Is anyone else concerned that some of the bad habits exhibited by the Team over the past few years still exist?
- Blowing Big Leads
- Sloppy Ball Handling in key moments
- Forced shots.
- High Turnover rate in crunch time.
- Critical free throws missed.
These are issues that have plagued the Celtics during the playoffs over the past fee years.
A lot of this could be solved with a competent coach, I feel ime proved that. Joe is out of his depth. He might have a bright future, but this is a win now team and there’s no time for waiting for him to iron out creases like not calling timeouts and letting the guys figure out what isn’t working. 17-0 runs shouldn’t happen on any team. Period. No team should concede 17 points without a single point of their own. The coach has to be on the hot seat, because although it’s a positive they’re in a good position still with a positive record, they’re making really bad mistakes that aren’t being resolved. They’re issues that predate Joe, so he isn’t solely responsible, but he’s not seeming to even remedy them. But beyond Joe, jaylen really needs to pull his finger out and pass the ball, he showed improvement as a playmaker against millwuakee but then falls straight back into bad habits the very next game, at that point it’s a choice to play bad. JT needs to stay aggressive in the second half, he comes out great most games but disappears almost entirely most 4th quarters. Above all else this team needs to stop playing down to their competition, because it’s costs them every single time. They can’t just come out and think it’s gonna be an easy night, no team want to roll over and let a highly coveted team kick them about, it’s a bigger deal to the lesser teams to beat a super team like Boston they want to win those games. It’s still early, but as far as I’m concerned this still isn’t a championship team and won’t be until JB is moved. Not because he isn’t a great player, because he is and that’s already been proven, but because he’s redundant on a team with JT they don’t compliment each others games at all. One does everything better than the other, and that results in them taking turns iso playing and one has to just float about in the corner. They’ve had their moments as a duo and have been great statistically, but the eye test proves they’re not winning together. It’s frustrating because the front office play the whole “we want to win now” but don’t seem willing to make the move that will win now, and that’s to spilt them up. If they don’t win this year, which I’m sure they won’t, something’s gotta give.