Didn't Bill Simmons use to always write about how terrible a coach Doc Rivers was?
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Jesus Shuttlesworth
I Got Game
Yeah but he's a Celtics fan so you have to take anything he says related to that team with a grain of salt. You know fans love to shyt on their own coach whenever they don't win a chip.
Premeditated
MANDE KANG
Bill Simons is a fakkit
People used to call for Doc and Ainge's head when the team wasn't shyt.
Pierce was rumored to be on the trade block and people questioned how good he was.
Add two other hall of famers to the team and that all changes. Doc becomes one of the best coaches in the league and people start putting Pierce near the top.
Pierce was rumored to be on the trade block and people questioned how good he was.
Add two other hall of famers to the team and that all changes. Doc becomes one of the best coaches in the league and people start putting Pierce near the top.
Freestyle Phantom3.0
Habitual Line Stepper
I remember this...
when the C's lost like 18 in a row, Simmons stayed hating on Doc. Look at the damn roster though, you had a disgruntled Pierce, Delonte, i think Ricky Davis
cmon son
when the C's lost like 18 in a row, Simmons stayed hating on Doc. Look at the damn roster though, you had a disgruntled Pierce, Delonte, i think Ricky Davis
cmon son
I'd rather play for him then any other coach right now.
Simmons?? SHEEEIIIT outside of IRON MONKEY everybody wanted danny ainge DEAD and doc rivers embarassed...
superunknown23
Superstar
who cares about that fakkit anyway? 
THE CRACKHOUSE LANDLORD
Banned
i fukks with bill simmons
Exactly, to make it seem like Simmons was the only one that wanted them gone is ridiculous.
When they won 33 and 24 games back you think Boston fans were cool with that?
Or that people like us wouldn't have been shytting on them?
lol oh those Gerald Green days when the TD GArden was like half empty? Doc has always been a really good coach back to his MAgic days, even though it was overboard for him to win COTY, but he needed great players and a great supporting cast, which happened in Boston and it has worked. Doc has always been a really good coach even before the C's won that ring, so he is cool in my book.
With that said, who else was gonna take the blame of Green, Telfair and others not panning out if Ainge's job was secure? They had a lot of prospects with high potential who weren't winning anything at all, and not showing much signs of improvement (outside of Big Al/Perk/Rondo really). Yet, Ainge still parlayed it into KG and Ray, before it was fully exposed that Green/Telfair had a long way to go (and still do, frankly).
Celts fans had their gripes, from playing Mark Blount enough to earn himself a big contract (Ainge also to blame) and starting him or LaFrentz over Big Al/Perk throughout the season
, Wally Scissors over Tony Allen, to being just generally poor X's and O's. Wyc Grousbeck/Danny Ainge were always going to be patient with Doc and Ainge's plan though, so I think Doc would have gotten at least another year, or two, after his first two with the Celtics no matter what happened during that offseason (if we got Oden, Durant or Ray/KG).He got much better X's and O's offensively with better talent. It is what it is. Either way, hes been superb ever since we got the Big 3. His rotations have been great too. He improved a ton defensively ever since we hired Thibodeau and it has since, pretty much, stayed the same since his departure. He's one of the best coaches in the league right now, and I don't see why players wouldn't want to play for him if given the opportunity. I could see him coaching Team USA someday.
