So we talked about this before. I did some things on social media about it, but it's worth mentioning again. Is Joe Missoula, apparently, the head coach of the Boston Celtics, loves the movie The Town so much that he watches The Town four times a week, that's every other day, actually more than every other day, just to get into the mood. And in the inspiration of getting in that Boston mindset, he has used one of the movie's catchphrases,
apparently to motivate the team this season this postseason. It's who's car are we gonna take? Who's time out we're gonna call? But this is not about quirks. It's kind of about his quirks, which is a basketball coaching quirk, which is like not coaching. Yeah, we're talking about timeouts. Better put Joe Mizula's inexplicable decisions about not taking them. Last night, the Celtics lost home court advantage and they dominated three out of the four quarters of that game
to the Miami Heat. They got cooked so bad in the third quarter that they couldn't come back from it. They were the better team pretty much the entire game. They were up eleven at halftime, the Heat were a ten and a half point underdog. Coming into the third quarter, the Heat were getting you better than four to one oz's just to take them to win the game. And you know what, the Miami Heat scored forty six points
that third quarter. And during that time, when the Heat erased an eleven point deficit and actually, I don't know, took the lead, Joe Mazzulla didn't call a single timeout, not one, not one. When the Heat pulled within six seems like a time to take a time out, bam adebayo and one no timeout a Heat three to pull within one position. Uh No, not a timeout, not even at the tie ball game, would get Joe Mizula to say, I must stop the bleeding. We must have a conversation,
get your asses back in the game. Nothing. The entire third quarter, Miami ripped apart, his defense outscored the Celtics by twenty And what did Joe Mizula do, Not a goddamn dame nothing. He sat on his hands, leaving the players to flounder and wonder and try to figure it out on their own. What do we even have a coach for? If you're gonna make them figure it out, like, huh, what's happening? That's what? What are these timeouts? Even four?
Marcus Smart said this in the following of the game, Joe's real big on not bailing us out when we play, Like, shit, we've got to look at our selves in the mirror. Jo can call a timeout and then what we do the same thing. It's on us. Joan is coaching staff putting a lot of work to come up with a game plan. Does like I'm confused. Does that Do we just not like need someone in the game to kind of like recalibrate the troops, Like is that not what we're doing anymore? Or what? Like I I don't I
don't quite get that. Like Marcus Smart when he calls a timeout and then what he tells you, Hey, go over there. Hey, when this person does this, you go over there, hey. Like this man is open, he's pointing out things that he can see from the bench because he's not playing and you are. He can make adjustments, he can make substitutions, so many options at his disposal
other than doing nothing. I'm so upset with him. It's actually kind of adorable, you know, because you know it when it's happening is you know, before it even happens, it's going to happen. You're like, all right, they're up by eleven, it's halftime. How are they gonna fuck this one up? It's like wow, So they ask him. They asked Joe Missoula the presser, Uh. The media is like hey, they'd asked it in a very funny way too, Like, how do you feel about the concept of like taking timeouts.
And going up against spol show who's constantly making adjustments on the fly, willing to kind of call timeouts and change things up so quickly. How did you balance like trying to let things play out in the ways you usually do, versus like having to seize control. I called to in the first quarter, thinking more like the third quarter. I don't call two in the first quarter, save it for the third quarter.
Run What are you talking about? I have a question. Does he not know that he gets more like that his little bag of timeouts replenishes throughout the game. Does Joe Mazoula know how this part of the game works? Because when he asks, let's just really quickly, let's just go back to it, just because I'm lost.
Don't call two in the first quarter, save it for the third quarter. Run.
I don't call two in the first quarter to save it for the third quarter, right, No, you had other ones, like you called two in the first quarter, and there are more to be used in the third quarter. Joe Mizzoula, what are you talking about. I've listened to this clip twenty plus times today. I swear to God or swear to whatever, and I don't know what's happening. I'm not
sure if he knows that he has extra timeouts. I don't know if he thinks that he has four of them for the whole game and he used them all. I don't know if he understands that, like you can actually call timeouts every quarter, like you can call him in every situation. As long as you have you can call them. And I know that everyone is killing him for it, and you know what riders NBA TV people,
especially fans. As for the game, the twitter account Bucks film Room described it best friend of show Bucks film Room that Twitter account fucking hates me. The stages of losing to the heat in the playoffs. Denial, They can't keep playing like this, disbelief, How do they keep playing like this? Anger? There's no fucking way the Heat should be playing like this, bargaining God, they must have made a deal with the devil or something, and then depression. Damn,
we lost to the Heat. We're going home. That pretty much sums it up, folks. The Heat got thirty from Jimmy. They shot really well again from three. I don't know how they're doing that because they were one of the worst in the league at three point percentage in the regular season. Now, all of a sudden, gave Vincent Steph Curry. Now, all of a sudden, Caleb Martin is Andrew Wiggins in his prime. Now, all of a sudden, these Heat are like a full team of the Splash Bros. I don't know.
Uh yeah, seven players hit two or more threes in the game. Let me say that again. Seven Heat players hit two or more threes in the game. Boston looked really great in the first quarter first half. Marcus Smart had ten assists in the first half. Celtics ended up with six players with eleven points or more and the team shot fifty two percent from the field. The Boston Celtics shot fifty two percent from the field, and you know what, they are still lost at home. So confusing.
I think Boston fans are perplexed as well. This is not Philadelphia. No, you can't count on Doc Rivers going Spider Man mean with you and also doing nothing when bad things happen. Eric Spolstra, as is well documented, will call a time out two minutes into the game if he thinks that shit is gone awry. Hey, he will throw something at Jimmy Butler. He will threaten one of his players to beat his ass in the middle of
the game, like Eric Spolstra. Say a lot of things about Eric Sposter all you want, but him not doing what he's supposed to do on the floor with the x's and o's and the adjustments, that is not one of them. When Boston went on a baby run to start the fourth quarter, what you think he happened? What happened? Would you think he did? If you had to guess? If I gave you options, what do you think he did? If I put it on a multiple choice sheet and I said a nothing. B yelled at his players from
across the room, see call the time out? What would you say he did? Ninety four seconds in to the quarter, Eric Spolster calls a timeout. Boom run stops. Is Joe Mizula taking notes, young padawan, this is how you coach a fucking playoff game. What a fascinating series. Boston's going home, right, They're gonna go home. I don't get to go to the finals. I get to just watch the ship from Washington, DC with four TVs and my co host, like, that's
where we're at. That's what's gonna happen, right, that's yep, I think that is