You would think eventually the coach would be held responsible for his failures. This team has the same issues every season, regardless of who is on the roster.
There's nothing any of us can do about it, though, so.....
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If Celts had Spoelstra, would anyone argue this series would not at least be 2-2 heading into game 5?
I would. The game was decided by turnovers by our absolute best players, not our schemes.
Exactly. Game was decided by 3 points. We had 19 turnovers to their 8. We actually shot better than them despite our atrocious first half. Other than Herro they shot like 30% from the floor and 25% overall. Anytime you have that many turnovers you're always going to struggle to win any game.
Reading through this 20 page thread, it's becoming clear to me that a big part of the Brad hate is his personality. People want a coach that gets fired up, shows passion, shows that he cares, and shows he cares by yelling at players, yelling at the refs, just like we yell at our TV sets when we're watching the game. Brad just isn't that kind of coach, at least not from the public side he chooses to show us. People want someone who micromanages the game, someone how is more autocratic. Brad is more of a democratic coach, he wants the players to feel like they have a stake in the game and aren't just being told what to do, so that they take more responsibility for their performance.
But ultimately I'm sure Danny and Wyc are smart enough people to have the right measurement criteria in place to determine if Brad is doing a good job or not. I don't think they go in with a mentality of "championship or bust" every year. If anything I think they were probably more all in on the team we had last year than this year, so if he was going to be fired last year would have been a more likely time. I hold him much more responsible for what happened with the team last year than this year, because a coach's job, in addition to the xs and os and the in game coaching, is to make sure the team is humming smoothly and running on all cylinders, and to act as a liaison to the front office if it is not. He made a hash of Hayward's return to the starting lineup, then created more discord with too many players wanting playing time, then failed to tamp down all the discontent as the team started to go off the rails. Then his democratic style got him in trouble in games when he failed to act to stop runs until it was too late as he waited for the players to dig themselves out of the holes they had put themselves in.
Instead...he got extended and brought a 3rd Celtics team to the ECF. Now we can say we're Celtics fans, we have higher standards, ECF isn't good enough for us...but if anyone had told us at the start of the year that we would still have a chance to go to the Finals for the 3rd time in 4 years after losing the players we did I think we would have all taken it. Of course being outplayed by another team that we consider to be not as good as ours hurts. That's not all on Brad though.
Also not thinking someone should be fired for incompetence is not the same as not wanting there to be accountability for mistakes. All depends on what the expectations are going into the year and how those get adjusted as the year goes. There's 2 ways of looking at the last 4 years where made the ECF for the 3rd time in the last 4 years and didn't get further. Is the focus on the first part of the sentence, or the last part? What's the expectation?
Brad has been far from perfect this year and I'm sure he will hear about his failings from Danny and Wyc at the end of the year. But I doubt those failings will be enough to get him fired. Anyone who has gone and attended a performance review with their boss knows there's plenty of ways your boss can make you feel accountable for your failings without necessarily firing you
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