The Boston Celtics Are At A Crossroads (johnwilmeswords on where the franchise goes from here if they're swept, particularly as Joe Mazzulla becomes the lead character in this disappointment)
Shortly before the start of training camp for the 2022-23 NBA season, the defending Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics fell into startling controversy. Ime Udoka, a finalist for 2022 Coach of The Year honors after turning a hazily playing group into a 34-12 defensive juggernaut in the new year, was suddenly the subject of an investigation for matters unseen by the public eye. We still don’t know exactly what led to his eventual dismissal, and maybe never will.
That is not the case anymore. The Celtics are in the Conference Finals for the second straight season, but this time they’re getting hosed by a Miami Heat team that almost every analyst considers less talented. With Boston on the verge of getting summarily swept, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Co. are getting plenty of criticism for their ineffectual play, but it’s Mazzulla who’s become the lead character in this disappointment.
There is a twinge of martyrdom to the end of the film, not rightly earned by the plot or the drawing of the characters, and mostly just implied by the melancholic score and fridge-magnet poetry voice-over coda. Such messaging will not play with disgruntled Celtics fans and their outsized national media presence, if Mazzulla’s team does not manage to pick itself up enough to end their season with a little bravura. Victory is out of reach, but dignity is not.
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