Game 60: Los Angeles Clippers (40-19) vs. Philadelphia Sixers (37-23) - 3:30 PM ET

[NippySudz]

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[Kelphus]

As usual, Doc doesn't care about defense.

From a veteran poster on the Board, this is a shocking remark. Attention grabber yes credible no.

[Darko Miliminutes]

Starting to understand some of the frustration here with Doc.

[esqtvd]

As usual, Doc doesn't care about defense.

From a veteran poster on the Board, this is a shocking remark. Attention grabber yes credible no.

feed not the trolls

[NippySudz]

Starting to understand some of the frustration here with Doc.

I thought he did a good job and I bet if you were to ask many of the people here what doc didn't adjust to, they woulnd't be able to tell you. Game's not perfect and neither is the coach. A terrible coach has his team second in the west with no healthy roster until 4 games ago. If you told me, clippers would be second in the west with Key rotational guys missing 10+ games, I'd call you a damn liar.

We're only has good as our personell sometimes, and sometimes you have to make judgement calls. Do you want to sacrifice defense for more offense? Tonight was the right call in doing that. We needed scoring on the floor.


Go to every contender's board. Every contender is complaining about their coach maybe except the bucks.

[esqtvd]

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I don't quite understand this guy's tweet

were people dogging Reggie?


both the Clips and Lakers wanted him and probably the Sixers and others as well

his shot was a bit off coming back from injury but he had a bunch of 20-point games and 12 points and 11 assists in his last game with the Pistons

[NippySudz]

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I don't quite understand this guy's tweet

were people dogging Reggie?


both the Clips and Lakers wanted him and probably the Sixers and others as well

his shot was a bit off coming back from injury but he had a bunch or 20-point games and 12 points and 11 assists in his last game with the Pistons

Yes, people were calling him another ball stopper. this hot take pundits with zero credibility said the clippers only required him to play keep away with the lakers and he takes shots out of lou will hands so it will hurt them in the long run.

I've ceased watching coverage on the team. It's very clear to me that no national media keeps up with the clippers. Good or bad. No nba personality keeps up with the nba period it seems like. Jalen Rose has been telling Jay williams about giannis for a year and he didn't buy giannis was that good and admitting after watching them wax the lakers that jalen was right and it was his first time watching them.

Just ignorant personalities out there.

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[Clemenza]

Good win.. These types of games happen damn near every night when some unexpected guy goes berserk. And truthfully this is normally a game we would've lost but we stood firm and kept fighting til the end. Not every game is going to be a blowout. Sixers actually looked better without Simmons and Embiid.

[TheNewEra]

Starting to understand some of the frustration here with Doc.

I thought he did a good job and I bet if you were to ask many of the people here what doc didn't adjust to, they woulnd't be able to tell you. Game's not perfect and neither is the coach. A terrible coach has his team second in the west with no healthy roster until 4 games ago. If you told me, clippers would be second in the west with Key rotational guys missing 10+ games, I'd call you a damn liar.

We're only has good as our personell sometimes, and sometimes you have to make judgement calls. Do you want to sacrifice defense for more offense? Tonight was the right call in doing that. We needed scoring on the floor.


Go to every contender's board. Every contender is complaining about their coach maybe except the bucks.

Don’t play a player 15 **** minutes straight it’s simple. People can excuse this foolishness to make it logical it’s a ridiculous rotation decision. At the 8:37 mark we were up 14 and there was no excuse to not give him a breather of some sort. You don’t need that many scorers on the floor consistently

[NippySudz]

Starting to understand some of the frustration here with Doc.

I thought he did a good job and I bet if you were to ask many of the people here what doc didn't adjust to, they woulnd't be able to tell you. Game's not perfect and neither is the coach. A terrible coach has his team second in the west with no healthy roster until 4 games ago. If you told me, clippers would be second in the west with Key rotational guys missing 10+ games, I'd call you a damn liar.

We're only has good as our personell sometimes, and sometimes you have to make judgement calls. Do you want to sacrifice defense for more offense? Tonight was the right call in doing that. We needed scoring on the floor.


Go to every contender's board. Every contender is complaining about their coach maybe except the bucks.

Don’t play a player 15 **** minutes straight it’s simple. People can excuse this foolishness to make it logical it’s a ridiculous rotation decision. At the 8:37 mark we were up 14 and there was no excuse to not give him a breather of some sort. You don’t need that many scorers on the floor consistently

I'm not excusing that. I never said doc was flawless but I'd take him over a few contending coaches. Especially in the west. The only coaches in contention that I will not take doc over is budenholzer, Brad stevens and Nick nurse( is he really a contender??)


I have a few issues with doc's coaching assignments. Like trez playing marathon mins


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[TheNewEra]

For those talking about the negatives of this game despite making the Nuggets look like a G-League team the other night, this is a game they would normally lose. And teams get hot all the time and sometimes no amount of defense can stop that. It's not like the Sixers were getting a ton of wide open 3's, they hit a lot of tough, contested 3's but unlike the T-Wolves game, we took their best punch but hung around before that stretch in the 3rd where the Clippers locked them down.

this was almost literally a schedule loss cause it was a sunday noon game, and the team overcame it, so yeah

These reactions are a bit extreme on the other end but this game should keep them humble.

[TheNewEra]

I thought he did a good job and I bet if you were to ask many of the people here what doc didn't adjust to, they woulnd't be able to tell you. Game's not perfect and neither is the coach. A terrible coach has his team second in the west with no healthy roster until 4 games ago. If you told me, clippers would be second in the west with Key rotational guys missing 10+ games, I'd call you a damn liar.

We're only has good as our personell sometimes, and sometimes you have to make judgement calls. Do you want to sacrifice defense for more offense? Tonight was the right call in doing that. We needed scoring on the floor.


Go to every contender's board. Every contender is complaining about their coach maybe except the bucks.

Don’t play a player 15 **** minutes straight it’s simple. People can excuse this foolishness to make it logical it’s a ridiculous rotation decision. At the 8:37 mark we were up 14 and there was no excuse to not give him a breather of some sort. You don’t need that many scorers on the floor consistently

I'm not excusing that. I never said doc was flawless but I'd take him over a few contending coaches. Especially in the west. The only coaches in contention that I will not take doc over is budenholzer and Nick nurse( is he really a contender??)


I have a few issues with doc's coaching assignments. Like trez playing marathon mins


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No much for brand names with coaches.
Budenholzer was a .520 win percentage coach in Atlanta and few thought the Bucks would be this good. Nurse and Kerr were first time coach’s that raised the ceiling of their teams.

Doc still has a lot to prove in the western conference with another championship aspirations team

[NippySudz]

Don’t play a player 15 **** minutes straight it’s simple. People can excuse this foolishness to make it logical it’s a ridiculous rotation decision. At the 8:37 mark we were up 14 and there was no excuse to not give him a breather of some sort. You don’t need that many scorers on the floor consistently

I'm not excusing that. I never said doc was flawless but I'd take him over a few contending coaches. Especially in the west. The only coaches in contention that I will not take doc over is budenholzer and Nick nurse( is he really a contender??)


I have a few issues with doc's coaching assignments. Like trez playing marathon mins


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No much for brand names with coaches.
Budenholzer was a .520 win percentage coach in Atlanta and few thought the Bucks would be this good. Nurse and Kerr were first time coach’s that raised the ceiling of their teams.

Doc still has a lot to prove in the western conference with another championship aspirations team

Both guys in Kerr and buldenhozer have been around the NBA for years and come from pops coaching tree. They have championship meddle.

I can't speculate who the next coach should be. We don't know what's really out there and it's pointless to even speculate in the middle of the season but you look at the coaches in the west and I feel confident taking doc over what's in the west right now.

If we had to go up against Kerr, Phil Jackson, or pop then obviously I would feel different

But Frank Vogel? Mike Malone? Mike d'antoni? Eh I like my chances in the west. I would like to see what a young ambitious coach could do But again pointless to speculate. It's march. We can have that conversation if the clippers don't make the finals.

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[TheNewEra]

I'm not excusing that. I never said doc was flawless but I'd take him over a few contending coaches. Especially in the west. The only coaches in contention that I will not take doc over is budenholzer and Nick nurse( is he really a contender??)


I have a few issues with doc's coaching assignments. Like trez playing marathon mins


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No much for brand names with coaches.
Budenholzer was a .520 win percentage coach in Atlanta and few thought the Bucks would be this good. Nurse and Kerr were first time coach’s that raised the ceiling of their teams.

Doc still has a lot to prove in the western conference with another championship aspirations team

Both guys in Kerr and buldenhozer have been around the NBA for years and come from pops coaching tree. They have championship meddle.

I can't speculate who the next coach should be. We don't know what's really out there and it's pointless to even speculate in the middle of the season but you look at the coaches in the west and I feel confident taking doc over what's in the west right now.

If we had to go up against Kerr, Phil Jackson, or pop then obviously I would feel different

But Frank Vogel? Mike Malone? Mike d'antoni? Eh I like my chances in the west. I would like to see what a young ambitious coach could do But again pointless to speculate. It's march. We can have that conversation if the clippers don't make the finals.

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Will give Vogel his due for managing the destruction that is Avery Bradley. His (Doc) Bradley situation seems to be Rondo at the moment.

Just don’t want Doc to be throw games trying to prove this nonsense is necessary. The media has already asked him multiple times why does he continue these long stretches and he gives a response that makes no sense

[NippySudz]

No much for brand names with coaches.
Budenholzer was a .520 win percentage coach in Atlanta and few thought the Bucks would be this good. Nurse and Kerr were first time coach’s that raised the ceiling of their teams.

Doc still has a lot to prove in the western conference with another championship aspirations team

Both guys in Kerr and buldenhozer have been around the NBA for years and come from pops coaching tree. They have championship meddle.

I can't speculate who the next coach should be. We don't know what's really out there and it's pointless to even speculate in the middle of the season but you look at the coaches in the west and I feel confident taking doc over what's in the west right now.

If we had to go up against Kerr, Phil Jackson, or pop then obviously I would feel different

But Frank Vogel? Mike Malone? Mike d'antoni? Eh I like my chances in the west. I would like to see what a young ambitious coach could do But again pointless to speculate. It's march. We can have that conversation if the clippers don't make the finals.

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Will give Vogel his due for managing the destruction that is Avery Bradley. His (Doc) Bradley situation seems to be Rondo at the moment.

Just don’t want Doc to be throw games trying to prove this nonsense is necessary. The media has already asked him multiple times why does he continue these long stretches and he gives a response that makes no sense

He has more issues than just rondo being their Bradley. He has issues with kuzma and his rotations. Laker fans always complain about his rotations that make no sense, according to them.

Vogel is not known as a great coach. Vogel had success in Indy but bird thought he was too soft . Clifford went on to coach the magic and had a horrible record. Steve Clifford went on to coach the magic the yr after Vogel gotten fired and has made the playoffs and about to make it again.

Vogel in almost every respect is worse than doc. Just on paper. The difference is LeBron. LeBron is so great, he's the reason Mike brown was able to land head coaching gigs.

Steve Kerr is a great coach but how good was he really when like Walton, one of the worst coaches in the league was able to coach and keep the winning streak going? In a down here with injuries, he's the worst team in the league. I don't think he's a good developmental coach but if you give him talent, he can win championships.

Buldenhozer I believe is the best coach in the NBA but he has to make a finals appearance. If he does not, he would have three 60+wins teams that failed to make the finals. Three.

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[NippySudz]

No much for brand names with coaches.
Budenholzer was a .520 win percentage coach in Atlanta and few thought the Bucks would be this good. Nurse and Kerr were first time coach’s that raised the ceiling of their teams.

Doc still has a lot to prove in the western conference with another championship aspirations team

Both guys in Kerr and buldenhozer have been around the NBA for years and come from pops coaching tree. They have championship meddle.

I can't speculate who the next coach should be. We don't know what's really out there and it's pointless to even speculate in the middle of the season but you look at the coaches in the west and I feel confident taking doc over what's in the west right now.

If we had to go up against Kerr, Phil Jackson, or pop then obviously I would feel different

But Frank Vogel? Mike Malone? Mike d'antoni? Eh I like my chances in the west. I would like to see what a young ambitious coach could do But again pointless to speculate. It's march. We can have that conversation if the clippers don't make the finals.

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Will give Vogel his due for managing the destruction that is Avery Bradley. His (Doc) Bradley situation seems to be Rondo at the moment.

Just don’t want Doc to be throw games trying to prove this nonsense is necessary. The media has already asked him multiple times why does he continue these long stretches and he gives a response that makes no sense

I do agree with you though. I'm really hoping his philosophy will play out well in the playoffs.

My biggest concerns are how stubborn he is with the center position at times, even when the game calls for it or not giving trez a breather(even if you sub him out for jamychal)

Secondly, how featured our bench is. I don't like that. I believe we need a pecking order. It's fine for Lou to try to win us a ball game here and there, but I don't believe these guys should be as featured. I believe our ceiling is higher if they actually played like bench players instead of playing starter mins at times. Just my opinion

But who knows, doc could be right and having so many offensive weapons could confuse the defense and they won't know where to focus the attention to but I just think kawhi and Paul George should get more focused attention.

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[NippySudz]

Much has been said about doc underperforming in clipper land and that is true to some extent but doc has never had two top ten talents on a team. Chris Paul was a top PG. But was not really a top ten player. Blake griffin definitely wasn't top ten. Blake was also immature and not focused on winning, doing a bunch of outside ventures and not focused on the details the way cp3 was.

Even with the big three Celtics, those guys were closer to end of their primes then in their primes and it was three Hof players

Kawhi is a different beast and I really can't see the type of 3-1 collapses with someone of the caliber of a kawhi Leonard.

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[Max Headrom]

Trying to put other coaches that have never won a championship before Doc is just idiotic. Bud has done nothing in the playoffs to suggest he's a better coach than Doc. And let's not forget that Kerr got out coached by the guy sitting next to Doc as an assistant in the finals. This is just regular "grass is greener" crap. This team has been healthy 8 games and yet we're tied for second in the west. To act like what the team has been able to do in spite of injuries to main guys is just "whatever" just to try and downplay Doc because of agendas is wack and I can't take some posters seriously for trying to suggest that just anyone could've done better this year. It's laughable. No coach is perfect but yes, Doc should be according to some...