What will change this offseason for Celtics?

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Decisions, decisions...  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,

01:13the 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,

01:45you'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,

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