Joe Mazzulla said he and the Celtics regularly watched other NBA games: “Studying why a team wins, studying why a team loses, why a team calls a timeout, why a team doesn’t call a timeout, why a team goes on a run, what stops a run? What are the keys toward winning a game?”
by horseshoeoverlook
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lol Joe please take notes on when to take timeouts brother
(Damn everyone scrubbed their collective memory of last year I guess. I know he improved in this area)
This team, from Brad Stevens as GM to Joe as HC, to JB as a vocal leader and Jrue as a Finals champ/vet, comes off as the most self-aware, confident group we’ve had post Big 3 era. (Sometimes I wonder how we can still get lost on offense in some of the puzzling ways we do when Brad is watching w a discerning eye every game — he has to see things like how the ball stops moving sometimes when it’s a close game down the stretch and we’re flirting w a loss?) And yet somehow we still play some of the most unaware stretches of ball that a team this talented should allow themselves to play.
I’m the most confident in this team to finally win and overcome those faults, and they already have grown immensely this year in areas such as responding to runs, keeping leads/ staving off comebacks, and responding commandingly to bad losses. But the little tiny lulls we still leave a crack of the door open for could do us in against Denver, Minnesota, and even NY, at the very least for 3 games if we’re not careful.
I really hope watching teams like Denver pull off wins the way the way they have this postseason continues to help these guys in ways we’ve yet to even see so far, I’m glad Joe is having them keep up w the immense talent and offensive and defensive execution around the league
I hope Bill Simmons makes one of his docs 20 years from now about Joe Mazzulla’s rise to being a great coach. (I wrote all-time but then deleted it)
And he better include his own slander of the man as part of the story.
I personally think Joe Mazzulla stinks. His shitty feel for when to call a timeout aside; his inability to get this team to run anything other than iso ball during long stretches as well as draw up plays after timeouts inspires very little confidence. I get it’s clearly not all his fault as this is three coaches now where the team has fallen victim to the same pitfalls but imo he clearly doesn’t have a strong feel for the team and the team more or less wins and dies by their own abilities rather than be coached up to win moments. I dunno, I’m just frustrated. Another ECF run but it seems riddled with all the same issues as years prior. The only saving graces to me this time around are d whites expanded role, the addition of jrue with his grit and experience and the hope that KP gets healthy
This is called coaching
Joe, watch Eric spoelstra call timeouts. Do it like that
Joe does what he can with this crew, but it’s just up to the Js to get the job done every game. They have the talent to win a championship & they both believe they are above coaching. They want the ball and they are confident they can score or get somebody else a basket with it. Having them watch videos of other teams is as good as anything. Who knows what will sink into their heads