Coach and Tone briefly discuss the NBA China debacle, then jump in deep (maybe too deep?) to the Eastern Conference rosters and rank the teams from worst to first. Coming off a seismic shift in player movement during a busy off-season, new-look rosters tell us that despite the Giannis-led Bucks and new-look Sixers, the East is up for grabs!
Coach breaks down 2019's most exciting book on basketball: Kirk Goldsberry's Sprawlball. We also discuss Team USA's shortcomings, why the international game has superior rules, and why field goals in football should only be 2 points. Happy Fall everyone! Good to be back.
Coming to the from the road! Coach and Tone discuss what OKC's rebuild says about free agency and the wrongness of the NBA draft.
Coach and Tone breakdown the biggest free-agent turnover in modern NBA history, and what changes need to come to accommodate today's bigger, faster, stronger NBA. Happy 4th to all!
Coach and Tone wax poetic on the finer points of Toronto's decisive game 4 win. The truth behind KD's injury status comes out. Kawhi's playoff run is put into perspective.
Toronto goes up 2-1! Will Klay and KD return? Should Klay have made All-NBA? Will Boogie ever return to form? Get answers to all this and more in the latest installment of Neighborhood Rules!
-Toronto completes the stunning upset of league-best Milwaukee!
-Kawhi's playoffs for the ages.
-NBA Finals Preview.
-Coach makes free-agent decisions for the players: From the heart of course, not the wallet!
Coach follows his longtime adage "remain relentlessly positive" in the face of one of the most disappointing Celtics teams in a long time.
If you're looking for some things to hope for between now and the July 1st start of free agency, you've come to the right place.
Coach also likens this year's Bucks team to the '77 Blazers, and local favorite Arlington's own Pat Connaughton earns his stripes behind Khris Middleton as a certified Celtics killer!
Coach Healy bids farewell to Celtics legend and all-time leading scorer John Havlicek. The 2nd round of the playoffs gets a good talking-to, and Coach finds validation of his ref critiques through author and Tim Donaghy collaborator Michael Levin.
A look back to 3 months ago when the All Star break had just concluded, The Anthony Davis debacle was fresh, and The Celtics faithful were still hopeful for a redemption to a very questionable season so far.
Hoo boy. Coach got a little deep in this one. If debating hall of fame inductions of players from the 60's-70's is your thing, then scroll right to the 1 hour mark. Lotta gems in this one:
-Revisiting the original Rules of The Neighborhood. All the greatest hits: remove the foul out rule, eliminate the draft, no timeouts, first team to score 100 wins; all the classic stuff.
-Final Four recap (recorded before the National Championship game)
-A (somewhat) brief history of foul out and player-control rules 1966-present.
Your favorite long-winded basketball raconteur is back. Get it coach!
Happy 2019 Everyone. Basketball's beloved bombastic reactionary Coach Healy is back to discuss a variety of NBA topics, including our prove-you-can-do-it-on-the-road Celtics, the unstoppable Kyrie, the 2018 draft class, and how the 2014 Spurs changed basketball forever.
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Coach and Tone round up the first 12 games of the NBA season, propose a prescription to Celtics' offensive woes, and give first-time youth coaches a quick guide to getting your season (and your team's lay-ups) off on the right foot.
Coach Healy answers the questions on all NBA fans' minds after an epic failure to launch for the Celts in game 7.
He also has a few consoling answers for those in shock after the Cavs snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against Golden State in game 1 of the finals.
Finally, coach puts you at ease with a perfectly sensible front office plan for a stacked Celtics roster in 2019.
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There's no time like playoff time. This year's NBA postseason is rife with matchups for the ages. While the smoke clears in the East and West semis, Coach offers his two cents on what we've seen so far, and what's in store. Before you ask, yes, he believes the Celts can go all the way.
Other highlights include:
-the art of the tank by none other than OG GM(!) Gregg Popovitch
-The GM Masterclass put on year-in and year-out by Danny Ainge.
-It wouldn't be Neighborhood Rules without Coach insisting that we eliminate free throws.
You know it's gonna be a good one when Coach opens up with rant on Rondo.
Other illuminating topics include:
-Final Four recap: Things we love and hate.
-A new segment about the refs that we're calling: "Former player? Or State Cop?"
-History lesson on the origin of Strategic Fouling. (Spoiler alert: it was 1983).
-Further evidence that the point-guard is the most overrated position.
-The myth of the four-guard offense
-The rise of the new big man: Karl-Anthony Towns, KD, Giannis, The Brow, and The Unicorn
Coach Healy debriefs us on a Super Bowl upset fueled by Chip Kelly's old playbook. Other topics include the NBA pipeline that extends all the way down to the Prep School level, and the names of future talent that will ring out in the days to come. And we can't forget Coach's favorite topics: outlawing the dunk and raising the rim to 12 feet!
Coach Healy sympathizes with Boogie's recent season-ending injury, explains why the Celts match up well with the Warriors, and lays out a simple (and realistic!) five-point plan to cleaning up the corrosive influence of LOWG's in today's NBA.
Coach Healy and Tone come together for the Season 3 premier of Neighborhood Rules, catching up the fair-weather Boston fan with the 2017-18 Celtics squad, and an OKC dream team that could have been.
Coach Healy breaks down the 113-91 trouncing of The Cavs at the hands of maybe the most offensively potent in NBA history, The Golden State Warriors. You'll also hear Jeff Van Gundy jumping on the "post-PostPlay" train, which Coach Heals has been riding since the late 90's!
Enjoy NBA fans. And let's hope the Cavs can bounce back. If they go down 4-0, it's gonna be B.A.D. for the N.B.A.
Coach Healy breaks down the Celtics' recipe for success in their recent series victory over Washington in a decisive Game 7 win, and how that recipe could serve as their kryptonite against a more talented Cavs team that plays their same style.
Coach Healy takes us on a joyride through the first round of the NBA playoffs through April 27th. Anything less than a title from GSW is a colossal failure. The Celtics won't make it past the 2nd round, and Lance Stephenson is officially dubbed Ron Artest Jr.
Also, a new segment has begun: Ask Coach Healy! Featuring Matty.
Here we are breaking down the 2015 NBA Playoffs with Big Mike. The Clippers improbably take out The Spurs, Memphis and the "Swiss Watch" effect of Mike Conley, and Coach Healy tells us in one sentence how to get rid of hack-a-Shaq forever.
Coach Healy recounts the epic Superbowl run of The Westborough Rangers of 1984.
This week's episode brings us a discussion on Kyrie Irving as the best player in the entire World Games last summer, the Celtics-Cavs playoff preview, and the ongoing conspiracy of favoritism and preferential treatment by the NCAA officials to Mike Krzyzewski and The Duke Blue Devils.