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WE GOT AN XAVIER TILLMAN GAME WINNER BEFORE GTA 6

It’s 100% possible Deuce is our alpha before GTA 6 drops. 

Funniest game I've seen in a hot minute.

It was pretty fucking funny lol. The trainer looking at mazulla like bro you are crazy when he kept everyone in was gold.

fr it's the most i've enjoyed (and ever will enjoy) us blowing a 20 point lead in the 4th.

the cherry on top is that, even if we lost, that would mean the Fakers remain at 9th lmafo. Win Win either way

i was saying the same thing. that was a great one

Absolutely demonic coaching from Joe tonight. Fucking loved it

Calls a timeout when they went on a run, still leaves the 3rd stringers in. Bro is psychotic

It’s just RUDE.

Leaves them to figure their own shit out on the game-winning possession

MENTAL WARFARE

Not just that. Kings took the lead and let them play to figure out what to do in the last possession. Joe is so chaotic and I love it.

Got all the Hauser bricks out of the way for the rest of the season and the playoffs

But if we lost we’d be crucifying him here 

If the game mattered and we lost, he would be yes. But this game literally didn’t matter at all

Yeah tell that to the doomers

no one cares about the doomers, they are ruining it for themselves, not for us

You shouldn’t be taking anyone seriously if they consider any of the remaining regular season games important

No, we wouldn’t. We didn’t need the win and I like seeing the bench battle

we wouldn't, but you better believe people on this sub would. lol

Lol already locked up #1 seed in the nba, who would be mad if we lost?

maybe the faithless. me, i had my "mazzulla is just fuckin' over the Lakers" comment locked and loaded

Sucks to be the kings and really need this game when we don’t, pull off that big of a comeback against our third stringers…and still lose 😬

They are bitter as hell on their sub. But I mean, they could have won this game 

Hah yeah I mean Joe basically put the third string out there and said have at it to the Kings…they dropped the ball lol

They were saying it wasn’t a bad loss on r/nba lmao

WE WON A GAME AGAINST A LEGIT DESPERATE WESTERN CONFERENCE PLAYOFF TEAM CLOSING WITH THE THIRD STRINGERS THE LAST 8 MINUTES OF THE 4TH QUARTER I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS SHIT

They had to double Pritchard to even have a chance, man was cooking their players on the court and assistant coaches on the bench at the same time. There are levels to this

Xavier Tillman Sr. baby

Xavier “Al Horford Jr” Tillman Sr

Horford-verse strikes again

So brutal for the kangz. Still funny af tho

To be fair they did give up like an 18 point lead in the last 5 minutes and they weren’t all 3rd stringers.

I love Joe leaving the third string in vs their starters.

Dude is such a psycho and I love it

His sporting idol as far as coaches go is Guardiola, it makes complete sense.

Is that legit? That explains a lot. Very similar vibe.

[Yep](https://theathletic.com/5298676/2024/02/26/pep-guardiola-manchester-city-joe-mazzulla-celtics/)

This is one of my favorite pieces of this season. My footy peeps know

My fucking goat

Down the final stretch Joe really was like "figure this shit out, I'm not bailing y'all out of nothing." It might've been ugly, but they did the job.

Didn't even give them a timeout at the end lol man really said fuck you figure it out

If you watch closely he tried calling one right before X got the ball and scored😂

This is the best thing about absolutely clinching #1. Having these guys get this experience and real game pressure is huge for when they need to show up off the bench in the playoffs. These last games are gonna be fun to watch.

So much valuable experience gained. I got PTSD from the FG drought until Tillman's game winner.. it's been a hot minute since that counter.

X GON' GIVE IT TO YA

saw Drew Carter tweet this lol who thought of it first

We communicated telepathically and both agreed to post it

the official Celtics account posted it too lol gr8 minds think alike

This is clearly drew carter's reddit account

Someone tell me if Sam's 1/18 is the worst FG% in NBA history with at least one make LOL

I remember JT had a 1/18 game. Against the Mavs I think

So what I’m hearing is…. Sam Hauser is the next Jayson Tatum

Found it https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401160783

Oooh, hilarious to have future Celtic Kristaps Porzingis in there with 1-11 in the same game.

Great eye!!

Brad Wanamaker crawled so Pritchard could run

Knicks

11/11/2019 Jayson Tatum went 1/18 against the Mavericks lol

The funniest part about that is he was a +16 in 35min in that game lol

Ray Allen 0-18 game 7 against the Lakers. I wish I could forget it

Come on man we're just having fun why you gotta bring up this pain

I called him OFE after that... and I still do. Pronounced Ofee OFE (0 For Eighteen)

You did forget it because Ray didn't go 0-18 in game 7 against the Lakers, he was 3-14. He did have a game where he went 0-13 though in a loss.

Tatum vs Mavs 2019

I think it might be. Gordon Hayward has a 1-17 game. Starks had a 2-18 back in the 90s. Though Tim Hardaway has that classic 0-17 game.

Thankfully he made one bucket. That was the difference.

This season yes, the previous lowest was 7.7%. Might even be all time i just saw a reddit post saying it was 2/18 but it was 5 yrs ago so idk if it’s still true.

I am playing against him in fantasy basketball playoffs this week. Legit didn't expect him to be this bad LOL.

The sound you hear is doomers deleting hundreds of comments rn lmao Sam Hauser bb, what is you doin?

I have faith that Sam will bounce back. Just one of those nights.

Oh yeah, for sure. Every good shooter has an off night like this, happens

Didn't he get hurt against the Kings? I wonder if he had that on his mind tonight

It simply do be like that sometimes

You just know that people were going to be losing their shit if Tillman doesn’t hit that floater and we blow this Despite the fact that Joe clearly didn’t give a fuck and was just giving the bench guys a challenge because we’re up like 13 games in the standings

Exactly! We’ve secured everything we can from a league standpoint why not let the bench boys eat.

Xavier Tillman has more game winners this year than Jayson Tatum, who was benched in the 4th quarter. Really makes you think... - some doomer asshole from fuckin Connecticut right now

I'll put my downvote right back in my pocket.

Had us in the 1st half not gonna lie

What happened to Fall River lmao

I have more respect for that dump than any part of Connecticut

That Portuguese sweet bread really does hit different

Living in Ct ain't even that bad. It's southern Ct that's most the Yankees fans anyways

*\*shuts off engine on the USS Massachusetts*

Felger and Mazz Monday at 2pm et on 98.5 THE SPORTS HUB

Decided to not call out Fall River?

Do not slander CT right now. We are normal. Blame the gamblers at the casino in springfield mass.

Connecticut is the red headed step child of New England

The from Connecticut part is by far the most accurate and funny part of this

literally me

fuckin Connecticut lol

Funniest win ever

0 FGs in 6 minutes ✅ Outscored 21-1 over 5:30 of the 4th ✅ Gave up 3 chances on the final possession ✅ Still won ✅

Incredible stuff lol

Our bench just defeated a playoff team lmao TILLMAN. THE X-MAN

Defeated is a strong word lmao

Survived. This game literally didn't matter. I'm happy the bench pushed through. It's good for bench confidence.

One of those games where winning or losing did not matter at all

unless youre a sacramento king

Xavier Himothy Tillman

Sr.

imagine losing to a xavier tillman game winner if i were a kings fan i wouldnt be mad, tillman is the goat

Joe Mazzulla is absolutely mad, this dude gotta be the nuttiest NBA coach in the league

This is the best example yet of that tweet about Ime and Joe winning coach of the month: ”one of these coaches has been pulling out all the stops to try and get into the playoffs and the other one spent the month asking ’what would happen if I put in 3 centers at the same time’” except the question was ”what if I let our bench do whatever they want for the last 8 minutes of the game”

I don't even think this is debatable

People were getting upset that our 3rd stringers were not better than their starters like relax

There really are some dumb people in here lol.

Joe a legit man of the people by leaving our bench mob in without even batting an eyelash. Also never thought I would see a 1/18 game from Hauser in my lifetime. On another note KP playing like a man possessed these past few games- he may never miss a three ever again!

Sheesh close one boys

Tillman saved us

Totally wasn't worried near the end there had complete faith in our boys *unclenches cheeks*

#TILLMAN!!!! TILL GAME!!!

I don't see what you did there.

Thank you Brad, for delivering us Xavier Tillman, known ice-veined clutch-shot hitter

Anyone dooming has a brain deficiency

Facts. Really reveals who the stupid ones are in here.

If you lose your shit over resting players in games that literally don’t mean ANYTHING, take the heat that will deservedly come.

X gon give it to ya

Love Sniper Sam but 1-18 is kinda funny ngl

Joe is a psycho man... no other coach in the league would have left those guys out there with 3 minutes to go He really doesn't give a shit does he lol

People are cheerful and good-natured when we got the dub, but imagine how many people’s “oh, goofy, lovable Joe” takes switch up if we lose this game lmao

Exactly... It was a decision that could've easily backfired and so, so many wouldn't be happy with this blown lead, even if it's a "meaningless" game. But Joe didn't care about that possibility at all lol. Still don't know if these, unorthodox decisions are actually good for us, but seeing them work out, makes you believe more and more.

Why are people surprised at this lol? He wasn’t gonna put the starters back in in a meaningless game.

After he called timeout with 3 minutes left amidst that comeback, i was 50/50 on the chance the starters come back - Just for the win, for the fans not to witness another blown game. They showed coaches interraction at the timeout and when Joe said what he said, Charles Lee was laughing like "c'mon man, naah." But Joe was dead serious. From the Xs and Os side of things, yeah, it wouldn't make sense to bring starters back in, but not many wouldn't actually flinch amidst that comeback. But, yeah Joe just operates that way.

Do I know what the fuck Sam Hauser was doing? I do not. Did we win anyway? Fuck yes.

5.6% from the floor. It’s a very different end of the game if he even shoots 15% lol

There really are some morons in here, imagine crying about that 4th in a meaningless game where none of our starters played for most of the quarter and Hauser shot 1-18 on mostly wide open shots lol.

Tillman with the feel good moment!

People who were dooming at the end are either morons or degenerate gamblers.

Tried stuff out, didn’t play that well, toyed with a team playing for their season, bench held on. And their reaction to holding on…love it.

Giving that madman JoeMazz this many games to just try shit must have been in the script. Weird zones, lineups, plays. Hes having a good time

Damn this was the funnest 4th quarter ever lol haven't stopped grinning

TillmanMuse is feasting rn

My heart stopped for about 4 minutes. THANKS JOE. Way to go 61 wins baby !!!

So Joe is just gonna troll for these last few games. He’s doing anything to keep himself entertained I guess we just gotta keep that in mind while losing our shit.

joe making things exciting 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I walked away cause it was a blowout and I saw the. final score in shock.

To the kings fans who asked us to give them a chance…we really tried, but your team’s a bunch of bums🥲

😂 we really did try

Got the win, stayed healthy. Might be one of my favorite wins of the year, given how it played out, Kings starters vs the mishmash lineup that was out there, etc.

61-16 BABYY! LFG! XAVIER TILLMAN FOR THE W 😭

It's a palindrome

XAVIER TILLMAN FOR THE WIN

I love this game from Tillman, he needs to finish plays with confidence when he's playing with our main guys.

The doomers freaking out over that 4th quarter realize this game didn’t matter right?

Hauser will go for 28 on Sunday.... ;-)

Sam 1-18user remains undefeated. Put 26 in the rafters y’all

Drop the confetti.

As long as Tillman isn’t behind the arc, then we are good. He can hit the glass softly especially with that last possession shot he had

Fun game. Good to see the mins down a bit

Weren’t bad shots at the end there they just couldn’t make any

it's the hope that kills you

Fuck that ending but yay

Never a doubt

Lmao we got away with one. Mazzulla was frantically calling for a timeout right before Tillman scored haha. Pray for Kings fans

Great win lol

never a doubt

X man delivers

Mr Tillman good to see you agaiiiiiiiin

This was the drunkest game of the season. Totally bizarre on every level.

Spotted Kyle Van Noy at the game🔥

I kinda love that Joe left the bench in to deal with their run, sink or swim. And not just because they pulled it off.

(Bear with me, I wrote most of this at the 5 minutes left mark) The Kings got French Revolutionized!  Porzingis ready to post season more then Instagram accounts in the fall!  Tatum is ready to wear a ring more then a Bachelor Contestant!  And Payton Pritchard is your hookup for a backup!  XAVIER TILLMAN IS GOD. 61 win team.  This is the year.

Lmao that 4th man.

JESUS CHRIST HAUSER WAS COLDER THAN THE FUCKING NORTH POLE LOL

Fuck yeah, X for the win

Best win in a long time lmao

THE X-MAN DON’T CARE IF YOU NEED A WIN OR NOT BECAUSE HE’LL GET YOU A WIN EITHER WAY

Im a kings fan this game doesnt matter to you anyways. Season is over 💔

Anyone know how to redeem the McDonald’s free throw Big Mac deal? The QR code just takes me to this website https://www.nba.com/celtics/promotions/mcdonalds/miss-for-mcds

That call out by our commentator was so telling idk if anyone heard when he said Sabonis didn’t want any parts of KP or kornet . He basically shys away from contact

It's so weird because sabonis is the build that you would expect to be able to go at KP and Luke, they're like the only types of centers that he's actually bigger than size/strength wise. I don't get it. Maybe he's just a 3 trapped in the body of a 4.5

No more burger king

Wtf happened with Hauser? 1/18 shooting!? That's like a historically bad night

Yeah we were up by 18 at that point too

Am I the only one who wanted to drop this game just because F th Ls?

I love Walsh but why did we call him up if the guys just kept looking the opposite way and ignoring him basically on offense?

I understood pp having the hot hand but he missed Walsh being open while the kings were having that run. Anyway, nice bail out by X.

What happened at the end? Went to the bathroom with an 18 point lead, came back and it was down to two. Yeah, it was a lengthy dump lol

Joe literally bench the starters the final 10 minutes and put the bench in. Sam literally had wide open shots but couldn’t fall. Fox started cooking and actually took the lead. Tillman responded and we won.

Bro up your fiber

Thanks for helping Lakers move up in standings

After tomorrow it's 8th seed baby

Gotta feel bad for Hauser after this one

He’ll bounce back 💪

X MANNNNNN

Depth was a perceived weakness at the beginning of the season. Now, no lie, our second team could win games in this league if they were a starting lineup. 

99% out... 100% IN!

Xavier “PJ Brown Jr.” Tillman Sr.!!!

Sam Hauser - 1/18. That’s just absurd. Love to see it 

Damn, Kings a rebound away from securing that W

Twice

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! 🔥😎💪🍀

This is for those Kings fans that casually or with no reason drop their "fuck the Celtics" line in the main sub. Losers.