It is not a shame for the Sixers to lose to the first-seeded Heat in 2022. After all, Embiid did not play in the first two games of that series. It is not a shame for the Sixers to lose to the Celtics who just reached the finals the next year. At that time, Embiid The Celtics’ injuries also gave the Celtics an advantage, but now it seems that the Bucks have not been deterred by Rivers’ coaching ability because he was unable to lead the Sixers through the difficulties…
Doc Rivers was 46 years old when he led the Celtics to their 17th NBA championship. The 62-year-old took over from Adrian Griffin as the head coach of the Bucks at the end of January this year and became an Eastern Conference star after coaching the Bucks for three games. Game coach.
Enough happened between when he led the Celtics to the title and when he took over as head coach of the Bucks to fill half a dozen resumes. Not to mention he coached for eight seasons each with the Magic (who won his only Coach of the Year award in his first year there) and the Celtics, who won the championship in 2008.
Rivers has been through it all – multiple championship hopes, one-time wins, and a series of embarrassing losing streaks – but luckily he hasn’t lost his status or what’s really important in this world – popularity.
Now, Rivers becomes the Bucks’ third head coach in less than nine months. Is he exactly what the Bucks have needed all along? The last oasis? Or is he a has-been comeback, relying on past achievements? The answer is probably all of the above. Rivers deserves credit for doing the best he can for some of his teams, but he’s also culpable for allowing some teams to be eliminated.
NBA coaching is a demanding profession, and this is Rivers’ third time coaching a different team in five years, but he hasn’t advanced beyond the second round in more than a dozen seasons, even though he has been leading some All-NBA talent.
Rivers has won so many games in his career that only eight coaches in history have won more regular seasons, and only three (Gregg Popovich, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson) have won more playoff games. Currently, he has played 167 games in his career, with a winning rate of over 50%, which is the seventh-best result in the history of the regular season.
At the same time, there are several future Hall of Famers at every stop of his career, including: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, Joel Embiid and James Harden, and the results are not impressive. underestimate. Here’s a look at the net rating of every team Rivers has coached since 2008:
Boston Celtics: 1st, 2nd, 9th, 5th, 11th, 16th
Los Angeles Clippers: second, second, fifth, fourth, 17th, 13th, second
Philadelphia 76ers: fifth, ninth, third
In addition, Rivers has coached for 16 consecutive seasons with different teams, different combinations, different coaching staffs and different personnel. Judging from such performance standards, it is indeed not bad, but if he cannot win the championship with the Bucks, the continuous accumulation of playoff disappointments will become an annotation to describe his coaching career.
Putting aside the unforgettable G5 game in 2014-the Clippers lost in the second round against the Thunder with a 7-point lead and only 49 seconds left (after all, CP3’s momentary confusion cannot be blamed on the coach), Rivers’ The reputation really began to decline back in 2015, when the Clippers suffered a huge loss against the Rockets in the second round of the playoffs.
Even though the Clippers don’t have home field advantage, a 3-1 lead is a 3-1 lead. The audience who watched Game 6 should still remember that Josh Smith and Corey Brewer hit three-pointers one after another (Harden sat on the bench), and the Rockets scored 40 points in the fourth quarter of the game.
In the following years, the Clippers were eliminated in the first round and were exhausted due to injuries to Paul and Griffin. Then, the Clippers fell apart and the ship drifted for another two years until Kawhi and George jumped on board in 2019, but that was also the beginning of the end for Doc Rivers on the Clippers.
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After an impressive regular season, the bubble looked like a disaster. The Clippers led the Nuggets 3-1 in the second round, but lost three games in a row by a total of 34 points. There are chemistry issues, shooting percentage issues (the Clippers’ offensive efficiency in the fourth quarter of this series was a staggering 99.4), and bubble-related issues that cannot be quantified in real life. pressure.
Rivers became the first coach in NBA history to blow a 3-1 lead three times in his career, packing up less than two weeks after the last loss and heading home in seven seasons with the Clippers. The playoff record is 27-32.
He then coached the Sixers for three years, posting a 65.3% winning percentage, the No. 1 seed in the 2021 playoffs, and winning 54 games in 2023 (the Sixers’ first since Allen Iverson). Best record since entering the finals).
But this experience was also extremely dramatic, first with Ben Simmons’ poor performance in the second round series, and finally, after the disastrous home game loss in G7, Rivers pushed him into the firing line, and the relationship between the two has never recovered. Simmons requested a trade, resulting in Harden, who clashed with Rivers the following year — a rift that helps explain Daryl Morey’s decision to fire Rivers last spring.
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