2023-05-31 17:50:00
By winning at TD Garden in Game 7, Jimmy Butler and the Heat took out Boston but also inflicted Joe Mazzulla his first elimination. On this subject, the C’s coach and the Miami star also share a liability that is relatively unknown to the NBA public…
By winning Game 7 at TD Garden, Miami achieved a resounding feat in qualifying. Under the leadership of Jimmy Butler, the Heat therefore reached the NBA Finals and will face Denver with the same aggressiveness as since the start of the post-season. As for Boston, the failure at home in this match is also that of a coach who probably lacked experience in this kind of meeting.
Indeed, Joe Mazzulla was living his first hot moments as the head coach of an NBA team. The pressure on his shoulders was inevitably immense when you know the expectations around this workforce led by Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. If coaching was new for him, losing to Jimmy Butler was not since crazy images of the two men at university emerged…
Butler VS Mazzulla, a habit for the two men!
Eliminating Joe Mazzulla’s teams is not a new experience for Jimmy Butler ????
12 years ago, Butler and Marquette knocked Mazzulla’s West Virginia team out of the Big East Tournament, 67-61.
Monday night, Butler and the Heat eliminated Mazzulla’s Celtics from the NBA Playoffs ???? pic.twitter.com/Wlb0C1OHu7
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 30, 2023
Eliminating Joe Mazzulla is not a new experience for Jimmy Butler ???? 12 years ago, Butler and Marquette eliminated Mazzulla and the West Virginia team from the Big East tournament, 67-61. This Monday, Butler and Miami eliminated Mazzulla from the playoffs.
The anecdote is completely crazy. If one is a player and the other a coach, they faced each other more than 10 years ago in a university tournament. Jimmy Butler is thus a real pet peeve for Joe Mazzulla. This little story also says quite a lot about the weak playing career of the American coach since he has in fact never known the NBA with the ball in hand.
The year he faces the Miami winger is also his last as a player since he then joined the staff of Glenville State University as an assistant. Be that as it may, coming across this anecdote between the two men is fun and allows us to review incredible archives of one who defends the other. During this confrontation, Mazzulla had scored 8 points against 9 for his opponent:
Just a pic of Jimmy Butler guarding Joe Mazulla in college pic.twitter.com/r0w1GgHxC3
— NBA Memes (@NBAMemes) May 31, 2023
Boston’s elimination against the Heat was therefore also the second round of the clashes between Joe Mazzulla and Jimmy Butler. With this victory, the winger definitely becomes the coach’s pet peeve and is also going to give everything for a first NBA champion ring…
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