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Celtics eliminated Game 6 to Knicks in a rout 119-81. What will change this offseason? What needs to change?
Celtics eliminated Game 6 to Knicks in a rout 119-81. What will change this offseason? What needs to change?
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00:00It's a Monday. That's what it does.
00:02That's a crappy one at that.
00:04Well, why?
00:06Red Sox got you down?
00:08No, not the Red Sox.
00:10The Celtics have got me down.
00:12Celtics got you down.
00:13Well, listen.
00:16There are big decisions to be made
00:18when it comes to Celtics ownership
00:20over the next month or so.
00:22I cannot wait to hear
00:24what you think they should do this morning.
00:26At some point on today's show.
00:27But it was disappointing the way things ended.
00:30Yeah, now we've got to watch Knicks Pacers
00:31in the Eastern Conference Finals.
00:33That team, for whatever reason,
00:37when they are not hitting their threes,
00:40they have no idea what else to do.
00:44And you have to explain that to me.
00:47Sounds like the role of a coach.
00:50Well, is it though?
00:52They're grown men playing a sport
00:54that they have played for their entire lives,
00:57Chris Curtis.
00:57But it's not like these games end
00:59and they all go home
01:00and don't see each other
01:01until the next game.
01:01Like, there's practices.
01:03There's time that the coach
01:04who's in charge
01:05is supposed to be like,
01:07all right,
01:07this hasn't been working for us.
01:08We've got to switch the way
01:09in which we're playing this game
01:11if we have any chance of winning.
01:12But you,
01:13you,
01:13you,
01:13the reason why you get there
01:15is because of what you do.
01:16Like,
01:17all of a sudden,
01:17you're not just going to change
01:18your game plan.
01:19I'm not saying change the entire thing.
01:21You've got to adjust.
01:22But you,
01:23you adjust in the way of...
01:25Wait,
01:25you play for Bill Belichick.
01:27If it doesn't work,
01:28you don't keep doing it.
01:29But football,
01:30I think football is completely different.
01:32Nope,
01:32it's every sport.
01:33You adapt.
01:33And football would be like,
01:35you know,
01:35if you're a team
01:36that really,
01:37really relies on
01:39passing the football,
01:40right,
01:41and you run it a little bit,
01:43but you,
01:43you're really,
01:44you,
01:44you,
01:45you're,
01:46bread is buttered
01:47through the passing game
01:48and that's what you do.
01:49And if your passing game's not working,
01:51you're going to struggle.
01:53But in your analogy,
01:54it would be only 70 plus yard bombs
01:57that that team throws.
01:59No short passes at all.
02:00Well,
02:00but I think the NFL,
02:02the NFL...
02:02Fourth of inches,
02:03let's run a flea flicker.
02:04The NFL is,
02:05is so much different
02:07in the sense of
02:08the way the offense is ran
02:09in basketball.
02:10Yeah.
02:11I mean,
02:11that's what you do.
02:12You shoot the,
02:12you shoot,
02:13you know,
02:14they shoot somewhere between four,
02:15you know,
02:15they average about 48.
02:17And if you don't hit it,
02:18if you don't hit your percentages,
02:20this is what you get.
02:20But I have,
02:21I don't think I've ever seen
02:23a bunch of guys
02:24who have played a sport
02:26for their entire lives
02:28since they were,
02:29you know,
02:30eight years old
02:31or whatever,
02:32who can't adjust.
02:34If the threes aren't falling,
02:37force the ball inside
02:39and at least get away with,
02:41walk away with a foul.
02:43Force it inside to whom?
02:45Force it inside to whomever.
02:47Yeah,
02:47but force it...
02:48It's easier said than done.
02:49It's not a wreck pickup
02:50Saturday weekend basketball.
02:52Obviously it's easier said than done,
02:54but then why do you have a coach?
02:56That's not what they do.
02:57What's the purpose of the job?
02:58I think the,
02:58and I've always said this before,
03:00coach,
03:00the coach in the NBA
03:01is really managing egos,
03:03getting guys to buy in the system.
03:05What's the system?
03:06It's just threes.
03:07No,
03:07the system of guys playing
03:08into their specific roles
03:10and then...
03:10But everybody just chucks up threes.
03:12the roles of where they are.
03:13Like Jalen being too.
03:14Yeah,
03:14like,
03:15yeah,
03:15the roles of where they fall on the team
03:17and then the other thing that,
03:18you know,
03:18we've talked about before,
03:20I think with the coach,
03:21the adjustment the coach might make
03:23is sideline out of bounds plays,
03:25maybe a change up your defense
03:26from a little bit of man to zone,
03:29but the biggest thing,
03:30and I've said this before,
03:31their job is to really get guys
03:33that are superstars
03:35and have massive egos
03:36to buy into the roles
03:38that they're playing,
03:40you know,
03:40buy into where they need to be
03:42and that's kind of what
03:43their roles are as coaches.
03:45In three seasons
03:46as head coach
03:46of the Boston Celtics,
03:47Missoula,
03:48in two of those three,
03:49has lost to inferior teams
03:50in the playoffs.
03:51Yeah,
03:51well,
03:51you know what?
03:52Due to the three.
03:53But I would say this,
03:54your star's got to step up.
03:56You know,
03:56I blame Missoula.
03:59I put some of that
04:00on Missoula's plate,
04:01but your star's got to step up.
04:03Jalen Brown can't foul out
04:04in the third quarter.
04:06Derek White can't basically
04:07have a game
04:08where he can't hit
04:09the side of a bond.
04:10It's happened my entire life
04:12where coaches get fired
04:13for star players underperforming.
04:15I understand that.
04:16Nothing from Friday night
04:18symbolizes this whole thing
04:20better than you brought up
04:21Jalen Brown.
04:23He had the ball
04:24by himself.
04:26Easy two.
04:27Yep.
04:28But feels the need
04:29to step back,
04:31put the ball on the floor
04:32so that he can get the three.
04:34And Carl Anthony Towns,
04:36who had nearly covered
04:38everybody on the floor
04:39on that particular play,
04:42is over there
04:42because of the extra time
04:44that he is trying
04:45to get the three
04:46and steals the ball from him.
04:47And that symbolizes it
04:50in a nutshell
04:51what is wrong with it.
04:53Yep.
04:53Yeah.
04:53It was so frustrating.
04:56It was so embarrassing.
04:57Oh, man.
04:57It was so embarrassing.
04:59You get your doors blown off.
05:00Yeah.
05:01And you also got to put it on,
05:03you know,
05:03you put some of it on Brad's plate
05:04because when you build a team,
05:06if you want to build a team
05:07where if the three-point shot's
05:09not falling,
05:10then you have to build a team
05:11that you have another avenue
05:13or another player
05:14that can go that way.
05:15Well, aren't they building
05:16their offense off
05:18of what their superstar
05:19wants it to be?
05:21I mean, I don't know.
05:22Doesn't that seem like
05:23what he wants it to be?
05:25I mean, that's what he likes.
05:25What do you think Tatum
05:26wants it just to go?
05:27He likes the step-back,
05:28fade-away three.
05:29Yeah, but what about
05:29everybody else?
05:30Well, does anybody else
05:32have a say over there?
05:33I don't know.
05:33Stop it.
05:34Stop it.
05:35He's the guy.
05:36Do you think the offense
05:36would be better
05:37if Tatum didn't take
05:38the ball up the court?
05:39The game would have been better
05:41if Tatum played
05:42unfortunately then.
05:43I know, but that question.
05:44If he didn't take the ball
05:44up the court?
05:45Yes, that's a good point.
05:46I would rather a point guard,
05:48a real point guard.
05:49Right.
05:49Then you could put Tatum
05:51in other actions.
05:52You could do other things
05:53with him.
05:53But don't you think
05:54that happens because
05:54that's what Tatum
05:55wants to do?
05:56No, I think it's because
05:57you don't have a point guard.
05:58You elected not to get
06:00a point guard.
06:00So you think Tatum
06:01doesn't want to do that?
06:02I don't think Tatum
06:03really cares about
06:04bringing up the ball.
06:05I don't think he's
06:06still going to get his shots.
06:07I just think that
06:08Missoula for many times
06:10during the regular season
06:11in what you said earlier,
06:13he does what superstars
06:15on the team want to do.
06:17And to me,
06:17this isn't obviously
06:19personal.
06:20I don't,
06:20Joe Missoula,
06:20I've never met the guy,
06:21never spoken to him.
06:23The team
06:24is not at its best
06:28when he is the guy
06:30in charge.
06:31They won a championship
06:32last year.
06:33Nobody will ever
06:33take it away.
06:34but don't allow
06:36the Tatum injury
06:37to blur what occurred
06:38in the second round
06:39of the playoffs.
06:40With Tatum,
06:41you lost this series.
06:43You fell down
06:43three games to one.
06:44You lost to the heat
06:46two years ago
06:47in a pathetic series
06:49where you went down
06:50three games to none
06:51and Wick Grosbeck
06:52was coaching
06:52from the owner's seat.
06:54The roster is not
06:56going to be better
06:57next year
06:57than it was this year.
06:58Nope.
06:59And it's my guess
07:00next year,
07:01they don't fire Missoula.
07:02They go,
07:04say,
07:04like 42
07:05and 40
07:07next year
07:07and then he gets fired.
07:09And for me,
07:09why not get ahead of it?
07:10If there's a great coach
07:11out there,
07:12begin the process
07:12sooner rather than later.
07:13All those coaches
07:14get fired.
07:15You look at every coach,
07:16a lot of the coaches
07:17that,
07:18and I think I heard
07:18Jones and Keith
07:19talking about this,
07:20that have won championships
07:21since 2019.
07:23All the coaches
07:24have been whacked
07:24except for Steve Kerr,
07:26I believe.
07:27But, you know,
07:28Mike Malone
07:28who coached
07:29the Denver Nuggets
07:31got whacked.
07:32Nick Nurse
07:32who coached Milwaukee
07:33got whacked.
07:34Rood and Holzer.
07:35Rood and Holzer
07:35got whacked.
07:36If you were Brad Stevens,
07:37would you at least
07:40give Mike Malone
07:40a call?
07:42I mean,
07:43if you feel like
07:45Missoula's not the guy,
07:46but I think the NBA,
07:48I don't,
07:48I don't necessarily know,
07:50you know,
07:51if Brad,
07:53I don't necessarily...
07:53I think it depends
07:53on what Tatum wants.
07:55I think Brad Stevens
07:56talks to Tatum
07:57and says,
07:57do you want Joe Missoula?
07:59Yeah,
07:59but I don't know how,
08:00like,
08:00do you,
08:01I think,
08:02do we know how much
08:03Tatum went and said,
08:06okay,
08:07after Ime got fired,
08:09said,
08:09go get Missoula?
08:11No,
08:11but I think,
08:11Wiggy,
08:12you and I have talked
08:13about when it comes
08:13to the Bruins,
08:14Bergeron could have
08:15saved Cassidy.
08:17And I think that Tatum
08:18is,
08:19whether he says
08:20get fired or not,
08:22he is,
08:22it's up to him.
08:23He's got a voice.
08:24The biggest voice.
08:25Yeah,
08:25he's got a voice,
08:26but I still think
08:27Brad Stevens is going
08:28to bring in the guy
08:29he wants to bring in.
08:31He'll definitely ask Tatum.
08:32Well,
08:32I'll tell you this,
08:33big decisions loom
08:35for Celtics ownership,
08:37new and old,
08:38and you can talk about that
08:40all morning long
08:41here on Boston Sports Original.
08:43I'll tell you this,