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Bum coach can't win on the road
Why are old people so negative? You seem bitter.
Bum coach can't win on the road
Or at home for a game 7....sadly.Bum coach can't win on the road
Bump..
Celtics: 43-28
Spurs: 42-29 (Dejounte out for the year and Derrick missing 15 games).
I gotta admit I was carried way amidst last spring wankest over Brad Stevens..
That's a pretty underwhelming coaching job considering the majority of NBA media had already crowned him over Pop...
Even the most skeptics/haters of Today's Pop on ST would have him coaching that Celtics roster to 57-60 wins in the East..
Stevens is a very good coach. His team is badly constructed, too many redundant parts, and it suffers from the personality of Kyrie Irving, whom I can't imagine Poo would put up with for a second. They do play in the East where they are gifted much weaker teams in general.
Part of Pop's greatness happens off the court in creating an utter 'buy in' from his players. He's also remarkable in fashioning his offenses to suit his players. I know of no other coach nearly as good as him across the board.
What can we say of the Spurs, then?
Let's just call for what it is: Stevens has done a lousy job this year..Coaching stars/egos is part of his profession and it could be said that he's failing that test so far..
That Celtic roster is easily 55-60 win team and Top 2 seed in the East. He is gonna barely squeak out 50 wins this season with mostly a clean health bill..
Losing Haywood five minutes into his first game was a pretty big blow. I'm anxious to see if he returns to form next year since he hasn't been nearly 100% most of this season. I don't think he's a max player, but I think he was the best of the second tier SFs.
You can blame that on Danny Ainge. He believes his own press, and doesn't want to part with any player that he's been responsible for signing. And he doesn't want to make a trade unless he feels like he's made the other team bleed.
The interesting argument that comes out of this is the value of tanking... Boston wasn't as bad as Philly, but either way they're both neck & neck with the Spurs now, who didn't resort to that option.
Spurs are much better constructed than the Celtics, whose roster is badly overrated. Too many players do the same things, anyway. They just get hyped to . The Spurs have ball-handlers, a significant presence inside, a good backup, and a cluster of outside shooters. There's no way this Boston team is close to a 60 win team. You're just eating hype.
Yeah, I think he ed up a good situation. Horford is declining -- who replaces him? Kyrie is gone because Boston is a ty place to live for a lot of people. Ainge ed over IT and everyone remembers. His young players are good but overhyped. A lot of people were crowing at how they screwed Brooklyn but good. While that might be true, I like Brooklyn much better right now. DLo may even soon be better than anyone on Boston's roster, minus the departing Kyrie.
Brad Stevens is a great coach but there is a big difference between coaching a zero-pressured talented young team and coaching an actual NBA contender with all-stars, big contracts, etc.
Coaching is not only about Xs and Os and managing personnel, dealing with huge egoes, entourages, media, expectations etc. at a NBA contention level is really hard. That's when the spursian micro-universe happens to be so benefitial por the team. That's when words like culture, program and system have a real meaning.
Is not that easy to do what Gregg Popovich does.
the are you talking about? Poop's system worked because he had the most unselfish, best leader of all time in Tim Duncan for all 5 of his championships, as well as a premier HOF point guard in Parker who played within the system when he could have put up better stats elsewhere.
the second tim and tony left and were replaced by typical NBA star divas like LMA and Defrozan, the team has been a middling 6-8 seed non-contender with no hope of winning a le and numerous players wanting to be traded and talking trash on the way out
continuing to push this anti killa' kyrie schtick upstairs when he's going to make all nba 2nd team and MAGA white hayward has been an atrocity getting affirmative action minutes
I like Brooklyn now too, and they might actually be a more attractive landing place for free agents than either the Celts or the Knicks at this point.
A lot of things happened in Boston, especially with Kyrie not always getting along with the younger core. I think Kyrie is a #2 guy, not a #1 guy, and he tried to be the wiser older statesman of the team, which I think they just weren't buying. He himself still has some maturing to do (as he has admitted in his apologetic call to LeBron), and becoming the world's most famous flat earth theorist probably didn't help either. Can anyone imagine Tim Duncan actually questioning whether the Earth is a globe or a shelf?
Exactly what casual fans don't get.
Even if we get bounced out in the first round this would still be one of Pop's best coaching jobs. Having to coach perennial losers with no defensive prowess(some of them) and having to start two unproven, inexperienced players is one of the hardest coaching jobs out there. He's still the G.O.A.T.
Boston isn’t poorly constructed either. They may have redundancy and too much depth for their own good, but they were built well rounded. Hayward injury and figuring out the rotation is the issue.
continuing to push this anti killa' kyrie schtick upstairs when he's going to make all nba 2nd team and MAGA white hayward has been an atrocity getting affirmative action minutes
Too much redundancy is exactly what poorly constructed means. It leads to chemistry issues, too, when players feel like they should be starting. I don't see the depth you're talking about.
Brad Stevens is in an odd spot. He left college because he hated the underhanded and corrupt nature of college recruiting. But in the pros he can't get guys to put their egos aside for a team concept.
max contract Hayward single handily dragging the celtics to the cellar
Boston had more than enough talent. I think Ainge passed on some trade opportunities because he always has to feel like he's drawn blood.
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