May 11, 2008
What Joins the Boston Celtics and the Cleveland Cavaliers
…is bad Coaching. Both the Celtics and the Cav are currently underachieving due to coaches with little to no substance.
Doc Rivers And The Boston Celtics
Really, you don’t think my mouth is big? Look at that shit! Your momma could stick her whole pussy in that shit! Why’re you lookin at the court, look at my mouth, son!
While the Celtics lived up to all the hype during the regular season, posting the NBA’s best record, they have yet to win a playoff game on the road. And when you have three experienced veterans who all been to at least a conference finals, that’s inexcusable. When it comes to blame, I look no further than Doc Rivers. All season long I had laughed at how easy it was for the Celtics to beat their opponents. They relied on isolation plays and leaned on the fact that they had two dominant scorers and one MVP candidate. They played like the failed Team USA’s of the past, a collage of individual effort. And at home, in the garden, that can get you a win, because those 17 to 20 footers will fall. But on the road, this won’t work all the time, especially not in the playoffs when teams key in on defense. On the road, a team needs to have the confidence and execution to score close to the bucket with consistency.
You can’t just rely on Paul Pierce to isolate on the road and expect to win. All year, I cant remember seeing a Paul Pierce / Kevin Garnett pick and roll play. The simplest play in basketball, with two guys who have executed it to success their entire career, and I haven’t seen it once all year. When you need easy buckets to slow down a hot team at home, you need to employ simple, team basketball. And although Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett are consummate professionals, it seems they’ve forgotten how to do this on the road. But that’s not why they make money - they make money to play ball. Your coach is supposed to get paid to think.
At any rate, the Celtics need to step it up. It’s bad enough to be black in Boston. If you’re black and you fuck up in a championship situation, no matter how good you are, you’ll get your ass let go in Boston. See: Asante Samuel. Then again, maybe this is the Celtic’s master plan… leave Boston AND fuck their chances at success.. genius!
Mike Brown and the Cleveland Cavaliers
Mike Brown loves big tits
On the Cavaliers side, I’ll say this. As good as you think Lebron James is, you really haven’t seen shit yet. If Lebron ever lands on a team with an actual basketball coach, who can form a team attack around the young, basketball-intelligent superstar, Lebron James can truly be the next “Michael Jordan,” some godly figure we’ve built up over the post-retirement years.
But you could also easily reason that Lebron is just 23. Makes all your achievements at that age seem pretty pathetic doesn’t it? The next step for Lebron has nothing to do with athleticism; it’s a deeper education of basketball that he needs. All the great players have been under equally great coaches at some point in their career; Lebron has yet to be with a coach of any real stature. And for the past three years, whenever I watch the Cavs play, I always find myself asking,
What exactly does Mike Brown do to make his paycheck?
I never see these guys running any plays, whatsoever. They play hard D, they run the break, and then in the half court, they pass it to Lebron, who improvises. Lebron James, for his entire life (save for Team USA appearances) has basically been able to do whatever he wants on the court. If he could play in a system where he could score off the ball as well as with the dribble, he could become even more dominant. But again, these “systems” run “complex” plays, and Mike Brown doesn’t coach or run plays. At all. Until Lebron gets a real Coach, he never gets a championship, and the same go for the Celtics.
Basketball is an offensive game, and coaching it should always heavily involve running an offense. Bottom line, both these teams have unexploited talent because their coaches don’t know how to operate an offense. Phil Jackson gets hall of fame caliber talent and wins with it. Mike Brown and Doc Rivers just watch it play for them.
And here’s the best thing about Boston - that’s right, just when you thought you already heard the dumbest spelling of a name, here comes Jennafa.
-Hey man, I’d do her.














