Brad wins EOTY!

[aefgogreen]

Sell off talent, cut salary, win EOTY apparently.

I?m super hyped, but this has to be a first for this award. You usually don?t win EOTY by getting worse

I think it will become more common under the current CBA.  Teams are going to have relatively short windows, and then will have to tear their teams down and reset.

The fact that Brad was able to do this without giving up much of real value was incredible.

To be fair, he was giving up more talented players for less talented players/contracts. KP for Niang is a definite downgrade. So is Jrue for Vucevic.

Funny that if he never signed those guys to longer contracts, they would have just walked and he likely wouldn?t have been credited with cutting so much salary

Shedding $325 million of salary without giving up a first round pick is an utter miracle. To do that and still be the leading contender to come out of the east in a so-called gap year is utterly insane.  They're still contending this season while also preserving the future.  You really can't ask for more.  Griping about it now just seems odd.   

What could they have possibly done better to get to this situation with the offseason and in-season moves?

I?m not griping, I just find it funny that Brad is the one who signed these contracts that he is now being congratulated for getting out of.

They?re not contending because of Brad (this year), they?re contending because of Joe. Our team has less talent this year than last year. Executives aren?t typically rewarded for cutting salary unless they were to also get better.

And I can?t believe I?m singing Joe?s praises since I was one of his  harshest critics.

If you asked the people who voted for him, I'm guessing they'd say he made the best of the situation. Those players he signed helped lead the team to a championship. However, their contracts made those same players liabilities. I admit that Jrue is having a better year than I expected, but with the current rules, cutting salary without giving up significant assets is a big accomplishment. And had JT been healthy, I think our record would have been as good as last year's if not better. You are absolutely right that Mazz deserves credit as well.

[jambr380]

And Brad is also responsible for signing and retaining Joe when very few people believed in him. I know these awards don?t reward decisions made in prior years that work out (which is why Danny doesn?t have one or two more of these), but that was a massive hire.

And people are getting me wrong here. I am genuinely happy for Brad. He?s been great since taking over for Danny. I just think it?s funny that Jrue and KP have basically won him two EOTY awards for entirely different reasons

[aefgogreen]

And Brad is also responsible for signing and retaining Joe when very few people believed in him. I know these awards don?t reward decisions made in prior years that work out (which is why Danny doesn?t have one or two more of these), but that was a massive hire.

And people are getting me wrong here. I am genuinely happy for Brad. He?s been great since taking over for Danny. I just think it?s funny that Jrue and KP have basically won him two EOTY awards for entirely different reasons

Good point that he gets credit for Jrue/KP on both the buy and the sell. And I agree that sometimes I feel like it should be on a rolling 3-year period.

[Celtics4ever]

Congrats to Brad Stevens, whose bridge year was more than competitive!

[Moranis]

Sell off talent, cut salary, win EOTY apparently.

I?m super hyped, but this has to be a first for this award. You usually don?t win EOTY by getting worse

I think it will become more common under the current CBA.  Teams are going to have relatively short windows, and then will have to tear their teams down and reset.

The fact that Brad was able to do this without giving up much of real value was incredible.

To be fair, he was giving up more talented players for less talented players/contracts. KP for Niang is a definite downgrade. So is Jrue for Vucevic.

Funny that if he never signed those guys to longer contracts, they would have just walked and he likely wouldn?t have been credited with cutting so much salary

Shedding $325 million of salary without giving up a first round pick is an utter miracle. To do that and still be the leading contender to come out of the east in a so-called gap year is utterly insane.  They're still contending this season while also preserving the future.  You really can't ask for more.  Griping about it now just seems odd.   

What could they have possibly done better to get to this situation with the offseason and in-season moves?

He did trade a 1st to dump Mann, it was just the 1st he got from Atlanta for KP. 

as for moves he could have made, Kuminga and Hield would look pretty good on the C's right now. 

[radiohead]

For what it?s worth last time Brad won EOTY we ended up winning it all.