Our guest this week is former Boston Celtics player and current Dallas Mavericks player, Grant Williams. In this clip, Grant talks about last year’s playoffs and what went wrong for him, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and The Celtics. He talks about the different coaching styles of Joe Mazzulla and Ime Udoka.
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Grant im so glad you're alive and healthy my man! When i saw Joel step on your head i really thought you would never play again.
Grant Williams is going to play ten years in this league. Mazzula gets a lot of criticism for his the season ended, but Ime deserves a lot of blame because he did himself and the team no favors by trying to be a “Workplace Casanova.”
Imma make 'em Boafff 😤
– Grant Williams
Masterclass in saying the coach was a downgrade without actually saying it.
I still believe if we had Udoka as coach we would’ve been in the finals.
Joe neglected defensive emphasis & as a result Celtics defense suffered. That's the truth of it.
What I like about this show is that most all the guys interviewed are sharp. Williams is a smart guy.
I bet a lot of it has to do with Damon leaving for GT towards the end of the year. Athletic article came out and kinda said Damon was really good at being a communicator for the players and coaches
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I've never even used VR and this is very exciting.
Grant Williams,You wanna be DRAYMOND SO BAD, it Don't make No🚫Sense‼️🤣😅🖕🏽
You Talk too MUCH EXACTLY LIKE HIM ‼️🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣
Miami G7 win in Boston was the most shocking piece of basketball I had ever seen
They lost too a team that's was not worry about what the media or anything some way say about Boston was living the hype they should win!!! The coach got fired for laying wood not a crime but wood to someone who wanted the wood!!! Hell she more air time about that, than a person being voilate frfr
I disagree. Joe is too inexperienced. He looks like a deer in a headlight. Celtics can't afford to pay for his on-the-job training. The championship window is closing fast!
Now it's on the Coach why they lost!!! They had a good coach but let him go for laying wood and we heard about it everyday, like he was on the run for a crime!!! But when Dana White put them paws on his wife, the same people wanted him fired was hush hush with Dana, why all the energy was not boycott UFC we not standing for this!!!! I would love to know why that story was not everyday on sports channel?
JJ never said any of that about the Celtics last year 🤣🤣 this dudes ego is getting to be too much bruh got damn
4 days before training camp and they couldn’t find a coaching team around him during the season??? Celtics front office f’d that one up
If ime doesnt have the scandal, i think there back in the finals again.
JJ "Connectivity" Redick
Basically just said ime ucucker is a way better coach and he is
New media slowly morphing into old media. He was being a representative here, with measured responses, not candid at all.
You will be missed batman
We all know Ime is a better coach than Joe
jj and the other guy dress like unsalted crackers
We will see. Grant played like he thought he was a starter rather than a role player. But every time he put the ball on the floor, it was an "oh no, here we go again"… Let's see how much Dallas will set him up for his shots…..
I'll never understand why they gave an unexperienced coach control of a potential championship team. I like joe but the celtics are in their prime and in need of leadership and experience.
He's basically saying Ime is the better coach and Joe needs to do better and have better trust on his players.
We have seen again how numbers don't mean nothing in playoffs, it's obvious that we all know that Celtics need to learn from last season mistakes we also all know what they are but my question is will there be chemistry without Williams and Smart and if Jaylen get that money he better do more than just better 🖖🏻🤘🏻✌🏼👋🏻
THIS Celtics team this past year was a top 2 defense???? Bro they looked universally worse compared to the 2022 Celtics on defense. This proves that you can't always just rely on stats and numbers to tell how good a team is.
Always said coaching was the reason they looked so different on the playoffs.
Grant wanted to get paid like a starter when he’s a seventh option at best. Brissett who the Celtics replaced him with is a better talented player. I like Grant as a Celtics fan but he was asking for way too much more than his value. The Celtics got so much better with Porziņģis, can’t wait for the season to start. We are more talented than we were last year big time. He got a big payday from Dallas because he was a Celtic and he was on a great team. Whole different system in Dallas but I’m glad you got paid.