Praise for Joe

[Roy H.]

I've been pretty critical of Joe in the past, particularly in his first year.  His first three seasons he had a championship favorite with a loaded roster, and only opinion the team underachieved in both of those years.

But this year he's been handicapped with an incomplete and out of balance roster, but the team is overachieving.  Queta looks like a seasoned veteran, Walsh, Hugo and Minotaur are all rotation players, JB is looking like he's 1st Team All NBA, and the team is winning.

Yes, the players get primary credit for stepping up, but this has been Joe's best coaching year, I tin.

[Csfan1984]

I'm still think he is a below average coach but he is showing growth. He very well could be a great coach in three years. More experience and more refining a system around players is going to help him.

[Phantom255x]

But this year he's been handicapped with an incomplete and out of balance roster, but the team is overachieving.  Queta looks like a seasoned veteran, Walsh, Hugo and Minotaur are all rotation players, JB is looking like he's 1st Team All NBA, and the team is winning.

Pretty much this. He's definitely no Spo/Popovich but he's definitely shown growth and improvement this year, and yes he's had to really figure things out on the fly given the roster he was handed and I think he's done a solid job of navigating that especially in the last month. And you can't deny the players have bought into him or that they don't play hard for the coach, whereas there was admittedly some questions about that in 2023 during the Heat series (but who knows, maybe some of that was just the players like Smart/Brogdon/GWill). And Stevens clearly lost most of the guys including JT/JB as a HC by 2021.

I'm still not a fan of his 3-point "chuck it" philosophy and worry it'll hurt us in the playoffs like it literally did last year vs. New York. The overall numbers and averages of 3s have dipped a little this season but admittedly it has gone up lately. It's great when they are going down like the last two games but then you have games like DET, or that 3rd quarter vs MIL too

[Who]

Mazzula is doing a great job. This is not an easy roster to handle. Only one playable center in Queta and he only plays 25mpg. Mazzula deserves a ton of credit for how well this team is playing.

[Silas]

Mazzula is doing a great job. This is not an easy roster to handle. Only one playable center in Queta and he only plays 25mpg. Mazzula deserves a ton of credit for how well this team is playing.

Agree....how about two tons of credit!