Mazzulla admitted he should have called time in Toronto. Credit to Joe for acknowledging his mistake there, as it does show a willingness to learn and adapt. I am curious what he has to say about the situation here; certainly am willing to hear him out. Very few of the complaints about Stevens' coaching acumen made any sense.
How Joe coaches in the post season may well be very different than how he coaches in the regular season.
Wanting to win and being mad when they lose are the same thing, actually.
How about rookie mistake? I've been underwhelmed with our interim coach's in game coaching YTD. . He may get better with experience. I hope so as he's got a championship team.
I generally agree with you and I think Mazz has done a great job this season. This loss doesn't annoy or worry me in any way other than I hate when they lose to the Heat.
I agree with the criticism of the timeout usage. Referring to it as coaching malpractice or getting anything other than annoyed with it seems a lot extra given where we are in the calendar and how well the team has done overall.
Heat were definitely not full-strength. Jimmy Butler didn't play a single minute
Yeah, the "schedule loss" argument would be easier to buy if the C's hadn't been up 10 with 10 minutes and change (or whatever it was) to play. They had enough to get it done against the Butler-less Heat, but fell apart down the stretch.
If anything about it was a schedule loss, it was the fact that it was back-to-back and we were missing four of our top 6 players. Even with Tatum, that's a tall order. Still, the Celtics had their best player and the Heat didn't.
Ha! Good point. Unclear to me if Bam is better than Jimmy. I've always thought of Jimmy as the best player on the Heat though.
I know, it's kind of a funny thing. Jimmy is far more terrifying but I think at this point Bam's probably a better all-around player. Putting it another way: I hate betting against Jimmy, and I have no problem betting against Bam.
