Let's try this a different way. Just because some players felt that black coaches are underrepresented, that doesn't necessarily (or logically) preclude hiring a female coach. https://www.si.com/college/tennessee/womens-basketball/vfl-kara-lawson-among-top-candidates-for-vacant-boston-celtics-head-coach-position
Great - none of the above addresses my point (and I noticed she didn't actually get hired?). You're making a statement that's it good to focus on demographic similarities in coaching searches. You're saying that this demographic should not be "former NBA players" or "former basketball players," but more specifically a certain race of coach because the league is 70% a certain race and these two things should track with each other. Then it follows that women, Asians, etc. should expect zero representation in the coaching ranks because they only make up 0-.01% of the player population at a given time and these two things should track with each other.
Snipping to focus on this point. We had a veteran assistant. Stoudamire was that guy. He, in fact, was sufficiently qualified that a major college program hired him midseason.
We hold people we follow to unreasonable expectations around here on the regular but dragging anyone in the Cs front office for what happened with Udoka - given what is known - feels extra.
They didn’t replace Udoka or Hardy. They were already down their top 2 coaches from last year.
Shouldn’t there be some baseline respect for other posters intelligence? Is anyone on this board dragging the Celtics front office for what happened with Udoka? Literally anyone? All I’ve seen from posters here is how they handled it incredibly well.
They presumably didn’t think they needed to rush to replace Hardy. That isn’t crazy. They had Mazzulla and Stoudamire in the wings, one of whom they viewed as a future NBA head coach and one who had five years of college head coaching experience plus a playing background.
I wasn't trying to insult anyone's intelligence - that is not my intention. And you are in no way the only poster who has leveled this criticism at Stevens either - you have plenty of company including folks who clearly are posting without understanding the timeline etc.
I think the JJ example cuts the other way. Yes, they understood the situation. Yes, there were probably options out there that would’ve been desirable hires. And we know there was some effort to make such a hire. What doesn’t necessarily follow from that is the belief that there was a desirable hire they could have made and didn’t make. I’m skeptical there was and haven’t seen any evidence to support that there was.
yeah, they even got permission to talk to Larranaga, but he declined. There weren't a ton of coaches available in September who were looking for work. It stinks, but we heard they made some efforts, and you need a guy who your coach wants, and who will slot into the bench for a year not complain about working for a 34 year old, etc.
The Cs players made clear that they would prefer the hiring of a black head coach when black head coaches constituted 6 or 7 out of 30 coaches. There is nothing wrong with that and frankly in my estimation pretty reasonable. At any rate, you can argue whatever you want but I'm just stating facts.
Every coaching market in every sports league is recycling failure. Or perceived failure.
There's a verb missing in this tweet that should explain what's the deal with the IME assistants.
i read it four times trying to understand if I was missing something because I could not understand it
I understood it fine, without his own staff but with Ime assistants who are planning for new jobs in HOU next year (and implied to be checked out)
Probably because people know the actual rules? The shot is automatically reviewed in NJ for whether it's a 2 or 3 (hence why you see them throughout the game change points if it was wrong on the floor).Zero posts about the worst, most-backfiring challenge in the history of replay reviews?
You know what this thread is getting?
agreed, and in last two minutes they can review for anything—double dribble, offensive foul, stepped out. Worthwhile even if it failed, there’s a bunch of outs possible if you challenge there.
I think the challenge overall was moot and worth a try. He was going to lose it anyway and he had the timeout he needed.,
I would have hung a poster of that smirk in my office if that happened
The irrational hate for Joe never ends.Zero posts about the worst, most-backfiring challenge in the history of replay reviews?
You know what this thread is getting?
Man, this post only had to live .001 seconds before it aged poorly.Zero posts about the worst, most-backfiring challenge in the history of replay reviews?
You know what this thread is getting?
Al was "fucking terrible all night" on a night when the Heat shoot like 30% at the rim?
Also, TL was struggling on offense with the zone, he was looking lost, Al came in and we got a couple okay looks (still ran too much clock), just missed them.
The real problem is he dropped the ball and was allowed to dribble again without anyone else touching it. He lost control of the ball on his own.. should never have even been able to have got the shot off. Al was only out of position because he stopped when Jimmy picked up his dribble the first time..and then Jimmy jumped forward into his arm.
Which came 2 seconds after he turned it over to be fair.
That "egregiously stupid foul at the end" was a direct result of Jimmy Butler being allowed to double dribble. At the point Butler initially picks up the ball Horford is in a good position to defend the 3. Then, when Butler is inexplicably allowed to restart his dribble, Horford is -of course- completely out of position and ends up committing the foul.
I think you are reading things into @wade boggs chicken dinner comments that he didn't say. To state the obvious:
It was clearly a double dribble, but Al still defended the shot by going for a ball strip instead of standing straight up and letting Butler take a horribly low percentage shot (that probably would have gone in the way things were going).
