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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #150 on: September 19, 2020, 05:57:43 PM »

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OK Roy, point taken.

But Miami played more zone than anyone else this season. Surely the Celts prepared for this in practice. Make adjustments during 3d quarter timeouts. And yes, what is with Stevens reticence to us Rob Williams ? Miami's Bamba-whatever has a 3d quarter dunkfest and Williams is our best post defender. If Grant had Rob's size and athleticism, we would have our starting center for the next 10 years, but he doesn't. I love Grant and he definitely has a role to play on a championship level team, but we needed some defensive size last game.

Blowing these leads has me on the ledge and to make it twice as bad, the Lakers could finally catch up with our titles @ 17.
That would send me over the ledge to, hopefully, a less painful existence than that of being a fan of Celtics basketball and Vols football.
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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #151 on: September 19, 2020, 07:49:02 PM »

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Brad wasn’t the one turning the ball over and getting beat for offensive rebounds.  Execution is on the players.

True, but don't you find it just very frustrating that we always do that in the third quarter? At some point that has to go on him. I've defended him for so long, and blamed the players for not executing, but we gotta draw the line here, right?

He’s coaching without a bench.  I tend to cut him a lot of slack when Wanamaker is his best bench player.

He has a team missing a key starter in the Conference Finals.  That’s despite Kemba’s struggles, and Theis’ level of play dropping off.

I don't know if I can go there, Roy. It seems that the lack of bench play is not noticed during the first halves. I would agree if we are deficient all game long, but in the first half we don't seem to feel the lack of bench play and Gordon Hayward with this team.

So this is has to be an effort and mentality problem in the second half. It seems that when the other team goes on a run, we just capitulate.
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bench points even tonight 16 miami - 16 boston
don't think it was the horrible bench that lost the game for us tonight.  Kanter and Wannamaker had some key plays.
They did enough.

edit - I guess it should be noted that Miami's bench played more minutes.  So I guess you could argue that Miami's starters were more rested for the stretch run in the 4th?  i dunno that is even stretching it.

It's the lack of strategic adjustments during halftime that killed us in the 3d quarter. That's on Stevens.

At halftime, just about everything was working.  Is that the time to change things?

It was the third quarter when the team played extremely sloppy basketball.  We had something like seven or eight turnovers in the quarter.  That's on the players.  The only real criticism I have is not giving Robert Williams a chance, but I think Brad wants to be able to space the floor a bit, thus using Grant Williams.  He tried Kanter in the second half, and that was a disaster after working well in the first.
His trust in Rob Williams seems iffy, for some reason. Not sure why, his effort off the bench and he changes our looks a lot. He has a FG% of 77% for the playoffs!!

I would play him and Grant more, and Theis less
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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #152 on: September 19, 2020, 10:10:07 PM »

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Weird, Stevens must have learned to coach overnight.


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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #153 on: September 19, 2020, 10:34:15 PM »

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Weird, Stevens must have learned to coach overnight.

Weird, Spoelstra must have forgotten how to coach tonight  ::)
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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #154 on: September 19, 2020, 10:39:43 PM »

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No answer for Adebayo

Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #155 on: September 19, 2020, 11:23:29 PM »

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No answer for Adebayo

Or maybe the plan was to shut everyone else down?

Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #156 on: September 19, 2020, 11:28:27 PM »

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Weird, Stevens must have learned to coach overnight.

You mustn't have read the last 5 pages of the game thread then  :angel:
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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #157 on: September 19, 2020, 11:52:37 PM »

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No answer for Adebayo
I'd rather Adebayo try and beat us with his scoring than with his creation for Dragic and Robinson
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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #158 on: September 20, 2020, 12:04:24 AM »

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Is this really going to become the new, infamous "any Terry Rozier fans" thread?  :P
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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #159 on: September 20, 2020, 12:07:51 AM »

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I take back my earlier pronouncement, re: firing him. The outcome of a very deep frustration.

Regarding Adebayo, he is Miami's only answer to Tatum in the paint. They employ a shorter player on Tatum on the outside and use Bam as help defender when JT attacks the paint.

Noticed Hayward gasping on some plays. He played well. He could be our point forward.

Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #160 on: September 20, 2020, 12:15:29 AM »

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Is this really going to become the new, infamous "any Terry Rozier fans" thread?  :P

Are there still Terry Turd fans?

And, yes, Brad should still be fired.  He's lucky he has so much talent at his disposal even if he is clueless on how to manage it.

Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #161 on: September 20, 2020, 12:20:41 AM »

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Is this really going to become the new, infamous "any Terry Rozier fans" thread?  :P

Are there still Terry Turd fans?

And, yes, Brad should still be fired.  He's lucky he has so much talent at his disposal even if he is clueless on how to manage it.

If only we had a real coach like Doc Rivers.  His teams would never choke away big leads in playoff games. /sarcasm

Why is it because of talent when we win, but because of coaching when we lose?



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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #162 on: September 20, 2020, 12:25:00 AM »

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Is this really going to become the new, infamous "any Terry Rozier fans" thread?  :P

Are there still Terry Turd fans?

And, yes, Brad should still be fired.  He's lucky he has so much talent at his disposal even if he is clueless on how to manage it.

If only we had a real coach like Doc Rivers.  His teams would never choke away big leads in playoff games. /sarcasm

Why is it because of talent when we win, but because of coaching when we lose?

Except Heat are winning because of coaching.

Besides, wasn’t the CBS narrative generally “he gets so much out of so little?” I think this is the first year where we actually have more talent.



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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #163 on: September 20, 2020, 12:30:19 AM »

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Is this really going to become the new, infamous "any Terry Rozier fans" thread?  :P

Are there still Terry Turd fans?

And, yes, Brad should still be fired.  He's lucky he has so much talent at his disposal even if he is clueless on how to manage it.

If only we had a real coach like Doc Rivers.  His teams would never choke away big leads in playoff games. /sarcasm

Why is it because of talent when we win, but because of coaching when we lose?
Because people need someone to point the finger at when we lose, and even sometimes when we win  ;D
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Re: Should Brad Stevens be fired?
« Reply #164 on: September 20, 2020, 12:32:44 AM »

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Great adjustment tonight.

He buys himself more time.
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