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Udoka took Boston to the finals in his first year. He can coach, and I'm sure he's learned a lot from Pop... If he didn't get caught up in some personal BS, he'd still be there. That's why I said as soon as he got the Rockets job, he was going to get them back on track. Rafeal Stone, the GM, has done a good job with drafting and adding some vets to this young athletic team.  I think they're going to have to be reckoned with soon.

All new owners make the same mistake. They go big game hunting. Houston did it. Phoenix did it. Clippers did it. The 2-3 aging superstar veterans model never works. It has been blatantly obvious for many years now. The only reason Bron/AD worked was the COVID bubble, that allowed an aging superstar and a lazy injure prone star a two months training camp to have a four week season. Maybe that´s the solution to all of Nicos problems. He needs another worldwide pandemic to make Kyrie/AD work.