Doc Rivers Q&A's with Zach Lowe & Adrian Wojnarowski

[Roscoe Sheed]

Pierce needs to make up his mind, what exactly is he waiting for?

I hope he plays. He is a strong veteran presence on the bench and I think he could still contribute

[og15]

I don't care either way, the team has a lot of players at his positions (PF and slow SF), but it would be nice to know either way.

I'm worried about him staying, playing poorly but still being given minutes

[Ranma]

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[pageC4]

I think Pierce just needs to retire. He hasn't given us anything at the SF, and we can at least experiment with it by allowing D-league players or waived players to audition for it.

[thanumba2clippersfan]

Maybe Pierce gives it a go this season and realizes that he doesn't have anything left and retires during the season. I wish he would just make up his mind and not be on the fence about playing.

[pageC4]

Okay. We had a first-year head coach win the championship with his 1st NBA team last season and now a rookie NBA head coach just took Game 1 from the aforementioned record-breaking championship team in the Western Conference Finals and Doc is still shoveling that bull about discarding picks because of salary cap problems he "inherited". Please. Our problems are of his own doing. Nobody told him to package a 1st-round pick to compensate for his buyer's remorse on Jared Dudley after putting his knee through the grinder. Nor did anyone tell him to trade a future protected 1st-round pick for the privilege to overpay for an inconsistent Jeff Green.

Again, we have two new head coaches taking their respective teams to new heights while Doc is moving us backwards and whining about being in a bad situation per his implication. Not to mention Dwane Casey, the coach we passed over because Vinny Del Negro schmoozed Sterling's socks off, is taking his Raptors team to its 1st ever Eastern Conference Finals appearance. Again, Doc has failed to improve upon what VDN accomplished in the postseason, which has us being stagnant, while new blood has made rapid progress by comparison.

I'm glad someone gets it. The bigger problem with our franchise is that no one else is saying what you just said. Doc has been put on some untouchable pedestal because he won one championship with Boston. I have personally wrote to Steve Ballmer citing all the same things you mentioned and yet gotten no response back. What troubles me is that Steve Ballmer and the rest of the people that make the big decisions don't have the sense of urgency to build a contender.
When the draft pick question was asked to Doc I was glad someone had the stones to basically call him out for mortgaging the future. Unlike Isaac Lowenchron, I don't believe that late first round draft picks are useless and to be traded away. Draymond Green, Deandre Jordan, and Hassan Whiteside are just three examples of players who were drafted in the SECOND ROUND.
I think Ballmer's unwillingness to look at his product objectively is the big issue here. At this point Doc has proven to be consistent in his view about running a basketball team: trading away draft picks for short term, salary cap balancing, not developing the draft picks he does keep and getting rid of them (Bullock, Wilcox, Dawson), bringing in players he is familiar with despite their bad fit on this team (cough...Paul Pierce), and an inability to value players that are solid contributors and thus letting them walk away (Cole Aldrich).
Therein lies the problem...you can identify the problem but yet our ownership cant...this is troubling