I think it was their only option to double down on their decision and give Mazzulla & the players stability.
In saying that, I have always wanted Rick Carlisle, and he should have been signed after Udoka left.
I do think Mazzulla is an extremely intelligent and talented coach, but he is too inexperienced for a team with title aspirations. Inexperienced coaches make inexperienced mistakes and we have seen that over the past 3 seasons.
I like Carlisle as well, but the Celtics did win a championship with Joe as HC not too long ago.
Yeah I agree Joe coached us to a Title. But I still don't know how much of that was him, or was most of it just JT/JB finally getting over the hump, and having great team mates as well. Jrue, D White were huge during that playoff run to the title too. I think that another coach could have easily won the title with that team.