The Celtics have started the season 1-6 for lots of reasons that have nothing to do wtih the coaching staff. The roster is incredibly young and a mis-mosh of different strengths and flaws. Unlike other rebuilding projects the Celtics do not appear to have a clear approach to the team they are building. (To pick an example we've already discussed around here: the Bulls are forming a team around athletic, high-character guys who will play very high energy defense 48 minutes a game and scrap for as many points as they can get).
All that said, the coaching of this team has been lousy. The players are routinely unprepared for what other team's are going to do, look lost and confused on both offense and defense far too often, take far far too long to adjust to in-game developments, and don't seem to be playing in any sort of coherent system that takes advantage of their strengths.
The Indiana Pacers, a team that has owned us in recent years and which matches up with our current roster roster very well, comes to town tonight. We should be 1-7 going into the weekend and then face two games that should be easy wins: at home against Portland and on the road against the Knicks. If we drop either or (god forbid) both of those it's hard to imagine how much longer Doc can hold out.
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I will now accept complete credit for the all the events of the last several hours
We can clearly call off the dogs for a while. The team's first three-game win streak in several years should buy Rivers another couple months of security.
In Doc's defense (did I just type that), the Celtics' maddening inconsistency thus far is exactly what one would expect of such a young team.
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