I am going to put my thoughts on the record so to speak. First, it appears that there is a major disconnect between the team and the coach. I am not sure that this can be resolved even for one game. Joe is kind of eccentric and who knows what he is going to say to the team. The key players are young and don't seem to be able to set this aside and focus on the game.
But what gives me even a glimmer of hope is that in every case that I can remember, the team that is down 0-3 is usually clearly a lesser team. Like the Lakers vs. Nuggets. You think that even if this lesser team can get inspired and win 1 game, you don't expect them to beat a better team 4 times.
In this case for the Celtics, it is flipped. The team that is down 0-3 is actually the team that was expected to be the better team. The team that appears to have the better, deeper roster. The team that won more games all season. If there was ever a situation where a team could run off 4 straight, this is it.
It is still highly unlikely, I am not fooling myself, the most likely outcome is probably that they lose tonight. That Mazzulla starts Luke Kornet at PG or something and the team sleepwalks through the game. But if they can win tonight, maybe they wake up and remember they are actually the better team. Maybe the bubble pops on some of these Miami journeymen who are having career weeks and they revert back to the players they have been all season. That is my theory anyway, it is all I got to hold on to. I can't just give up on them, I have been a fan too long.