Rick Carlisle & Joe Mazzulla react to Celtics' Game 1 win over the Pacers in ECF | NBA on ESPN

Head coach of the Pacers Rick Carlisle addresses the media following Indiana's OT loss to Boston in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Then, Head coach of the Celtics details the Cs win and how they can improve upon it.
0:00 Rick Carlisle
5:36 Joe Mazzulla
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[@hlinville6034]

Carlisle is hilarious on that bait about the ref!😂

[@Yrgzip0]

This is the second time the pacers have been up 3 and chose not to foul. Middleton forced OT in the bucks series, but the pacers won that so everyone’s quick to forget.

[@NeoPayneHK]

i think pacers know that

[@jake1993ize]

They wanted to foul. Siakam just got there late. Why foul a guy shooting. Smh 🤦‍♂️

[@johnnyboy1237]

He said they tried to foul and the quick pass made it hard, they didn’t wanna give up the 4 point play. It was 100000 IQ by Boston

[@Yrgzip0]

@@jake1993ize not saying they should’ve fouled him on the shot, but if siakam definitely had an opportunity to foul before the shot. Jaylen caught the ball, literally waited until pascal got on him, ripped the ball through with his right, then went up in pascals face. He chose not to foul before

[@k0.9486]

Did you even watch? He told them to foul.

[@BigDawgSev]

Jrue Holiday that dude his defense is really good man I wish he was a clipper whew

[@jadeno6115]

They would’ve been gotten over the hump and at least made a finals had he been there

[@BigDawgSev]

@@jadeno6115 probably

[@mrslapside]

Imagine a healthy up to speed porzingis sheeesh

[@DeanRyan89]

I’m a celts fan but the pacers were brilliant I’ve never seen better ball movement I think we need to be worried, we’re fresh and they’re exhausted and they took us all the way, clutch JB 3 from a game 1 loss at home. We need to lock in asap, lose game 2 we’re in trouble !

[@tavaresmccree5005]

These reporters must have forgotten he is the coach of the Celtics instead of referring him as Coach instead of calling him by his first name,

[@bibi24]

sorry, how can u have 2 insteads in one sentence?

[@urosmihailovic8345]

They are all older than him so they can all him by his first name all they want

[@Luigi-tv3fs]

​@@bibi24😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davidallen9598]

Was at the game. Jaylen is a dawg and bailed out the Cs.

[@brianandela6998]

He’s my favorite Celtic after this year

[@tavaresmccree5005]

Anyone else notice Joe took the gatorade off the table and placed on the floor lo😅😅😅

[@NeoPayneHK]

those game minutes difference, may be another factor like NYK series?

[@FirstManGaming_954]

I'm a Celtics fan but as a basketball fan in general, it's great to see Rick Carlisle coaching championship ball. He basically has an edition of his 2011 Mavs team. A very good PG (Kidd-Hali), a 7ft stretch 5 (Dirk-Miles) and a small scrappy back up PG (JJ-TJ). Main difference is the Pace (pun intended).

[@MrOctober44]

They had at least 5 unforced turnovers in the fourth and ot

[@mosin9349]

Super suspect. Haliburton out here placing bets or something?

[@progressiveoverload3915]

@@mosin9349him and Tatum, who threw like 3 passes to either out of bounds or the other team. At least he made up for it in OT tho ig

[@skateordie5216]

Bro both teams absolutely balled out. Can’t imagine what these 2 top scoring teams are capable of.

[@mikeroberts4015]

Jim carry is coaching the pacers?

[@ArcadianGenesis]

Hey look, it's Jim Carrey except not funny!

[@Djohnson89]

😂😂😂😂 he does look like him a bald version

[@TeflonDonAUS]

Pacers BLEW IT!!! 🤯 no way either of these teams win it all

[@donkingoftheworld8955]

obi toppin had a disastrous second half turn over machine.. and i wasnt happy with pacers coach timeout calls and small ball plays..

[@Adam-hv3lz]

As a Celtics fan I wanna say thank you to indiana for choking on the inbound to close the game out

[@ThaAnswer704]

JT needs to have a convo with his coach

[@totieamogues]

the big mistake is the t/o of haliburton in 27secs remaining in 4th q.

[@theresidentteacher2438]

Good on taking accountability Rick. Make the adjustments, come back, and do better. We always seem to. We Lost, Boston barely Won. 21 turnovers just can't happen. So uncharacteristic.

[@tavaresmccree5005]

Who placed the gatorade on the table when Joe came out?

[@MmGocrazy-rs1cc]

Joe mazzula is really a AI he talk and move like a computer...he's the first AI coach

[@Kacho77]

lmaoo

[@Adam-hv3lz]

Indiana pulled a cheddar bob from 8 mile

[@DerrickJohnson-hl2iu]

Its only game one, I believe in this team. Rick Carlisle will make the right adjustments.

[@jadeno6115]

Does joe talk extremely fast or am I stupid

[@jimreadey4837]

He does speak a bit quickly. He also doesn't enunciate particularly well (doesn't move his mouth much, almost like a ventriloquist), nor does he use expressive tone to better communicate his message. It's as if he's intentionally trying to sound boring so that reporters will stop asking him questions. (As I was listening to him here, he reminded me a bit of Derek White. The difference is Joe comes off more defensive, whereas Derek seems shy and intimidated.

[@tavaresmccree5005]

I swear these reporters calling him Joe you will think hes a players and not the coach

[@yonisbadar2129]

It takes alot of choking to be a ringless franchise

[@Peacekeepa317]

The series isn't over

[@yonisbadar2129]

@@Peacekeepa317 yeah but they can't win the series if they don't win on the road, I don't see them winning game 2

[@Talking_Comics]

Took +20 FTA for Boston to barely win they had a lot of help. Looking forward to Thursday

[@yonisbadar2129]

@Talking_Comics they were home, we saw that in the knicks series. The home teams will get thr advantage, pacers needed this game to get homecourt so they can have a series lead before porzingis comes back

[@TRSTkills]

@@Peacekeepa317series is over buddy

[@brianandela6998]

Best team won. This will be the closest game of the series. Boston in 4. JB and Jrue are DAWGS

[@ericcole3917]

Word🤨

[@comradeyellow6781]

No idea how many times I'll say it this season, the Celtics have no coaching staff. The only way the Pacers can be dangerous is playing fast paced, and what the Celtics do? Play fast paced. Mazzulla really hurts my brain, if I'll go to the nut house I'll send him the bill.

[@maxkamper7451]

You let the man shoot 3 even stretching your arms..

[@Banner18TheTruth]

Joe Luke is too slow please try Tillman just to see. Hauser is MIA also too slow

[@spiffyjake]

They gonna get rid of Rick if he keep complaining about fouls

[@waldo255]

Celtics are lucky Indiana gave it away

[@mikeroberts4015]

twice lol

[@jema021]

Luck this luck that, well…that’s how the game goes. Teams are also lucky when injuries happened 🤷‍♂️. Your point is dumb.

[@Nick-sr4fe]

Idk man Jaylen brown made some good plays. Jrue holiday made great plays Jayson Tatum finished strong Sounds like the Celtics earned the win

[@jamessalmon5109]

You don't say

[@gena4ka]

Aaaaand? First time watching sports?

[@matheuscouri2225]

Well guess you also can make a turnover from the freaking bench Rick. If you did anything in the last seconds you would win this game. But you chocked. Do you know how hard is to win a game in the TD garden? You had it. You blew it.

[@KK-pm7ud]

The Town

[@ryno-tm1we]

2 dreadful game tacticians.

[@dojo1371]

Exactly 😂

[@ToastTheShar-pei]

Siakam had horrible defense and ball awareness. Yea he knocked down some shots but he really cost this game in the 4th

[@TheballadofJ]

Can someone explain the retort Rick made about his daughter missing a semester of college and he can’t ever take a whole year off? I don’t get it…

[@karalong]

I think it's because after the crazy number of missed or incorrect fouls against the Pacers in a previous series, he made an official complaint with the list (something like 80+ in two games). And he was fined something like $35k for bringing it up. And if he'd answered the question that reporter brought up in this interview about free throw disparity, he would have been fined even more. So I think he's saying his daughter is sitting out a semester of college because he was fined the first time, and she'd have to sit out a year with the fine he'd get from answering that question. I really wish it weren't "illegal" to talk about poor reffing. It's like the NBA a communist state (metaphorically speaking only. Not literally) where you can't say anything bad about the leaders. In any other situation, reporters would be calling out BS when they see it and trying to keep the game honest and fair. Just sad that can't be in basketball. I'm genuinely shocked that reporter asked the question (I'm glad he did), but Rick can't answer it without consequences. It's so much more fun to watch the game when they don't favor one side or the other and mostly just let them play. The Pacers have the worst free-throw disparity in the league and we have kind of just accepted that we have to win by 30 to have a chance of winning by 5.

[@coreydon7097]

Don't worry, after the end of game 2 Rick will send in 79 missed calls to the league office like he did vs the Knicks to get the refs on his side. Also waiting on Carlisle to use the big market vs little market argument to the media.

[@allthatwecan]

Total breakdown by an inexperienced team. You cannot throw the ball toward your opponent’s basket as Nembhard did, especially when you have a timeout in your pocket-wasted opportunity.

[@nathanblackburn6221]

Come on man 10 seconds left a time out and inbounding in your own in elementary take the time out and inbound in their end and make a free throw. Now Pacers have no chance

[@DerrickJohnson-hl2iu]

NBA NATIONAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

[@tacowboys6890]

Welp he’ll be sending tapes to the nba to try & buy some wins get trash Boston ! 😩

[@__-fn7nx]

Indiana just woke up Boston, missed opportunity for them. Game 1 Boston - Brooklyn 2022 vibes.

[@heissepastete1632]

charlisle got jokes! great way to escape another fine but smh give away whats his opinion about the refs in game 1.

[@tommyvasdekis3371]

If i was a Celtics fan I'll go straight to the basket ball God and thank Him for what he did for me.

[@GrandPuba1]

I agree. Thank you Brad Stevens for assembling this team. Amen.

[@dojo1371]

Unless they win a championship, I think Rick just lost his job.

[@718datbxkid]

Rick definitely lost the game smh

[@iunstoppable1]

This was so rigged. Mazzulla dusty af

[@matheuscouri2225]

Yeah Mezzula, you have reached the fork in the road. If you win the chip, you are going to milk it for the next 20 years just like Doc Rivers is doing. But if you fumble this chip, you are fired and forgotten. Boston had Ime Udoka. With him, this Celtics team would not play with food. Bostons starting 5 is so freaking good that they can get away with this lack of focus and late game execution.. and poor coaching. If anyone but Boston with this title, there is going to be a big blow out in this franchise.

[@Banner18TheTruth]

😂 Ime n the Celtics got punked. Pacers are good its I dee its who think the Celtics are so good this will be cupcake walk through. Some fans are laughable and do nothing but brag and tall shyt for a team thats choked for 6+ years.

[@lastk1ngs636]

Both of theses coaches… zzzzzzzzz

[@doit1128]

it was clear who the refs wanted to win. Indy just kept hitting their shots. Surprised we went to OT. The NBA is a business, at the end of the day its all about the money, 😅😅😅

[@DerrickJohnson-hl2iu]

National Business association 😂

[@darkmatter...369]

Pacers choked 😢😢

[@jasondye9565]

All I know is there is 20 free throw difference. Tough to overcome that

[@codyy2236]

Foul less?

[@Renato1024]

Here's goes the blaming game again. You guys lost to a full squad. Maybe Jaylen, Jason and another Celtic will get injured so the Pacers can play what they've grown accustom to.

[@GrandPuba1]

Drive the ball more, I guess

[@gringoboy701]

Only mazulla could nearly lose a home game to this trash pacers squad.

[@bebebebe5491]

The refs took this one away from the PACERS

[@terry2705]

pacers vs refs

[@joeroy3842]

Cry. Maybe pick better points to be physical. There’s a reason Nesmith fouled out.

[@Renato1024]

Enough with the ref bs.. You guys used the same excuse vs the Knicks. This time you're up against a healthy squad.

[@GrandPuba1]

Minus KP

[@maxkamper7451]

Indiana wil not win a game👍🏽

[@TRSTkills]

surprised cry baby pacer coach Rick didn’t cry about the refs like he did last series. Celtics in 4. Bums