It's gotten overlooked because of the ubuntu of the first year and the way they snapped back to form in the playoffs 2 years ago, but this Celtic teams has had a surprisingly large amount of chemistry problems. I think the main reason for that is that this is an extremely stubborn team from Doc on down and when things aren't going well, they don't adapt or adjust to try and overcome it. They just keep doing what they're doing and hope to eventually ram through whatever brick wall is in their way.
When it comes to Doc's stubborness, a lot of folks would probably point to his continual playing of Bradley over Moore. I actually like Bradley and I don't think Moore would be any sort of cureall, but I don't believe there's another coach in the league who wouldn't have at least given Moore a shot with how awful Bradley has looked at times this year.
I think Doc's stubborness is most evident, however, in the way he's fallen in love with using KG and Bass together on the court. In the last game, Dallas played their two sub-mediocre centers a combined 47 minutes while Doc played Boston's 3 centers a combined 28 minutes. Now, 22 minutes might be just right for JO, but given the matchups last night and how Boston was getting KILLED on the glass, what possible reason was there for only playing Wilcox and the Steamer 6 total minutes? And why would you equally split those minutes between them, given how Wilcox has played and how Steamer has played? KG needs to play alonside a traditional center. Bass, much like Baby before him, needs to play alongside a traditional center. If playing KG or Bass created some huge mismatch on the offensive end and the team was taking advantage of it, that's one thing. But to not recognize that KG's lack of mass and Bass's below average rebounding is a big problem when they play against the other team's center is just stubborn.
Mike
