{"id":21220,"date":"2024-12-29T00:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T00:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=21220"},"modified":"2024-12-29T00:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T00:46:29","slug":"breaking-celtics-joe-mazzulla-sends-on-brand-message-amid-cold-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=21220","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Celtics\u2019 Joe Mazzulla Sends On-Brand Message Amid Cold Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1987415\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??-->BOSTON \u2014 The Celtics are stuck in what\u2019s been a mini rut dragging the team to consecutive defeats for the first time this season and losers in five of their last 10 games played.Jayson Tatum assured it wasn\u2019t a cause for concern after Boston collapsed to the Philadelphia 76ers on Christmas Day, and head coach Joe Mazzulla couldn\u2019t agree more. Mazzulla, in fact, welcomes the challenge that comes with an Eastern Conference finals rematch with the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.\u201cIt\u2019s an 82-game regular season. It\u2019s never the wrong time for anything,\u201d Mazzulla said pregame at TD Garden. \u201cLike, whatever it is, it is. It\u2019s the opportunity that the schedule presents for you and you handle it, you deal with it, you execute it and you move on. There\u2019s never a wrong time for anything.\u201dMazzulla continued: \u201cIt\u2019s great. I\u2019m excited for that, I can\u2019t wait. I think it\u2019ll be a good time. Either we accept the challenge or we don\u2019t and we learn from it and we move on.\u201dThat was the mindset last season, which of course, produced a championship.<\/p>\n<p>Boston, earlier in the week, surrendered a 15-point lead in the second half to the up-and-coming Orlando Magic \u2014 without stars Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner. The Celtics didn\u2019t have their in-despair 3-point shooting and showed little signs of urgency in the decisive moments, failing to readjust routinely.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The Celtics rank 16th in the league, shooting 36.5% from three, which is a significant fall from their second-place ranking back in October \u2014 Boston shot 40.7% across its first six games. And to amplify the challenge of avoiding three straight losses, the Celtics share the floor with the Pacers without starters Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis, forcing Mazzulla to bump Al Horford and Sam Hauser into the starting five.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re doing pretty good,\u201d Mazzulla revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzulla wanted to clarify that he\u2019s, in no way, questioning the team\u2019s motivation and considers those reigning champion stereotypes a blinded misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never say that we\u2019re not motivated. I would never say that,\u201d Mazzulla said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case in a lot of things. I think it\u2019s more of the details at times, the communication at times. I don\u2019t question the intrinsic motivation to our guys or where they\u2019re at. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case at all and I think it\u2019s easy to look at one game and say it\u2019s the defense. \u2026 I just think when you\u2019re in a tough stretch or it\u2019s not going well, the easiest thing for the untrained eye to see is defense, effort, motivation and those are just kind of words that people throw around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boston fell to Indiana during their first meeting this season back on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla understands the team&#8217;s encountered a cold skit and responded to the adversity as Boston should expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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