#ppl who just want to go back to a coach that prioritizes punishment as motivation fucking annoy me
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finally watching keefe's entire media availability from the other day and reflecting, and it makes me so sad, lol. love or hate keefe, he was brought in to be the contrast to mike babcock... to be calmer and bring more respect in his interpersonal relationships with the players, and i think he did a great job of that. i don't think he lost the room, i just think the leafs need to see a different kind of coaching... different system... to give them the best chance to advance in the playoffs with the way the team's constructed, but you can't watch that media availability and say he doesn't care or wasn't trying or is a bad temperament to coach this team. his whole approach WAS to listen to the players needs and be a calmer presence, and i've enjoyed that a lot about him. i know some people don't love that he handles accountability player to player differently, but i think that's a mature way to go about it knowing he has different kinds of relationships with them all, and they all care abt the privacy of those methods to different degrees. all of these core guys have had insane seasons being coached by him, and that's not nothing... i'm onboard with the idea that change is needed, but i like keefe a lot as a person, and i think he was a great choice to pivot to post-babcock, regardless of the playoff outcomes. hope he finds success elsewhere in the league if he is gone....
#sheldon keefe#anyway. fkjsdkf im emotional#i think his relationships w players seems so genuine lol and he was getting choked up at different points here#didnt opt to do stuffy exit interviews but wanted to see them off casually n say goodbye for the season...#oh man. rough when things dont come together#im still not fully convinced hes canned tbh but fklsjdkf someone was saying there might be coaching news today so im REFLECTING.#i hate that ppl get so angry at him for not being this overly emotional guy n then#also get mad at him when hes yellin at the refs n shit on the bench like lkFJDSKL pick ! ! ! hes on the side of his TEAM#ppl who just want to go back to a coach that prioritizes punishment as motivation fucking annoy me#they might need a more stern motivator in some ways but god damn do not embrace fucking evil#i still look at the coaching market and im like. ok i guess#if anyone i hope they get woodcroft lmfao
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