I am inclined to agree. The turnovers is something he hasn't been able to solve in multiple seasons now. It's a killer in playoff games. I'm not sure what the solution is. They can't just let him walk. Have to work out a sign and trade. I don't know who they'd even target if they did that. You can start White at SG, so maybe there is a SF out there.
I am not a fan of Mazzulla. If they brought in a new coach who felt they could position the players (including Jaylen) for better success, I’d be on board with that. I’m really not sure that this all falls on Jaylen - he’s young and needs to be coached.
Locking up over $600 million in those two seems kind of nuts to me...
It just kills me that Jimmy Butler and the seven Dwarves (sorry Bam) took 4 from us, 3 on our court. Spoels is a great coach but we had multiple solid players who could have similarly stepped up. That’s why I keep coming back to coaching. There’s not enough cap to bring in a true game-changer. It has to either be tinkering with coaching strategies or looking for “better fit” pieces. We were shopping for another big at the deadline, maybe that could have helped but really we needed our stars to step up and dominate. Whatever we do, it has to be done around Tatum.
I know basketball is based on 3-point shooting now but the celtics take it to an extreme. They have a bunch of good shooters but they are all streaky. They win when they are hot and they lose when they are off. Their adjustments seem to be tatum making more difficult 3 pointers. His go-to move is a contested side step 3 pointer. He's so good that this should not be his main move. They really need Udoka back. He made all these guys more accountable. Brown is very good but he still can't dribble, unfortunately.
Didn't Tatum play like that under Udoka too though? I thought he looked like he would have a midrange game at the beginning of his career but he fell in love with the three pointer. It looks pretty amazing when his shot is rolling but he's been a three pointer or try and finish with a layup player for the past 2-3 years it seems. It's why he's inconsistent and often throws up clunkers in the fourth quarters of big games.
Yes, because Ime preached the same analytics. So did Brad. The midrange jumper is a bad shot, everyone in the league is coached not to take it.
No problem with taking a lot of threes if they are open. But in the playoffs you need to get shots near the hoop and hit midrange shots when defenses are taking away everything you want to go and getting away with more physicality
It needs to be a part of your game, it always shows up when the games matter. It's why Tatum is often a disaster in the fourth quarter of these playoff games.
Well it hasn’t hurt Golden State, they do the same things. Comes down to executing. Boston missed wide open shots all night last night. Miami hit their shots, especially Martin. I don’t think the midrange J is the answer. Brown takes way too many of them.
Golden State is a rare outlier because they quite literally have the best shooters of all time. They should be removed from the examples of why the 3 point system works because it’s unreasonable to think you’ll have the best shooters of all time.
The Celtics were already up by a bunch in the 4th. A losing team should take more 3s near the end of the game, to increase variance and hope for a run of makes.
Golden State has far and away the best three point shooting duo in the history of the NBA, they're the reason the entire league hoists so many threes now and the reason a team like Boston lives and dies by the three. It makes sense when you have the greatest three point shooter of all-time and a top 4 shooter of all-time. It doesn't make sense for the Celtics to only play that way.
See, this is where I have to say forget what statistics say. You make runs by stringer together good shots and good offense. Not by shooting 3s. Jacking up the worst shot in basketball is not a sustainable strategy. Simply getting good shots wherever they are on the court is and taking what the defense gives you.
Well I guess Jimmy Butler doesn't listen because he took a ton of post up baseline jumpers in the series. And he's moving on to the NBA Finals.
Exactly. Thinking you need the 4th new coach in 4 years to fix things is beyond insane
He missed most of them. They are moving on because Martin took and made a ton of 3s
Martin was 11-16 from the field and 4-6 from three. He actually made more mid range shots than threes.
It seemed he was money on those mid-range shots on the baseline all series. Someone have a shot chart for him during the 7 game series? Maybe I'm wrong but it seemed almost every time he got to those spots on the baseline he would make a shot.
If it’s dark blue it’s 50%+
It's truly amazing you would compare college basketball to the NBA playoffs.
