Howard Beck

But within that, he is being more candid, I think, than 99% of head coaches right now.

So I'm not going to say keep crashing out, JJ, because if I say that, that means they're still struggling.

I'm not wishing that on him or anybody else.

But keep being you.

We appreciate the candor.

Oh yeah.

Uh, that was just like last year.

Um, somebody who I think twice his size to against Mark Williams.

So, long list of possibilities here, as it usually is.

You can usually, like, give it to, like, a third of the league, either guys who are doing an outstanding job on a great team or just guys who just surprised the hell out of us all.

And this is both.

It is Joe Mazzulla, who we referenced earlier, and I picked him, like, narrowly over Jordan Ott of the Suns.

But, like, the fact that the Celtics...

as recently as a couple of days ago, we're in second place in the Eastern conference.

I know this is a, you know, East is wide open year and all that stuff.

And then, and the Knicks were struggling and that was part of it too.

But like this was supposed to be a gap year.

This was supposed to be, Oh, Hey, let's spin off a bunch of our veterans who helped us win a title.

So we can take a step back and maybe we'll get a, we'll get a lottery pick as a recent champion and then welcome Tatum back.

And we'll still have our, our core plus, uh,