Exploring Joe Mazzulla's Impact on the Celtics' Strategy

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00:00If you sign a coach to a four-year deal,

00:04you should almost be like, we're going to re-up.

00:06But if there's some struggles within the first four years,

00:09it'll be at a little bit of a lesser number.

00:12I know four years might seem like a lot in the sports world,

00:17but ultimately, when you hire young coaches,

00:20you have to give them a lot of time.

00:23Missoula's returned a championship to Boston.

00:26I'm not saying I'd fire him.

00:27But if you look at the story for 90% of people in this series

00:36is the Celtics' three-point shooting.

00:39It is this idea that all they know how to do is shoot threes.

00:42They have no counter to when the threes aren't falling.

00:46Even when there isn't an opportunity to attack the basket comfortably,

00:50the thought is Missoula is still just telling them to shoot threes.

00:54Nobody seems to care, understandably, in this moment,

00:57that they won last year's championship

01:00when you're trying to win this year's championship.

01:03They've blown consecutive 20-point leads on their home floor.

01:06If this ends up nicks in five,

01:09it feels like Missoula would be on the hot seat.

01:14Now, perhaps Boston won't want that.

01:17Again, Boston should not want this amount of turnover,

01:21right from Stevens, who then just decided to go up to the front office,

01:27to Ime Udoka, who had all the off-court stuff

01:33that led to him being let go of, to now Missoula.

01:37Despite this team consistently being a contender,

01:41they've had three coaches in short order.

01:43I don't think they want a fourth.

01:45But again, blame pie.

01:51It feels as if Joe Missoula, for the public,

01:57and I don't know if it's the case internally,

02:00in terms of the Celtics,

02:03but it feels like he has been given the biggest,

02:07by a lot, slice of the pie.

02:09Like, it almost feels as if

02:13anyone who is shooting poorly from three,

02:20anyone who is shooting poorly from three,

02:25it's not their fault for shooting poorly from three.

02:29It's Missoula's for making them shoot threes.

02:32The fact that some Celtics get a mismatch on an island

02:41and their thought is jab, step back, three,

02:45as opposed to just get to the cup,

02:50a lot of that seems like it's going to fall on Missoula,

02:53which is fascinating.

02:54My eye, though,

02:58it goes towards Jason Tatum.

03:04Here is the simplest way I can put this,

03:07and we will expand on it on the other side.

03:11If Jason Tatum

03:12was as good

03:15as Celtics fans

03:17want others to think he is,

03:21maybe even as good

03:24as he thinks he is,

03:26then the Celtics

03:28would be probably going for a three-peat.

03:33The Celtics would be

03:35minus-money favorites for a title.

03:38But he's

03:39not at the level

03:41that people think

03:44and He doesn't play it.

04:01But he doesn't play it.

04:04But I'll see you next time.

04:06And I'm like,

04:07I'm sorry.

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