Joe Mazzulla has mentioned multiple times that there were 15 possessions he wishes they could’ve changed, but they missed 20 paint shots and 41 threes (a franchise record) so he was satisfied with their process overall tonight.
December 20, 2023
Joe Mazzulla has mentioned multiple times that there were 15 possessions he wishes they could’ve changed, but they missed 20 paint shots and 41 threes (a franchise record) so he was satisfied with their process overall tonight.
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Dude is satisfied, what a joke
58 3s and 17 FT’s against a team everyone knew is small ball I just don’t get this team sometimes…
r/bostonceltics don’t overreact to an OT loss CHALLENGE (every single team in the league and every finals-winning roster in history has losses like this)
I’m gonna say missing 41 threes isn’t a “good process”. How could it be good to continue missing them, but keep shooting more?
Mazzulla Ball 🤷♂️
Celtics are 20-6, playing 6 games in 9 days, and lose one. And yall are gonna freak out. Please have some perspective
JB is the only guy on this team who’s willing to put his head down and get to the rim when the three ball isn’t falling. Everyone else is content to just jack up the first open three they get no matter how cold they are
If Hauser, Tatum, and Horford could hit their 3s this game is an easy win
I don’t even dislike Joe. But you watch games like this where there is a clear path to victory and the Celtics just do the same old shit and you have to think “How does this keep happening constantly”
Joe and the team REALLY needs to learn what to say to the media. You don’t blow a lead and get killed in OT and come out and say “we had overall a good game”, literally no one wants to hear that.
Just show some frustration it’s ok, if anything the fans respect in more when you take accountability and say you’re learning from the experience
Wake me up when Brad fires Mazzulla.
All this talent and the Celtics still can’t win statement games.
I’m gonna give Mazzulla the benefit of the doubt that with Tatum’s ankle probably bothering him and Porzingis out he didn’t feel comfortable switching the offense to hunt for more post-ups, especially because the team was actually generating open looks from 3 even if they were missing them, but damn does it hurt to see this team lose in the exact same way you’d expect them to lose a clutch game the last few years.
Making al shoot 10 3s wen he clearly didnt have his legs is fucking crazy
Tatum bad ankle. We missed a ton of shots we should’ve made, GS made a lot of shots they shouldn’t have made (and have struggled to this year).
The game was awesome to watch. I’m absolutely ok with playing it safe with KP. This season is make or break on his health.
Not watching the Celts play the Warriors again until Steph retires.
If he was satisfied with their process in this game I dont even know what to say. They kept shooting threes and missing, what about that process is acceptable. Games have to be coached in the moment not over a long period of time and I don’t think mazzulla gets that. If he fucks around again like this I’d fire his ass mid season, there is too much on the line this season to be fucking around with a coach who is this fucking clueless.
If all it takes for Steph Curry to get a wide open three is a single high screen, you’re doing something wrong. Like make some kind of an adjustment. Tatum at the 5 with a more switchable lineup? Blitz the screen every now and then? Idk, you just can’t drop that far back. It’s negligent
Tatum is one of the worst volume pull up three point shooters in the league yet he still jacks them up at mediocre at-best efficiency. If that’s part of the process, then the process is severely flawed
I’m mostly okay with “the process” if we’re talking about their overall shot diet. But I think the degree of difficulty and the volume on the Tatum pull-ups is getting to be untenable. And Mazzulla needs to call a timeout to set up that last possession in regulation.
Clearly didn’t learn a single thing from the very similar Timberwolves OT loss. Why are we wasting this talented team on a terrible coach
one of those possessions was the last shot in regulation, right
I really want Jaylen to lose it just one time and scream at everyone in the huddle to get him the damn ball. So many times when he is going right and dominating and then he stops and Tatum take us into his bullshit close game routine of holding the ball and taking absurdly difficult shots in isolation. Love JT but everything he does well for this team in the first 3 1/2 quarters go out the window in the clutch far too often.
I thought Joe should have called TO for the last play but he saw Tatum up and Curry still on the floor
I’ve been really really patient with Joe, I’ve defended him through all the playoff criticism, and I think the crunch time issues have nothing to do with him.
But this quote is terrible. Really really bad, like some AI basketball coach that can take in numbers but can’t take in the actual game. He’s got to acknowledge that something went wrong in the 4th and OT. Tatum and Brown have no idea what to do in crunch time. Over and over and over again. Joe didn’t make this mess, but it’s his mess to clean up. I just hope he knows it’s a mess. Everything isn’t fine.
Greatest commentary of all time here, if we make shots we win! Spectacular that the head coach for probably the best constructed roster in the entire league only now just figured out that the way to score points is to put the ball in the hoop.
Instead of learning the rules of basketball, why don’t we talk about how Golden State ran the same damn play to get Steph Curry open for the entire game? Could Joe not tell Horford to hedge and have the man on Curry fight over the top of the screen? There’s backside help all over the place and we’ve got some of the most versatile defenders in the league. Instead, for reasons passing understanding, we settle for the switch and Horford (like every other big man) gets cooked by the greatest shooter ever and we don’t make a single adjustment to stop it. This is why we lost to Miami in the ECF last year and it’s the same story again now.
Even if we don’t make that defensive adjustment, Curry had 5 fouls. Why don’t we attack him on offense, create a quick mismatch and then drive? Nobody else on the Warriors was doing anything useful at all. If Steph fouls out, we win. If we make a defensive adjustment, we win. Instead, we do neither and of course, we lose.
I dont mind losing like how we did to the Pacers in the IST. Tyrese Haliburton was hitting crazy 30-foot contested shots like they were layups, you can’t scheme around that. That happens, teams will play outrageously good but that’ll even out over the course of a season. Steve Kerr simply outclassed Joe Mazzulla this game to the point where he could take a borderline play-in team past the best constructed roster since the 2017 Warriors. This was a winnable game that Joe Mazzulla lost for us and I’m genuinely sick and tired of this guy and his inability to make an adjustment. He’s wasting the talent of our roster.
TL;DR GET JOE MAZZULLA OUT OF BOSTON
It’s sad seeing them jack up 3s all game when they could crash the net.
Poor use of timeouts, questionable volume threes, strange lineups at strange times, lack of adjustments while ahead. Mazulla ball just means below average coaching. This is why they play 7, I just hope our talent can overcome joes lack of experience when it matters most.
Our issue wasn’t offense, it was the fact that the warriors scored on like 100 possessions in a row in the fourth
I honestly can’t stand Mazulla. I believe he has no idea what’s going on.
He “wishes” they could’ve changed? Bro, you’re the fucking coach. This coaching staff should’ve been turned over after last year, but apparently they need to learn the same lesson again.
How can you watch that game and how your team is playing in the 4th and not call a time out to draw up a final play?
I get it, trust your guys to go make a play, but were we not watching the same 4th quarter?
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Dude is satisfied, what a joke
58 3s and 17 FT’s against a team everyone knew is small ball I just don’t get this team sometimes…
r/bostonceltics don’t overreact to an OT loss CHALLENGE (every single team in the league and every finals-winning roster in history has losses like this)
I’m gonna say missing 41 threes isn’t a “good process”. How could it be good to continue missing them, but keep shooting more?
Mazzulla Ball 🤷♂️
Celtics are 20-6, playing 6 games in 9 days, and lose one. And yall are gonna freak out. Please have some perspective
JB is the only guy on this team who’s willing to put his head down and get to the rim when the three ball isn’t falling. Everyone else is content to just jack up the first open three they get no matter how cold they are
If Hauser, Tatum, and Horford could hit their 3s this game is an easy win
I don’t even dislike Joe. But you watch games like this where there is a clear path to victory and the Celtics just do the same old shit and you have to think “How does this keep happening constantly”
Joe and the team REALLY needs to learn what to say to the media. You don’t blow a lead and get killed in OT and come out and say “we had overall a good game”, literally no one wants to hear that.
Just show some frustration it’s ok, if anything the fans respect in more when you take accountability and say you’re learning from the experience
Wake me up when Brad fires Mazzulla.
All this talent and the Celtics still can’t win statement games.
I’m gonna give Mazzulla the benefit of the doubt that with Tatum’s ankle probably bothering him and Porzingis out he didn’t feel comfortable switching the offense to hunt for more post-ups, especially because the team was actually generating open looks from 3 even if they were missing them, but damn does it hurt to see this team lose in the exact same way you’d expect them to lose a clutch game the last few years.
Making al shoot 10 3s wen he clearly didnt have his legs is fucking crazy
Tatum bad ankle. We missed a ton of shots we should’ve made, GS made a lot of shots they shouldn’t have made (and have struggled to this year).
The game was awesome to watch. I’m absolutely ok with playing it safe with KP. This season is make or break on his health.
Not watching the Celts play the Warriors again until Steph retires.
If he was satisfied with their process in this game I dont even know what to say. They kept shooting threes and missing, what about that process is acceptable. Games have to be coached in the moment not over a long period of time and I don’t think mazzulla gets that. If he fucks around again like this I’d fire his ass mid season, there is too much on the line this season to be fucking around with a coach who is this fucking clueless.
If all it takes for Steph Curry to get a wide open three is a single high screen, you’re doing something wrong. Like make some kind of an adjustment. Tatum at the 5 with a more switchable lineup? Blitz the screen every now and then? Idk, you just can’t drop that far back. It’s negligent
Tatum is one of the worst volume pull up three point shooters in the league yet he still jacks them up at mediocre at-best efficiency. If that’s part of the process, then the process is severely flawed
I’m mostly okay with “the process” if we’re talking about their overall shot diet. But I think the degree of difficulty and the volume on the Tatum pull-ups is getting to be untenable. And Mazzulla needs to call a timeout to set up that last possession in regulation.
Clearly didn’t learn a single thing from the very similar Timberwolves OT loss. Why are we wasting this talented team on a terrible coach
one of those possessions was the last shot in regulation, right
I really want Jaylen to lose it just one time and scream at everyone in the huddle to get him the damn ball. So many times when he is going right and dominating and then he stops and Tatum take us into his bullshit close game routine of holding the ball and taking absurdly difficult shots in isolation. Love JT but everything he does well for this team in the first 3 1/2 quarters go out the window in the clutch far too often.
I thought Joe should have called TO for the last play but he saw Tatum up and Curry still on the floor
I’ve been really really patient with Joe, I’ve defended him through all the playoff criticism, and I think the crunch time issues have nothing to do with him.
But this quote is terrible. Really really bad, like some AI basketball coach that can take in numbers but can’t take in the actual game. He’s got to acknowledge that something went wrong in the 4th and OT. Tatum and Brown have no idea what to do in crunch time. Over and over and over again. Joe didn’t make this mess, but it’s his mess to clean up. I just hope he knows it’s a mess. Everything isn’t fine.
Greatest commentary of all time here, if we make shots we win! Spectacular that the head coach for probably the best constructed roster in the entire league only now just figured out that the way to score points is to put the ball in the hoop.
Instead of learning the rules of basketball, why don’t we talk about how Golden State ran the same damn play to get Steph Curry open for the entire game? Could Joe not tell Horford to hedge and have the man on Curry fight over the top of the screen? There’s backside help all over the place and we’ve got some of the most versatile defenders in the league. Instead, for reasons passing understanding, we settle for the switch and Horford (like every other big man) gets cooked by the greatest shooter ever and we don’t make a single adjustment to stop it. This is why we lost to Miami in the ECF last year and it’s the same story again now.
Even if we don’t make that defensive adjustment, Curry had 5 fouls. Why don’t we attack him on offense, create a quick mismatch and then drive? Nobody else on the Warriors was doing anything useful at all. If Steph fouls out, we win. If we make a defensive adjustment, we win. Instead, we do neither and of course, we lose.
I dont mind losing like how we did to the Pacers in the IST. Tyrese Haliburton was hitting crazy 30-foot contested shots like they were layups, you can’t scheme around that. That happens, teams will play outrageously good but that’ll even out over the course of a season. Steve Kerr simply outclassed Joe Mazzulla this game to the point where he could take a borderline play-in team past the best constructed roster since the 2017 Warriors. This was a winnable game that Joe Mazzulla lost for us and I’m genuinely sick and tired of this guy and his inability to make an adjustment. He’s wasting the talent of our roster.
TL;DR GET JOE MAZZULLA OUT OF BOSTON
It’s sad seeing them jack up 3s all game when they could crash the net.
Poor use of timeouts, questionable volume threes, strange lineups at strange times, lack of adjustments while ahead. Mazulla ball just means below average coaching. This is why they play 7, I just hope our talent can overcome joes lack of experience when it matters most.
Our issue wasn’t offense, it was the fact that the warriors scored on like 100 possessions in a row in the fourth
I honestly can’t stand Mazulla. I believe he has no idea what’s going on.
He “wishes” they could’ve changed? Bro, you’re the fucking coach. This coaching staff should’ve been turned over after last year, but apparently they need to learn the same lesson again.
How can you watch that game and how your team is playing in the 4th and not call a time out to draw up a final play?
I get it, trust your guys to go make a play, but were we not watching the same 4th quarter?