Clifford Ray Leaving The Celtics

He did well on the center position. Gonna be miss

I was hoping he’d be very helpful for Semih’s development.

The dolphin story was nice

how much will it take to hire Hakeem the dream, or even ewing?

Here did a great job developing Al Jeff and Perk. Erden could use his help no doubt. Oh well, all good things must end.

Ray seemed to have the perfect demeanor for a big man coach.

I am sure they were have already communicated with Robert Parish to join the staff. Perk last year did not improve over the previous year and in fact he actually regressed!

I’m a big fan of Clifford Ray. I credit him for Perkins and Jefferson’s emergence as well as Powe and BBD. But when you keep acquiring older veteran big men why do you need a big man coach. My guess is that he knows he can’t teach anything to Garnett or the O’Neals and will be stuck trying to work with Erden and Gody but they will never see the floor. I still think the past couple of years we should have been picking up big man prospects for him to develop (O’Bryant was a disaster though but that wasn’t his fault).

He’s probably heading to a team with some young big men with potential.

 The situation .

i remember clifford… great jazz song and a great coach.

go to the Jazz and make something great out of Big Al.

One of the best Big Men coaches out there, and he’s done wonders for Perks development.

Danny should put in a call to Bill Walton.

I know we are all a-buzzin’ about bringing in The Chief (and I personally would be all for that!) – but has anybody heard anything remotely official about who Danny and Doc will be bringing in?

This is a pretty huge blow. We lose a lot of continuity with both Thibs and Cliff gone.

And while it is true that vets like Shaq and JO are experienced enough that they probably don’t need a lot of coaching on personal technique, there is a lot to playing the position as a team that they will be needing to work on. And BBD, Erden and Harangody all are going to need a lot more coaching.

“I don’t care if you are “Starbury!” I will knock those tattoos right off of you…"

I think this probably has more to do with the C’s now having more vet big men. Back when Ray was hired Perk, Al and later Davis were very raw. Now they have a much more experienced front line. Best of luck, Coach Ray.

and I thought Scal was the next coach with the 30 minute special to let it out of the bag!