing vision add intrigue to Boston’s developmental pipeline.

Tune in for expert insights on how these summer performances could reshape the Celtics’ roster.

1:30 Intro: Celtics summer league and big man search
5:06 Charles Bassey’s impressive summer league performance
15:50 Baylor Shireman’s summer league struggles and potential
21:26 Max Shulga shows promise as summer league point guard
26:30 Hugo Gonzalez’s motor and defensive intensity
31:41 Jordan Walsh’s disappointing summer league showing
34:48 Kenny Lofton Jr.’s detrimental impact on summer team

Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!
OpenPhone
Streamline and scale your customer communications with OpenPhone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at www.openphone.com/lockedonnba

Hungryroot
With Hungryroot, it’s like having a personal shopper and a nutritionist all in one. For a limited time, get 40% off your first box and a free item in every box for life! Just go to Hungryroot.com/lockedonnba and use code LOCKEDONNBA.

Monarch Money
Take control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNBA at monarchmoney.com/lockedonnba for 50% off your first year

Gametime
Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONNBA for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.

FanDuel
Right now, new customers can get ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA.

FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…
🎧 https://link.chtbl.com/LOCeltics?sid=YouTube

Locked On NBA League-Wide: Every Team, Fantasy, Draft, WNBA & More
🎧 https://linktr.ee/LockedOnNBA

Locked On Celtics is a daily Boston Celtics podcast by Boston Sports Journal beat writer John Karalis. It’s an inside look at the C’s from a former professional basketball player who is at practices & games.

#BostonCeltics #Celtics #NBA #JaysonTatum #JaylenBrown