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Well the Celtic's just got ousted from the playoffs again, not surprised there. With this loss, I'm just speculating that Brad Stevens MAY get fired. Given how so many of us think Malone is our version of Mark Jackson, were he fired, could Brad Stevens be our Steve Kerr ??? He's a truly gifted defensive coach and with a better roster like ours could he be considered ??

skywalker33 wrote:Well the Celtic's just got ousted from the playoffs again, not surprised there. With this loss, I'm just speculating that Brad Stevens MAY get fired. Given how so many of us think Malone is our version of Mark Jackson, were he fired, could Brad Stevens be our Steve Kerr ??? He's a truly gifted defensive coach and with a better roster like ours could he be considered ??

Malone got us into the playoffs. I may not like him but I seriously doubt our front office will fire him.

NuggetsWY wrote:

skywalker33 wrote:Well the Celtic's just got ousted from the playoffs again, not surprised there. With this loss, I'm just speculating that Brad Stevens MAY get fired. Given how so many of us think Malone is our version of Mark Jackson, were he fired, could Brad Stevens be our Steve Kerr ??? He's a truly gifted defensive coach and with a better roster like ours could he be considered ??

Malone got us into the playoffs. I may not like him but I seriously doubt our front office will fire him.

If I am reading the Celtic's fans correctly, they think the team quit on Stevens. Wonder why?

I am guessing that the Irving situation has just come home to roost

I doubt they fire Stevens but I also wonder if Ainge may be feeling some heat.

Malone is not getting fired this year, they would look like the biggest idiots in the league to fire him after this run. Even if Nuggets fans think we should have made the playoffs the last 2 years before this, nobody else paid enough attention to know that.

I think Stevens and the Celtics ran into a similar problem as to what we will face soon. Too many similar talent players fighting for minutes, with a constantly changing pecking order in the lineups. It does help in Denver that Millsap, Harris, Murray, Jokic, and Thomas all seem to be leaders in their own way and are all willing to sacrifice their own stats for the team while the Celtics have Irving (who I think is a bad leader), Horford, and not much else in the locker room for leadership.

Immediately after the game last night Terry Rozier was openly complaining about how much he sacrificed for the team. A backup PG is complaining about sacrificing for the team? He is a bench player, and this year has shown that is all he is, yet they cannot even get him to see why it is better to play for the team?

I put the loss on Ainge, he had to know there were major issues early in the year, we all did. He decided to hold onto everybody and every asset he could for this summer, so he cannot blame a coach for not getting the team chemistry straight when the biggest issues are that they all want their numbers and minutes but none of them clearly showed they deserved it. They needed an upgrade deal, now they have lost value.

The Rebel wrote:Malone is not getting fired this year, they would look like the biggest idiots in the league to fire him after this run. Even if Nuggets fans think we should have made the playoffs the last 2 years before this, nobody else paid enough attention to know that.

On the other hand, they did fire Karl the year he was named Coach of the Year.

Given how Karl has stumbled out of relevance and is the type to burn every bridge he can just to sell a book I'm going to say that was the right decision.

NuggetsWY wrote:

The Rebel wrote:Malone is not getting fired this year, they would look like the biggest idiots in the league to fire him after this run. Even if Nuggets fans think we should have made the playoffs the last 2 years before this, nobody else paid enough attention to know that.

On the other hand, they did fire Karl the year he was named Coach of the Year.

To be fair Karl himself said that he got in Josh's face and aggressively demanded an extension and raises for himself and his staff after flaming out in the 1st round again. Not many can keep their job getting in their bosses faces and aggressively demanding a raise.

That team did not meet expectations, and while injuries were the cause, we all know that Ujiri was not going to be fired or blamed for building an injury prone roster with Karl's record in Denver. This team has beat expectations that most had for it. Even most of us homers thought the 2nd round was the ceiling this year, while national and local analysts had them as a 7th or 8th seed at best.

My real fear is that Connelly will leave to Washington and it will somehow result in Malone gaining power over the player personnel. As I said before I hope they promote AK and bring in a new assistant GM that understands the CBA and salary cap enough to make creative moves that are legal as opposed to being embarrassed after trying to get creative and trying something illegal. I could see Malone gaining power and suddenly we have a bench full of Bartons and Plumlees with all the young bench guys traded for them.

The Rebel wrote:This team has beat expectations that most had for it. Even most of us homers thought the 2nd round was the ceiling this year, while national and local analysts had them as a 7th or 8th seed at best.

Well most of us homers didn't expect the seeding gambit to work out... we'd probably be humming a different tune this round if we were facing Houston, or even if we had met Utah in round 1.

Neither Stevens or Malone have even the slightest chance of being fired nor should they

We have the right coach

Boston’s loss should make Ainge doing something big more likely shouldn’t it?

I don’t really like the spot Boston is in.

I wouldn’t want to be the team to give rozier big money. But they’ll have to make that decision right away while tweedle dum Kyrie leaves everyone wondering

Celtics really need a big guy to move forward with.


They’ll have to dominate this draft to not be in a bad spot

skywalker33 wrote:Well the Celtic's just got ousted from the playoffs again, not surprised there. With this loss, I'm just speculating that Brad Stevens MAY get fired. Given how so many of us think Malone is our version of Mark Jackson, were he fired, could Brad Stevens be our Steve Kerr ??? He's a truly gifted defensive coach and with a better roster like ours could he be considered ??

Too good to be true if you ask me. Toronto fired 'coach of the year' last season, Bucks fired coach with special connection with their superstar, because it is obvious they are not coaches for big playoff results. Maybe some chances exist if Connelly goes to Washington and new GM have strong vision what to do. If our FO hired some better available coach last summer like Mike Budenholzer, and traded for some decent SF starter during season (Otto Porter for example) we would dreaming now after Boogie and Durant injury about franchise first ever final and ring, instead of panicking will Portland without Nurkic beat us in Sunday!?