sully00 wrote:Green89 wrote:sully00 wrote:Going to be surprised if it isn't Jerome Allen. He is a former player, former NCAA HC, and has been Brad's assistant for 6 years and reportedly turned down an interview if not job to stay in Boston for this opportunity. It isn't exciting but it gives continuity as your restructure the FO.
That said there is some talk that guys who are currently coaching in the Playoffs are interested in talking to Boston not sure if these are former HC's that are currently assistants or if they are HC's expecting to be let go or pending FA's.
With how bad our offense has looked, I would prefer it not to be anyone on the current staff that was a part of all that. The league is all offense now and we need someone who can keep up. If he couldn't help with getting Tatum to defeat double team's, than how would he be as HC?
I still think that is a personnel issue more than a system issue. This team's best line up Tatum/Brown/Smart/Walker/RWilliams played 110 mins together this season the starting line up of Tatum/Brown/Theis/Walker/Thompson played 130. The year before Boston had 3 different 5 man units that played more than that together. I felt like they had started to figure it out just when they lost Brown. While I welcome upgrades I actually would like to see this core get to play together healthy and see what it can do.
While the overall results were a disappointment I think the development of Tatum and Brown was pretty fantastic and Allen is credited with a lot of that. They are both really efficient well rounded players.
What concerns me is what happened in ATL at the start of this season. ATL brought in all of these new pieces and a new coach and Pierce is supposed to be a guy who knows what he is doing and it was a **** show. Bad offense and Bad defense and this is with veteran guys.
While Hayward was a big part of who Boston was two years ago that was damn good offensive and defensive team. I think the focus should be to get back to that ball club not try and change up completely what has worked to get Tatum and Brown to the level they are at.
Well, Atlanta had some injury problems. Gallo and Bogdanovic were injured, so Pierce had to play some younger lesser guys (I think we all know how that is). They were 14-20 when he was fired and they got hot after those two returned, no surprise. Pierce had a somewhat mediocre relationship with Trae. I think Pierce got on him a lot about his defense (or lack thereof) and Trae began to get in his feelings about it. That was a team with a lot of young players too. Guys just learning how to play and learning to be accountable. In addition, (and this part is definitely speculation), there was a feeling by some around the league that Pierce's social justice activism off the court was rubbing local people the wrong way. He backed the Atlanta Dream players when they spoke out about Kelly Loeffler and on other issues in the state of Georgia which has been a hotbed of political debate in the last few years. Some believe there may have been a little pressure to finally move on from him after the slow start. Again, I want to state that I can confirm none of this is true but some pundits openly wondered. Stephen A chief among them for example FWIW.
