Do you have confidence in Joe Mazzulla?

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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.

04:44I 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, 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.

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