Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

Let me start off by shouting out to my fellow half chowds, my half fam. Half fam.

Now you know it brings me no pleasure to say this at all. However, half-fam, your Celtics, half-fam, are full-ass!

I mean seriously, find me a more... full ass.

I mean seriously find me a more disappointing unprepared and unmotivated team than the Celtics.

I'm gonna wait.

Yeah, I'm right here. I'll wait.

I'll wait.

Find me a bigger coaching mismatch in the history of the NBA playoffs.

I'll wait for that too.

Because that's exactly what that feels like. This feels like one of the best coaches to

ever do it against a guy who should never have been allowed to coach in the

NBA at all. But as over-matched and he's completely overmatched, as Joe Missoula is, in no way am I going to let the rest of the Celtics off the hook.

In fact, I want to do the opposite because this is on them way more than it's on their overwhelmed

head coach.

It's the dudes on the court who spit the bit.

It's the dudes on the court who quit last night.

It's the dudes in uniform who have shown absolutely no fight or heart or grit in this series.

And they did quit. They did. There's no question about that. Now you know me. I don't throw that word

around lightly because calling a professional athlete a quitter is essentially

the worst thing you could ever say about a pro athlete. I'm not about that.

I'm not about the Hot Take factory. I'm not about that. I'm not about the Hot Take Factory, I'm not about Mount Rushmore, I'm not about

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