Banner 19 Interrupted! R2G6 Loss vs NYK 5/16 (NYK wins 4-2)

[NYCelticsfan136]

I wish you all well.

Here’s hoping we can at least have an enjoyable season next season.

Fat chance.

[GrandTheftRondo]

Such a low bar.

No thanks.

Exactly I rather have a down year. Maybe we get lucky in the lottery and trade the pick for a proven player. I don’t think tatum is even going to be back next year. Maybe in the end.

This team is gonna be without 3 of the following Tatum, holiday, kp, Hauser and Horford next year.

Combine that with Joe coaching abilities and you're looking at a 45 win team at best.

Probably closer to 38.

People don't understand just how badly it's gonna be here next year. Too good to thank. Too bad to be serious. The worst place to be.

All I can see us doing is running it back and hoping Tatum can return in Feb/March and make a run in the playoffs if it’s safe for him to do so.

In reality it will be a nothing season.

[NYCelticsfan136]

Such a low bar.

No thanks.

Exactly I rather have a down year. Maybe we get lucky in the lottery and trade the pick for a proven player. I don’t think tatum is even going to be back next year. Maybe in the end.

How does one have a down year in the East without going scorched earth?

The East is terrible.

Pacers, Knicks and Cavs and outside of that it’s a steaming pile of ****.

Yes but what’s the point? They’re not making a championship run. Tatum is likely out for a majority of the season.

[GrandTheftRondo]

Exactly I rather have a down year. Maybe we get lucky in the lottery and trade the pick for a proven player. I don’t think tatum is even going to be back next year. Maybe in the end.

How does one have a down year in the East without going scorched earth?

The East is terrible.

Pacers, Knicks and Cavs and outside of that it’s a steaming pile of ****.

Yes but what’s the point? They’re not making a championship run. Tatum is likely out for a majority of the season.

I’m not saying there’s a point.

I’m saying what else are they meant to do?

The teams at the very bottom are **** awful and completely devoid of talent.

Short of Boston trading every player on their roster for a pile of dirt, they won’t be down there.

It would also be malpractice to blow up the team and hope they can somehow go back up the standings in a few years while Tatum is theoretically at the peak of his basketball life.

[The Corey's]

Exactly I rather have a down year. Maybe we get lucky in the lottery and trade the pick for a proven player. I don’t think tatum is even going to be back next year. Maybe in the end.

This team is gonna be without 3 of the following Tatum, holiday, kp, Hauser and Horford next year.

Combine that with Joe coaching abilities and you're looking at a 45 win team at best.

Probably closer to 38.

People don't understand just how badly it's gonna be here next year. Too good to thank. Too bad to be serious. The worst place to be.

All I can see us doing is running it back and hoping Tatum can return in Feb/March and make a run in the playoffs if it’s safe for him to do so.

In reality it will be a nothing season.

They made it clear through the media they weren't going to do that even before the injury. Know where they're paying a half billion dollars and your best player is going to miss the whole season. We're ****.

[NYCelticsfan136]

This team is gonna be without 3 of the following Tatum, holiday, kp, Hauser and Horford next year.

Combine that with Joe coaching abilities and you're looking at a 45 win team at best.

Probably closer to 38.

People don't understand just how badly it's gonna be here next year. Too good to thank. Too bad to be serious. The worst place to be.

All I can see us doing is running it back and hoping Tatum can return in Feb/March and make a run in the playoffs if it’s safe for him to do so.

In reality it will be a nothing season.

They made it clear through the media they weren't going to do that even before the injury. Know where they're paying a half billion dollars and your best player is going to miss the whole season. We're ****.

Playing for a playoffs knowing you won’t get to the finals is a waste for me. This team needs anotner big time player. Bye bye to KP.

[The Corey's]

All I can see us doing is running it back and hoping Tatum can return in Feb/March and make a run in the playoffs if it’s safe for him to do so.

In reality it will be a nothing season.

They made it clear through the media they weren't going to do that even before the injury. Know where they're paying a half billion dollars and your best player is going to miss the whole season. We're ****.

Playing for a playoffs knowing you won’t get to the finals is a waste for me. This team needs anotner big time player. Bye bye to KP.

From my understanding, they can't even trade KP and bring it in any salary back. They have to get under the apron.

It's going to be pretty bad around here next year. And frankly so is next year because it's going to take a year back before Tatum can even really start to get into what he used to be. Assuming he can do it at all.

But we all the Spurs are 2027 pick so we can't be out here tanking anyway.

[NYCelticsfan136]

This team is gonna be without 3 of the following Tatum, holiday, kp, Hauser and Horford next year.

Combine that with Joe coaching abilities and you're looking at a 45 win team at best.

Probably closer to 38.

People don't understand just how badly it's gonna be here next year. Too good to thank. Too bad to be serious. The worst place to be.

All I can see us doing is running it back and hoping Tatum can return in Feb/March and make a run in the playoffs if it’s safe for him to do so.

In reality it will be a nothing season.

They made it clear through the media they weren't going to do that even before the injury. Know where they're paying a half billion dollars and your best player is going to miss the whole season. We're ****.

I would love to know the real story of softzingis.

[GrandTheftRondo]

This team is gonna be without 3 of the following Tatum, holiday, kp, Hauser and Horford next year.

Combine that with Joe coaching abilities and you're looking at a 45 win team at best.

Probably closer to 38.

People don't understand just how badly it's gonna be here next year. Too good to thank. Too bad to be serious. The worst place to be.

All I can see us doing is running it back and hoping Tatum can return in Feb/March and make a run in the playoffs if it’s safe for him to do so.

In reality it will be a nothing season.

They made it clear through the media they weren't going to do that even before the injury. Know where they're paying a half billion dollars and your best player is going to miss the whole season. We're ****.

I wasn’t saying the same roster.

Was just saying it won’t be drastically different.

Yes next year will probably be a pointless waste of time.

That’s the reality when your best player ruptures his Achilles.

**** sucks.

[NYCelticsfan136]

They made it clear through the media they weren't going to do that even before the injury. Know where they're paying a half billion dollars and your best player is going to miss the whole season. We're ****.

Playing for a playoffs knowing you won’t get to the finals is a waste for me. This team needs anotner big time player. Bye bye to KP.

From my understanding, they can't even trade KP and bring it in any salary back. They have to get under the apron.

It's going to be pretty bad around here next year. And frankly so is next year because it's going to take a year back before Tatum can even really start to get into what he used to be. Assuming he can do it at all.

But we all the Spurs are 2027 pick so we can't be out here tanking anyway.

Not in 2026

[The Corey's]

All I can see us doing is running it back and hoping Tatum can return in Feb/March and make a run in the playoffs if it’s safe for him to do so.

In reality it will be a nothing season.

They made it clear through the media they weren't going to do that even before the injury. Know where they're paying a half billion dollars and your best player is going to miss the whole season. We're ****.

I wasn’t saying the same roster.

Was just saying it won’t be drastically different.

Yes next year will probably be a pointless waste of time.

That’s the reality when your best player ruptures his Achilles.

**** sucks.

They have to shed Holiday AND KP if they're gonna get under the apron.

Or holiday, kornet, horford and Hauser. Something like that.

And that's not including whoever they replace them with.

They're gonna be trash next year if I had to guess.

[redslastlaugh]

Since Danny Ainge resigned it seems like organizationally we've become a little much too dependent on some analytics that work great on paper, work very good in the regular season and just don't hold up that well in the playoffs. For us to lose two of the three Mazzulla years to teams that were huge underdogs is proof of that.

Honestly, I think we need to play some younger guys next year and let Tatum take his time to make sure he gets right so that we can have another 5 years of contention starting 2026-27. But I really think we're going to have these problems unless we can get a coach who isn't so beholden to some of the basketball concepts that have taken over in the analytics era.

For all the times we see teams have horrific shooting in the most clutch moments and the 25-35 year old statistians who report to Brad/Joe say "that's just shooting variance at the worst possible time" when really it's just heightened stress, pressure and fatigue making misses way more likely. And whether it's us shooting 30% in 2023 Miami, whether it's Harden Rockets missing 26 3pta in a row, whether its going 25-100 to lose game 1 and 2 at home in this series. To the analysts the bad shooting is always just interpreted as unforeseeable bad luck always seeming to happen randomly at the moment of the most pressure and exhaustion....

And so I'd hope we can revise our strategy internally this season, give Joe a chance to grow as a coach, and then next offseason bring in Jeff Van Gundy or somebody like that who is less prisoner of the moment about the 3pt shooting and a bunch of the other stuff

[Roger Federer]

Our franchise has been set back at least 5 years. Our championship window is closed and I would bet money we never win another championship with Tatum and Brown both on this team again.

[Floody100]

Mazzula is the worst coach in the league.


Arrogant scumbag piece of ****.

You can critique his coaching all you want but stooping to petty insults like this is pathetic.

It’s basketball for god sake. It shouldn’t be that big of a deal to resort to personal insults about a guy you’ve never met in your life.

[Shak_Celts]

Part of the reason I want Indy to come out is to prove that they were really good last season. They were our toughest opponent and they didn’t change their players. If they win the East, it will prove that we didn’t have it as easy as people believe. Beating Cavs 4-1 told me all I needed to know, but other people and fans need more proof.

[tfmiii]

Read on Twitter

He speaks for us

[KamikazeK]

In my opinion, the Tatum injury has nothing to do with this. This team just completely choked. They were losing even before he went down.

[NYCelticsfan136]

Our franchise has been set back at least 5 years. Our championship window is closed and I would bet money we never win another championship with Tatum and Brown both on this team again.

Unless we get a good third option. KP is not it. I think if this guy had given us something from the very beginning we win the series easily. He was non existent.

[Memokerobi]

My only silver lining? This team played a **** ton of basketball the last 4 years. Extra month of rest (year plus for Tatum) will be good for them. Need to bring some youth and athleticism to the roster

[Memokerobi]

Our franchise has been set back at least 5 years. Our championship window is closed and I would bet money we never win another championship with Tatum and Brown both on this team again.

Eh, with how quickly things change in the NBA I don’t think so. I think we’ll be in the thick of things in 27/28 the latest and then be in another window through Tatum’s 29-33 year prime if he returns well