Kings (44-32) at Celtics (60-16) Game #77 4/5/24

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

GENIUS JOE!

[tenn_smoothie]

Hauser just awful tonight

Weird, he was rolling for 4-5 games, shooting great and now he can't find the rim.

[Atzar]

GG.  Third string held on.  Happy for Tillman. 

[Silas]

Another win!

[liam]

A win is a win....

[Goldstar88]

X-man saved the day!

[ETNCeltics]

Fans don't pay $ for tickets and NBA TV for Joe Mazulla to try to purposely lose games like this. Tatum and Holiday played 30+ minutes so he could just throw the game away like it was nothing more than a joke in the last 5 minutes?

The Celtics scored 3 points in the final 6:06.

[Silas]

TPs for a fun and scary win.

[ozgod]

Well, Joe's doing his best to blow this one.

By exposing his bench guys to pressure?

God forbid they lose a meaningless game…

To me, it’s not a meaningless game… It’s a game where it doesn’t matter as much whether you win it or not as how the players respond to being put under some pressure. Like it or not, these bench guys are going to have to face pressure.

I’m an odd fan as I don’t feel we have to win every single game, what I want are the players prepared to face pressure when the games really count, during the playoffs.

And they struggled a little but our bench group pulled it out against sacs no 1 unit in a game sac really needed to win

TPs for all!!

[CelticSooner]

That was great lol kings fans are in shambles.

[SHAQATTACK]

Ok a win,

But now I need heart medicine

Was this really necessary….


This was like Joe driving a car at another driver and playing chicken , to see who d flinch

Dang Joe …..livin on the wild side .

[tenn_smoothie]

I get the whole thing with testing the bench, but that was just stupid.
Joe and his bizzaro-world coaching ideas.
He'll have a mouthful for the post-game presser, like a banty rooster.

[jpotter33]

Holy hell, we somehow pulled it off, even with Joe doing everything he could to tank this game for us haha

Seriously, though, Joe just never is going to learn or even try to help his guys out in end-game situations. Ridiculously lucky that X got that board there and got a good look.

What good does it do to just let this group that will NEVER see the floor together at all just try to figure out a game-winning shot against a high-level opponent like this? How about work on yourself, Joe, and practice what you should be doing in those situations?

Just crazy stuff. People think he's going to change in the playoffs, but he's simply shown no ability or desire to change. He's dogmatic.

[radiohead]

SUCH A GENIUS JOE PULLING GUYS TOO SOON AND CANNOT SCORE FOR 5 MINUTRES



OH AND NO TIMEOUTS?

GENIOUS!!!!!!!!!!

We got homecourt all throughout the playoffs man. Nomuse risking injury to our main guys. And it’s a good time to get the deep bench some real action. And they held on for the W anyway!

[celticinorlando]

I’m not sure I like that strategy