Brad Stevens spoke to the media on Thursday, touching on a lot of subjects. But the biggest stories are keeping Joe Mazzulla as head coach, and why the team believes in him, they way the team played versus how he envisioned it looking, and how the new collective bargaining agreement will impact him. John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal was there asking questions and shares what Stevens said, and also explains why it’s what he didn’t say that you have to listen to.
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I am really curious to see how we do moving on. The same feeling I had when Brady left: pure curiosity and moderate expectations. Great job once again, John!
Thanks for the ♿️ Brad …!!!!
#BackToTheDoldrums4Boston
#ManagementOrchestratedDecline
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T shirt game = 🔥! And keep up the good work, brother. The only solace after such a big letdown is your podcast and a couple others like it.
First does the players really want to be coached by Joe?
Are all these players willing to sacrifice their own pride to listen to a non proven coach.
If you beef up his coaching staff for sure all of his hires are still young and inexperienced
And if he gets a senior assistant coach, does that coach want to be a subordinate
That "interim" status should have never been removed unless he has proven something. At least he could easily replace Joe in the off season once he fails
Great Wiggy impersonation at the end 😉
At the end of the day, they ran out of gas. Let’s not forget that Mazzulla sticking to guns both got Celtics into a hole vs Phily…and also got them out of it.
It nearly worked again Vs Heat. But watching Smart bring up the ball, then Brown bring up the ball, then Tatum, then Horford, then White….where is the structure to put the team into offence to get those easier looks? Was none.
His petulant, defiant response to the post-game question about whether he had thought about changing something when the shots weren’t falling in first qtr, was ridiculous.
Everybody hates the offense being reliant on shooting 3s. I am all for balance on offense and playing defense. How do you get kids and coaches to play basketball that is not reliant on shooting 3s. It is position less basketball today. Bigs are playing further away from the basketball.
There's a big difference between the first half of the season ball movement catch and shoot wide open threes and the second half of the season iso hike up a prayer threes. Hard to fathom why they regressed so much after the All Star break. Sounds like Brad doesn't know why either.
believe in Joe- did you see Denver vs Miami -you can't believe in Joe
we are noiw permanently an also ran – never win a championship with a coach like Joe and players like this
Great pod today! Looking forward to Keith on Monday and Tuesday. I enjoy the CBA knowledge—it makes me a smarter fan.
if thye philosophically disagree why in the world would he extend and keep Joe????
The Celtics should hire you as the Director of Sanity and Calming. Your job is to actually think of what's going on and give a level headed interpretation for the rest of us lol.
Does John respond to Twitter dms ?
I said the finals would be over in 5 games because the Heat don’t have the talent nor the size to compete with the Nuggets. As a Celtics fan it pisses me off because you see these role players stop having an outer body experience from 3. And the Nuggets did what the Celtics refused to do, take advantage and abuse the mismatches on the inside for easy buckets. For Mazzula if he’s gonna keep this shoot 3s until we die type of offense then they need actual 3 point specialist on the floor. There’s nobody on this team outside of Hauser that specializes in 3pt shooting, we have guys that are capable of making open 3s and having a hot hand from time to time but nobody on this team is amazing from 3, we have to have variety in how we score buckets, and KEEP DEFENSE FIRST because seeing Duncan Robinson get east back door layups and beating guys off the dribble is unacceptable
Any NBA head coach or assistant would have gotten the Celtics to the conference finals with that roster. You don't get any credit for losing in the conference finals. Getting to the conference finals wasn't the goal.
Watching last night Denver did what Boston should of done but for some reason they just don't play ball against Miami. It's ridiculous. Two years in a row of shoulda couldas. Another agonizing wait for the start if next season. 😔 Thanks again for your work on the podcasts will continue tuning in.
Dream assistant coaches team, Sam Cassell, Jamie Young and JJ Redick. I don’t know if JJ can coach but he knows the game. Cassell and Young have been in Boston before.
Do not trade Brogdon
Sick shirt John