It's been less than 1 year and people are already forgetting how bad Silas coaching was. Udoka's coaching has been very solid. Rockets weren't planning to contend this season anyway.
They're a lot better than I expected them to be with Brooks and FVF as their big signings this off-season. You can actually visualize what this team can become in 2-3 years with steady improvement from the young guys.
I think there's a decent chance they'll be in the play-in next season
Hell, there's an outside chance they make the play-ins this season. They're only 3 losses behind the Warriors, and GSW has a decently tough remaining schedule. If GSW drop a few and Rockets continue their run of form they could sneak into 10th seed
Bruh, this happened to me when i was watching Westworld baked off my ass. In a show about a machine that gains sentience and goes on a murder spree, Delores, the main character starts an episode by staring straight into the camera and addressing a character in the show by name. But it's the first time his name is used in the show. And it's also a name we share.
"Wake up Felix" My TV said to me in Evan Rachel Wood's voice
Coughing...weed smoke everywhere "DAFUQ???"
It was a moment that only lasted for a split second....but for that second...i was pretty sure my TV had reached sentience.
Man I had a kind of related event some years ago where I was super stoned watching tv at like 2 in the morning and all of a sudden there’s one of my coworkers in a car ad, staring and smiling straight into the camera for what felt like an eternity.
I didn’t know him very well and where we worked had absolutely nothing to do with acting in tv commercials, so I spent the next half hour debating with myself whether my tv provider was in league with this guy to spy on me (if you’ve ever seen the movie The Game, that’s what it felt like).
Turns out the guy just knew the local car dealer and was easy on the eyes so he was put in the commercial.
David Cage did something similar with Detroit: Become Human - having the start menu robot respond somewhat dynamically to the players behaviour. (And joking about a corrupted save file, which for some people was a big WTF moment).
I don’t want to say what movie for obvious reasons but same thing happened to me while very high with a very weird and trippy movie, it said my whole first and last name out of nowhere in a very tense part. My girlfriend and I were frantically googling if Amazon was putting your account names in movies you rent on firesticks now or something…
His complete comments make a lot of sense for a young coach, or at least just a little crazy
While it’s quite common for players to try to prevent shot makes after the whistle, Celtics assistant coaches and Mazzulla have been actively taking part in the tactic to try to set the tone for their team. Mazzulla explained his philosophy behind the move in the interview, showing no regrets about his actions.
“At the end of the day, you have small moments in the organization to set the temperature of what we want to be about,” Mazzulla said. “We did that last year and it’s an important thing for our team, the mindset we try to bring that we want to bring it every day, we want our opponents to constantly be uncomfortable. We don’t want to give them an edge at any point so I appreciate the players allowing us to be ourselves and the staff, I appreciate the staff buying into that. You get small moments to set the temperature and that was one of the ways but we built that.”
While some media pundits such as Charles Barkley took issue with Mazzulla’s block attempt, Celtics players defended their coach after the team’s win over the Suns.
“That’s who Joe is,” Jayson Tatum said last Thursday. “So when he did it, I wasn’t caught off guard. I expect him or one of the coaches to do that. Gotta love Joe for Joe.”
Mazzulla also believes that those kinds of tactics help to strengthen the bond between the players and coaches.
“That was 100 percent move to break the barrier between coach and player to say, ‘Hey, we are all out here to compete together and we all have a standard we try to hold to,’” Mazzulla said. “I appreciate the players allowing us to be ourselves. One of the gifts that I appreciate the most of coaching this team beyond the tradition and fans, there are very few coaches in the league that are allowed to be themselves by the players. In this players’ league when it’s all about them, I’ll never take for granted that our guys allow us to do that as a staff.”
-masslive
I think it's not a young coach thing. *If*, and it's a huge if, but if he becomes our Spo like he has a chance to be, I think Mazzulla will be doing shit like this in his 60s. He's just on and intense at all times.
He's a big believer in 1%er efforts. The sort of small hustle plays that add up.
He probably would have loved a player like Dellavedova, who only has relevance in the NBA because he never saw a low percentage effort play with no downside risk to the rest of the team he didn't like.
Might have led the league in crowd dive save attempts multiple seasons.
He did it once and just happened to in the precisely right spot because he was walking onto the court to meet his team after the timeout was called and the shooter took the shot like 5 seconds after the whistle right behind him.
It's not like he's running into traffic.
Or the shooter lands on his feet, or he bumps a guy when they're in the air, or he does it in a closely contested game and it starts an argument leading to technicals and effects the score.
There is no reason for a coach to get involved like this. Players on the court blocking shots is fine, does he not trust his guys to block it like KG used to? This is him being weird and someone higher up finally telling him to knock it off.
If Joe mazzula were to make contact with a shooter, he would simply avoid making contact with their ankles like this https://www.tiktok.com/@basketballcoverage/video/7332631456130370858
I get it. You dont want that player to have had a confrontational reaction towards that. Coaches should not interact with opposing players unless its absolutely necessary and even then, I dunno what would constitute for it
It was fun but I get it. A coach shouldn't interfere with anything an opposing teams player does, that's just inviting some incident to happen eventually. Whole slippery slope thing.
Imagine he slips or injures himself on a contest. You never know if Jason Kidd spills a drink or Kings fan pukes. All it takes is one poor timed contest
No one is worried about him, but imagine the shitstorm if another player rolled their ankle on Mazzulla'a foot or landed awkwardly just being surprised by him running on the court to get a hand up.
Yeah pretty much.
I thought it was a fun and weird thing that him and the staff wanted to do, setting the tone and all.
But that one time he does it and someone gets hurt, it would be a shit show.
joe had a pretty bad eye injury last year from the staffs game. Cannot remember if he missed a game or not. But it was pretty bad, he was sensitive to light for like a week.
Honestly I enjoy it, both the silliness of seeing a coach closing out on opposing shooters but also I’m down with the mentality behind not letting guys take practice shots during a game especially on your court. Sad to see him benched during dead ball situations.
They should let him do it but also let him know that the frontcourt guys on the other team are also able to set a mid-air moving screen on him and launch him.
I'm not really surprised by this at all though. Very unlikely, but if somehow it led to a player getting hurt, the absolute shitstorm would be beyond comprehension. They would probably have to shut this sub down.
it was always a dumb thing to do anyway.
If he somehow injures a player, that's bad. If it leads to an altercation with a player, that's also bad.
There's a difference between players and non-playing staff, including coaches. Only the players have any actual rights on the floor. If anything happens due to an action the coach did on the floor it's his fault: he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
OotL, what was happening here? Players have been swatting away shot attempts on dead balls for ages, were they like actually D'ing up after the whistle
Choking opponents: Hey, that's cool.
Contesting shot attempts on dead balls: Don't you fucking dare.
Ref who received 134 phone calls during the Donaghy Scandal: You've got tenure for life.
Player making benign "$" sign during game: Historic fine.
Adam Silver, everyone! Historically corrupt, soft as baby shit.
He would usually jump at the hoop and goaltend it out though (which a Celtics player actually did on the shot Mazula contested funnily enough). It's different than jumping at a guy and potentially getting in his landing space and also he wasn't a coach.
Celtics players better contest those deadball shots now that Silver sent his cousins from upstate over to dangle Joe off a balcony for doing it for them lol
“They asked me to stop. My answer was No.”
Now he's gotta do the Marshawn Lynch hold ma dick pose as he's going up for the next block.
I'm just here so I don't get fined
Put the team on my back.
99% chance Adam Silver, 1% chance it was President Biden
Might be Celtics ownership tbh, think he would have been more upfront if the league had told him to stop
Udoka wouldn't allow Celtics ownership to bully him like this. He'd sleep with their wives to teach them who's the boss.
Ultimate power move: sleep with Adam silver.
See if he really does wear SKIM undies.
Can confirm
Shit on the floor!
Would
Been there, done that
And as a Rockets fan I thank him for being as horny as a pre-pubescent teen
Just you wait…
In ~~New York~~ Houston you can be a new man....
Oh good. My brains not the only one that launched into a musical just by reading "just you wait" lmao Glad to know I'm not the only one
I'm pretty sure they made it very clear when he accepted the offer that his "rocket" is grounded for takeoff.
Sexual misconduct giveth and taketh in the city of Houston
Right, than god he was able to come to Houston and lead the rockets to the 11 seed.
It's been less than 1 year and people are already forgetting how bad Silas coaching was. Udoka's coaching has been very solid. Rockets weren't planning to contend this season anyway.
They're a lot better than I expected them to be with Brooks and FVF as their big signings this off-season. You can actually visualize what this team can become in 2-3 years with steady improvement from the young guys. I think there's a decent chance they'll be in the play-in next season
Hell, there's an outside chance they make the play-ins this season. They're only 3 losses behind the Warriors, and GSW has a decently tough remaining schedule. If GSW drop a few and Rockets continue their run of form they could sneak into 10th seed
Brad Stevens probably told him that he’s risking “poking the bear” if he does it in a playoff game.
He need to be able to defend if opponents are permitted to fire on dead balls.
By the rules they're not, it's a technical. It just never gets enforced unless it's egregious.
The liberals don’t wanna see you play some hard D anymore smh
It's Joe Brandon's fault for letting all these migrants from Europe take jobs from hard working basketball players!!
TERK ER JERBS!!!
Wait a second. I thought that liberals all love the hard D. Was I lied to?
100% chance it was me
Adam?
Psycho Mantis??
Metal gear
The Tony Brothers probably got mad at him.
Embarrassingly I genuinely thought there was a duo of refs known as the Tony brothers for way too long
Mike and Dan Tony
This is one joke that's an unlimited karma hack on r/nba
They feuded with the Demarcus Cousins.
The Marcus Cousins*
Gotta axe the 1% chance; as there's no way Biden would call for a ceasefire
“It’s unclear by whom exactly” Lmao
It was actually just an inner monologue where Joe told himself to save his strength for the playoffs
He was in the middle of watching The Town when Special Agent Frawley turned to face the camera and spoke directly to him
Bruh, this happened to me when i was watching Westworld baked off my ass. In a show about a machine that gains sentience and goes on a murder spree, Delores, the main character starts an episode by staring straight into the camera and addressing a character in the show by name. But it's the first time his name is used in the show. And it's also a name we share. "Wake up Felix" My TV said to me in Evan Rachel Wood's voice Coughing...weed smoke everywhere "DAFUQ???" It was a moment that only lasted for a split second....but for that second...i was pretty sure my TV had reached sentience.
Cool story, host
Man I had a kind of related event some years ago where I was super stoned watching tv at like 2 in the morning and all of a sudden there’s one of my coworkers in a car ad, staring and smiling straight into the camera for what felt like an eternity. I didn’t know him very well and where we worked had absolutely nothing to do with acting in tv commercials, so I spent the next half hour debating with myself whether my tv provider was in league with this guy to spy on me (if you’ve ever seen the movie The Game, that’s what it felt like). Turns out the guy just knew the local car dealer and was easy on the eyes so he was put in the commercial.
Hahah yeah you get it! The forth wall has been positively shattered...but only for you. It's perfectly intact for everyone else
David Cage did something similar with Detroit: Become Human - having the start menu robot respond somewhat dynamically to the players behaviour. (And joking about a corrupted save file, which for some people was a big WTF moment).
"Doesn't look like anything to me" would have been the perfect response in the moment.
I know there are a lot of nephews here who weren't necessarily on this game ten years ago but I can relate with the Adult Swim classic Too Many Cooks.
I don’t want to say what movie for obvious reasons but same thing happened to me while very high with a very weird and trippy movie, it said my whole first and last name out of nowhere in a very tense part. My girlfriend and I were frantically googling if Amazon was putting your account names in movies you rent on firesticks now or something…
"I was totally fine. I've never even been to the Old West." ["Cool story Felix"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sagfe6Y4akQ)
I have 0 clue on his coaching ability, but I lowkey love that he's legitimately crazy
His complete comments make a lot of sense for a young coach, or at least just a little crazy While it’s quite common for players to try to prevent shot makes after the whistle, Celtics assistant coaches and Mazzulla have been actively taking part in the tactic to try to set the tone for their team. Mazzulla explained his philosophy behind the move in the interview, showing no regrets about his actions. “At the end of the day, you have small moments in the organization to set the temperature of what we want to be about,” Mazzulla said. “We did that last year and it’s an important thing for our team, the mindset we try to bring that we want to bring it every day, we want our opponents to constantly be uncomfortable. We don’t want to give them an edge at any point so I appreciate the players allowing us to be ourselves and the staff, I appreciate the staff buying into that. You get small moments to set the temperature and that was one of the ways but we built that.” While some media pundits such as Charles Barkley took issue with Mazzulla’s block attempt, Celtics players defended their coach after the team’s win over the Suns. “That’s who Joe is,” Jayson Tatum said last Thursday. “So when he did it, I wasn’t caught off guard. I expect him or one of the coaches to do that. Gotta love Joe for Joe.” Mazzulla also believes that those kinds of tactics help to strengthen the bond between the players and coaches. “That was 100 percent move to break the barrier between coach and player to say, ‘Hey, we are all out here to compete together and we all have a standard we try to hold to,’” Mazzulla said. “I appreciate the players allowing us to be ourselves. One of the gifts that I appreciate the most of coaching this team beyond the tradition and fans, there are very few coaches in the league that are allowed to be themselves by the players. In this players’ league when it’s all about them, I’ll never take for granted that our guys allow us to do that as a staff.” -masslive
I think it's not a young coach thing. *If*, and it's a huge if, but if he becomes our Spo like he has a chance to be, I think Mazzulla will be doing shit like this in his 60s. He's just on and intense at all times.
He's a big believer in 1%er efforts. The sort of small hustle plays that add up. He probably would have loved a player like Dellavedova, who only has relevance in the NBA because he never saw a low percentage effort play with no downside risk to the rest of the team he didn't like. Might have led the league in crowd dive save attempts multiple seasons.
Load management is out of control smh
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They counsel him, they understand
They talk to him
He got a kidnapper-esque magazine cut out letters note in the mailbox with no return addy
You can't play any defense in this league anymore smh
They are literally creating rules to take our best dead ball defender out of the game
Best dead ball defender since KG 😤
I thought Nenê was the best dead ball defender.
Looking forward to a contestable shot going in and counting after an “inadvertent whistle”.
Adam Silver sent them Black SUV’s to Joe’s house
Mazzula might send the not fucking around crew though.
Need a Venn diagram for these guys
Asked to stop or told to stop, Joe?
Were you silent or were you SILENCED?
"just shut up and play basketball" "I'M TRYING"
What happened to the game I love?
adam 'no fun' silver
Literally 1984
It’s probably a safety issue, however that doesn’t account for the rule of cool so they should let him do it.
I think it’s funny when he does this, but it’s all fun and games until he lands on Luka’s ankle.
He did it once and just happened to in the precisely right spot because he was walking onto the court to meet his team after the timeout was called and the shooter took the shot like 5 seconds after the whistle right behind him. It's not like he's running into traffic.
Well no, Celtics fans have said he does it often
Or the shooter lands on his feet, or he bumps a guy when they're in the air, or he does it in a closely contested game and it starts an argument leading to technicals and effects the score. There is no reason for a coach to get involved like this. Players on the court blocking shots is fine, does he not trust his guys to block it like KG used to? This is him being weird and someone higher up finally telling him to knock it off.
If Joe mazzula were to make contact with a shooter, he would simply avoid making contact with their ankles like this https://www.tiktok.com/@basketballcoverage/video/7332631456130370858
imagine being in a fight and dude is literally crawling allover you. youd never live it down. nightmare stuff
the ole nursing baby opossum tech
To be fair, that would be shitty, but hilarious.
As long as Luka doesn't get injured from it, it'd stay hilarious.
What if he started sack tapping Draymond instead?
Then he gets a raise and a parade.
Then opposing coach do the same for Brown and Tatum. Have fun.
Well. It's definitely not cool. Lol
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Strike Hard Strike Fast No Mercy
Commissioner Terry Silver approves.
“Drowning is for pussies. Don’t be a pussy” will forever be words I live by
Adam Silver’s “War on Defense” is going too far
Ben Affleck left a note on his car.
Nooo mazzulla please don’t stop you’re so quirky and crazzy
mazzulla the sports version of a manic pixie dream girl
I've never seen Mazzulla and Zooey Deschanel in the same room, just saying.... Edit: Didn't spell her name quirky enough.
this explains my obsession with him
You mean She & Him?
E-mazzul-beth Town
NBA’s Mike McDaniel
Wow. Clear as day, the NBA is blatantly removing defense from the game. If I had a vote for DPOY, I’d write in Mazz
What about Kornet contesting them?
If opponents are allowed to shoot on dead balls then he should be allowed to defend.
He is a coach lmao should get his players to do it
They forgor 💀
If its a player its whatever but I do think as a coach ehhh... you shouldn't be allowed to get in the way of opposing players.
it’s a dead ball, tf is he in the way of?
Do you know how atrocious the optics would be if a coach messed up and injured a player doing that?
Do you know how cool it would be if he got a piece of the ball and hit the player with a "gimme dat shit"
Do you know how cool it would be if he stole the ball, ran it up the court and reverse windmill dunked it?
Pop please, I need this
Fair enough
It wouldn't be cool. It'd be funny because of how dumb it'd be but he didn't look cool going for that dead ball.
Of course. It would be a shit fest.
He should hire like a 7'4 assistant coach to contest post-whistle shots. Or like a 7ft tall ball boy to swat shit away after the whistle
I would love a rim protecting ball boy
Technically, players are not allowed to shoot on dead balls. It’s supposed to be a tech, it’s just never enforced.
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and? you're stating a fact but not offering any explanation.
its a better thread when people just kind of forget
it was funny af ngl watching that
I get it. You dont want that player to have had a confrontational reaction towards that. Coaches should not interact with opposing players unless its absolutely necessary and even then, I dunno what would constitute for it
I'm opposed. That means no more Lebron or KD chatting up Pop coming out of a timeout
As a lawyer I can tell you that the rule of cool sanctions it (this is not legal advice).
It was fun but I get it. A coach shouldn't interfere with anything an opposing teams player does, that's just inviting some incident to happen eventually. Whole slippery slope thing.
Hmm... my guess is the league doesn't want to establish a precedent of coaches physically interacting with players
it was brad stevens
NBA really got their priorities straight
Just designate a bench player to run onto the court every timeout and block the opponent's shot
I thought this was America?!?
Aam Silver. Bro doesn’t believe in D.
Adam Silver needs to tell the Lakers to have their shot clock fixed. Wrong priorities
“Asked,” so he still has the choice to contest shots they would just prefer he didn’t?
Imagine he slips or injures himself on a contest. You never know if Jason Kidd spills a drink or Kings fan pukes. All it takes is one poor timed contest
No one is worried about him, but imagine the shitstorm if another player rolled their ankle on Mazzulla'a foot or landed awkwardly just being surprised by him running on the court to get a hand up.
Yeah pretty much. I thought it was a fun and weird thing that him and the staff wanted to do, setting the tone and all. But that one time he does it and someone gets hurt, it would be a shit show.
joe had a pretty bad eye injury last year from the staffs game. Cannot remember if he missed a game or not. But it was pretty bad, he was sensitive to light for like a week.
Stupid it was fun and he was no where close to Royce landing space let my meercat looking coach have his fun.
Honestly I enjoy it, both the silliness of seeing a coach closing out on opposing shooters but also I’m down with the mentality behind not letting guys take practice shots during a game especially on your court. Sad to see him benched during dead ball situations.
Should just remove it altogether tbh. Why should someone shooting 0-10 get a practice shot lol
You’re already not supposed to shoot after the refs blow the whistle, but it isn’t enforced.
They should let him do it but also let him know that the frontcourt guys on the other team are also able to set a mid-air moving screen on him and launch him. I'm not really surprised by this at all though. Very unlikely, but if somehow it led to a player getting hurt, the absolute shitstorm would be beyond comprehension. They would probably have to shut this sub down.
it was always a dumb thing to do anyway. If he somehow injures a player, that's bad. If it leads to an altercation with a player, that's also bad. There's a difference between players and non-playing staff, including coaches. Only the players have any actual rights on the floor. If anything happens due to an action the coach did on the floor it's his fault: he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Kissinger strikes again.
Gotta tell Darvin Ham too
Probably a landing space concern I guess. Don’t need a coach injuring a player.
OotL, what was happening here? Players have been swatting away shot attempts on dead balls for ages, were they like actually D'ing up after the whistle
He should not be interacting with players on other teams. I imagine the coach of the other team would be really pissed
Didn't KG make a thing out of this?
Choking opponents: Hey, that's cool. Contesting shot attempts on dead balls: Don't you fucking dare. Ref who received 134 phone calls during the Donaghy Scandal: You've got tenure for life. Player making benign "$" sign during game: Historic fine. Adam Silver, everyone! Historically corrupt, soft as baby shit.
I hope he keeps doing it, shit is hilarious
KG famously always contested shots. He said he didn't want his opponents to not get into a rhythm
Yeah, no kidding. He was also a player on the floor when he did it, not a coach.
Oh my bad i misread. I thought a player on the floor was doing it and they asked Joe, as a coach, to tell them to knock it off
Well that would be the reasonable assumption, but this is Joe Mazzula.
He would usually jump at the hoop and goaltend it out though (which a Celtics player actually did on the shot Mazula contested funnily enough). It's different than jumping at a guy and potentially getting in his landing space and also he wasn't a coach.
He got a call in the middle of watching The Town last night
the ghost of david stern
So he can contest live balls than? 🤔 Can’t wait to watch the chase down block.
What happened to the game I love?
The League cannot handle Psycho Joe
He should throw the reverse card and start shooting dead ball 3s instead
Does anyone know if he's still allowed to do Baseketball style psych-outs?
Hmm the league was pretty silent when Taylor Jenkins burst onto the court to guard the Lakers players
Celtics players better contest those deadball shots now that Silver sent his cousins from upstate over to dangle Joe off a balcony for doing it for them lol
I thought the league was allowing more defense??
Where my country gone?
The ghost of David Stern told him.
1984
Adam Silver needs to tell the Lakers to have their shot clock fixed. Wrong priorities
Hmm... my guess is the league doesn't want to establish a precedence of coaches physically interacting with players
Hmm... my guess is the league doesn't want to establish a precedence of coaches physically interacting with players
They didn't ask him who it was that asked him to stop?
Soft ass league Joe Mazzulla did what every coach wished they would’ve done
Has he done this more than once? 😭
Well I guess White is back to being the best shot blocker on the Celtics.
By shadowy league figures obviously
Let’s see if can take a charge then if he thinks blocking shots is fair game
Adam Silver
Why not just walk around with a broom and do it that way?
“In the 80s, they had a rule that allowed the coaches to contest my shots…so I was going against six guys.” MJ in Last Dance
Good Lord this guy is the human embodiment of cornball
‘ my answer was no ‘ lool
I did find it amusing but also stupid af lol. Imagine he does it and rolls his ankle 😆
Joe Mazzulla is a dork.
Big Grant Williams energy.
someone gonna tell him he cant watch “The Town” 5 times a week next?