{"id":568253,"date":"2026-01-29T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/568253\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:50:46","slug":"joe-mazzulla-drops-truth-bomb-on-celtics-performance-after-loss-to-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/568253\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Mazzulla Drops Truth Bomb On Celtics&#8217; Performance After Loss To Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Celtics fell to the Atlanta Hawks 117-106 on Wednesday night. Following the game, head coach Joe Mazzulla <a target=\"_blank\" https:=\"\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offered a straightforward evaluation<\/a> of Boston\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a bad day at the office,\u201d Mazzulla said, via WEEI\u2019s Justin Turpin.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics struggled from the 3-point line, making only 9 of 34 attempts, which won\u2019t cut it against any NBA team.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla didn\u2019t have his best night either, picking up a technical foul in the third quarter. He was upset that the officials missed Baylor Scheierman getting fouled, which led to Hawks forward Onyeka Okongwu grabbing the rebound and heading to the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a little bit to get my point across, a little bit to try and spark the team and whatnot,\u201d Mazzulla <a target=\"_blank\" https:=\"\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said on his<\/a> technical foul, via ClutchPoints Daniel Donabedian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics currently hold a 29-18 record and are clinging to the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference. However, they are facing increasing pressure from the New York Knicks, who also have a 29-18 record and are riding a four-game winning streak.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics fell to the Atlanta Hawks 117-106 on Wednesday night. Following the game, head coach Joe Mazzulla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,2675,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-568253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-hawks","13":"tag-joe-mazzulla","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115977769832089709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}