Cousy Feels Stevens' Pain

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Cousy feels Stevens' pain
May, 12, 2014
MAY 12 10:00 AM ET
By ESPNBoston.com



Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy struggled during his first season as an NBA coach -- this after winning six NBA championships during his playing days -- and can relate to the first-year struggles of coach Brad Stevens.

Cousy didn't attend any Celtics games this season and can remember watching only two on television in their entirety.

"It looked to me like they were trying like hell, but they were just overmatched," he said.

Cousy felt bad for Celtics coach Brad Stevens, who lost more games in his first season coaching in the NBA than he had in the previous six years of coaching at Butler University. Cousy remembers how down he felt when he coached the Cincinnati Royals and they lost 14 in row in the 1971-72 season. Even though he had a three-year contract, he called team owner Max Jacobs in the middle of the night and offered to resign.

"I was so unused to losing," he said. "I had never lost to that degree."

Jacobs decided to keep Cousy, and the Celtics are in no hurry to get rid of Stevens.


bob
MY NOTE:  And we feel your pain, Cooz, and we we feel yours.


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Among other things, the rift with Oscar Robertson was a curse for Cooz during that first year. It was just a marriage that was never meant to be. Fortunately, as far as I know, Brad has encountered nothing of that magnitude.

Sam