The Sixers shocked the Celtics in Game 1 but Boston came back with a dominant effort in Game 2 to tie the series.
Head coach Joe Mazzulla was especially impressed with the win, apparently, ending his press conference with a message to the media about if they were going to ask about the adjustments the team made from Game 1 to Game 2.
WEEI’s Andy Hart and Nick “Fitzy” Stevens of the new Audacy Original Podcast “Breaking Boston” discussed the “idiotic” mic drop by Mazzulla after Game 2 in the second round.
“I get it. You may have a little bit of a point to prove,” Fitzy said (15:47 in player above). “But yet at the same time why are we not – as fans, media, or a combination therein God forbid – allowed to ask questions about that after your team loses a game they should’ve won?”
Here’s a look at how the 34-year-old head coach ended his press conference after evening the series at one game apiece on Wednesday night.
“After that comment, I have little-to-no faith in Joe Mazzulla,” Hart said. “That’s a terrible time to have a mic drop moment. Game 2 at home in the second round of the NBA playoffs for the team that’s expected to win the NBA title, or at least projected to hopefully win the title, you’re going to have a mic drop moment after your team laid an egg two days earlier?”
After losing Game 1, the Celtics were still the odds-on favorites to win not only the series but also the championship. They’re still as low as +170 with the Nuggets as their biggest threat around +400.
The Celtics were expected – and still are expected – to win this series, especially Game 2 after going down 1-0. Mazzulla should expect better than that, Hart explained.
“He is part of the emotional rollercoaster of this team. He is part of the inability for them to be a mature, consistent basketball team. Joe Mazzulla is part of the problem – now maybe he’ll be part of the solution moving forward – but you don’t have a mic drop moment in Game 2 of the second round of the playoffs. It was an idiotic thing to do.”
We’ll see if Mazzulla has anything up his sleeve for Game 3 in Philadelphia on Friday night.
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