Do you have confidence in Joe Mazzulla? Is the Game 2 loss on coaching or the players? Should Mazzulla have called a time-out? #NBA
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00:00Joe Mazzulla is dancing, I guess, with what brung them.
00:05Pretty much.
00:05And they're going to keep launching threes because they have the looks.
00:09Great looks.
00:10They had great looks again last night.
00:12So we're going to keep at it.
00:14And Celtics are down 2-0.
00:17Place that you didn't think this team would be in.
00:20And this is Frank from Cape Coral.
00:23Hello, Frank.
00:25Greg, good morning.
00:27What's up?
00:27I got a point for you and a point for Wiggy.
00:31Number one, Rome and Alitalia sucks.
00:35I was forced to go there many times as a child.
00:38So I'm going to agree with you there.
00:41Wiggy.
00:42Yeah.
00:43Let's see if Warren agrees with me.
00:46I played Texas Hold'em.
00:481-2-0 limit, 2-5-0 limit.
00:50I'm buying it for $300 or $1,000.
00:54Now I'm up.
00:55I hit a couple sets.
00:56I hit a couple full houses straight flush.
00:59I bought in.
01:00And now I have $5,000.
01:02Right?
01:03Yeah.
01:03Oh, now I'm going to play 7-deuce.
01:05Now I'm going to play 8-3 suited.
01:07Oh, now I got a gut shot.
01:08Oh, I'm going to try to chase.
01:10And that's the Celtics with the three-pointers.
01:12They're river rats.
01:13They're river rats.
01:15That's exactly what they are.
01:17They're river rats.
01:18They are going to chase everything.
01:19They're going to look for those gut shots for all you poker heads out there.
01:24But that's the thing.
01:27And when you look at the stats, like, it's kind of interesting.
01:30And B. Robbie, we asked that question.
01:33When the Knicks shoot 57% from three-point land in the second half and you shoot 26% and this is game one, you ain't winning.
01:44Especially when you have a 20-point lead because they're ultimately going to make those shots and they're making them at a high clip.
01:51And then last night's game, it's 33% and the second half for the Knicks and you're at 26%.
01:57But they get cute on the 20-point lead.
02:00Like, they have the opportunity to put their, to grind their foot down on the neck and they don't do it.
02:07And I realize it's open season on Bill and I've probably led that charge for a while.
02:12It's insulting to Bill Belichick to compare Joe Mazzula to him.
02:16What Joe Mazzula did after the game was say that they did nothing wrong.
02:20Bill Belichick, in defeat, the first thing he says when he gets there is he goes,
02:25we've got to coach better, we've got to execute better, and we've got to play better.
02:29Joe is pointing at those guys.
02:31Right.
02:31Joe Mazzula is pointing at his players.
02:33It is not like Bill Belichick.
02:34No, it's not.
02:35And Bill Belichick really wasn't like that until he won three Super Bowls.
02:39So, like, they've won a championship.
02:43But the way Mazzula, is it any surprise to anybody that what happened in game one was replicated almost exactly in game two
02:50when you hear what he said in between the games?
02:53No, right.
02:53No.
02:54And I wrote it down last night, Greg.
02:56It was the first thing, like, watching the game.
02:58They got cute.
02:59Yeah, they got cute.
03:00They did.
03:00This is Richard from Scituate.
03:02Hey, Richard.
03:04Yes, hey.
03:05I was going to say when you see the white smoke come out of the Vatican,
03:13that means that the Celtics have a new coach.
03:16Oh, yeah.
03:18Curtis, maybe we get Wick on the phone and you ask if they lose this, if maybe they're going
03:22to part ways with Joe, and then they'll turn it around.
03:25You know what, Courtney?
03:25I was a year too soon.
03:27Yeah, but that's when they turned it around last time.
03:29Never wrong, only early.
03:30Right.
03:31I was two weeks early.
03:32Is Richard in the running to be the Pope or too young?
03:36I think too young.
03:38I think that call peaked too soon.
03:40Okay.
03:40All right.
03:42This is Jay from Saugus.
03:45What's up, Jay?
03:46Hey, good morning, everybody.
03:48Listen, I have a whole list of all the Cardinals, and there's a Cardinal out of Italy, Cardinal
03:53Sokola.
03:54I'm kind of rooting for him so we can have Pope Saugula.
04:00Okay, I'll take that.
04:01Have a good day.
04:01All right.
04:02Thank you, Jay.
04:03We all could use some Pope humor today.
04:05Pope Saugula.
04:10But I think, Courtney, you said you heard it from Barkley, right?
04:14Yeah.
04:14Game three being, in my opinion, the team that wins that game wins the series.
04:22Okay.
04:23I mean, is it a must win?
04:25No, no.
04:25I think game three is whoever wins that game wins the series.
04:28Yeah.
04:28But, like, Chad Finn wrote that game two is a must win.
04:31So does he just stop watching?
04:32No, you keep watching.
04:34I'm slightly stroking the panic button.
04:36Oh, God.
04:38I gave you that drop.
04:40Yes, you did.
04:41I knew what I was doing there, Sean.
04:42You did.
04:42You did.
04:44I mean, Celtics will probably win it, but that doesn't say to me that they're going to win
04:50this series.
04:50No, but that will tell me that if they win games.
04:53When was the last time this team, as currently constructed, faced the same adversity that
05:00they face right now?
05:00Last year.
05:02No.
05:02Weren't they down two?
05:04No.
05:04No.
05:04No, they were never down two.
05:05They were never down two last year.
05:06Two years ago.
05:07They never lost two games in a series last year.
05:09Yeah.
05:10Was that two years ago?
05:10Yeah, it was two years ago.
05:11But then they won it.
05:12No, they lost.
05:13They lost in game seven.
05:14Yeah, because Tatum was hurt.
05:16Yeah, he hurt his ankle.
05:17No, that's when Jimmy Butler put up like 60 or whatever it was.
05:20We've got to mix in some ginkgo biloba.
05:22Yeah.
05:2260 pieces, as we like to say in the biz, Curtis.
05:24Yeah.
05:25No, they've never dealt with the adversity.
05:28No.
05:28They have not.
05:29No.
05:29No, but what tells you that they're going to deal with it this time?
05:33Because I think to kind of Curtis's point of-
05:35They can't deal with the adversity of their shots not going in, their three-pointers not
05:39going in-
05:39No, I know that.
05:39In the fourth quarter, or field goals for that matter.
05:42Right.
05:42I mean, they went eight minutes last night without a single field goal.
05:46Right.
05:46Do you want to have a stat that's going to be a little damaging to the psyche?
05:49In the conference semis at NBA playoff history, there have been 117 matchups where a team
05:59was down two games to none.
06:01Eight of the 117 came back to win the series.
06:05Less than 7%.
06:06So you're telling me I should bet on the Knicks to win the series at plus 100?
06:09Yes.
06:10Okay.
06:10That would obviously be the safe and smarter bet, but I think when you look at, and I
06:16think Curtis said it earlier in the show, when you look at these first two games, the
06:22Celtics know that they're a better team.
06:25And they're a better team on paper, and they know that-
06:28Well, that might be the problem.
06:29Right, but if they can win game three-
06:31Is that they assume that they're a better team.
06:32Right, but here's my point to the game three thing.
06:35Because if they can win game three, now what it does is it kind of solidifies what they
06:43know they are, and it maybe hurts the Knicks because the Knicks know, wait a second, this
06:50team is potentially going to come back to who they are.
06:54Well, is the repeat in jeopardy?
06:56You can talk about that all day long here on Boston Sports Original WEE.