Doc Rivers out in LAC
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We’ll get him after Cal leaves.
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Cal will have for sale signs in his yard on 3, 2, 1.
Rivers spotted dining at Tolly-Ho late last night... he had a burger with a sunny side up egg on top and some crinkly fries, my sources tell me. He used a fake name (Randall Savage) for when they called his order and went pretty much undetected. Upon finishing, he stepped into a Slim Jim and sped away.
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Rivers was seen touring a horse farm in Versailles. Understand he made an offer. His plane was seen on the runway at Bluegrass Airport.
He’ll get another coaching job in the NBA! Houston might be a good spot
Average coach surrounded by top talent his entire career, sans Orlando, which ended well for him.
Surprising they moved now as other coaches are getting hired....
D'Antoni is an option, Ty Lue, Jason Kidd...but I'd make a call to Kenny Atkinson with the way he installed a great culture in a bad spot in Brooklyn.
D'Antoni is an option, Ty Lue, Jason Kidd...but I'd make a call to Kenny Atkinson with the way he installed a great culture in a bad spot in Brooklyn.
Rockets better make a run at him. That's the next best job (or a tie with Philly) and his son is there. On Houston's side of things, Doc uis a championship caliber coach, and he'd draw a lot of talent there. I don't think Houston is a sexy destination for FAs, what with Harden's last few years of teammate turmoil... but Doc would change that.
I'm betting he ends up in OKC. Remember all those young guys they traded for PG ended up in OKC. I bet you could see some of those other Clippers end up in OKC as a sort of reunion. They could get their team back together.
Yeah, that's very possible. Houston has a brighter 2-3 years.. but OKC has the brighter future beyond that.
Firing Doc to hire a white guy I’m sure. Sickening
Lacking in good long-term assets. Westbrook's contract is an abyss as he's declining. Not much in value draft picks. Not much cap space. And it looks like they're getting older and they've peaked. It seems like that's a job where you're getting fired in 2-3 years once things don't go right.
OKC on the other hand is loaded with draft picks. A young star in SGA. Plenty of cap space. Good trade bait like Shroeder and Adams. And a nice rotation of talent. Not to mention CP3 can either be there or be flipped for more assets.
I figure this is a joke, and the entire thing is a dead horse. Two years ago, I would've said no chance, what with the new contract and all. But with the way NCAA seems to be slowly rolling down hill, I'm actually starting to think it's more of a possibility now than many here want to believe.
Right. Lol, there’s no way to coach basketball and speak out against racism.
I can't disagree, sadly. When Houston bottoms out in a few years, it's going to be BAD. I suspect you will see them be one of the worst teams in the NBA for some time. They've just traded too much away in desperation for a title. So do you take one or two final stabs at it... or hit the reset now, trade their talent and rebuild properly? Obviously no one would do the latter, but I think it's the smarter option.
Legitimately the most overrated nba coach of all time
Coaches get too much credit for wins and too much blame for losses. Now, there are times when they deserve both, but can you really lay the Clippers' loss in the Denver series on coaching? I watched most of those games and coaching wasn't the problem. The problem was player performance. They had multiple chances to win that series and their stars laid eggs. I've heard folks talk about chemistry issues, but it comes down to the fact that Kawhi Leonard and Paul George played like hot garbage in multiple games, and especially game 7. Leonard went 6-24 in game 7 and George went 4-16. They had good looks often but just played like crap, and none of them could slow down Murray, who finished with 40. I don't see how you blame Doc Rivers for all that.
Sure, but I believe he is now the only coach in NBA history to be up 3-1 and lose 3 times. I also assume he had something to do with the makeup of the team, which now looks to be more expensive and less effective than promised. Any single win or loss? Fine. A history of under-performance across multiple teams with different sets of players? Either crazy coincidence or you blame him. There is no other connection.
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Yeah, and 99% of us don't want to hear it mixed in with sports, but here we are. Nicole Auerbach threw shots at UK because we happen to be a university in the same state Breona Taylor lives in. It's the moral victories.
Not Doc’s fault that, for example, Paul George played like a one-star talent that never developed for most of the series.
Yikes, I hope the Clippers thought about that before they made this move.
You better believe Stephen A Smith is watching this very intently so he can lay down his Ace of Spades of racism cards.
Never been a Doc Rivers fan. Glad when he got "traded" from Boston. Really wasted the Clippers season this year. But like others have said, he'll get another job on the NBA fire and hire circuit.
The Clippers traded away their future for win now and went all in on Leonard and George. Only one of those was a good decision.
There's too many solid defenders on that team for D'Antoni.
I would agree with this. This season you could probably write to players underperforming. But when you add that to the other blown 3-1 lead and never being able to get past the second round with different types of teams, you have to look at the coach.
But who could they possibly get? You need a strong leader with a team that doesn’t get leadership from its star players.
Doc to sixers? may already be a done deal. I hate Embid and Simmons. Rockets are a better team, but I don't like the makeup of their team.
I can’t argue with you there, and it’s quite a pickle they are now in. They basically have to find someone who can win and win immediately, otherwise they gambled away everything, got nothing in return, and the team probably comes apart after next season. So whoever comes in has one season to win a championship, basically. Good luck!
So the staunch wealthy supporters of BLM (founded on Marxism) Doc, Lebron et al., are going to give all their possessions to the "greater good" and we are all equal...or do they want to be the very, very, tipety top on the pyramid and rule everyone else?
or do they don't know what Marxism is or what it's ultimate end goal is?
I’m calling BS on this! Everyone (my age) would have turned their head to that name. I remember going to see Rambo 2 at Lexington mall and he came in to the theater w a big tub of popcorn and a little hottie and we all turned and looked, lol
