Did Mazzulla draw up the right play? Should Jaylen Brown have taken the final shot?

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00:00That is the best coach in the NBA who is designing that play and getting the ball to Jalen Brown,

00:06who at that point was 1-for-11 when it came to three-point attempts.

00:13I personally would have given the ball to my guy Pete Pritch, but I'm not coaching that basketball team.

00:19And that would be a dumb move. We love Pete Pritch, but come on.

00:25Do you give the ball to Tatum or Brown in that situation?

00:31We can't get creative over there.

00:33Okay, so let's say you do give the ball to Pete Pritch and he misses.

00:37Is Missoula more likely to get criticized for not getting the ball to Tatum or Brown

00:41versus giving it to Tatum or Brown and then you're the only person criticizing him for saying,

00:48oh, you should have gave it to Pete Pritch?

00:49Yeah, but if he gives it to a guy like Pete Pritch or D. White, then they make it.

00:54But then if they make it, then he's praised for not just depending on the J's over and over again.

00:59But if they miss, he's going to get criticized way more.

01:03It's going to be like, why would you not give the ball to your—and that's what you do.

01:07We saw this whole thing play out on the last dance.

01:11Like in that situation, you give the ball to your best player.

01:16If you have two of them, then you have a pick and choose.

01:19You should be able to draw up a good play for Brown or Tatum.

01:22But you don't go, all right, maybe if your best player gives it up to Pete Pritch, no issues there.

01:29I wish he got at least a little bit of rim on it.

01:31Yeah, you know. The air ball, it's just—and I was—that was my go-to.

01:38That was a good look, though. At Pascho Burrito High School, it was the air ball.

01:43But— Is that why they also called you Air Bud?

01:46You thought—I mean, you thought—you definitely thought that they were—

01:50it was going to be a while before they got their first loss.

01:52I did. I did, yeah. I thought, you know—

01:55I thought it would be December before they got their first loss.

01:58But you know what the interesting part is, now that I'm like—I'm heavily watching the starting five.

02:04You get to just kind of see how the NBA players think.

02:08And like losing—and you, Kortney, you said this, like losing a regular season game,

02:13they literally—they don't even think about it, really.

02:15It seems like after the game is over, they're on to the next.

02:19And so I look at this Celtics team. If they run off 10-11 straight, you know,

02:23this is a loss that we look back and go—

02:25But that Pacers team is a good basketball team.

02:27Yeah. Yeah, they beat them—what was that, the game—was that the semifinals last year?

02:33Yeah.

02:33All right, so I mean, yeah, they're a good—they're a talented basketball team.

02:36I'm not—but I'm not concerned you lose this game.

02:39I mean, I told you, this is a team that, based on seeing them play in person,

02:46I don't think there's any team that can beat them in a seven-game series.

02:49I'm just like, fast-forward to the postseason and let's get this thing jumping.