Post#90 » by playa-hater » Fri Feb 7, 2025 4:24 pm
I was going to pull up the thread I made about 4 years or more ago. It was in reference to how Brad Stevens literally can't control his team. They do what they want when they want. And I am not even talking about the Kyrie team debacle. But over the next 2 following years. I got so much hate and push back for even suggesting anything negative over Brad. It was at that time I started using the word "accountability" or the lack thereof. It was so clearly evident. Yet posters on here CAN-NOT see what they don't want to see. It's like they look through the lenses of their heart and NOT their mind. Most of us have Binkies with players and that is OK. Players make up only 1/15 of the team or whatever. But there is only 1 HC. Well fast forward a season, a Brilliant BB mind in Stevens did indeed "step down" "Step Up" or got "Fired" for the EXACT reason I stated.
Now here we are in the present day, Our Current Coach has a team with arguably still the TOP talent in the league. And yet night in and Night out, they totally underwhelm, underperform, play some of the least inspired BB I have seen in 50ish years of Boston BB. If you are an outsider with Zero current knowledge of wins and losses, you would think Boston is a tanking team.
For those who want to put a huge portion of this absolute Crap BB on the players, I will say this. The HC, like a Police Captain is still held responsible for what goes down under "his watch". If his officers are derelict in their duties, or corrupt or dealing with other unscrupulous behaviors, it is his job to make corrections, discipline and "hold them accountable" Sure, the officers are the wrong doers, like the players, but if you stand by and do nothing, that makes you complicit just the same.
If you are a teacher and many/most of your students are failing a certain curriculum, at what point do you say, it's maybe not the students, but perhaps the teacher who is at fault?
If you have some teenage age children and the first time you go away for a weekend and leave them the house, and they end up "wrecking it" with some party, sure, that's on the teens. But if it happens again and again and again and some kid gets hurt or worse, who gets held accountable? The Parents of course.
I Know this is BB and not "life" we are talking about, so I get it. But there are very common parables here. Our team either isn't playing "hard" "motivated" "focused" or taking their opponents "serious" (quoting words often used on here) or perhaps it is more "fatigued" related. Or both. That I suspect our Coach should know more about. So how does he handle it? Does he say directly, play harder or I will put in the young "high energy players"?? Or perhaps don't even say a word and just do it. What message is he giving to the team when he witnesses players playing totally lazy or dumb or both??? "don't worry, just stay in there and "get your stats" as one poster puts it. To me that is the same as the parents who just continually let their kids run rampant, and expect a change by just using words (see news conferences as a deterrent vs actually finding ways to "hold them ACCOUNTABLE"
If fatigue is indeed a factor then (Tatum, White, Jrue, Al especially) should be rested, Much more often. Extend the young guns in the rotation (some, not all at once) and inject that much needed energy that this team needs more of than any other team I have witnessed in Forever??
But don't just stand by idly and do nothing but the same old thing over and over again, and somehow expect a different result.
My early morning Rant is now over. I expect, like Boston, for nothing to change, since posters here are embedded in their own beliefs. Until of course, it is too late to "see the light"
EDIT -making a very occasional "change" like putting in the "stay ready players" does not constitute the coach is holding anyone accountable.
2 things need to go.. my lack of spell check and Joe..
