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Celtics are hiring a lot of assistants who have been head coaching finalists with Lee and Cassell.
Guess it gives a good backup plan if Mazzulla doesn't work out
well we now have 2 coaches on staff that would likely be better than Maz. The whole thing comes down to the C's mistake of removing the interim tag. They could have pivoted right now to Lee if they hadn't done that.
Yeah, I said the same thing on Reddit. If all three were up for HC vacancies last offseason, Joe would pretty easily be the 3rd choice there.
We are supremely fortunate that we managed to sign two of the top assistants in the league who also don’t have previous HC experience. Of course, Vogel would have been a welcome addition, but it could have created a power dynamic if things weren’t going well..
Brad has a much higher opinion of Joe than Joe's critics. Brad gives the impression that he thinks Joe is an Eric Spoelstra in the making. Heat fans wanted him fired when he couldn't win in 2011. Pat Riley stood behind him. Rest is history. I'm willing to be patient with the guy.
My point was that before the Ime scandal, Joe was nowhere near being hired as the HC of an NBA team, never mind one that had just been to the Finals and is in clear win-now mode.
I am not being critical of his potential moving forward, I just wish his learning wasn't coming at the expense of our Title window. Hopefully this past season accelerated that learning and he is on a trajectory to be a championship-level coach [very] soon.
And, at the very least, we now have very capable assistant coaches behind him now. Ime had Hardy, Stoudamire, and Joe. Joe had Stoudamire and that was only for half a season.
