Mazzulla rues defeat against Rockets as free-throw issues continue

Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla conceded the difficulties his team have when it comes to free throws.

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00:00Are you just going to have to be resigned to the fact that your opponent's probably going to shoot more free throws than you are?

00:06I don't know if that's happened every game, but again, all we can coach is the free throw rate to the turnover percentage.

00:14You know, because it's such a high-valued opportunity of getting those.

00:17And you force 20 in a game, that's really good, right?

00:19But you have to coach the ones that you have to do better at.

00:23You know, to me it comes back to the ones where you follow on tendencies, you follow on jump shooters,

00:29you follow because of an individual defensive breakdown.