When losing your superstar makes you more (!) efficient
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What is the Ewing Theory? Does it apply to Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics? We explore how Boston and Joe Mazzulla have shocked the league by changing their offense, and the surprising history and nuance of playing “better” without a star.
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29 Comments
I've discounted Joe Mazula as just a lucky coach being handed a championship team but he's really proven me wrong this season.
Ewing theory does not apply because the Celtics won a championship with Tatum!!! Sheesh
Ime had jaylen looking better than Tatum when he was coaching them too
Tatum is a great player but he's a ball hog with no court vision. He never looks to make anyone better, just get his numbers. Jaylen has always been the real leader of the team.
It also helps that Brown is playing out of his mind this season. I'm more concerned about his role once Tatum comes back.
I've been saying it for years, Trade Tatum for an amazing big man!! He is not a winner. We won the chip when he sat back and let others make the shots.
I caught hate because I saw this coming, I was saying trade Tatum and it works not to lose Tatum talent but to improve on brown, but hey both won a championship and sometimes it is better not to go and find out, it could have been better now but it is good as it was
Eh
@14:50 neemee for 3? Didn’t see that coming
11:00 your issue with this theory is that they are not changing their team to be more efficient without him, they are changing their dynamic because of their total losses so that when he comes back the can play the same way. This is just the early Tatum Brown Celtics playbook from when Kyrie was there.
It's almost like everyone who said Joe wasn't a good coach and he just inherited a good team were wrong 🤔
Jaylen was always better than Jayson.
Brown lookin' good this year!
Ewing was old when he got injured.. he was slowing the knicks down in 99
Can’t win a 7game series tho
COTY
I’m a Celtics fan and most the screens they set is illegal. Hell the majority of the league sets illegal screens regularly
Felt like the Mavs had something like this when Luka would go out of the game. This was when Rick Carlisle was the head coach. The ball moved way way more instead of Luka making the play and everyone sitting at the 3 point line.
what is funny, the celtics are actually better without JB this year
Has less to do with Tatum and more to do with Mazzulla. I do think they would’ve tried to play more this way even if he was healthy. Joe hasn’t coached a team that doesn’t have 3-5 all stars starting
Joe Mazzulla has a claim at being the best coach in the NBA and its time people give him the respect he deserves
That 99 season was about as lame as the COVID year and quite frankly I didn't validate the Spurs championships until they beat the Pistons.
Yeah the real Ewing theory is when ungrateful fans blame the player carrying the franchise on his back for the fact that the construction of the rest of the team and the coaching are consistently pretty terrible, with the false hope that their best player getting injured will create relief from all these other problems.
You could give Bill Simmons credit for the Ewing Theory since he came up with it.
The fundamental advantage of the pick and roll is the split second where the defense is forced to make a decision. That lag is enough time for rim pressure players to exploit. Boston and Miami have distilled this brief decision making advantage to a science, not just with the pick and roll. That style of forcing decisions to be made is far more effective when you don’t have an offensive superstar on the floor as it becomes less obvious to the defender what the “right” reactions is, expanding that lag time.
I don't understand why this is surprising to anyone. During the championship run Brown was clearly the best player on the team and Tatum was not. Not even close. Tatum seems like more of a marketing hype to me than a truly great player. Brown has already proven that he's a great player. I guess he has to prove it again for all of you for some reason.
I think the issue of having superstar in a team is they overlook the potential of young and untapped potential players. Most play revolve around their superstar and key players. I think we have a lot of potential stars in the NBA that are not getting their opportunity to shine.
Neemias Queta deserves so much respect for his non-stat assists and amazing offensive reads in this offense. He is the absolute glue guy every team needs and has my utmost respect just as Aaron Gordon does
12:44 as a nuggets fan I'm not surprised. As much as I loved having him, the jokes about him being a scorer only with 2 neurons for everything else on the court have alarming amount of accuracy.