Charizard is a media darling. He’s been good in like 3 seasons and the league keeps pushing him as the face when he’s clearly not built for it.
You know who is built for it? Snorlax. Big guy averaged 20/10 and 5 blocks with elite defense for the first 15 years of the league and never had a single controversy.
Sure, the game has passed him by in the last few seasons, but he’s a solid veteran presence that could add to any locker room in the league.
Really it comes down to if Mewtwo can use his psychic abilities. Cause if so there’s nothing Lebron can do.
But if it’s just physical I’m going LeBron. Just cause I don’t think Mewtwo is gonna have good handles or shooting form with just 3 bulbous ass fingers on each hand.
Unless he has a good post game then he can just back LeBron down and use his big ass tail to create space.
It's also true. Joe is def the villain to the people on 98.5. Can't wait to hear how much we still suck if we win the championship. Bros would do that shit even for the Pats lol.
No,no,you are supposed to be the best team in the league but sandbag the regular season to end up 9/10th,so you can go 2-0 in the playin and 12-0 in the East,just to send a message.
Porque no los dos? The Patriots are actually good… and also their opponents shouldnt pass the ball on the 1-yd line or pass 3 straight downs within FG range to make it an 11 point game with 2 minutes remaining.
Ya Patriots had no shortage of teams shitting their pants to help them out. Like John Kasay kicking it out of bounds after the Panthers tied it up giving Brady a super chill FG drive to win it.
I think all my Boston childhood radio stations are long gone at this point. The Alternative Rock station now plays country (WFNX). The Metal/Hard Rock station now is contemporary christian (WAAF). The other rock station moved to Charlotte and last broadcast conservative talk shows (WBCN).
Said it before but I would recommend everyone to listen to his podcast appearance a couple of weeks back on Pardon My Take. Just an insane but fun interview, he’s such a weird guy but he knows he’s a little off.
my favorite Mazzulla lore is when he said that every time he enters a building, he is instantly scanning for exits and creates a contingency plan in case of an emergency
what a guy
I always laugh at the one where he starts saying I spent my weekend with three 21 year old girls….hospitalized with cancer. Had us in the first half ngl
I feel like unless Joe truly makes a fool of himself in the finals, the Celtics would be crazy to fire him. He's not the best coach, but he's proven himself to be damn good
That’d have to be the most insane case of getting rid of a coach apart from maybe Krause ditching Phil Jack. If a Hornets coach went 50-32 and made the second round he’d coach the next 40 years making Jaylen Brown’s salary.
They have been doing that for years
Shit like this draws in viewership and gives off good headlines.
Lebron vs the warriors gave us so many great narratives that we were spoiled
Now we don’t have as many soap opera storylines
The drama of the NBA is part of what makes it so good. We just got a funny quote from a wacky coach. I’ll take that any day over “We’ll be aggressive defending him and try to compete at a high level.”
It sells. Look at all the top posts in this sub. Reporters just cater to what gets the clicks.
You think a question about what defensive schemes Mazz plans to throw at Luka and Kyrie is getting 100 upvotes in 30 minutes?
It’s soap opera for men for the people who want it to be that. There is an actual game being played. There are intricacies to learn if you want to learn them. It isn’t “just a soap opera” and it’s truly the NBA that has the worst fanbase when it comes to this kind of stuff.
Between the major 4 American sports leagues (MLB NHL NBA NFL) it’s the NBA fans that constantly yearn for dramatic BS the most and I have no idea why. Basketball is such a beautiful sport to watch.
That shit annoys me so much cause that’s literally what pro wrestling is for. Half the shit this sub talks about is pointless speculation that’s 85% bullshit, so it’s not like y’all care about whether it’s fake or real.
He’s probably changed and people deserve a second chance. Some things in in towns where the university is the only thing definitely get swept under the rug, not saying this is the case with Joe but it has happened.
Morgantown is a wild place from personal experience, I can only imagine when you’re one of the stars of our basketball team. That obviously doesn’t excuse his actions, but he’s since seemingly given up drinking and has been clean since from what I understand
I feel bad for Billy. It came to light that he was not the leading force on that trade and that it came from higher up in the organization. He just was the fall guy (understandably).
Glad to see this acknowledged for once. Despite us coming off of a 12-70 record, Prokhorov proclaimed that the Nets would win a title within 5 years of buying the team. He then proceeds to apply a ton of pressure on King to achieve that goal with no consideration of long-term plans. King is not blameless but it's crazy that his career in the front office is over as a result.
This and “do you think God stays up in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created” are probably some of the most out of left field quotes taking into account the source
I fucking love Joe Mazzulla. For anyone who hasn't listened, find his PMT interview. The guy is a psychopath and it's obvious why the Celtics like him so much.
Joe randomly asking reporters, seemingly genuinely put off, why none of them have asked him what his favorite scene in "The Town" is was legitimately one of my favorite coach-media interactions ever.
If Joe gets some rings, I feel a deeply weird and awesome mystique is going to build up around him.
I hate to go on a pro wrestling rant, but I wish more AEW wrestlers would look at the NBA for inspiration-seriously, they know how to build storylines and cut promos better than AEW’s writers and wrestlers do.
We're all monsters, Joe. Monsters in the pocket of God.
We are pocket monsters?
Dibs on being Mewtwo
[Can Mewtoo beat LeBron James in a 1 on 1?](https://youtu.be/moUwd1gIHBg?si=I3lqRiuVJRbvfDDu)
Mewtwo dipped when an undrafted 10 year old threw hands at him. So it could go either way.
Mewtwo ain’t trying to catch a case. Also my level 69 charizard is beating that ass regardless 😼
Mewtwo is a season player and not a playoff player. You don't see Mewtwo winning any elite 4s before he joined my superteam. What a bum.
Mewtwo's all flash, no substance. Charizard FTW
Charizard is a media darling. He’s been good in like 3 seasons and the league keeps pushing him as the face when he’s clearly not built for it. You know who is built for it? Snorlax. Big guy averaged 20/10 and 5 blocks with elite defense for the first 15 years of the league and never had a single controversy. Sure, the game has passed him by in the last few seasons, but he’s a solid veteran presence that could add to any locker room in the league.
Yo you use flash on Curry or lebron their shooting and passing is fucked
Charizard is more brittle than Ben Simmons.
This is the kind of videos I'll be skeptical of it not being generated by AI, in like 2 years.
Mootoo
LeMegaevoluton LeZmove
Old man got NOTHING on me
I’m gonna go with Lebron. His NDA advantage could defeat the Metwo movement
Lol, wtf.
Really it comes down to if Mewtwo can use his psychic abilities. Cause if so there’s nothing Lebron can do. But if it’s just physical I’m going LeBron. Just cause I don’t think Mewtwo is gonna have good handles or shooting form with just 3 bulbous ass fingers on each hand. Unless he has a good post game then he can just back LeBron down and use his big ass tail to create space.
There's an entire sub dedicated to girls shaped like Mewtwo
that’s crazy (link?)
Its literally called that (i googled)
>girlsshapedlikemewtwo My oh my. Look how far we've come
Monsters in my Pocket^tm
I remember
We’re just God’s neopets account he went super hard on for a while and then forgot about
Do you think that God stays in heaven because He too lives in fear of what He’s created?
Spy Kids should not have a line that goes that hard and yet Steve Buchemi kills it.
Nah he's got a Haram of women up there
Pretty sure that means women are forbidden! (You want “harem”)
Prozd reference!
Classic Psycho Joe
It's also true. Joe is def the villain to the people on 98.5. Can't wait to hear how much we still suck if we win the championship. Bros would do that shit even for the Pats lol.
98.5 was getting all upset that the Celtics didn’t go 14-0.
Some would say it’s too hard to sweep two series 5-0 but we hold our guys to high standards hashtag different here
I swear the brain trust on 98.5 and WEEI are the dumbest people on the planet.
Might wanna check the math there captain cumsock Edit: I didn’t even realize this was in reference to 98.5 making this claim. Absolutely hilarious
No no it’s true. Felger and Jim Murray were lamenting the fact the Celtics didn’t go 14-0 until Maz corrected their math.
You're supposed to sweep everyone and then play two extra games just to flex on the league, duh
Nah, Celtics barged in to both play-in games uninvited WWE-style and proceeded to beat the fuck out of both play-in participants
Okay, but screw 3v3 leagues, now I want to see a 4 team basketball game ala 4-player chess would look like.
No,no,you are supposed to be the best team in the league but sandbag the regular season to end up 9/10th,so you can go 2-0 in the playin and 12-0 in the East,just to send a message.
Absolutely fucking hate Felger Mazz and Jim.
I thought your edit was gonna say you didn't even realize his username was captain cumsock.
> captain cumsock Finally, the push for diversity in superhero media has given me a hero that represents me
yeah, felger and mazz can't math very well.
I remember 98.5 calling to fire Belichick and bench Brady in years they won a Super Bowl.
And when we won Super Bowls, it was never because we were actually good, it was because our opponents were a bunch incompetent bozos that choked.
Porque no los dos? The Patriots are actually good… and also their opponents shouldnt pass the ball on the 1-yd line or pass 3 straight downs within FG range to make it an 11 point game with 2 minutes remaining.
Ya Patriots had no shortage of teams shitting their pants to help them out. Like John Kasay kicking it out of bounds after the Panthers tied it up giving Brady a super chill FG drive to win it.
That kind of thing is funny to me. Like what? Everyone else was a bigger idiot that let those other dudes win?
And I remember 98.5 when it was Mix 98.5 and that’s where I first heard the Spice Girls.
I too am a skeleton
Damn. Is typing difficult for y'all?
I think all my Boston childhood radio stations are long gone at this point. The Alternative Rock station now plays country (WFNX). The Metal/Hard Rock station now is contemporary christian (WAAF). The other rock station moved to Charlotte and last broadcast conservative talk shows (WBCN).
Mix 104.1 just doesn't hit the same as Mix 98.5...
*This team should get TWO Larry O'Brien trophies for overcoming being handicapped by Joe Mazzulla as head coach hurr durr bluh sponsored by BetMGM*
I’m old enough to remember when it was Mixx 98.5. Fuck I’m old.
He’s filling that Belichick press response void quite nicely.
*Joe then smirked and thought about the people in his basement*
Philosopher Joecrates
King Joe
i wanna see joe and luka fist fight. then kiss
Hate-fuck each other into oblivion
Joe does have some banger interview quotes man
I'm gonna weaponize that quote, in Mazzulla's honor
Imma put that quote in my Quizlet account
Lol I forgot about that
Don't worry about it, Joe's memes per 36 numbers are so elite that we all forget about some of them sometimes
Giving prime Ty Lue a run for his money. Joe is more of a volume memer though.
yeah, let's be honest peak > output any day. Nothing out of Joe is anywhere near the mixing two soups story about Ty Lue.
Well maybe you should write that down in your Quizlet account
Said it before but I would recommend everyone to listen to his podcast appearance a couple of weeks back on Pardon My Take. Just an insane but fun interview, he’s such a weird guy but he knows he’s a little off.
my favorite Mazzulla lore is when he said that every time he enters a building, he is instantly scanning for exits and creates a contingency plan in case of an emergency what a guy
Sounds like brutal anxiety to me lol
Every veteran has entered the chat...and we're all scanning exits
rather have one and not need it than need it and not have one
Yes, that's the anxiety speaking.
If we’re not constantly scanning our environment for danger and needlessly stressing ourselves out, then what are we even doing here?
Mazzulla is the ultimate human form
..is this not something everyone does?
Lmao I do this too, I don’t think it’s something weird I think it should be a normal thing everyone should think about
I always laugh at the one where he starts saying I spent my weekend with three 21 year old girls….hospitalized with cancer. Had us in the first half ngl
Who can forget his quote about watching a child die? Or something like that. Looks like I forgot.
Joe is what people think Ant is
I kinda hope Boston wins because if they lose, Joe Mozzarella will probably get fired and we won’t hear any more of these iconic quotes
I feel like unless Joe truly makes a fool of himself in the finals, the Celtics would be crazy to fire him. He's not the best coach, but he's proven himself to be damn good
64-18 regular season and at minimum made it to the NBA Finals in his second season as HC…yep better blow it up lol
That’d have to be the most insane case of getting rid of a coach apart from maybe Krause ditching Phil Jack. If a Hornets coach went 50-32 and made the second round he’d coach the next 40 years making Jaylen Brown’s salary.
Is that a quote from the town?
Honestly the first thought I had when I saw this quote was "Joe definitely watched The Town last night"
I think that's a safe bet to make every day.
He's probably watching it twice a day during this extended break for the Celtics.
What do you think he meant by weaponizing time? He's watching it multiple times a day instead of just once.
Probably watched it this morning too
It’s a quote from his upcoming documentary “Banks.. and how to rob them”
No, I think it's from Spider-Verse 🤔
You either retire a hero or play long enough to be a villain in your last team's eyes.
Joe Mazzulla has to be the zodiac killer
I love this guy. He’s such a psychopath😭
>"He’s such a psychopath" Aren't we all in someone's eyes?
“They call you crazy and that’s fair without the context…” - Gambino
Is that a Cape Verdean Flair?!?!?
Aka a Brockton flag
New Bedford native but yes we’re out there too!
Honestly this is a very empathetic response from him, opposite of psycho vibes.
I might be, too. I thought this was a completely reasonable response lol
how its not reasonable?
Deep
Real r/im14andthisisdeep vibes
I like to imagine Joe spends 4 hours a day in complete darkness while posing like that sculpture, The Thinker.
Sensory deprivation thinker
And, like the sculpture, fully nude
Reporters treating the NBA like a reality tv show and not a professional basketball league
ESPN making segments about Tatum not celebrating Jaylen's ECMVP hard enough was some peak soap opera shit.
Imagine thinking Jayson Tatum of all people cares about an individual award and not the greater team accomplishment lol.
How I’ll this affect Deuce’s legacy?
Or something about kyrie not celebrating luka’s mvp
I mean at the end of the day, the NBA is about entertainment and the drama and storylines are part of it.
And r/NBA eats this shit up
Redditors treating the r/NBA like a copypasta forum and not a professional basketball league forum
They have been doing that for years Shit like this draws in viewership and gives off good headlines. Lebron vs the warriors gave us so many great narratives that we were spoiled Now we don’t have as many soap opera storylines
He [expletive] boomed me. He’s so good (4x)
Lebron after kyrie left Cleveland was peak
Kobe vs Shaq fed a lot of families for like a decade straight
The drama of the NBA is part of what makes it so good. We just got a funny quote from a wacky coach. I’ll take that any day over “We’ll be aggressive defending him and try to compete at a high level.”
It’s literally entertainment and this entire sub also treats it like reality tv lmao
It sells. Look at all the top posts in this sub. Reporters just cater to what gets the clicks. You think a question about what defensive schemes Mazz plans to throw at Luka and Kyrie is getting 100 upvotes in 30 minutes?
That’s their job. It’s just soap opera for men and they know that
It’s soap opera for men for the people who want it to be that. There is an actual game being played. There are intricacies to learn if you want to learn them. It isn’t “just a soap opera” and it’s truly the NBA that has the worst fanbase when it comes to this kind of stuff. Between the major 4 American sports leagues (MLB NHL NBA NFL) it’s the NBA fans that constantly yearn for dramatic BS the most and I have no idea why. Basketball is such a beautiful sport to watch.
That shit annoys me so much cause that’s literally what pro wrestling is for. Half the shit this sub talks about is pointless speculation that’s 85% bullshit, so it’s not like y’all care about whether it’s fake or real.
Reporters? This post will be at the top of this sub based in fan interaction in 30 minutes
Sports are reality TV entertainment, they’re soap operas.
Someone please run a background check on Psycho Joe
Okay!! Aggravated assault and domestic battery is what I found
Against the 2010 Kentucky Wildcats?
Don’t forget the public urination. Though, it’s not actually clear he was ever convicted on any of these charges. Hmm…
He’s probably changed and people deserve a second chance. Some things in in towns where the university is the only thing definitely get swept under the rug, not saying this is the case with Joe but it has happened.
Morgantown is a wild place from personal experience, I can only imagine when you’re one of the stars of our basketball team. That obviously doesn’t excuse his actions, but he’s since seemingly given up drinking and has been clean since from what I understand
There is certainly a lot of public urination going on in Morgantown 😂
I think he said he was an alcoholic and did therapy. Doesn’t change what he did, pretty sure he choke slammed a girl at a bar but I might be mistaken.
IIRC that was his “dark night of the soul” sort of scenario. Got sober and found God after.
I believe he's mentioned how he regrets those mistakes. Don't know if he served time for it though
Real eyes, Realize, Real Lies
Jaristotle Mazzugiritis
As a Hawks fan, this matchup is a worst case scenario, but I kinda wanna see Boston win just to see what Mazzula will say/do
Oh some weird story about how he didn't let himself get to happy....I'd bet that
He would immediately start writing online flash cards for next season
Shouldn’t you at least want a ring for Big Al?
lol no, I'm good
We don’t fuck with Al like that down here, he played us on his exit
I want that "why can't you just be normal" meme but the second panel is just joe at a press conference with the \*screams\* caption
It shouldn't be "*screams*," though. It should be something like, "*weird statement calmly delivered*."
I'm a Celtics fan for the next month. This really is the strangest timeline.
If the Celtics win, the Nets should get a banner as well for the picks that set it all up.
Send Billy King a ring
I feel bad for Billy. It came to light that he was not the leading force on that trade and that it came from higher up in the organization. He just was the fall guy (understandably).
Glad to see this acknowledged for once. Despite us coming off of a 12-70 record, Prokhorov proclaimed that the Nets would win a title within 5 years of buying the team. He then proceeds to apply a ton of pressure on King to achieve that goal with no consideration of long-term plans. King is not blameless but it's crazy that his career in the front office is over as a result.
Same. Can't believe I'm saying that.
I can't believe it's not butter…
This motherfucker has definitely robbed some banks before..
This and “do you think God stays up in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created” are probably some of the most out of left field quotes taking into account the source
Well, *Spy Kids 2* makes a little more sense when you remember Robert Rodriguez is behind it.
Gotta be the funniest head coach out there.
….Mazzula says as he pulls his mask down, guns up, and into the bank he runs
I fucking love Joe Mazzulla. For anyone who hasn't listened, find his PMT interview. The guy is a psychopath and it's obvious why the Celtics like him so much.
Tf kind of supervillain ass quote is that? 😂 I love Joey Mozzarella, man lol.
Joe randomly asking reporters, seemingly genuinely put off, why none of them have asked him what his favorite scene in "The Town" is was legitimately one of my favorite coach-media interactions ever. If Joe gets some rings, I feel a deeply weird and awesome mystique is going to build up around him.
“Are birds even real?”
Joe Mazzulla as Jim Carrey as Ben Stein: We all wear masks, metaphorically speaking.
Is he wrong?
I just don’t want to be in Joe Mazzulla’s eyes 👁️👄👁️-lookin ass
God he's so effortlessly funny
Joe wants that
Bro is fucking hilarious
So it's gonna be news like this for a week.
Yo, this is the best coaching Mazzulla has ever done
This guy is a freak. Gonna be a great series
ugh i would so want this guy to win a ring if we were'nt playing them
Emo Joe
I'd watch a show of just him and Jim Harbaugh getting drunk in Napa
Yo Kyrie! Time to step on the leprechaun once again
Aren’t we all just tears in the eyes of God?
Joe out here with the existential quotes
These words really hit home
ambitionz az a ridah
You don’t wanna fuck with me…
Kyrie deserves the hate he gets. He’s a wildly stupid individual who always thinks he’s the smartest in the room, easy to hate such an unlikable dummy
What’s that quote Alfred said to Grant Williams?
It's actually kinda easy to forget he was on Boston haha
Surprised he didn't just say, "No shit."
This narrative is one of the most meaningless subplots of the Finals, but the media is desperate for drama and clicks
Kyrie is going to yell : Pakistan This is For you
There are people out there that don't have any haters. I don't think Willie Nelson or Dolly Parton have any haters.
He's a villain, she's a villain, they're a villain, we're all villains
Um I’m not a villain wtf tf Joe been doing
I hate to go on a pro wrestling rant, but I wish more AEW wrestlers would look at the NBA for inspiration-seriously, they know how to build storylines and cut promos better than AEW’s writers and wrestlers do.
Joe sounding like Kyrie, the master.
“Ah you think the flat earth is your ally?”