BRUNiNHO91 wrote:BK_2020 wrote:Smart2Nesmith43 wrote:This has nothing to do with how they feel about Mazzulla. They had an opportunity to upgrade the coaching staff so they took it. Just like when they had an opportunity to upgrade the roster with Porzingis and Holiday, they took it. Just like if they had an opportunity to improve their front office staff they would take it. This is what well run organization do, they keep bringing in talented people to combat employee turnover and keep their edge on the competition.
Stevens is not shy about making big moves and has already fired his head coach before. If he didn't have complete confidence in Mazzulla to get the job done, Budenholzer or whomever would have already had his press conference as the new Celtics head coach.
Jaylen Brown shot 41.8% from the field, 16% from the three, and 66% from the free throw line (at pathetic 3 attempts per game) while taking more shots than anyone else on the team. Coaching wasn't why we lost the Heat series.
*Looks like I quoted the wrong post.
Damn the obsession for Jaylen Brown is insane. Lol
I didn’t say we lost the Heat series because of Joe. But there was an obvious disconnect between him and the team. When everybody is getting asked what the problem is and all your players say it’s the defense while your coach says it’s the offense, there’s a major disconnect and to me that’s coaching. When your game plan is going under and leaving shooters open on every screen, to the point where even TNT announcers are questioning it, that’s on the coaching. A season ago we beat the Heat with less while they had more, and that’s because Ime didn’t get his ass handed to him by Spo the way Joe did.
More vague, subjective claims about Mazzulla with no links, no video, no tangible evidence to support your claim.
More he say, she say. Guess we'll just take your word for it?
I think you read too deeply into postgame interviews. Most of the time the stuff Mazzulla said in interviews last season was tongue in cheek, he was messing with the media. Clearly he was not super comfortable doing interviews - they're not his thing.
Whether it's coaches or players, I don't really think it's wise to read too deeply into the stuff they say right after a loss in the playoffs. That's obviously a moment where you're pissed off, frustrated, disappointed or whatever. In the heat of the moment, you might just say something out of frustration, that you don't even really mean.
Smart made some comments in interviews where he undermined Mazzulla - and he's gone now.
As for TNT announcers, who gives a crap what they think? The more controversial things they say, the hotter their takes, the higher their ratings will be - the more $ they can make from ads.
Saying that we beat the Heat in 2022 and lost to them in 2023 is all about coaching is misguided. You seem to way too much weight on coaching. The coaches are not the ones shooting jump shots or playing defense. They can only do so much.
We beat the heat in 7 games in 2022 and we lost to the heat in 7 games in 2023. That's not a very big difference at all. It's simply a difference of 1 game. A bounce here or a shot there and either series could've had a different outcome. Let's not act like we swept the beat in 2022 and got swept by miami in 2023.
KD said miami went to the finals because they all of a sudden had a fluke hot shooting streak:
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This supports that claim:
Also, Ime had an entire offseason to prepare for being the head coach. He got to hand pick all of his assistants, including a bunch of guys he coached with for many years previously and some guys he has known for decades. Compare that to Ime who had no time to prepare for being the head coach, had to walk into a locker room full of guys who were in shock and were confused about what happened with Ime, had to coach players who were not given straight answers from ownership/front office about what happened with Ime, whether he'd return as coach at some point, etc. Mazzulla had to coach with Ime's homies as assistants, and the top assistant (Stoudemire) left for a college job right before the playoffs.
Again (as others have pointed out too) if Mazzulla was that bad, he would've been replaced this offseason. 90% of your posts for the past year are bashing Mazzulla - it's getting old. You're a broken record. The stuff you've posted bashing Mazzulla in this thread - you've already said this same stuff like 50 different times since last spring..
3 other points:
1) You say that we were leaving Miami open for 3's. But we actually generated more open 3's in the 2023 ECF than Miami did. We just got unlucky that they made theirs and we missed ours. Also, it's understandable if we were fine with letting them take 3's, since Miami was one of the worst 3 pt shooting teams in the league during the 22-23 reg season. Their 3 pt shooting would have been even worse during the 22-23 reg season if you remove Herro's shot attempts - which seems reasonable to do since he played in 0 games during the ECF. A guy like Butler (their best player and best scorer) is not a good 3 pt shooter, but is VERY good at scoring closer to the basket. Bam (their 2nd best scorer) is a non-shooter from 3 who is also really good at scoring closer to the basket. So it's understandable if part of our strategy w s to pack it into the paint and let them take 3's.
2) You love Ime so much. But isn't Ime the one who had us playing drop coverage in the 2022 NBA finals vs Steph, Klay and Poole?
3) You seem to give Ime all the credit for us beating the heat in the 2022 ECF, but did you know that Mazzulla was actually vital in putting together our gameplan for that series?
"Mazzulla was in charge of the game planning for the Miami series because they felt like he gave them the best chance to scout that."
https://www.nbcsportsboston.com/nba/boston-celtics/why-did-celtics-choose-mazzulla-mannix-and-forsberg-weigh-in/268005/
Clips of that would get way more views than Brad or Joe interviews.
