I'm not the type of guy who tries to dictate what others say -- and certainly not what they post about.
But for the sake of getting my opinion out there, I wanted to say just how lazy and reductive the "JT vs. JB" discourse seems. Whether people are asking, "Whose team is it?" or "Who is better?" or "Could [JT/JB] ever carry a different team?", I find it super annoying and negative. A step removed from online trolls.
I'm not sure why even Celtics fans seem to have difficulty enjoying both of them at the same time. Hopefully a few others out there agree with me.
I think it's more that with JT returning the hierarchy gets unsettled. Think about it this way. You are CFO of a company, and there's a CEO above you. For years you worked with this structure, then your CEO needs to take a year off for health reasons. They make you "acting CEO" until the CEO gets back and in that time your company exceeds most expectations. Now it's time for your CEO to come back but it's not immediately clear what his new responsibilities will be. You are going to go back to COO again but you will still be expected to handle more duties because your CEO is easing himself back in. Do you continue to work outside your mandate because you're proven you can do it? Do you defer to him om major decisions like you did before he took time off? Are you now co-COOs? How does your new working relationship work?
These are all legitimate questions. And none of them mean they can't work together - they clearly have worked together for the past 8+ years. It's just that the hierarchy is not quite clear and we, and they, won't know how it will all shake out until they actually start interacting as part of the team again. Good organizations tend to know how to manage these types of things, and the Celtics are a good organization, with clear goals articulated to the players, a coach that is good at managing people and their egos, and players who have historically understood they need to sacrifice to be part of a greater whole. So in that sense it's not JT's team or JB's team, I feel that's an anachronistic way of looking at it. It's the Boston Celtics and they are both key contributors to it.
So I'm pretty confident they will figure it out but there will probably be some growing pains while they do so, and because it conveniently provides a built-in narrative and storyline for the media when they are struggling for content, not to mention fans, they will be following it very closely and every little hiccup will probably be magnified and scrutinized ("oh why did JT take that shot, should have given it to JB" etc). But this storyline - how they figure it out - is something I'm actually looking forward to for the balance of the season
Topic: The JT vs. JB Discourse Is Super Lame (Read 720 times)