76ers (0-0) at Celtics (0-0) Round 2 Game #1 5/1/23

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Our coach is overmatched.

He is an idiot, but our vet players should know better. This isn't their first rodeo. This game should have been a blowout.

Can the players over-rule the coach for the stupid def scheme?  Stop that dumb super deep drop coverage by the bigs.  I mean there is literally NO Post player if Embiid is out.  Why are we selling out with that?

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Cant stand Joe.

His answers are so smug and condescending.  Like he's a genius.  When in fact he's the complete opposite.

needs to be fired and bought out. brad svcrewed up bad hiring him. fix it youa re wasting time brad

[gouki88]

https://twitter.com/NBCSCeltics/status/1653220234466062337

"I didn't put them in position to win the game."

Joe caught up with
@tvabby
 after the Celtics fall to Sixers 119-115 and shared his message to the team

More platitudes, yet no action to remedy your failures.

Can’t argue with what he said! The only thing that I’m unsure of is whether anything changes

[celticinorlando]

Shot clock violation:

Watch maxey. He travels then scores. Took like 4 steps. Basket should not have counted.

Boston still can’t guard quick guards off the dribble

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

how long is joes contract? IME is laughing at us now

[Mahk E Mahk]

certainly some boneheaded possessions down the stretch, plus 16 turnovers, but offense wasn’t the problem tonight, as it wasn’t for the atlanta series. 60% fg and 26 assists tonight.

this team’s issue is defense. giving up 119 points at home to the embiid-less sixers, 45 to harden, and giving up an average of 116ppg to atlanta is atrocious playoff basketball. what’s tough to ascertain is the reason. how much is poor strategy (e.g. drop coverage, allowing opponent’s top scorer to iso and abuse horford), vs. effort. seems a bit of both.

[kraidstar]

https://twitter.com/NBCSCeltics/status/1653220234466062337

"I didn't put them in position to win the game."

Joe caught up with
@tvabby
 after the Celtics fall to Sixers 119-115 and shared his message to the team

More platitudes, yet no action to remedy your failures.

He literally said Horford has been one of our best defenders and that Harden just made a better shot. Implying he didn’t mind Horford on Harden. YIKES

wow

[CelticSooner]

A coach can only take you so far. Unless this core wakes the hell up and starts actually respecting teams instead of expecting their talent to always win out it will never change. I do not know how that happens though when I do not know who the leader is on this team.

They play the defensive scheme the coach calls.
Milking at the end is correctable yet Joe let's them do it.

This poor defense didn't happen last year......what changed....

No last year they turned the ball over all the time and played stupid on offense. People can keep blaming the coach for all the problems if they want. These guys have played enough games together to know better. It's something different every season but the cast is still the same.

[celticinorlando]

Lack of defense specifically from 3 and the turnovers cost them the title last year and will cost them it again.

Nothing is fixed.

[Kuberski33]

certainly some boneheaded possessions down the stretch, plus 16 turnovers, but offense wasn’t the problem tonight, as it wasn’t for the atlanta series. 60% fg and 26 assists tonight.

this team’s issue is defense. giving up 119 points at home to the embiid-less sixers, 45 to harden, and giving up an average of 116ppg to atlanta is atrocious playoff basketball. what’s tough to ascertain is the reason. how much is poor strategy (e.g. drop coverage, allowing opponent’s top scorer to iso and abuse horford), vs. effort. seems a bit of both.

We're back to the last season of Brad ball with top players going off against us and our D unable to stop them.

[jpotter33]

Joe is going to have to actually do something as coach and make a personnel change. In particular, you're just going to have to play Timelord more and less of Al, particularly while Embiid is out. Al is simply not getting it done on eeither side of the ball. Not sure if his age is catching up to him or what, but he's been downright atrocious most of the playoffs thus far. Mazzulla's continued refusal to play him less and Timelord more has just hemorrhaged our defense, along with his other ridiculous decisions.

I think that's the major reason why our defense is not good. In the Hawks series, it was  the Hawks forcing the switches to get Al on Trey and Al couldn't stop him. Same thing here with Harden. Al has lost a couple of steps. It happens. At his age he should be coming off the bench instead of anchoring the defense for a team with championship hopes. Rob should be the guy, but Joe doesn't seem to want to play anyone late who can't stretch the floor. Rob and Grant should be getting a lot more run and leading the charge on defense.

And that's the thing - Al has been awful shooting from three in the playoffs thus far shooting something like a little over 33%.

It's inexcusable. Our offense was just fine tonight minus some boneheaded turnovers, but we just couldn't stop them for anything. And much of that was on Al.

Joe's a player's coach, but he's got to put his big boy pants on and make the hard decision, especially with no Embiid out there.

[kraidstar]

Joe is going to have to actually do something as coach and make a personnel change. In particular, you're just going to have to play Timelord more and less of Al, particularly while Embiid is out. Al is simply not getting it done on eeither side of the ball. Not sure if his age is catching up to him or what, but he's been downright atrocious most of the playoffs thus far. Mazzulla's continued refusal to play him less and Timelord more has just hemorrhaged our defense, along with his other ridiculous decisions.

I think that's the major reason why our defense is not good. In the Hawks series, it was  the Hawks forcing the switches to get Al on Trey and Al couldn't stop him. Same thing here with Harden. Al has lost a couple of steps. It happens. At his age he should be coming off the bench instead of anchoring the defense for a team with championship hopes. Rob should be the guy, but Joe doesn't seem to want to play anyone late who can't stretch the floor. Rob and Grant should be getting a lot more run and leading the charge on defense.

And that's the thing - Al has been awful shooting from three in the playoffs thus far shooting something like a little over 33%.

It's inexcusable. Our offense was just fine tonight minus some boneheaded turnovers, but we just couldn't stop them for anything. And much of that was on Al.

Joe's a player's coach, but he's got to put his big boy pants on and make the hard decision, especially with no Embiid out there.

Rob honestly should have demanded to go in.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

A coach can only take you so far. Unless this core wakes the hell up and starts actually respecting teams instead of expecting their talent to always win out it will never change. I do not know how that happens though when I do not know who the leader is on this team.

They play the defensive scheme the coach calls.
Milking at the end is correctable yet Joe let's them do it.

This poor defense didn't happen last year......what changed....

No last year they turned the ball over all the time and played stupid on offense. People can keep blaming the coach for all the problems if they want. These guys have played enough games together to know better. It's something different every season but the cast is still the same.

no no no

YES.........we turned it over last year.yes we played dumb last year on O

BUT

WE PLAYED D

for the last 3 coaches.

NOT THIS CLOWN

BYE BYE JOE hit the road

we would do better with a hubie brown coaching us right now

yes it is that bad.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Joe is going to have to actually do something as coach and make a personnel change. In particular, you're just going to have to play Timelord more and less of Al, particularly while Embiid is out. Al is simply not getting it done on eeither side of the ball. Not sure if his age is catching up to him or what, but he's been downright atrocious most of the playoffs thus far. Mazzulla's continued refusal to play him less and Timelord more has just hemorrhaged our defense, along with his other ridiculous decisions.

I think that's the major reason why our defense is not good. In the Hawks series, it was  the Hawks forcing the switches to get Al on Trey and Al couldn't stop him. Same thing here with Harden. Al has lost a couple of steps. It happens. At his age he should be coming off the bench instead of anchoring the defense for a team with championship hopes. Rob should be the guy, but Joe doesn't seem to want to play anyone late who can't stretch the floor. Rob and Grant should be getting a lot more run and leading the charge on defense.

And that's the thing - Al has been awful shooting from three in the playoffs thus far shooting something like a little over 33%.

It's inexcusable. Our offense was just fine tonight minus some boneheaded turnovers, but we just couldn't stop them for anything. And much of that was on Al.

Joe's a player's coach, but he's got to put his big boy pants on and make the hard decision, especially with no Embiid out there.

Rob honestly should have demanded to go in.

joe is begging for a mutiny at this stage. despicable bum

[kraidstar]

The Bruins should be sending the Celtics thank-you gifts tomorrow for stealing the headlines and taking the heat off of them