Boston Celtics: 5 reasons to be excited for 2019-20 NBA season
By Adam Taylor
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Brad Stevens is an educated man, a brilliant basketball mind capable of swinging the fortunes of a game with the most minute of details. But he’s not a miracle worker, a coach can only perform their duties if the team executes their instructions on the court. You can lead a horse to water …
Coach Stevens learned this lesson the hard way. For the first time in his NBA career the players were not all on the same page. Instructions were seemingly ignored, cliques had formed in the locker room and individual agendas reigned supreme.
No wonder the front office prioritized personality as much as the talent coming into the summer.
Things are different now, the team is filled with young hungry guys and veterans determined to prove they are capable of more.
Even the coaching staff has been improved following the addition of Kara Lawson as an assistant coach, a phenomenal basketball mind who will command the respect of the locker room.
New faces both on the court and with the coaching staff provide the opportunity for growth, the Boston Celtics can no longer rely on Al Horford running dribble hand-offs at the top of the key or Kyrie Irving’s magician-like handles to get out of a double team.
Stevens and the players need each other now, both parties have something to prove — to show last year was just a speed bump in the bigger plan.
A team everyone loves to hate, they need to find the solidarity that saw them win an unfathomable amount of comeback games two years prior.
Chemistry can make or break a season, it’s exciting to think of the possibilities that lie ahead should this roster and coaching team learn from past mistakes.