Sorry but I can't Nick Wright seriously here. I'm not going to dispute that Mazzula and the Celtics coaching staff is inadequate, because they are and the staff in general is a shell of themselves. Especially when you consider the fact that this team played much tighter under Udoka and Stevens previously on both ends of the court whereas Mazzula doesn't have a game plan most nights and just sits there with his mouth open like his brain short circuited. That all being said, Wright isn't taking into account the fact that all of this would've been glossed over if the Celtics were healthy from the jump and didn't have Brogdan and Tatum go down with injuries that ultimately gimped them. Tatum going down changed the momentum of that entire game. No team recovers from losing their top superstar. I love Jaylen, but he needs Tatum more than the other way around. On top of that, there's also the fact that there was recently another referee scandal (again), calling into question the quality of the officiating of the NBA for the second time this century after the Tim Donaghy ordeal and how impartial they are (never mind if they are on the take). Everyone has seen the questionable decisions Scott Foster and Tony Brothers has made in the past decade plus in these critical games, and we are still going to bury our heads in the sand and not act as if the refs don't play a factor? That league can be more predetermined than WWE sometimes.
