Speculation. My least favorite thing - not that I never engage in it. Many of us were concerned at the start of the season that the Ime situation may eventually come to haunt the Cs. I don’t need to know what he did. All I need to know is that it was something ownership and management found egregious. Frankly, players don’t have to agree - but that doesn’t mean it won’t impact them.
My thoughts all along have been that this was caused by Ime. He’s the one I’m most angry with. If Brad and Wyc reacted too strongly that’s a matter of opinion - but had Ime acted like a head coach, a leader, a grown-up, we never would have experienced the Joe Mazzulla experiment. OK - bad replacement choice, I get that. But as far as I’m concerned, the cause of the Celtics troubles this season was Ime Udoka. And the likely source of whatever is brewing now is Ime Udoka. The solution is some open conversation internally (I assume attempts at this have happened), and a reset. New coach, new approach, a few new faces, new start.
Feels like it would take a miracle for them to win tonight. But I sure would like that.