Rick Carlisle after Pacers-Celtics game 1 loss: “This loss is totally on me. With 10 seconds in regulation, we should’ve just taken the timeout, advanced the ball, found a way to get it in, made a free throw or two, and ended the game.”
by yungsantaclaus
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first time in my life I’ve ever seen this mf take accountability for a loss
Would have linked the NBA TV video, but it’s not an approved twitter account (!)
https://twitter.com/NBATV/status/1793120973626962346
He’s right you know
Haliburton was asked about this and he said he understood Rick was trying to protect him, but the loss was on the players and himself. said he cost the team the game with his turnovers and was replaying not taking the long 3 in the last play of regulation in his head, and would probably continue to replay it
The Celtics got an egregious whistle last night AND the Pacers flat out choked the game away and Tatum delivered big in OT
He’s completely right. Carlisle is a great coach who rarely makes these mistakes, it sucks but I forgive him. I’m not going to take a great coach for granted because one error.
When you’re the underdog in the series, you can’t afford mistakes like this, especially by a veteran coach.
Halliburton, a professional basketball player, dribbled the ball of his leg for absolutely no reason. If he doesn’t do this they win. Not the coaches fault at all
Doc Rivers is so confused watching this rn
The anti-Doc.
Honestly one of the most frustrating and difficult final 10sec I’ve ever tried to watch.
Felt like throwing my controller at the TV and I don’t even have a dog in the fight.
Doc Rivers after a game 1 loss: “This loss is totally on our players. With 10 seconds in regulation, they should’ve just taken the timeout, advanced the ball, found a way to get it in, made a free throw or two, and ended the game.”
That was such a pathetic last minute. I am still baffled as to how they fucked that up. The players share the bulk of the responsibility. They should have known better.
The reluctance to use timeouts from coaches last few years has been truly mind boggling to me.
The whole “go so the defense can’t get set” I really don’t agree with.
A real coach. I wouldn’t know what that is. Bitch Ham never took accountability for ANYTHING.
Yup
I mean, Jim Carey’s not wrong here.
yeah no shit
Owning up to your mistakes and realizing what should’ve been done. Davin Ham would never.
It was a joint choking effort. Rick should’ve called a time out and Haliburton should have not dribbled off his leg or ran into a double team for the last shot in regulation. Honestly, I could write a book about the legendary choke job they had to do to lose this game.
Darvin Ham: “Why did you take responsibility? You could’ve just said ‘this is a make or miss league’ “.
As a lions fan it reminded me if nfc championship game, it takes a village to give away a game like that that, everyone messed up in final minute.
refreshing accountability
That choke cost them their chance at an upset. Series as good as over now imo
It looked like everyone on the Pacers roster was confused and winging it which is bizarre to see when the coach has timeouts to use. I get that the turnovers were dumb but all of those seemed to come from the ball handling player not knowing what to do with it. The final shot in regulation was such a bad look for having time on the clock to run something decisive at the basket
Carlisle is trying to cover be a big man by covering up the real reason his team lost, the nba keeping a small market team down.
It’s this and Hali’s turnovers. But it is nice to see the level of accountability
We got lucky, and we can’t rely on that again