Celtics Coach is a great story

[temery]

I'll admit I'm a fair weather fan. I didn't start following until the East finals, and had never heard of Joe Mazzulla.

Looks like he fell under the radar until recently. I hope every northeast team promote within, and follows the Celtics lead.

Joe Mazzulla - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[UC0NN]

Celtics made the finals just two years ago. So you already have a great team to begin with. And now this off-season you add injury prone but all star caliber Porzingis and an all star that plays defense in Holiday. And Derrick White became an all star level type player. So they have an absolutely loaded amd stacked team to begin with.

When a team wins, coach will get a ton of credit. When they lose they get blamed. One thing for certain is he got all of these stars to buy into their roles. Holiday scoring 12 a game when he is easily a 18+ guy. Even Derrick white could have deserved more shots.

Almost like Cam Spencer scoring 14 a game when he can easily score 20+ in his sleep on another team. Sacrifice, team first guys.

 

[Matrim55]

I'll admit I'm a fair weather fan. I didn't start following until the East finals, and had never heard of Joe Mazzulla.

Looks like he fell under the radar until recently. I hope every northeast team promote within, and follows the Celtics lead.

Joe Mazzulla - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's come a long way in two years, too. After a disappointing year 1 he's now pretty easily a top 10 coach in the league, maybe top 5.

As a player he was part of the same draft class as Kyrie, Kemba, Klay, Kawhi (just realized how many Ks were in that class!) etc, and here he is, already on the sideline.

 

[HuskyHawk]

He's come a long way in two years, too. After a disappointing year 1 he's now pretty easily a top 10 coach in the league, maybe top 5.

As a player he was part of the same draft class as Kyrie, Kemba, Klay, Kawhi (just realized how many Ks were in that class!) etc, and here he is, already on the sideline.

Ime bonking other people's wives really did a lot to elevate Joe's career. Ime seemed destined to be the Cs coach for a long time. I think they thought highly of Joe and believed he'd continue the progression that was already working. They were right but it was a bit of a gamble.

 

[Spaceman213J]

Joe did a good job getting guys playing time and keeping the locker room positive. It looks like the guy has fun and knows how to take some of the outside pressure off such a talented team with such enormous talent.

I was also really glad to see Brown get finals MVP. I love Tatum, but Brown's defense was very solid. I know Luka got his, but he's always going to leave the court with decent numbers. Brown made it hard for him and Brown also hit a clutch shot. Ainge was great as a GM in his time in Boston and the core he built should have this team competing for titles for the next 3-5 years at least. Most of the guys are locked up with Tatum about to get a supermax deal and White very open to signing an extension.

 

[UC0NN]

Cs are going to be great for as long as they want to be. Brown, Jrue, White play elite defense when they choose to, and Porzingis is a rim protector. That is some elite level defense for a team that just set 3 point shooting records on offense.

 

[nomar]

Ime bonking other people's wives really did a lot to elevate Joe's career. Ime seemed destined to be the Cs coach for a long time. I think they thought highly of Joe and believed he'd continue the progression that was already working. They were right but it was a bit of a gamble.

Second Row Joe! (Nickname due to him not even being a top assistant to Ime.)

A lot of Celtics fans thought Mazzulla was an incompetent idiot until about 5 minutes ago. He’s kind of a weird dude but it always seemed to me he was doing something right. He was downright AWFUL calling timeouts but definitely improved in that area—although I’m still wondering how he let Porzingis hobble up and down the court for as long as he did.

 

[nomar]

Cs are going to be great for as long as they want to be. Brown, Jrue, White play elite defense when they choose to, and Porzingis is a rim protector. That is some elite level defense for a team that just set 3 point shooting records on offense.

This Celtics run mirrored the UConn run in a lot of ways, one being the subpar 3-point shooting in the postseason not even mattering. In both cases I kept expecting the team to shoot the lights out, it didn’t happen, and the team cruised anyway.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Friends were asking about Mazzulla and I told them that I saw him play in the Big East Tournament in MSG when he was at WVU. Solid but unspectacular point guard who played hard all the time. Check out the college career link at Wikipedia above.

He has coached much better this year than last year, particularly his substitution patterns. Though Brad gave him a palette with all the colors to paint. Student of the game who always wants to get better.

 

[runner11]

We played Mazzula 5x when he was at WVU. Always a memorable player despite his low scoring output.

 

[NJHoops]

Weird dude (not an insult, I like weird coaches). Made some huge mistakes in his younger days but seems to have said and done all the right things since then and learned from them.

 

[temery]

Ime bonking other people's wives really did a lot to elevate Joe's career. Ime seemed destined to be the Cs coach for a long time. I think they thought highly of Joe and believed he'd continue the progression that was already working. They were right but it was a bit of a gamble.

Is Ime a person, or a spelling error.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Is Ime a person, or a spelling error.

Ime Udonka is the previous Celtics coach. He came from San Antonio, was a Pop protege and was considered a rising star. Got the team to the Final. Then in the offseason, some stuff came out and he was suspended and ultimately let go.

What Do We Actually Know About What Led to Ime Udoka’s Suspension?

The Boston Celtics suspended their head coach for the next year for an improper relationship with a colleague, but vague details and reports have made it hard to parse what actually happened

www.theringer.com