Fire Joe! ... or critique Joe ... or defend Joe... or worry about Joe's coaching

[slamtheking]

I've always been in the Fire Joe camp.  Never left.  feel even after a great regular season he still needs to go.

[SparzWizard]

People keep saying that the 08 Celtics went to 7 games against the Hawks.

You cannot compare this team to that 08 squad. Different mentality. At least that 08 squad knew how to defend home-court. They were winning games by an average of like 80 or 90 points every game at home.

Even the backups/3rd stringers tonight were playing unselfish basketball and with grit. When JT and JB were out there, they'd dribble dribble dribble to like 5 seconds left and either clank a 3, or get tunnel vision while driving in the lane and lose the ball. And Joe allows that to happen.

Joke Mazzulla. That's his name.

[Celtics4ever]

I think Coach Maz, gave us a wonderful season, with a team that over achieved much more than any of us predicted.  The trouble is our guys are soft,over dependent on the three, and  they showed these same behaviors against the Knicks last year and the same old mistakes are killing us against Philly.

I really think we miss veteran leadership of Al and Jrue and this aspect may have been more important than their play and production.

[Kernewek]

Oldy but a goody!

But, yeah, at some point you do have to look at the results with the proof being in the pudding. If things continue down this path and we lose game 7, that will be three out of four years that we've underperformed relative to expectations in the playoffs, which is unacceptable.

Maybe we'll get a Dwyane Casey situation - COTY to firing all in one season! 

(Seriously, though, he does get props for the regular season coaching job, but you don't get that praise without the criticism for not backing it up in the playoffs.)

Depends on your expectations - go back and look at the regular season predictions thread.

The J&J era of the Celtics has always been bad at closing things out. It's not a Mazz problem (although, clearly, he hasn't solved it).

[ozgod]

Oldy but a goody!

But, yeah, at some point you do have to look at the results with the proof being in the pudding. If things continue down this path and we lose game 7, that will be three out of four years that we've underperformed relative to expectations in the playoffs, which is unacceptable.

Maybe we'll get a Dwyane Casey situation - COTY to firing all in one season! 

(Seriously, though, he does get props for the regular season coaching job, but you don't get that praise without the criticism for not backing it up in the playoffs.)

Depends on your expectations - go back and look at the regular season predictions thread.

The J&J era of the Celtics has always been bad at closing things out. It's not a Mazz problem (although, clearly, he hasn't solved it).

Yes they always seem to take things for granted, have a lack of urgency. The only time they had it was in 2024 when they closed out the Finals with a thrashing of Dallas.

[Larry for 3]

Oldy but a goody!

But, yeah, at some point you do have to look at the results with the proof being in the pudding. If things continue down this path and we lose game 7, that will be three out of four years that we've underperformed relative to expectations in the playoffs, which is unacceptable.

Maybe we'll get a Dwyane Casey situation - COTY to firing all in one season! 

(Seriously, though, he does get props for the regular season coaching job, but you don't get that praise without the criticism for not backing it up in the playoffs.)

Depends on your expectations - go back and look at the regular season predictions thread.

The J&J era of the Celtics has always been bad at closing things out. It's not a Mazz problem (although, clearly, he hasn't solved it).

Expectations change as the season goes along. It?s the coaches job to prevent these things. At some point a change needs to be made. That?s why Stevens stepped down. That?s how it goes. In every sport on every team. Celtics fans keep ignoring this. Changes are coming. One way or another. This guy is not a good coach. Zero adjustment. They lose the same way every time. Can?t believe people don?t see this.