Too many 3's??!
#Celtics set record for most missed 3-pointers in a playoff game. Celts let 20-pt lead slip away, lose to Knicks 108-105 in OT. Thoughts on the series now?
Who/what is most to blame for the 20-pt Celtics lead collapse last night? Do you blame HC Joe Mazzulla? Or is it more on the players?
#Celtics set record for most missed 3-pointers in a playoff game. Celts let 20-pt lead slip away, lose to Knicks 108-105 in OT. Thoughts on the series now?
Who/what is most to blame for the 20-pt Celtics lead collapse last night? Do you blame HC Joe Mazzulla? Or is it more on the players?
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00:00Celtics blow a 20-point lead in their own building,
00:05lose game one in overtime to the Knicks last night.
00:11And if, from my perspective,
00:15if Jason Tatum wants some respect put on his name,
00:19as Wiggy said a lot yesterday,
00:21then at some point in these games,
00:25he's got to go out there and get it done himself.
00:28Right.
00:28Because that's what the great ones do, Wiggy.
00:31No more stinkers.
00:33That's what the great ones do.
00:35So let me get to Eric in the car.
00:39Hello, Eric.
00:40Yeah, how you doing?
00:41You know, there was an old football coach around here
00:44that used to talk about situational football.
00:46They did not play situational basketball yesterday.
00:50You shoot the threes to go up 20,
00:52someone on that team has to say,
00:55you know what, I'm taking it to the hole.
00:56So it's a shame.
00:58That's how Atlanta lost the Super Bowl,
01:00and that was the problem last night.
01:01They were not playing situational basketball.
01:03Mango.
01:04Yeah.
01:04That's a great job, Eric, right there.
01:06Because he's right.
01:07I get that threes get you into the game
01:10and get you up by 20,
01:12but there has to be a point in time
01:14when they're making a little bit of a run
01:15where you go,
01:17okay, we're not just going to hock up threes
01:18and let them get twos and go on this run.
01:21And it's a little bit alarming,
01:22and I get it.
01:24This is a really, really good basketball team.
01:26Curtis and I were talking about it before the show.
01:30You know, second quarter, third quarter,
01:33you're sitting there and you're like,
01:35this series is going to be a full sweep.
01:38I mean, everybody...
01:39It's going to sweep forward last night
01:40for the first three quarters of that basketball game, Curtis.
01:43Into the middle of the third,
01:44aren't you sitting at home saying,
01:46the Celtics are not playing well,
01:48and they are up by 20 points.
01:51Like, this is going to be the most boring series of all time.
01:53And I don't know if you guys continue to watch for halftime
01:56or if you just muted it,
01:57but, like, listening to Shaq and all of them talk about it,
01:59they were like,
02:00there's no way that this Knicks team
02:01can compete with this Celtics team for four games.
02:04Like, this is going to be easy for the Celtics.
02:06To have them come out of the locker room
02:08with that type of energy,
02:10and I could see David on hold.
02:12I've seen other people,
02:12you can't blame the coach,
02:13you can't blame the coach.
02:14It's up to the players to stop taking threes.
02:16My lead is going to show you
02:18exactly why I think it might be on the coach.
02:20The first thing they do
02:21as soon as they come up out of halftime
02:23in the third quarter,
02:24Jalen Brown hawks up a three-pointer.
02:26That's the very first thing that they do.
02:29And it's got to be to,
02:32and that's why, you know,
02:33and basketball is about so many runs
02:36and grooves and everything.
02:38As a player, you would think, like,
02:40it's just not falling from there.
02:42Let me get to the free throw line.
02:43Let me try some other stuff.
02:45And it just seems like that they don't,
02:48that never, like, ever,
02:51that light never comes on in their head.
02:52It's like, all right, I'm missing,
02:54but if I keep shooting,
02:55it'll eventually go in.
02:57But isn't it the coach's job
02:59to change an approach in-game
03:02and to diagram some sort of a play
03:06at the end of regulation and in overtime?
03:09I don't even know what it was.
03:11Yeah, I don't know what that play would be doing.
03:13How is it humanly possible?
03:15And if the caller made the Belichick reference,
03:17it's a great point.
03:19When the Patriots were in the playoffs
03:21and had to have a need-to-have-it two-point conversion,
03:25there was never a doubt in your mind
03:26that they had one they hadn't used in a while
03:28and it was going to work
03:29because that's the level of detail they had.
03:32With the Celtics,
03:33Missoula literally has no job.
03:35I could stand back and say,
03:36shoot the three ball,
03:38and they do it.
03:39I don't know what,
03:40I mean, not a good day for the Missoula thing,
03:42but clearly he's not the best coach in the NBA
03:45because that would say that nobody knows how to coach.
03:47Yeah, you've got to be able to draw up
03:48something better at the end
03:49or you've got to just say,
03:50okay, I'm going to get it into
03:51one of my two players' best hands
03:53and then you have to create and get a shot
03:55because if you look at a lot of...
03:57Hold on.
03:58Jason Tatum could have won that basketball game
04:03for them with five seconds left.
04:05It was in his hands.
04:06Yeah, he missed.
04:06He bricked it.
04:08Right, but you then have another opportunity
04:10in overtime.
04:11Yes, you have another opportunity,
04:12but Jason Tatum could have closed it out.
04:16I understand that.
04:17Let's be clear about that.
04:18And we both agree on that.
04:20Okay, good.
04:20But when you don't close it out
04:22and you have another opportunity
04:24because the Knicks have a chance to win the game
04:27and they don't,
04:28you have to take advantage of that next opportunity.
04:31Is Avi from Arlington.
04:35Good morning.
04:35Good morning.
04:37I think it's not...
04:39Jason James is a better player than all of them
04:41and the other players,
04:43they're just dog crap last night.
04:46We're supposed to...
04:47You only win a game with the competing right.
04:51And what about the fouls at the end of the game?
04:54Come on, ref.
04:55I'm not...
04:56No, no, no.
04:57I'm not...
04:58There's...
04:59The officials let them play basketball last night.
05:02I don't...
05:03There's no whining about the refs in that game.
05:07Yeah, I got no issues with the refs.
05:08The refs, they were what they were.
05:10They had their way.
05:12You brought up Carl Anthony Towns.
05:14The Celtics were...
05:15They had their way with him.
05:16Yeah.
05:16And there were a lot of no calls
05:19that the Celtics got away with last night.
05:20Yeah, I mean, he had three fouls early, so...
05:22And then Missoula said,
05:23don't go near him.
05:24He had three fouls early.
05:25Yeah, no.
05:26Sorry, Abbie.
05:27I heard that post...
05:28That's not his own thing, though.
05:29I was listening to the postgame
05:31with Abbie Chin and Forsberg,
05:33and they were bitching about the refs, so...
05:35They were?
05:35Yep.
05:36It's just...
05:37Well, I mean, that...
05:37I mean, NBC Sports Boston
05:39is basically Al Jazeera for the Celtics.
05:41Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry.
05:43Like, I...
05:44There was nothing egregious last night
05:46from the perspective of...
05:50They were...
05:50Tatum can't go 0 for 12 in the fourth quarter.
05:52You just can't do that.
05:54Can't do that.
05:54You gotta...
05:55I don't care if you...
05:56If you go 2 of 8 from 3-point land
06:01in the fourth quarter,
06:02or, you know, you go, you know,
06:043 of 9 from the field,
06:06you just can't go 0 for...
06:08You can't have a donut in the fourth quarter.
06:10You just cannot do that.
06:12When you...
06:12When the game is that close
06:13and you're the best player,
06:14you just can't do that.
06:16Oh, I mean, I...
06:18From a Missoula strategy point of view,
06:21he had them early in that game,
06:24like, trying to get a call
06:27when it came to Robinson
06:29to try to slow that team down.
06:30Yep.
06:31And so I give him, you know,
06:33tiny little points there.
06:34That worked out for him.
06:35And they got Kyle...
06:36They got Kyle Anthony Towns
06:37with the foul trouble
06:38because they...
06:40They kept...
06:40They...
06:41Jalen Brown, he picked up his third foul
06:42and they switched on it
06:43and they kind of cleared the lane
06:45and he was able to
06:46get him to pick up his third foul, so...
06:48But that happens with Kyle Anthony Towns
06:50more than any player in basketball.
06:52There was that stat
06:53that was circulating
06:53during the game on social media.
06:56And was Missoula asked about it?
06:57Like, why...
06:58That is inexcusable.
07:00You all agree
07:00the Knicks don't win that game
07:02if Kyle Anthony Towns
07:03is fouled out in the second half.
07:04Correct?
07:05Correct.
07:05Correct.
07:06Well, yeah, but I don't know
07:06if you're going to get him
07:07to foul out.
07:08You did a good enough job
07:09to create the distance of...
07:11In the third quarter,
07:11you had 20 shots.
07:1319 were 3.
07:14Right, but that's not...
07:15And he had 4 on him
07:16by then, Curtis.
07:17Right.
07:18And that...
07:18But the...
07:19And that...
07:19When you look at...
07:20That's where you felt...
07:20When you chuck up 3s,
07:21do you draw fouls?
07:22No, no, but that's where
07:23you went wrong.
07:24Right.
07:24When you look at that third quarter,
07:26the fact that you...
07:28You chucked up 19 of your 20
07:31with 3-pointers
07:32and you didn't hit anything,
07:35that's where your issue is.
07:36At least if you're...
07:38I'm not tripping about
07:39the fouls on him,
07:40but at least if you're
07:41taking high percentage shots,
07:43there's a better chance
07:44you make those.
07:45No, but also,
07:45that run that the Knicks
07:47went on in the fourth quarter
07:49was atrocious.
07:50And in the third.
07:51Whatever that...
07:52What?
07:5322-7 run or whatever it was
07:55was a death knell.
07:56All right.