Or maybe the players were so checked out and pissed off at Stevens/Ainge that they didn’t care/have any passion towards the franchise.
Anywho, this completely changes Stevens’s aura. The fact that Kemba Walker - a very likable guy and great teammate - wanted out from Stevens is incredibly telling. Stevens will get another gig, but he burned a lot of bridges.
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It seems to that this guy was deified aroud here waaaayyyy too early in his career. Anyone else agree?
I think he was admittedly impressive in getting Butler to back-to-back championship games. It's rare to do that in a power conference, much less as a mid major.
But... yes. He immediately became everyone's hot new thing. If he had parlayed that into a run at a bigger college, I feel it would have justified more hype.
Having said all that, I certainly don't fault him for skipping several rungs on the job ladder to get to a dream job in the sport.
This “article” is nothing more than gossip and innuendo from a few disgruntled players who are looking to deflect blame for their own shortcomings and failure to perform up to expectations.
So what else is new in today’s NBA? This is far from unique to the Celtics. In fact it’s nothing short of a league-wide epidemic.
Exactly. It strikes me as beyond laughable that some people are assigning great meaning to the fact that the Celtics players didn’t challenge Kyrie to a fight or attack his character and integrity via the media simply because he put his foot down on a cartoonish image on the basketball court.
It is an informed guess. Ainge is gone, Stevens is no longer the coach, reports of player tension -- these indicate an organizational problem. Anyway for Tatum's sake I hope it gets resolved.
Yeah. This sounds right. Ainge was going to get fired, Stevens underperformed and likely had a few falling outs with players, and ownership wanted to right the ship. So why not get rid of Ainge, put Stevens in a non-coaching role with the opportunity to go back to coaching in a year or so, and bring in a player's coach.
Celtics have two young All-Star wings. One of those may be a 1st/2nd team All-NBA in a year or so. They have nice pieces in Time Lord, Smart, Moses, and Fournier. Can they do a soft reset?
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill
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