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How Celtics’ adjustments brought them back from brink: Anatomy of a comeback
1 year, 6 months ago

How Celtics’ adjustments brought them back from brink: Anatomy of a comeback

New York Times  

MIAMI — The Boston Celtics are on the precipice of pulling off the impossible. Defending Miami’s stars Three games into this series, the biggest question about Boston’s scheme was why the Celtics were just leaving defenders completely on an island against Miami’s best player. After Game 3, The Athletic broke down how the Celtics’ low-energy defense was wasting coach Joe …

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Grant Williams got his shot vs. Jimmy Butler, so why did Celtics hang him out to dry?
1 year, 7 months ago

Grant Williams got his shot vs. Jimmy Butler, so why did Celtics hang him out to dry?

New York Times  

MIAMI — Why can’t the Celtics stop Jimmy Butler? In crunch time, the Celtics’ game plan was to stay home on shooters and not dig in on Butler when he went to his isolations. When Mazzulla put Grant Williams on Butler for crunch time, you figured the Celtics wanted to avoid sending strong doubles, have Williams bang with Butler to …

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Buckley: Celtics play intimidation game, which is fine, but not when it evokes laughter
1 year, 7 months ago

Buckley: Celtics play intimidation game, which is fine, but not when it evokes laughter

New York Times  

BOSTON — If you were to take all 96 minutes of the first two games of the Eastern Conference finals — Celtics vs. Heat — and boil it down to one three-second video clip, you know what you’d get? Now to be clear, the Celtics’ 111-105 loss to the Heat wasn’t the result of Williams devoting a good deal of …

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Grant Williams, Celtics repel 76ers late on Joel Embiid’s MVP night
1 year, 7 months ago

Grant Williams, Celtics repel 76ers late on Joel Embiid’s MVP night

New York Times  

PHILADELPHIA — Jaylen Brown has seen a lot of wild things in his day. “I said, ‘I’m good’ or some s— like that,” Williams said. “Then got the docs to check me out and I thought I was going right back in, so I ran and tapped on the ass and was like, ‘Yo’ and they were like, ‘Sit back!’ …

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Inside Joe Mazzulla’s adjustments to shut down James Harden, Joel Embiid
1 year, 7 months ago

Inside Joe Mazzulla’s adjustments to shut down James Harden, Joel Embiid

New York Times  

PHILADELPHIA — Joe Mazzulla is always hard to read, until one specific moment. “When you have the effort, the detail, the physicality, that’s the first adjustment, and then, after that, it just depends on how the flow of the game is going,” Mazzulla said. “How we’re defending, how both Embiid and impact they’re having on the game, and we just …

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Grant Williams 1-on-1: On his surprise benching and what’s next with the Celtics
1 year, 9 months ago

Grant Williams 1-on-1: On his surprise benching and what’s next with the Celtics

New York Times  

BOSTON — As Grant Williams fired up outside shots at Celtics shootaround Friday morning, dripping with sweat from the pace of his workout, Payton Pritchard walked by with a message for his teammate. Though he didn’t expand on the details, Williams said he “somewhat” had a chat with Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla about the decision. And that’s kind of how …

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Grant Williams’ DNP a surprise in otherwise impressive Celtics win
1 year, 9 months ago

Grant Williams’ DNP a surprise in otherwise impressive Celtics win

New York Times  

BOSTON — The sequence started with the Celtics recognizing a mismatch. The Celtics starters were all available during the first two games after the All-Star break, but Jaylen Brown missed Monday night’s loss to New York for personal reasons, breaking up the lineup again. “That’s where they were killing us at, second-chance points is where they were getting most of …

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How Celtics’ role players are reinforcing Joe Mazzulla’s spacing system
2 years ago

How Celtics’ role players are reinforcing Joe Mazzulla’s spacing system

New York Times  

Joe Mazzulla’s core values have been taking shape over the first month-plus of the season, with the topic of spacing coming up on a nightly basis. It’s a sign Williams is turning into an actual wing, because the scheme is betting he can get deep into the defense and still make rim reads. He draws hard at the rim, even …

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