In Hindsight

That title's a nice summation of Shank's work over the years - second guess people and blame them for mistakes and failure, like this guy:

In hindsight, Joe Mazzulla did the unthinkable Monday: He agreed with the angry masses.

There are a lot of eyes on Celtics rookie head coach Joe Mazzulla in this conference semifinal series with the 76ers.

Mazzulla took tremendous heat for not calling a timeout when the Celtics failed to get a shot off in the final 19 seconds of overtime in Sunday’s 1-point loss in Philadelphia. Then he did the unthinkable: He agreed with the angry masses.

“Hindsight’s 20/20,’’ Mazzulla said Monday. “I should have called [a timeout] to help us get a two-for-one or get a couple more possessions. Obviously, with 14 seconds left, down 1, you want to get as many chances as you can. So definitely learned from that.’’

Yikes. Imagine Bill Belichick doing this? Or John McNamara? Imagine Don Zimmer saying, “on second thought, I probably should have started Bill Lee instead of Bobby Sprowl in the fourth game of the Boston Massacre against the Yankees back in 1978.’’

It was an extraordinary admission from a professional head coach.

Style points deducted for not mentioning Grady Little there.

Also - think about this angle for a moment. Shank bangs out two columns last night over one Celtics loss; from the columns' time stamps he got this one out the door an hour and a half after the first one. What does that tell you about his motivation to write certain columns?