The Celtics needed a MERCY RULE in Game 3! 🗣️ – Stephen A. | First Take
Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins react to the Boston Celtics being down 3-0 to the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals.
0:00 Who is to blame for Celtics’ 3-0 deficit vs. Heat?
3:00 Stephen A. says Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are to blame for 3-0 deficit in Eastern Conference Finals.
4:24 Stephen A.: The Celtics got their hearts snatched out of their chest
8:00 Stephen A. on the Celtics’ struggles
9:45 Should the Celtics fire Mazulla?
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44 Comments
Honestly put horford on the bench idk why we keep him starting
Crazy how the heat are making history but first take only decides to talk about what’s wrong with the Celtics
Has there ever been an 8th seed in the NBA finals?
Few thoughts: #1 – The fact that the Celtics have not figured it out by now that you cannot underestimate Miami just because they are seeded 8th is mind- boggling‼️😅 #2 – Its amazing to see how the Heat bench has responded so well in this series amidst all the pressure! Drafted or not I don't care, the mental is just as important as the skills wrt professional sports and being successful. ✅️🏀 # 3- Is it just me or did it seem like Boston gave up at some pt in da 3rd? Sad to see considering they were the favorite! 😢 HOWEVER I am excited to see how badly Jimmy Butler and da Heat want that chip and are willing to play THE best games of their lives to earn it. That is why I always believed Miami should represent the East ✅️ 😊. That coach Erik is a genius.
This ain’t Al Horford or the Coach fault
Dudes get paid millions and we talkin bout motivation lmao
SPEAK SAS! Yep, JUSTICE. Nia deserved better.
I don't think Mazulla is a good coach but he's not out there fumbling the ball, he's not out there bricking 3s. Brown and Tatum… more Brown though… have failed. If the Celtics looked good okay… Mazulla isn't making the adjustments. When the team melts down and the two stars have a terrible performance? Everyone should wear that especially the star players.
So I guess now they get off bacon tater chip & clumsy foot brown $ICK NOW they got lucky last year they even got to the finals glad they are being exposed so LOSTON MELTICS FANS CAN S T F U 😁🥾🍀
Last time I checked, the coach doesn't play. They doesn't mean he gets no blame but the guys on the floor simply aren't performing
Stephen A's mustache ..smh…
Noone speeks about Coach Spoelstra. He is the best Coach in the league. The Heat were not just ready, they were ready for war- every minute of the game.
I’m glad Stephen A. Addressed the elephant in the room as far as the difference in the Celtics this year and last 💯💯💯
Ime Udoka must be laughing now
Once brown take the mask off 😂 it was over for Boston
Why Stephen always shouts?
Funny how they didn’t do long videos today to show how WRONG STEPHEN A SMITH WAS 😂
Mrs perkin was jammin lil Keke that day 😂
udoka looking like the giant bug on family guy "Goood ……….GOOOOOOD"
It still baffles me that Kendrick Perkins has a job. Everything he says is complete and utter TRASH, Just like his game when he played.
i never thought why malcolm brogden is the 6th man until Perk pointed that out.
11:30……Classic example of a fixed mindset by Stephen A….Ime abused the trust of the organization by the choices that he himself decided to make. Someone that does what he did is now a cancer to the culture that you’re trying to create and he HAS to go, no exceptions. There’s no way that you can fire a head coach of one the leagues most well known teams and expect people not to look into what happened. One could argue that the Celtics actually handled the situation well because to this day, we still don’t know any of the real details.
Perc are you blind?! Taytum took advantage of the 76ers switches and was just draining 3s so don't say it was because of Time Lord 😅🤦♂️
Faxxxxx Stephen A. It’s justice for the way they handled imme udoka. Thank you for saying so.
The Boston Celtics are not who you people think they are but apparently neither is the Heat 🔥🏀🏆
Gtfo blaming the coach while mtf's are shooting less than 40% and playing half dead.
This is karma for the Celtics. I hope JT and JB get out while they still can.
Stop hating on the Spurs.. 🤣 Several teams have been swept but they love to hate on the 5x Champions… Should be talking about CP3 still trying to get his first ring
14:54 Big Perk is BIG PHLEGMY
Get that brother some H20 ASAP!
Heat bound
SAS is absolutely correct – this debacle of a season has Wyc and Stevo's fingerprints all over it. Next, Udoka takes the rest of the Celts few remaining assistant coaches and Jaylen and Marcus request trades to Houston. Heck, Celtics management didn't even give their own players a heads up before the scandal hit the mass media. That indicates the lack of respect that ownership had for the players as well as the fans of the team.
KP better hope Jokic does not win, because if he does, KP will always be looked at like even more of a racist than he is now… which is saying something!
Just because Robert Williams was on the bench to start it does not excuse the team as a whole and specially their two stars, those are just petty excuses
The Celtics never leaked the Ime situation. It was a reported at 11PM the day before the Celtics had a press conference (they announced they were having on this same day) for the disciplinary repercussions of Ime's HR violation. The team hired an outside attorney to investigate for 2 months before coming to this conclusion. Where would this leak have come from then? The Celtics, who were quiet for months and doing their unbiased due diligence, or Ime, who likely was informed of his suspension and was in damage control mode?
Accountability. That's on him, not the Celtics. I don't know what happened with the woman, I believe its all speculation whether she was fired too or not (which she should be), but Ime gets all the attention because he was the head coach of an NBA team.
Perk doesnt even know what hes talking about, Williams was killing the Celtics.
No disrespect intended but my gawdd, the discrepancy is flagrant 😂😂
Justice indeed! Classless Celtics ownership
Didn’t Steph snatch the hearts out of the Celtics last year in the finals ??
Start robert will and still gone have to get da broom
Kudos to the producer who cued the music behind KP's dialogue about the Nuggets ball movement. starts at 6:59
the coach is not shooting the ball..
SAS doesn't understand the intricacies of basketball. He is just an entertainer.
They did tap out tho lol
Layed it down like a fresh set of dominos? Anybody from Texas know that’s Lil Keke