Glad the greatest GM in history saw that Jimmy was the perfect fit to get the Heat into the Finals and mentor Bam into a star. I suspect Tatum’s on the Melo career path and this conference final is as close as he’ll ever get while he’s doomed to tour the league putting up meaningless stats as the #1 on mediocre teams.

So you can make the Finals with Jimmy Butler.

Tatum not deciding to play until the 2nd qtr was a bigger detriment than anything Stevens did.

Big players need to play big the entire game.

I’m a big Tatum fan, but shitting the bed in the first qtr the last 3 games ruined the Celtics chances.

Would you give Stevens one more chance?

Or can him now?

I'd lean towards canning him now. Partially because of who I think he is as a coach but mostly because of which coaches are currently on the market. There are a lot of good coaches on the market at present.

When you look at the last 2 years with him as coach his teams have tended to quit on him. They should have beaten Miami and they were much better than Toronto also and went to 7 games, needing a defensive stop at the end in order to pull that series out.

They laid down against Milwaukee last season also.

I don't like his in game adjustments and his team tends to play a little bit too undisciplined at times. Particularly in key moments.

He gets exposed against the better coaches in the NBA all of the time.

I posted this on Facebook (Button 48) and I just keep adding a year every time they lose.

Boston Celtics: 2016-2020 NBA biggest collection of accumulated assets that never won anything Champions.

Giannis, Luka, Wembanyama ... gonna be a minute before an American wins MVP again