Celtics 2021 Offseason

Jason Kidd has head coaching experience with multiple teams, coaching NBA stars. I also respect the hell out of him for becoming an assistant. It shows he wants to do everything in his power to become a good coach. Given his money and career opportunities I respect that. He'd certainly get the players respect. I don't remember enough about his coaching to know if he's the right coach though.

Lloyd Pierce isn't getting everyone's respect the minute he walks in the door. He needs some time under a great head coach in my opinion. Seems like an option for assist coach. Yet that's just going off his wiki page and his recent stint as the Hawks coach.

You need to right coach for our young guys that are already stars.

the way this roster is presently constructed, there shouldnt be much to do this offseason outside of picking a new coach, which will allow this transition to be somewhat smooth. trading kemba away right now is draft/roster suicide and moving any of the promising young guys will be a nightmare to try and match salaries with another team. maybe you can move smart/tt but that'd really be about it in terms of player shake-ups. we'll probably just see little deals like jabari parker and hopefully a really good value pick in the draft (like they ALWAYS do - danny haters kindly stfu).

Honestly I'd make a run at Becky Hammon. Comes from the Popovich tree, high basketball IQ, still pretty young and reports are that she's pretty chill, you don't need someone coming in and shouting at Brown and Smart.

Someone mentioned Kara Lawson as well. Was with the C's for a couple of years.

Hammon, Cassell, L Pierce, or Juwan Howard would all be fine by me

I could see the Spurs ponying up and giving Hammon a big raise and promise though.

That would be great but she just got the Duke gig, I doubt she's an option.

I dig Taylor Jenkins as a coach, Woj said to keep an eye on people still coaching in the playoffs

The Celtics are not in win now mode. The focus should be on a coach that can instill a good offensive system like we had in the earlier Stevens years. That's the main thing we lacked, it's tough to fault too much our defense when it was pedestrian even with the shifting personnel. But the offense was absolutely GONE. They don't need experience, they need someone with a long term plan on offense.

So you think they are what rebuilding?  100% they are in win now mode. I really can't believe you just said that. They might not be in sell the farm win at all cost mode, yet if you aren't trying to win now you're stupid. That's how you get players asking to be traded.

Steven's had a system, he either changed it or the players just tuned him out. I don't know the full story, yet I'm rather confident that will come out shortly.

I guess if you want to rebuild experience doesn't matter, I think that’s crazy.

I really want head coaching experience, yet if you want to throw that out, yeah Chauncey Billups seems like a great choice. I can see him becoming a Doc Rivers type coach. He's going to have the players respect and if he coaches the way he played, you have to love that.

They're not rebuilding, they're BUILDING. Tatum is 23, Brown is 24. Win now is probably 2-3 years away.

Just to clarify here so there's no confusing what I'm saying, I think every move they make should be one to improve the team. They flat out need more talent and they need to figure out what the heck they will do with Kemba. However, there shouldn't be any pressure to win the next season considering how young the core is. That's why they should value any coach that can bring in a system they want to put in place, not someone who can get them to overachieve or shout at them really hard.

They need an identity. Sure, ideally a proven coach is always preferential, but those are harder to come by and I'd rather take a shot at someone with no experience like Hammon and even Billups than someone with meh experience like Kidd and Pierce as long as they come in with a long term plan.