I think ime is a good coach, I think he was the kind of coach the Celtics needed at the time. But he got fired, for good reason, and he wasn't going to be the reaosn the Celtics win a title becasue basically no coach ever is. Joe has been good, he's good enough the C's could win it all this year.
I think the Rockets have basically been about as good an they could be this seaosn. A bunch of young guys, a bunch of new pieces, and they were competitive in the West up till the end. Ime seems to ave instilled the right fundamentals, now its up to the players (Smith, Senguin, Green, Thompson) to hit their ceiling because ultimately to compete in the west you need, at bare minimum, 2 all-star level guys. Senguin might already be that, they need at lest 1 more.