Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics were blown out by Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat 128-102 in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Heat now have a 3-0 series lead on the Celtics despite not being favored in any of the first three games. Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes debate who is at fault for the Celtics collapse.
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The coach sucks
6:35 Wildes comments on Mazzulla's record and how the surge of "FIRE HIM" from media and fans is over the top. Mazzulla has not even had them for a full season let alone an off-season. Yes, he is making questionable if not blatantly wrong decisions but the players need to do better. I remember when Chris Ford took over the Celtics and clashed with Larry Bird. Ford wanted a fast tempo and Bird wanted a walk it up 1/2 court offence. Ford turned out to be a very good coach. It is up to Mazzulla to draw up the strategy and adjust the tactics. MORE importantly is it is up to the coach to replace a player, if he is not performing, re-focus him and send him back in. The bench players are still in the top 300 players in the WORLD
Media is giving guys like Tatum, Brown, Joe Mazzulla, Embid, Harden, Doc Rivers, Luka, Lebron, Darvin Ham more trash talking and defamation of character then they have given Curry, Steve Kurr, Kevin Durant, Kawhi, PG13, CP3, Mark Cuban and Ty Lou combined. I find it funny and I really wonder why.
If he's that bad, how come did he reach the conference finals? If he's bad, what can we say of Steve Nash? Mazzulla might be far from being one of the best coaches in the league, but he isn't as bad as Brad Steven was. And no one went for his jugular when his team was playing miserably. The problem with the Celtics is mentality. Tatum and Brown have no chemistry and Tatum is the most unreliable superstar in the league. The talent is there, but you never know what you're gonna get. One day he's hot, the next day he's a mess. If Jimmy Buckets was there, they would be thriving and Mazzulla would be the next big thing.
Title Pie is the worst most inaccurate segment in sports TV LMAOO
The blame goes on the players they aren't dogs and they never will be with jt as the leader
Jaylen Brown been trash this series
The answer is the Heat. The Heat are most responsible for the Celtics’ collapse.
Nah, Nick… dont let Bru off the hook with his "tatum is the best player in this series" bs. call him out.
Remember y'all nick is the idiot who had the nerve to put Jason Tatum over Jimmy Butler in his phoney playoff player pyramid 😂
Nick you meant Brady curse
They spent like 30 seconds in Miami lol
I want people to remember this hiring when he gets fired for being a poor coach, because that's what he is. And I don't want to hear crying about Boston hiring some white coach for racist favoritism …. Because that's what it seems like people do all the time.
Heat win 3 in a row
Media: let’s keep talking about the Celtics
omg nick please shave your head again… this hair dew just makes you look so… horrific.
awesome chemistry
Doesn’t matter what the coach draws up if the players don’t execute
This show just proves why the NBA is irrelevant as is the media coverage of the sport. When one or two players can dictate what a franchise does, it's not a sport most fans will ever care about. It's not like you got player XYZ and he became a superstar and rode to 8 championships with YOUR team. No, it's all about useless contracts, coaches with no power, and a low intelligence media covering the sport. It's the trifecta of idiocy. Which is why NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE NBA. We only care about the NFL.
Duh.
This ain’t Tatum and Brown first go round, Miami is just the all around better team right now, Heat want it more plain and simple!!!
This is definitely on the coaching. A team in regular season only needs few strategies that work to get good numbers, because teams had not much time to adjust just for one team. But when the playoffs come, teams are able to fully study their opponents so teams who cannot make the right adjustments will have significant disadvantages.
Is Mazulla a bad coach? Yes. But Tatum and Brown as the best players have to take blame. I like both of them they are great talents. Tatum is not top 5 like everyone sadly thinks, but we got to blame the players too. They aren’t making shots and doing their thing. Miami is just better. Butler is better than Tatum. Spo is better than Mazulla by a country mile. But I think the Miami bench is better than the Boston bench I don’t get it.
THE MIAMI COACH "KNOWS" THE CELTICS COACH IS ON A LEARNING CURVE…CURRENTLY!!!