Eddie House, Chris Mannix, Brian Scalabrine, Drew Carter and Amina Smith offer instant analysis and reaction to the Celtics’ 122-112 In-Season Tournament loss to the Indiana Pacers
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37 Comments
Relax people if we had KP this is an easy win. PP needs to step it up man, he can’t have 0 pts in every big game we play. Idk if Celtics were thinking when they gave him an extension. He just doesn’t cut it!
We lose these games because Mazzulla wants to switch everything on defense. Why would you give them what they want?! Even vs Philly they kept abusing Al and Kornet. It makes no sense! Leave JB on Haliburton and go over/under the screens!!! I hate his defense man, Udoka used to play a zone and that’s when they played their best defense.
Turnovers killed us ppl blaming the coach but its up to the players to play better coaches only fo so much
Sad we lost but gotta give Indiana credit, they really played well, especially to close out the game.
Damn. Celtics are way too soft. No bench. They're going to get knocked out of the playoffs by the 2nd round.
With Joe as coach they will never get #18
It’s nobody fault we played well, the Pacers wanted it more and made tough shots. They were the better team tonight but we are still the best when healthy.
They need to stop coming out and expecting teams to lay down. Play hard for 48 minutes. It’s not the coach, and not the talent. It’s a heart thing we haven’t had it for a while.
This looks like the same ol Celtics tbh. Great in regular season. Choke in key moments for key games.
Had a great coach who created the perfect Identity for this group. They got to the Finals but Tatum wasn't ready yet. And they abandon that style and mentality for a mazzulla who is trying to make them play like the Warriors. Wasting precious Banner 18 opportunities. Unforgivable Decision.
The amount of Potential that is being wasted because in a time like this they choose to get this team a learning coach instead of a teaching coach like Udoka is unforgivable. Just nuts.
Brad put himself in an awful no win situation. He put Mazzulla in that position and it will be very hard for Brad to fire mazzulla since he didn't ask to be the head coach. He was giving him flowers last season after losing to an 8th seed in the ECF, when they are supposed to be praised only for winning a Championship. Mazzulla isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Just awful management.
Finally people are starting to see they have elite talent and experience at all positions except… the Head Coach. But it's probably a little too late now. Brad isn't firing his buddy mazzulla.
FIRE MAZZULA !!!
One less gm for our guys to get injured ,good. We knew indy was salty about getting blown out last time
Celtics 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tatum energy was bad 1q and also too many bad shots
NO CENTER!!!!!!! This only happens when we have no center and strong front court. We need a sub for Porzing. I 100% know that all those historic winnable losses to worse teams, and all these snowballing offensive runs like the 17-3 run the pacers had, one of them atleast, is due to horford not playing center and scoring NOTHING posing no threat down low either.
If Jayson Tatum is leading your team, YOU AIN’T WINNING 💩!
If Brad Stevens were the coach of this team, they'd win the title easily. This was a preview of what is going to happen in the playoffs. When things get close I trust any coach over Mazulla unfortunately
People on here blaming Mazulla? Wow. Something is wrong with people.
This team is afraid to win-have been for years. Great talent, will win a lot of games, but choke when it really matters.
Love Scal, but he is delusional
Celtics need another big (Power forward) to fit in the starting rotating….J.Holiday and D. White do the same thing; JB and JT do the same thing…the starting rotation makes no sense
Just another game
after 100 games is the moment of having clear that mazzulla is enable to create a sistem, players are alone, defense is 1vs1, attack is 1vs2 and he dont have enough personality in motivate the players in changing bad attitudes.
mazzula has the best roster in NBA but is like a child driving a F1 Ferrari.
If Brad continues to act like an ostrich we will make another failure in Play Off.
Fire mazzulla
Our secret weapon is Queta but he prefers to play pathetic Kornet and aging Al.
pretty shure what we'll see in the POs
Coach needs to improve but let’s be real with Porzingis we win this game. The 3rd quarter is what screwed the Celtics and Joe didn’t help with his timeout strategy
Why the F do we have this coach. The clock is ticking, and the Celtics are still breaking their coach in.
Big mistake is the Coach and the player Tatum.tatum idol practice dribbling watching the defender don't watch the ball.coach you are defeated by the former bench of the Boston Celtics.big mistake they trade Nesmith and nesmith compare to the benches of the Boston Celtics?
Now back to the real business Home Court is a GREAT ADVANTAGE! This is the whop ass #Celtics needed to get focus because they are far from being their best!
This Celtics team STILL has not learned. Make the same mistakes over and over in big games.
Aaron neismith been balling, not just today. y’all are sleeping
Really what’s missing is great effort and play in the second half. The Celtics need to play hungry not watch the other team make the winning plays. Their best play is when they move the ball, are connected on D, and give high energy on both sides of the ball. Plus it appears they have to decide when the threes aren’t falling to score in the paint. Apparently Mazzula is unable/unwilling to make that happen.
They will never win, tons of talent but no killer instinct they always melt in big games. They will again unfortunately.
Another title we can't win ….That's my concern as a Celtics fan…can they win a big game….I'm doubtful