How has the Celtics Coaching staff been upgrade for this year? An style of play?

OldCeltics · Post #1 » by **OldCeltics** » Sun Oct 8, 2023 12:25 am

Sam Cassel
Joe Mazzulla - In 2nd year as head coach should improve
Who else?

What other additions have they made? Defensive coach, offensive coach, shooting coach, health and training, etc?
I'm just curious besides the players, if there has been significant upgrade in coaching staff. Anyone brought in with experience

But also i'm curious if anyone knows what Joe Mazulla is planning in terms of style of play changes. I heard he wanted to run more plays through Tatum, maybe as point forward, and play more zone on D. But the plans may have changed with acquisition of Holiday. Any insight on this?

Post #2 » by **SuperDeluxe** » Sun Oct 8, 2023 1:01 am

Charles Lee is the other lead assistant hired this summer. Cassell and Lee are arguably two of the top lead assistants in the league, both prime candidates to be head coaches at some point. Here or elsewhere? Only gawd knows.

So yes, the coaching staff has been upgraded big time this offseason.

Post #3 » by **165bows** » Sun Oct 8, 2023 1:13 am

Think it’s fair to say they want more flexibility and options in play style. They’ve been very very good the past two years but elite teams have been able to stalemate their strengths and make them look mediocre.

Hal14 · Post #4 » by **Hal14** » Sun Oct 8, 2023 2:20 am

SuperDeluxe wrote:Charles Lee is the other lead assistant hired this summer. Cassell and Lee are arguably two of the top lead assistants in the league, both prime candidates to be head coaches at some point. Here or elsewhere? Only gawd knows.

So yes, the coaching staff has been upgraded big time this offseason.

Yes.

We did have 2 very solid assistants last year (who may end up being NBA coaches in the next 3 years or so) Stoudemire and Sullivan. But it's safe to say that:

a) Lee and Cassell is an upgrade over Stoudemire and Sullivan

b) Stoudemire (our top assistant, he's the one who filled in as HC when Mazzulla had eye illness) left the team right before the playoffs to take a college head coaching job..so right there, it's an upgrade to replace him with someone who (you would think) will actually stay with the team all season and all through the playoffs

c) Stoudemire, Sullivan and Aaron Miles were all assistants who were hired by Udoka..all are Udoka's home boys who have been friends / worked alongside him for a long time..so all of them may have been feeling kind of weird about coaching alongside this guy (Mazzulla) who they barely knew, who was replacing their home boy, who got suspended in a controversial way...so it's good we were able to wipe the slate clean and start fresh with new guys who are not Udoka's home boys, by bringing in Cassell, Lee, Amile Jefferson and Phil Pressey.

captain green · Post #5 » by **captain green** » Mon Oct 9, 2023 5:02 am

After kornet the weakest link on this Celtics team is arguably Joe "blow's it" mazulla.

Patsfan1081 · Post #6 » by **Patsfan1081** » Mon Oct 9, 2023 5:06 am

Hal14 wrote:
SuperDeluxe wrote:Charles Lee is the other lead assistant hired this summer. Cassell and Lee are arguably two of the top lead assistants in the league, both prime candidates to be head coaches at some point. Here or elsewhere? Only gawd knows.

So yes, the coaching staff has been upgraded big time this offseason.

Yes.

We did have 2 very solid assistants last year (who may end up being NBA coaches in the next 3 years or so) Stoudemire and Sullivan. But it's safe to say that:

a) Lee and Cassell is an upgrade over Stoudemire and Sullivan

b) Stoudemire (our top assistant, he's the one who filled in as HC when Mazzulla had eye illness) left the team right before the playoffs to take a college head coaching job..so right there, it's an upgrade to replace him with someone who (you would think) will actually stay with the team all season and all through the playoffs

c) Stoudemire, Sullivan and Aaron Miles were all assistants who were hired by Udoka..all are Udoka's home boys who have been friends / worked alongside him for a long time..so all of them may have been feeling kind of weird about coaching alongside this guy (Mazzulla) who they barely knew, who was replacing their home boy, who got suspended in a controversial way...so it's good we were able to wipe the slate clean and start fresh with new guys who are not Udoka's home boys, by bringing in Cassell, Lee, Amile Jefferson and Phil Pressey.

And Stoudemire left right before the playoffs started.

Jammer · Post #7 » by **Jammer** » Mon Oct 9, 2023 10:55 am

captain green wrote:After kornet the weakest link on this Celtics team is arguably Joe "blow's it" mazulla.

I'd put Joey before Kornet.

zoyathedestroya · Post #8 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Sat Oct 14, 2023 2:54 pm

Celtics added Jeff Van Gundy, apparently.

Source: https://www.nba.com/celtics/team/coaching-staff

zoyathedestroya · Post #9 » by **zoyathedestroya** » Mon Oct 16, 2023 5:33 pm

Dunno where to put this but it appears the Celtics added this guy to their coaching staff:

Read on Twitter

Hal14 · Post #10 » by **Hal14** » Mon Oct 16, 2023 6:10 pm

Yeah I've seen that guy (Bucknor) in some videos from practice and wasn't sure who it was.

Age 39. Played 11 seasons overseas. His last pro season was 2 years ago.

He's from Canada.

Looking at this overseas stats, he was probably a PF who was pretty good at hitting 3's..and also a pretty good rebounder. From the clips of him working with guys at practice, looks like he's still a strong dude.

Bucknor and Tony Dobbins both played college ball at Richmond. They were teammates there for 2 seasons. So no surprise to see them working together in this clip ^.