Wallace is right, Stevens is not an NBA coach, and Crawford is poison.

[The_Chief]

Wallace is telling the truth. The Celtics guards are playing like a bunch of prima donna, free agency bound, SELFISH, b-list ballers. Avery Bradley and Courtney Lee have a combined 7 assists in 104 min. played....shooting .296 and .467, respectively. Crawford has 6 assists, but he starts the offense with 10 seconds left in the clock after squaring up the other guard...like he's the unacknowledged heir to Chris Paul.

Stevens is lost. We collapsed after building a 22 point lead...against the Bucks. He had no idea how to stop the blitz when it came. He allowed showboating at the guard. Our only true PG, Phil Pressey, has gotten 4...YES, 4 min. so far. I dread this moneyball boy's inability to adapt in real time.

At least I had a nice end to the night, watching The Truth swat LBJ...and finish him off at the line. I hope Wyc and DA got a good short profit for selling out Celtics Pride. 
 
Wallace's comment

[Eddie20]

2 games down and the verdict on Stevens has already been rendered by the naysayers.

[hwangjini_1]

this thread after two games?

please, dont over react too much.

next, your thread title states that wallace says crawford is poison. would you please provide a link to this quote by wallace. i would very much like to see where wallace states that his team mate is poison.

thank you.

[Tr1boy]

Wallace is telling the truth. The Celtics guards are playing like a bunch of prima donna, free agency bound, SELFISH, b-list ballers. Avery Bradley and Courtney Lee have a combined 7 assists in 104 min. played....shooting .296 and .467, respectively. Crawford has 6 assists, but he starts the offense with 10 seconds left in the clock after squaring up the other guard...like he's the unacknowledged heir to Chris Paul.

Stevens is lost. We collapsed after building a 22 point lead...against the Bucks. He had no idea how to stop the blitz when it came. He allowed showboating at the guard. Our only true PG, Phil Pressey, has gotten 4...YES, 4 min. so far. I dread this moneyball boy's inability to adapt in real time.

At least I had a nice end to the night, watching The Truth swat LBJ...and finish him off at the line. I hope Wyc and DA got a good short profit for selling out Celtics Pride. 
 
Wallace's comment

Super negative way to think about things. Instead lets try to flip it and think about it , this way

- Game 2 was better than Game 1. Especially the early start remedied alot of issues the team had in game 1 starting slow out of the gate.

- Pachulia is a dirtbag. He started the comeback but it was BS how the refs fell for his acting. Falling everywhere and getting calls.

- Not having a true pg or a leader out on the floor is a killer. Last year without Rondo , you still had PP and KG directing the flow on the offense. Michael Carter Williams only a rookie but a pg still is a huge reason why the 76rs are 3-0.

- Faverani starting is a blessing. Where did we find this guy??


The team is going to improve. And if we don't then we will have to start making trades and let the youngters take over the team. It's as simple as that

[BudweiserCeltic]

Am I supposed to consider Courtney Lee shooting 46.7% from the field as a bad thing?

[D.o.s.]

I love playing "conflating losses and post-game quotes with my own opinions on various NBA players and staff." 

[Onslaught]

THROW HIM OUT! I can't believe we're not 2-0 with this stacked team he's coaching.



Sometimes it's difficult to tell when someone is being sarcastic on-line. I want you to understand that I'm being VERY sarcastic right now.

[BballTim]

Wallace is telling the truth. The Celtics guards are playing like a bunch of prima donna, free agency bound, SELFISH, b-list ballers. Avery Bradley and Courtney Lee have a combined 7 assists in 104 min. played....shooting .296 and .467, respectively. Crawford has 6 assists, but he starts the offense with 10 seconds left in the clock after squaring up the other guard...like he's the unacknowledged heir to Chris Paul.

Stevens is lost. We collapsed after building a 22 point lead...against the Bucks. He had no idea how to stop the blitz when it came. He allowed showboating at the guard. Our only true PG, Phil Pressey, has gotten 4...YES, 4 min. so far. I dread this moneyball boy's inability to adapt in real time.

At least I had a nice end to the night, watching The Truth swat LBJ...and finish him off at the line. I hope Wyc and DA got a good short profit for selling out Celtics Pride. 
 
Wallace's comment

  Are you somehow under the impression that Bradley and Lee were assist machines when Doc was the coach? Because that's not really what happened.

[tabletz19]

Wallace is telling the truth. The Celtics guards are playing like a bunch of prima donna, free agency bound, SELFISH, b-list ballers. Avery Bradley and Courtney Lee have a combined 7 assists in 104 min. played....shooting .296 and .467, respectively. Crawford has 6 assists, but he starts the offense with 10 seconds left in the clock after squaring up the other guard...like he's the unacknowledged heir to Chris Paul.

Stevens is lost. We collapsed after building a 22 point lead...against the Bucks. He had no idea how to stop the blitz when it came. He allowed showboating at the guard. Our only true PG, Phil Pressey, has gotten 4...YES, 4 min. so far. I dread this moneyball boy's inability to adapt in real time.

At least I had a nice end to the night, watching The Truth swat LBJ...and finish him off at the line. I hope Wyc and DA got a good short profit for selling out Celtics Pride. 
 
Wallace's comment

I just registered just to reply to this thread. It's way too early to judge him. Insert Rondo in the lineup the last two games and the Celtics surely would have won both games. Both games were close and a fairly young team without a closer will lose both games regardless of who their coach is. You can also make an argument that he should have played Pressey but ask these question, if Doc is stil the coach, would he play Pressey last game? or even in the Toronto game? Will he even play Olynyk? Brooks?

[pokeKingCurtis]

Overreact much?

[The Rondo Show]

I love it

[beklog]

2 games down and the verdict on Stevens has already been rendered by the naysayers.

will not be surprised if they become Heat fans when we got another loss

[The_Chief]

2 games down and the verdict on Stevens has already been rendered by the naysayers.

will not be surprised if they become Heat fans when we got another loss

My family had season tickets, or a spot in a skybox, from 1984-2009. Get stuffed, child. You're too young to understand the meaning of true Celtic Pride.

As for this being "too early" to criticize Stevens...this is not a criticism of Stevens. He should be pushing Butler toward the final four next March. Myself, and my old C's fan buddies, have felt dejected since we heard of Danny's astoundingly lonnnnng contract with him. The reason coaches do a stint at Assistant Coach first...is to be mentored into a very different game. Let's not teach some young turk how to fly a 747 with a full load of passengers. Anyway, enjoy your flight...I'm not going to sit here and rub my lucky shamrock, like some of y'all.

I said Crawford is poison because he is everything in a player that a Celtic should not be. He doesn't listen, he won't be humbled, he looks to shoot first...then crossover slash 2nd, and he constantly dribbles around and hoists up a shot as the clock is set to expire from 5 feet behind the 3-point line. He is essentially the same dude we watched in Atlanta and Washington. He reminds me of a bad Kobe...but again, feel free to go buy this sorry piece of trade bait's jersey.

Anyway, glad to see the general populous here is keeping their fingers crossed. I see this as a bespoke squad, designed solely to descend down and grab Wiggins. I love Wallace's honesty, and wish he could find his shot. Crash was one of the league's most electric stars before he was passed from one bad coach to another...to another.

One final thought: Danny will absolutely trade Rondo in the next 365 days if he can get the right price. Don't fawn at the arsonist that just torched your house down, I say. I'm not just unleashing negative comments. I'm pointing out how methodically this team is designed to be in the bottom 5 this year.

[ben]

I actually enjoy watching Crawford play.  He should eat more minutes away from Lee and Bradley.  He is a better passer than both of them, and bradley exerts so much energy with his style of play it makes sense to send him out full force but less minutes.  I can't stand watching lee playing ever

this thread is silly anyway.  game 2 was better then 1.  Our starting unit systematically built a lead on another NBA team.  It was great.  They just need to continue that in the 4th quarter.  And our second unit needs to AGGRESSIVELY pick up their defense.  Which is why it might make sense to let crawford start, and let bradley come in and go CRAZY on those opposing second unit PGs   I love it when he disrupts the other teams offense and effectively shrinks their shot clock time.  It does wonders. 

Stevens will be great.  I like his rotations (except for the bradley/crawford/lee thing above)  and look forward to detroit.  bleeding green. 

[LarBrd33]

Chill out.  When you put together a talentless squad of rejects lead by a rookie coach, you're likely not going to win more than 25 games.  You then can't act butthurt and shocked when the team does the inevitable and wins 25 games.  This is what it is.  Danny tanked the season for our long-term future. Either embrace the process and strap in for the long winter... or ignore the team.  Round peg/square hole... this team sucks by design.  Danny intentionally set them up to fail.  Stevens has a 6 year contract and if he's still struggling by year 5, feel free to stomp your feet.  Until then, deal with it.