Scholarship table
Joe Mazulla is gonna be coaching D2 ball again by next year. Seriously, he has been absolutely atrocious the entire playoffs.
Jaylen Brown on the cusp of eligibility for a Supermax, is shooting 37% and 10% from 3 in the ECF. WOOFAlso, averaged nearly 27 a game this year…hasn’t even gotten to his average since the Atlanta series. He’s on a milk carton
Sammy has entered the game.
Amazingly, ESPN analytics now give the Celtics an 80% chance of winning the series.
Boston was badBut that was a clinic by Miami. They came out ready and controlled the tempo and the passing was off the charts. Kept getting so many open look 3s on the extra pass or back door cuts at the rim.
It really was a clinic. I mean clearly Mazzulla is totally over his head but Tatum and Brown were 1-14 from distance. Miami deserves all the credit for playing tremendous basketball.
“I just didn’t have them ready to play. That’s on me. I have to be better.” - Mazzulla At least he deserves high grades for self-awareness and accountability.
I don’t think we know if Mazzulla is or isn’t a good coach. He was certainly as good as Coach Bud was in Milwaukee this year. In two more years we will be able to judge his coaching talent. Of course he has been out-coached by Spo, but I think the best coach in the league should be out-coaching a rookie.
Yeah, when your two alleged superduperstars combine to get outscored by Gabe Vincent, you've got some problems. Also, methinks you were a little overly exuberant early in the season not only about the Celtics as a whole but even more about Brown being a top-7 player in the world. He's talented, obviously, but he really hasn't accomplished much in his career to date -- unless one counts playing second fiddle on an annually disappointing NBA team as an accomplishment.
How good was Bernard King? He appears to have been a bit of a badass from what I've read and seen on video. His FGP with the Knicks is rather impressive. Anyway, should his number or Carmelo Anthony's number be retired at MSG? Wow.....look at his '84-85 stats.
Prototypical small forward. High volume scorer who was one of the best players for awhile in the mid-80s, but he had knee issues that cut his career short. He was on a lot of mediocre teams too, being overshadowed by the Celtics and Sixers in the east. He only won two playoff series his entire career.Carmello is a good comp.
Anthony is 8th on the career scoring list. Obviously he's a Hall of Famer but which team retires his jersey?
There was a Bernard King, Isaiah Thomas shootout in the playoffs in 85 or 86 that was just amazing.