{"id":574926,"date":"2026-02-01T10:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/574926\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T10:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T10:34:38","slug":"eye-opening-joe-mazzulla-trend-emerges-after-celtics-win-vs-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/574926\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye-Opening Joe Mazzulla Trend Emerges After Celtics&#8217; Win Vs. Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/chris-boucher-russell-westbrook-confrontation-celtics-win-viral\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> bounced back from a tough loss to the Atlanta Hawks with a dominant 112-93 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night. While the players delivered the goods in this one, <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/celtics-joe-mazzulla-praises-neemias-queta-after-stellar-performance-vs-kings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">head coach Joe Mazzulla<\/a> also earned himself some attention, too.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since taking over as the C\u2019s head coach, Mazzulla has had his fair share of doubters, but this season, it\u2019s been tough to ignore the work he\u2019s done with Boston\u2019s shorthanded roster. Simply put, nobody would have guessed that they would have a 30-18 record at this point in the season if you asked them before the campaign got underway.<\/p>\n<p>One area where Mazzulla frequently shows off his coaching chops is when it comes to using his coach\u2019s challenges. After getting a pair of calls overturned against Sacramento, Mazzulla has now been successful on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/celtics\/status\/2017583825480782304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">19 of his 27 coach\u2019s challenges<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla, of course, isn\u2019t alone in determining when to use his coach\u2019s challenge, so the praise should be given to the coaching staff as a whole, rather than just him. Still, he has been excellent at knowing when to use his challenges in an effort to give his team the best shot at winning every time they take the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While this isn\u2019t the Celtics\u2019 best team during Mazzulla\u2019s time in charge, it is easily the best coaching job of his young career. Despite losing several key contributors over the offseason, while also being without Jayson Tatum as he recovers from a torn Achilles tendon, Mazzulla has helped Boston remain among the top teams in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>With Tatum\u2019s status for the rest of the season up in the air, Mazzulla is going to have to continue pushing the right buttons for this team moving forward. The C\u2019s will be back in action on Sunday afternoon when they square off against the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics bounced back from a tough loss to the Atlanta Hawks with a dominant 112-93 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,2675,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-574926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-joe-mazzulla","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115994929730513156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574926","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=574926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}