Chris Haynes: Doc Rivers will be back next year coaching the Clippers

Hornet Mania · Post #101 » by **Hornet Mania** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:12 pm

Doc has always been a little overrated but that 4th quarter meltdown is on the superstar duo as much as anyone.

VDT · Post #102 » by **VDT** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:14 pm

Bergmaniac wrote:
VDT wrote:Lol at people blaming the coach.

It is hard to establish a system with no playmakers and with your main stars being an iso player (Kawhi) and a glorified 3+D guy (George). Just like it was hard to build a system around an iso guy (Durant) and a low bb iq playmaker (Westbrook). Just like Stevens couldnt build a good system with Kyrie. Just like the Nets will also run into the same issue if they dont get someone to run the offense. Just like the Sixers got swept because they have no perimeter guy to playmake. Its not the coach but the roster construction.

Doc had the Point God on his team for 4 years and still failed in the playoffs every year.

Well they didnt have a scorer back then. You need both. Prime Paul+ Kawhi+ good roleplayers would have been enough.

Pablo Escobar · Post #103 » by **Pablo Escobar** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:22 pm

Kawhi has won his titles and finals mvps. Seems like he went to Cali to smoke weed, bang chicks and enjoy the weather. If winning was important, and high iq was important, he wouldn't have left the Spurs or Toronto.

GoCeltics123 · Post #104 » by **GoCeltics123** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:25 pm

kombayn wrote:Smh. I get the feeling everyone is coming back with no real adjustments. I think Pat Beverly and Lou Williams will be on the block though. I would also get a sign-and-trade for Trez made. Do your best to reload draft picks for a few years. I still don't know why the Clippers took those contracts deals too, they could end up completely gutted. Though with the New Arena and ideally a total rebrand, the team will be extremely attractive.

If you guys are trading Lou I hope Danny Ainge is calling because we're going to trade some of our picks this year and he's a great fit for a bench that has little scoring punch.

He offered a late first for Bertans this year and tried to get Lou a few years ago at the deadline.

aguiar95 · Post #105 » by **aguiar95** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:31 pm

ClipsFanSince98 wrote:Kawhi is a much worse GM than Lebron apparently. This is going to be brutal. Likely means Kawhi's last prime years wasted in the Clippers curse.

Read on Twitter

Bron has learned a lot since his early Cavs GM job.

Jedi32 · Post #106 » by **Jedi32** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:35 pm

nbhadja wrote:
Jedi32 wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:
They had 3 veteran all-stars and were playing during a transitional era without any other super teams to get in their way. Anyone would have won with that roster.

You have no proof that Dantoni would have won. Doc did win and that's the difference.

Larry Coker won a national title at Miami. Winning a title as a coach doesn't automatically mean that you are good. Doc and Larry Coker both suck. There is no way that 08 Boston squad should have gotten pushed to 7 games in the first round by Atlanta and pushed to 7 in the 2nd round by Cleveland. That's such garbage coaching.

I didn't know they docked points off coaching for going 7 games with a team in its first year together. :crazy:

Air Apparent · Post #107 » by **Air Apparent** » Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:56 am

rivers shouldnt have a job, but also, players have to own up to being horrible, that wasnt an xs and o issue, those guys were playing scared lmao

RoLo · Post #108 » by **RoLo** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:27 pm

Chris Haynes just trash as usual. when we gonna cancel this dude

Zeno · Post #109 » by **Zeno** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:30 pm

RoLo wrote:Chris Haynes just trash as usual. when we gonna cancel this dude

I'm sure that is what he was told at the time. It probably became obvious to the Clippers that they need to make the change after their exit interviews and evaluation of what happened.

Tor_Raps · Post #110 » by **Tor_Raps** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:45 pm

Don't think Haynes was wrong here. If the clippers wanted to fire him, they would have done so after they lost. Clearly this took a lot of things to come to this decision.

TheNewEra · Post #111 » by **TheNewEra** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:45 pm

So glad things changed

GuyverX · Post #112 » by **GuyverX** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:48 pm

Tor_Raps wrote:Don't think Haynes was wrong here. If the clippers wanted to fire him, they would have done so after they lost. Clearly this took a lot of things to come to this decision.

Not sure about the logic on that. They didn't have to fire him after they lost or even today or tomorrow. As long as it happens. If you're going to be a legit reporter, have sources or a quote ready.

narmerguy · Post #113 » by **narmerguy** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 11:43 pm

This feels incredibly relevant:

Watch on YouTube

Spicy P · Post #114 » by **Spicy P** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 12:14 am

This is the same moron who reported that Kawhi was refusing to report to Toronto and would sit out the season.

Down3223 · Post #115 » by **Down3223** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:33 am

RoLo wrote:Chris Haynes just trash as usual. when we gonna cancel this dude

Read on Twitter

IgorK · Post #116 » by **IgorK** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:38 am

tl;dr version of this thread:

illuminati666 · Post #117 » by **illuminati666** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:43 am

IgorK wrote:tl;dr version of this thread:

nailed it lmaoo

Lalouie · Post #118 » by **Lalouie** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:53 am

well i guess kawhi liked winning more

Lalouie · Post #119 » by **Lalouie** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:57 am

narmerguy wrote:This feels incredibly relevant:

Watch on YouTube

where's the part where doc starts to cry

Impuniti · Post #120 » by **Impuniti** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:05 am

Haynes is such an idiot.