How ex-Knicks head coach (Tom Thibodeau) helped Celtics in ‘awesome’ preseason visit
Thibs did this for Brad as well – IIRC, this was in the in-between time between his Chicago and Minny jobs. He’s a basketball lifer and generous with his knowledge – it just depends on teams being willing to ask for it.
Thibs, to me, will always be a Celtic (coach) because he was the lead assistant on the 2008 team and was in that role all the way to the 2010 Finals run.
Thibs is such a basketball guy. We’re so lucky to have a team that’s well-respected enough for Thibs to drop by in this scenario AND to have stars like JB that want to hear about their weaknesses so they can get better. Let’s fucking go. Fun article Boston Herald
Seems like another Stan Van Gundy special roving consigliere opportunity
Jeff?
Yes - Ooops. Everyone knows what I meant though! 😁
They could never make me hate Thibs.
Seems a perfect opportunity for a and b team coaches…Ie a series of practices for 5x5 where they pick coaches and go 1st and 2nd teams go against each other in practice. Happens a bit in the NFL, don’t know I’ve heard of a similar practice in the NBA. Scheduling would be a lot tougher, but you have preseason, the break for the nba cup and all star game.
Would be an amazing assistant coach if he’s in limbo for HC opportunities.
Still one of the best defensive minds in the league and arguably the architect for modern 3P defences.
Thibodeau must envy Mazzulla so much, he upset the Celtics, made it to G6 of ECF then gets canned, yet Celtics fans want to act like the Knicks series never happened or blame it on the Tatum injury, and Mazzulla goes blame free, despite refusing to make in game adjustments….. 2 of the last 3 seasons the Celtics have lost playoff series to teams they should have beaten.
And they also won a ring recently. That counts for a lot. Hell, look at Doc Rivers.
Yes, I actually like Mazzulla a lot, and want him as our coach long term, however it’s amazing how Celtics fans are so quick to absolve him of any criticism for losing a series to the inferior Knicks, that disgraceful series loss was on Joe…. not to mention Joe inherited a stacked Celtics team fresh off a Finals appearance, then lost to an inferior Miami team in 2023,
I want Joe as the Celtics coach, cause the team plays hard for him, and he’s close with Tatum, keeping him happy and here long term….. however …. when he fucks up, I’m gonna call him out on it.
I mean Tatum twisted his ankle on the first play in the Miami series when we had all the momentum, but we should have never been down 3-0 in the first place so I can see both sides.
shoulda beat the cavs in 18, warriors in 2022, heat in 2023, knicks in 2025
Warriors no, Cavs maybe
Thibs’ players were half-dead because he literally plays them 45 mins a game
People have been wanting Thibs prevented from being allowed to be a head coach for years now because of how he handles rotations
Yet they still beat the Celtics cause Mazzulla had the team jacking up 3 after 3 after 3 after 3, non-stop, cause according to Joe 3pt point shot rate is the most important stat in basketball. If you are a 40% shooter, and missed your first 6, that must mean you’ll make the nexts 4 right? That’s the game Mazzulla plays all day to the detriment of the team.
D White was looking like Marcus Smart with his horrid shot selection jacking up and bricking 3 after 3 in the first couple games against the Knicks, it was terrible. I love D. White, and even though he was adhering to his coach’s philosophy, White shoulda known better than to keep brickin those 3’s
Why doesn’t Mazzulla get criticized like Thibs ?
Might be less that people are absolving him of blame and more that they are reacting to the reflexive coach blames that think every loss could have been a win of the team did something different than what they did.
Lmao you must not have watched the series…
Come home thibs
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Give me them secret codes
if every celtics fan does the konami code at once JT’s achilles heals immediately and fully
Glad he’s going to visit more
Can somebody please post the article
Would someone be able to give a little summary of the article?
I don’t live in Boston so not paying to get thru that paywall