On Monday’s edition of Zolak & Bertrand, Beetle admitted that he hasn’t seen Joe Mazzulla’s timeout strategy payoff for the Celtics

• I've yet to see it...

  Marc Bertrand: Al Horford’s defense on Joel Embiid was taking up some mindspace of Joel Embiid in that fourth quarter. I think you even heard Doris Burke mention it on the broadcast. They were. All of a sudden, they were a tentative team those 76ers. The Celtics had them on the run and it all came out of that timeout with 7:15 to go.

  Scott Zolak: Al’s good at pushing buttons man too, he did it with Giannis last year, like he could get after you.

  Marc Bertrand: Now obviously that timeout serves a different purpose than what the one would serve with 19 seconds to go in overtime. But yeah, it’s just a way of mentioning that the Celtics can re-group and be a better team out of a timeout. Too many times, they have finished games this year with timeouts going unused and and I just have yet to see the competitive advantage of not using the timeouts for this team. I’ve yet to see it.

• Listen to the full segment!

• Mazzulla's explanation for timeout usage

  Joe Mazzulla addressees not calling a timeout before final possession of OT, & how he felt about the C's offense in Game 4 pic.twitter.com/o6eFGoJJTb

  — Celtics on NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSCeltics) May 7, 2023

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