FireMorey wrote:Fans can do whatever they want, but I find it absolutely ridiculous that keeping Doc Rivers would be the one thing that pushed the fans over the edge. Not the countless other significantly more egregious things they've done along the way.
I stopped being a fan after Butler left. I've watched about 5 total full games since that point, and none of them were in this year's playoffs. How people could hang through that abomination or going into the 2019 summer without a GM, or the whole Colangelo nonsense, but bail because they kept Doc freaking Rivers?
That suggests to me that fans are still in denial. They want to blame this whole mess on Rivers so they can bury their heads in the sand and talk themselves into a coaching change being the solution, because it's too painful to admit that this team is cooked and will never win a title. They're out of picks, out of money, out of options. It's hard to admit this run is finished after all the tanking all the losing, all the building. So psychologically people are trying to talk themselves into firing Rivers being the solution.
It's the only explanation people would be so passionate about something of such little prioritization.
You're right, but even after all of those catastrophes, I still believed that something positive would happen. Something like maybe the internal improvement of the players would compensate for Doc's lack of coaching skills. Joel did improve over the last couple of years, especially passing out of double teams. Maxey has improved leaps and bounds. PJ being here also made me hopeful.
But internal player improvement is not enough to compensate for Rivers' disaster of a coach, and that's why I'm done if he stays again.
Even if he is fired, however, I will still keep my eye in the offseason and see what this team does to improve. If they don't do much, my viewership and fandom isn't worth giving.
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