Celtics/NBA 2023 Playoffs Round 3 - Back to South Beach

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You have 6 of the best 8 players in the series and you’re going out to Gabe Vincent and Max Struss.

No composure and terrible coaching. Anyone with eyes could see that the Tatum/Rob Williams pick and roll was dominating the second half, but let’s keep Rob Williams out the entire 4th quarter. Makes sense.
Brain dead
 
Joe Mazzula, as we've been saying in here all season, has been a problem all year and there's not enough time to correct their fatal flaw. He was the difference tonight.
 
Joe Mazzula, as we've been saying in here all season, has been a problem all year and there's not enough time to correct their fatal flaw. He was the difference tonight.
Caleb Martin being 5x better than Jaylen Brown was the X factor for me tonight.
 
Celtics might be one of the worst clutch time championship contender teams ever. You knew they weren't winning that after the ball slipped out of Smart's hands right after Miami tied the game. Jaylen Brown in a 6 point loss shot 30% and was a -24


The Celtics are better than last years team, Miami are worse but the difference is Brad Stevens had his Belichick/Patricia moment and gave the head coaching job to someone who isn't qualified for the job and someone the players have to beg to make adjustments for the opponent. Mazzulla has no feel for what's going on the court, he's like the heavy analytics baseball manager that never wins anything because a spreadsheet can't feel the game.
 
Caleb Martin being 5x better than Jaylen Brown was the X factor for me tonight.

The game was decided in the last five minutes when the Celtics didn't have their best lineup out there and Mazzula watched Butler torch Grant over and over and over again without doubling him.

switch coaches and it doesn't matter how Jaylen played, the Celts win. That's the definition of an X-factor.
 
The game was decided in the last five minutes when the Celtics didn't have their best lineup out there and Mazzula watched Butler torch Grant over and over and over again without doubling him.

switch coaches and it doesn't matter how Jaylen played, the Celts win. That's the definition of an X-factor.

What I watched was them throw away a massive lead in crunch time again because they couldn’t stop turning the ball over and got terrible looks offensively. Mazzulla sucks but tell me honestly how tonight looked any differently than the games they threw away vs Miami and GS last postseason.
 
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It's bad when even the coach who probably has the worst reputation for choking come playoff time in Doc Rivers would get this team to the finals in 5 or 6 games
 
What I watched was them throw away a massive lead in crunch time again because they couldn’t stop turning the ball over and got terrible looks offensively. Mazzulla sucks but tell me honestly how tonight looked any differently than the games they threw away vs Miami and GS last postseason.

I just gave specific coaching decisions that's cost them the game tonight.
 
Most teams need a timeout when the other team starts going on a run.

The Celtics need to think about calling a timeout when they get up 10 to preemptively stop their heads from going up their asses
 
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That just sucked on so many levels

Coaching
Horford
Brown

Not playing Rob in 4Q
Damn at this point Griffin is better than Horford

Play White and Brogdon - at least they can shoot

More Grant.....play Hauser...again at least they can shoot

I don't know how many times I can say Pretenders....pitiful
 
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