The players had to beg him to make adjustments with their season on the line against Philly then he stuck with it despite it being a new series and the double bigs not being as good as match up against Miami. He's a Brad guy who seems way too much like Brad and the players quit on him at the end too. Mazzulla is telling them to build a sand castle every day while Udoka was calling them bitches and probably would have been able to kick anyone on the rosters ass if they had a problem with it. They need a hard ass coach.
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The players had to beg him to make adjustments with their season on the line against Philly then he stuck with it despite it being a new series and the double bigs not being as good as match up against Miami. He's a Brad guy who seems way too much like Brad and the players quit on him at the end too. Mazzulla is telling them to build a sand castle every day while Udoka was calling them bitches and probably would have been able to kick anyone on the rosters ass if they had a problem with it. They need a hard ass coach.
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I’m sure Joe will be saying we’ve won 6 out of 12 quarters this series so it could go either way in the postgame.
Whether this team has the guts to fire him is the most important decision of the offseason
Whether this team has the guts to fire him is the most important decision of the offseason
EverettMike
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Wyc is gonna step in and make the decision. He isn't going to f*** around.
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It wasn’t as pronounced in the Philly series because they had a clown on the other side too.
The players are seeing what real coaching looks like against Miami right now and know they’re completely outgunned strategically
It gets worse, guys. I can hear the Taylor Swift concert loud and clear from my bedroom. Shut it down already!
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Really exuding confidence here, Joe. Dude is way out of his league. I get he was thrown into a situation he wasn't prepared for by no fault of his own but you can't waste another season of a championship window with this guy. That's on Brad.
I'm going to start singing Taylor Swift songs to you right now.
Openly admitting he lost the room. Woof. This team man. Embarrassing on all levels. I say we win the next one in Miami and then get trounced immediately back in Boston because of course.
EverettMike
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I don't care how much your coach sucks, quitting on him reflects on you.
I think with a better coach they win the first two games and win easily. But f*** them for this embarrassment tonight.
I think with a better coach they win the first two games and win easily. But f*** them for this embarrassment tonight.
PatriceBergeron
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I think they lose by 30 again in game 4. Teams pack it up in the NBA more than any other league and this team knows it’s cooked. 1, 2, 3 Cancun.
When Coach K retired from Duke I remember reading about how it had a lot to do with him not liking where college basketball was going. Sure enough he signed on with the NBA recently in some capacity. Has a relationship with Tatum and is well respected from his time with USA basketball. So he's familiar with NBA players. Now I personally can't stand the guy but this team needs more fire/intensity than someone like Mazzulla. Just sayin'.
PatriceBergeron
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Just watched the Mazzula postgame, guy looks like a deer in headlights. Kinda feel bad for him.
There was a lot of talk about the players being pissed that Robert Williams didn’t start in game 5 of the Philly series and that being a potential reason why the players looked flat in that game. Tonight White starts over Williams and they look like deflated immediately like that again.
Players have clearly quit on the coach. Two days ago I didn’t think they would fire him. Now I think he’s toast.
There was a lot of talk about the players being pissed that Robert Williams didn’t start in game 5 of the Philly series and that being a potential reason why the players looked flat in that game. Tonight White starts over Williams and they look like deflated immediately like that again.
Players have clearly quit on the coach. Two days ago I didn’t think they would fire him. Now I think he’s toast.
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obviously a tough situation with udoka but this is on brad for extending him for no reason without him proving himself in the playoffs
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Mazzula should not have been handed a three year contract. I get he was the safe choice after the Udoka situation, but make the guy earn the 3 year deal instead of handing it to him halfway through his first season. They have to move on from him. He has been out coached in all 3 series and they have won in spite of him to this point.
Sucks the team will have to eat the $$$, but you’re wasting talent and time with this guy at the helm.
Sucks the team will have to eat the $$$, but you’re wasting talent and time with this guy at the helm.
Game 3 was a disgraceful performance by the once-proud Celtics. Even though it’s not over, don’t you want it to be?
By Dan Shaughnessy Globe Staff
MIAMI — A lifetime of incorrect predictions has taught me that it’s dangerous to prematurely state that any series is over. Yogi Berra was right. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
But man, oh, man. Don’t you just want this Celtics season to be over?
In another hail of turnovers, technicals, airballs, matador defenses, and nonstop complaints to the officials, the once-proud Boston Celtics were defeated yet again by the estimable, eighth-seeded Miami Heat Sunday, 128-102. Miami led by 8 after one, by 15 at the half, and stretched it to 33 midway through the third. At that point, it felt as if the Celtics had simply quit.
And yet poor coach Joe Mazzulla still will not say anything bad about his rollover players.
“I just didn’t have ‘em ready to play,’’ said the kid coach. “I should have . . . Whatever it was, I have to get them in a better place. That’s on me . . . I think they’re doing everything they can . . . I just didn’t execute the proper game plan. It’s on me to be better so they can play better.’’
Noble, but ridiculous. The fault here lies not with Grady Mazzulla, who may be coaching his last game Tuesday. This is on Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, the faux superstars of the team. Tatum scored 14, Brown 12. The Jays shot an aggregate 34 percent (12 for 35), making only 1 of 14 threes. Each committed three turnovers.
“Tonight was tough,’’ said Tatum. “From the beginning of the game, we were turning the ball over, we didn’t shoot the ball well. It felt like we never recovered and that’s on all of us as a unit . . . As tough as tonight was, we just got to try to move on. Obviously, its a tough position. We’ve got to have some pride and bounce back.’’
“Coach is being generous,’’ added veteran Al Horford. “As a player, I take responsibility. We didn’t have what we needed to have.’’
With this, Boston’s sports spring of high expectations is almost officially over. The record-setting Bruins bowed out in Round 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs last month and the Celtics are on the edge of an ignominious sweep at the hands of a team that had to play two play-in games just to qualify for the postseason.
Like their Causeway Street roommates, the Celtics came into these playoffs favored to win the championship. But after a couple of stunning home losses featuring late-game chaos and collapses, they lost their hearts on the way to South Beach and mailed it in for Game 3.
Now they face the impossible: they are down 3-0 with another game scheduled in Miami Tuesday.
Him and Brown are an embarrassment.
I'd start Kornet, Pritchard and Hauser next game without blinking an eye. Those 3 gave me ENERGY and PASSION that Brown or Tatum hasn't had all series.
Especially Brown.
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Im getting there too, some of the most gutless basketball I've ever seen.
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