Fire Joe! ... or critique Joe ... or defend Joe... or worry about Joe's coaching

[SHAQATTACK]

https://twitter.com/LegionHoops/status/1790417931433902244

REPORT: JJ Redick, James Borrego and Sam Cassell have “emerged” as the top head coaching targets for the Lakers.

(via @ShamsCharania, @jovanbuha)

All the work we did to surround our head coach with top assistant coaching talent may be undone after a single season. Really hope we don’t lose both Lee and Cassell this summer.

Make him Laker Joe and keep the other two.

[gift]

Is Doc available?

Yeah, if we’re gonna fire a coach, we better have another lined up that we want to fire.

i don't know who you have in mind, but his substitution patterns are the single thing holding the team back.

It’s a joke….Everyone wants to fire Doc and he often gets fired. Celtics fans are continually blaming the coach for all failures and want him fired. Therefore Doc would be a good hire because we can universally get behind a “Fire Doc” thread, again.

i was joking that the next coach is already killing us with his substitutions.

[mobilija]

Is Doc available?

Yeah, if we’re gonna fire a coach, we better have another lined up that we want to fire.

i don't know who you have in mind, but his substitution patterns are the single thing holding the team back.

It’s a joke….Everyone wants to fire Doc and he often gets fired. Celtics fans are continually blaming the coach for all failures and want him fired. Therefore Doc would be a good hire because we can universally get behind a “Fire Doc” thread, again.

i was joking that the next coach is already killing us with his substitutions.

We probably shouldn’t go to any parties together

[ozgod]

JB mentioned something in his interview that I think Joe, for all the criticism he receives about tactical stuff, deserves some credit for. He's managed to get this team of high paid, high output, high ego stars to all be unselfish and buy in to a shared vision of sacrifice. Not easy to do.

The Celtics’ unselfishness stood out to Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff, who noted that they emphasize the empowerment of all their players, not just Brown and Tatum.

“They have really talented players throughout their lineup,” Bickerstaff said before Game 2. “But they all understand their role and they all play their role in a way that’s just going to help them win. As you sit back and watch the film and study them, you don’t see guys stepping outside of who they are in a way that’s going to impact other people.

“They don’t mind a Derrick White, for example, going off. If he’s going off, they allow him to do his thing and they feed him the ball and put him in a position to be successful and the other guys become great decoys.

“So I think you watch them and it doesn’t appear — again, from the outside — that it’s about me at all. It’s about winning and it’s about winning consistently.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/16/sports/celtics-cavaliers-playoffs/

Joe, with all his new age management technobabble about intentionality etc, might be a better man manager than he is a game manager. BUT...he will still be fired following our next loss 

[Vermont Green]

Buy in or credibility with the players or whatever you want to call it is a key attribute towards coaching success.  It is a very difficult thing to quantify or measure.  You have to decide by watching if a team is listening to the coach or not.  Even good coaches usually get tuned out after a period of time.  It is very rare to be like Popovich, to be a long term coach of a team in the NBA.  This is what I think Bickerstaff was getting at.

Right now, it is my observation that the team has bought into what Mazzulla is preaching, that is clear, just as Bickerstaff is saying.  To me, that is the most important thing.  I am not that worried about rotations or time outs.  For example, to me, playing Kornet or Tillman is inconsequential, easy for any fan to second-guess.

I think the team still dribbles too much and does not have enough off the ball movement.  That is at least partly a coaching issue, head coach and assistant coaches.  But it is not something a team implements overnight.  It takes time, more than 1 season with a core team.  I don't know how much of this is Mazzulla not knowing or the team not having learned yet.

[smokeablount]

Is Doc available?

Yeah, if we’re gonna fire a coach, we better have another lined up that we want to fire.

i don't know who you have in mind, but his substitution patterns are the single thing holding the team back.

It’s a joke….Everyone wants to fire Doc and he often gets fired. Celtics fans are continually blaming the coach for all failures and want him fired. Therefore Doc would be a good hire because we can universally get behind a “Fire Doc” thread, again.

I got it. It was clever. You didn’t deserve to have to explain it with a paragraph lol

[smokeablount]

Is Doc available?

Yeah, if we’re gonna fire a coach, we better have another lined up that we want to fire.

i don't know who you have in mind, but his substitution patterns are the single thing holding the team back.

It’s a joke….Everyone wants to fire Doc and he often gets fired. Celtics fans are continually blaming the coach for all failures and want him fired. Therefore Doc would be a good hire because we can universally get behind a “Fire Doc” thread, again.

i was joking that the next coach is already killing us with his substitutions.

We probably shouldn’t go to any parties together

Oh, plot twist…