Post by jmost on Nov 4, 2021 7:15:12 GMT -5
The Boston Globe has a report about the players-only meeting between the Bulls game and the Orlando game, in which Woj quotes a player as saying it was "Perhaps not a terribly productive meeting. Maybe not even beneficial."
"According to Wojnarowski, the problems for the Celtics are nothing new. Last season’s team had problems as well, and in the Disney World Bubble, the Celtics had a locker-room meltdown. Per reporters who were there, players could be heard yelling and likely throwing things at each other.
“These are issues with this team and this group that have been going on for a while,” Wojnarowski said. “They changed the president in Boston. They changed the head coach. These issues remain and now at 2-5 and playing the Magic tonight, Ime Udoka — the first year Boston head coach — this is a situation he has to address and help this team work through the way that Brad Stevens and it haunted his regime, especially near the end last season.”
So, this goes beyond who's passing the ball enough. There is friction between personalities. My guess is that it's some combination of JB, JT and Smart, with my money on JB and JT being on one side and Smart on the other. I never realized things were this bad. It may be what drove Brad from the bench. In any case, whatever is going on continued from last year in to this new season and it has to be resolved - probably by trading someone.
I think Smart will be gone by this year's trade deadline.
www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2021/11/03/celtics-emotional-players-meeting/?p1=hp_featurestack
"According to Wojnarowski, the problems for the Celtics are nothing new. Last season’s team had problems as well, and in the Disney World Bubble, the Celtics had a locker-room meltdown. Per reporters who were there, players could be heard yelling and likely throwing things at each other.
“These are issues with this team and this group that have been going on for a while,” Wojnarowski said. “They changed the president in Boston. They changed the head coach. These issues remain and now at 2-5 and playing the Magic tonight, Ime Udoka — the first year Boston head coach — this is a situation he has to address and help this team work through the way that Brad Stevens and it haunted his regime, especially near the end last season.”
So, this goes beyond who's passing the ball enough. There is friction between personalities. My guess is that it's some combination of JB, JT and Smart, with my money on JB and JT being on one side and Smart on the other. I never realized things were this bad. It may be what drove Brad from the bench. In any case, whatever is going on continued from last year in to this new season and it has to be resolved - probably by trading someone.
I think Smart will be gone by this year's trade deadline.
www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2021/11/03/celtics-emotional-players-meeting/?p1=hp_featurestack