Coach and Tone get into it on the road. Mobile edition #2 coming your way! The Celts are off to a better start this year, plus they actually like each other! The last third of the episode is coach talking about his other passion, Massachusetts football. Come on into the weeds with him as he gets into coaching lineages, spread offenses at the high school level, and the absurdity of 8 divisions in the tiny state of MA.
Coach breaks down his Western Conference hopefuls and has-beens, and gets into how implementing neighborhood rules would certainly make for a better return to week 2 of the 2019-20 season. Also: Coach and Tone bring back a favorite "All-Star" segment, this time for the "All-Tangle" team. Yes, Marcus Smart is a starter. And yes, Rodman was the MJ of the tangle in his day.
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.
Thanks for listening!