Off-Day Open Thread: Doc Rivers and You

even though he coaches the biggest group of D-bags in the league

i hate the celtics…..and even more the last decade than the ones before it…………but i loved larry bird……….and i like kevin mchale and bull russell too……….

it’s a conundrum……..

he should dump the irish and come join our staff……i would love to have his championship experience and some of his x’s and o’s to go along with van gundy’s coaching intellect………

I was rooting for the Celtics solely because of him. I would love if he could come back here and get a broadcasting job or an assistant coaching job with Stan or something like that. Alas, he’ll probably get a national broadcasting job or another head coaching job as I can’t see a guy like that as an assistant.

Either way, he was always my favorite coach and I wish him the best.

his kids are spectacular athletes who ive had the pleasure of watching at winter park highschool. his son, austin, is sick and will be a great talent at the next levels provided his gift is nurtured correctly.

I went to school with his elder son and daughter, and got to meet him myself once. Real good guy, I just feel sorry for him having to deal with Pierce and the crew up there lol

Cleveland will get him, and if they do, would Lebron stay to play for a real coach?

That would not be a good idea. I can barely stand his voice during 1 minute interviews.

dont get me wrong

I felt he got fired from Orlando for bad reasons and I wished him well. If he played for just about any other team I would even root for him. The bad part about that statement is I was born in New England and grew up idolizing the Celtics of old. Which is one of the biggest reasons why I can’t stand the guys that they have on their team now. All actors and hoodlums, when they can’t beat the opposing team, they beat on the opposing team. And somehow get away with most of it…

no way in hell. To be an assistant? SURE

That team was handed to him on a silver platter with those trades where SVG has built this team up from the ground up. SVG > Doc

Although his constant “oh we haven’t lost when we were at full strength” whining pisses me off. Like the Celtics are the only team in the NBA who ever gets injuries.

I think Doc is a great coach, and was wrongly fired from here. Our loss. He coached my favorite team in Magic history, so I wish him the best in whatever he decides to do (just not better than the Magic).

I don’t get people saying Doc should be Van Gundy’s assistant, he’s the champion coach. I don’t think it’s luck either, his teams consistently overachieve, at least people’s expectations.

Don’t really care for him as coach with all the whining he did about fouls during the Finals.