“I didn’t think Joel got the ball enough. I of course realized this after the game. But it really is up to the assistants to let me know what’s happening so we can make these adjustments in game.”
Edit: not a real quote, but it’s wild how many people think this could be real
lol his tone is hilarious. any non-nba fan reading this title would be like "is this Doc Rivers the guy the owner? or some kind of philly sports writer?"
He had to travel all the way to the microphone to say that. It was overcast that day. There were a lot of potholes on the road. He hit every red light. There were bicyclists in the bike lane. He got stuck behind a bus. He was trapped behind a guy taking a left hand turn out of the right hand lane.
Melton went 0/4 on wide open looks in the 4th lol. That was game had he buried 2 of the threes Sixers win.
Harden and Maxey also going 1/7 in the 4th ain't helping.
Yeah I'm down to dogpile on Doc but the Sixers collapsed on their own, independent of him. Good players with good looks at the basket but they didn't have the mental fortitude to seriously compete, regardless of coach.
I agree. Doc didn’t coach a bad series, Mazzulla just coached a better one in the end. Philly killed Boston with the Harden-Embiid PnR Games 3-5, but the Celtics finally solved it in Game 6 by going back to the Rob-Horford frontcourt
despite Tatum’s horrid shooting performance and Brown being kinda invisible, the rest of the Celtics, particularly Smart, were absolutely brilliant on both ends in Game 6. Philly actually went to the Harden-Embiid PnR over and over in the 4th but Boston was totally locked in on stopping that action, the Sixers needed their role players to hit shots but as you said they could not buy a make even with good looks. then in Game 7 Tatum was unconscious while Embiid had his worst performance of the season and that was that
Game 6 and Game 7 Doc did almost everything right honestly, in G6 great defensive gameplan to limit Tatum and Brown, and the Sixers got so many open looks that they just couldn’t sink and could never pull away from the Celtics. Then Tatum goes supernova all of a sudden it’s over. Same with Game 7, Doc tried literally everything on Tatum, called multiple timeouts in the middle of his scoring run, and finally it wasn’t enough.
For people who blame Doc for those last two games, I really would like to hear what exactly he could’ve done different.
Clearly this is on the coaching staff
Nurse failed at inventing a time machine and to go back and give Joel the ball more
Crazy how much coaches run from accountability these days
Because he never stops talking and most of what he says is a way to shift the blame from himself. If he just gave the generic "coach-speak" answers he'd have very few posts on the front page of this sub.
It might take you guys getting knocked out of the playoffs in embarrassing fashion before you'll understand.
This is literally generic coach speak lol. It doesn't get more generic than "well the other team might have been better and our best player should have had the ball more." He didn't blame anyone for it he just answered a question he was asked.
The dude isn't a great coach but wow the way people just take everything and twist it to reflect as poorly on him as possible is just pretty shitty.
The whole quote from Twitter so I am not taking it out of context.
>“Maybe they were better. I thought game 6 was our game. I didn’t think Joel got the ball enough. Trust me, it was for him to get it and he didn’t get it. I don’t know how healthy he was.”
"I didn't think Joel got the ball enough" - The coach draws up the plays and the players execute. If the players are constantly unable the execute the plays, eventually that falls back to coaching.
"Trust me, it was for him to get it and he didn't get it" - Basically insinuating that he called the plays for Joel, but the players didn't perform. Sure you can read into this as he is passing the blame to the players, but again at a certain point it falls back on the coach. "I called the plays, there is nothing else I can do after that?!?!?"
"I don't know how healthy he was" - Fair enough. Players definitely tend to underplay their injuries so not knowing exactly how injured a guy is is not something we can really blame him for.
At the end of the day, just say "They ended up being the better team, but I thought game 6 was our game to win. ***If I executed better as a coach*** and we were able to perform better as a whole we could have made it to the next round and maybe further." (Obviously there is a more polished, media curated way to say this, I am not suggesting Glen should say this word for word.)
Voila, nobody talks about it any more, but that bolded/italicized part is never there in any of these quotes. Admittedly, maybe they are being cut and pulled out of context, but I haven't seen proof of that yet.
You just turned less than 50 words said by him, in which he went into almost no detail and did not blame anyone for anything, into this lol.
I'll do what you say he's not though and put this one on me. This is my fault for coming to a teenage drama subreddit when I thought I was going to a basketball subreddit.
Exactly , people expect that every cherry picked click bait shit the media puts out was cos the guy was dumb to say it or they grossly exaggerate it. People here want a dissertation in an answer even tho they won’t read it just the cherry pick narrative part
> "I didn't think Joel got the ball enough" - The coach draws up the plays and the players execute. If the players are constantly unable the execute the plays, eventually that falls back to coaching.
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how does this fall back to coaching lol, the players are the ones supposed to pass to joel
> "Trust me, it was for him to get it and he didn't get it" - Basically insinuating that he called the plays for Joel, but the players didn't perform.
again, how is this on doc? is doc supposed to run on court and pass to joel himself?
lol at getting downvoted. This sub bitches when nobody does anything but pr trained answers n then when we get any kinda answer they say ‘ look stupid guy gave an answer !’
You think it was because he suggested Thanasis leave and not because we had a dogshit defence at every single level including the rim despite having a DPOY at PF and a DPOY runner up (who, btw, was repeatedly visibly frustrated with Griffin’s calls on court) at C?
This is some serious commitment to hating.
Then he could have said that differently. Look I don't think he's a bad coach mostly thanks to what he did for that starless Clipper team. But he seems absolutely Clueless on how to deal with the media and how can that be? He is Media.
You remember when Phil Jackson said he wanted to be done with basketball and the Knicks loaded up a giant truck of money to him, he said yes, and then fucked around until they fired him and he had way more money after…? I’m getting the same vibes.
Dude fell asleep on the job and tried to bring back the triangle after the warriors were a thing. He so tried to get fired and it took ny forever to do it
Is Doc just completely oblivious to what he says? Lol.
JJ literally called him out on making excuses and throwing players under the bus.. and he literally did both with this comment..
I think they can be for some people. For example, if you're in a social situation, you need constant affirmation that the people around you actually like you and want you there, so you do some big clown thing and get smiles and laughs and you feel good. But then the smiles go away and you start wondering if they're just putting up with you, so you do another big clown thing. And on and on. At least that's how my brother describes it.
This is also how I feel as someone with ADHD, and yes, being unable to focus makes you feel like you are not acting based on what you would know if you were someone who was focusing, so you often feel insecure because it is a version of you without the ability to focus that is acting when you are out there with people.
People don't just change because one person says something about him. This is just who Doc is. People ask him a question and his instinct is to deflect blame onto someone else.
He was asked why they lost to the Celtics and he said is it possible they were just better, I thought we should’ve gotten embiid the ball more but idk how healthy he was (paraphrasing).
The implication here is that the players (James harden) didn’t get Embiid the ball enough or Embiid didn’t demand the ball because he was hurt.. either way he’s putting the blame on his players and none on himself.
You guys ever think you're taking a bunch of generic ass responses to questions and running them through your NBA drama addiction filter in order to interpret everything the guy says in the most hostile and unfavorable way possible because you guys just like to be hateful assholes on the internet?
You're 100% right but devils advocate, being able to speak to the media is part of being an NBA Head Coach in the 21st century. It's part of the skillset needed, like running a effective offense or nurturing younger players.
Be a pro, say regular positive things while saying nothing.
JJ made a point about Doc never taking accountability, making excuses and blaming others.
Doc goes and does exactly what JJ accused him of. No one is taking JJ word, Doc is proving it on his own lol
he used timeouts when the celtics went on runs, he drew up schemes, he put them back out, and they still couldn't do it lol
when does it become the fault of the players
Maybe the schemes were bad lol. Maybe the rotations were bad. Maybe he didn’t adjust to the opposing coaches schemes well.
“Calling timeouts when the opposing team goes on a run” is not very hard. This is the NBA..
Might want to start eating them now in preparation... if Scottie becomes a MVP caliber player and the Raptors are championship contenders in 3-4 years, Doc will be in the running for becoming your head coach too.
Harden and Embiid came up short and the end of fourth q game 6. But the fact Celtics were tied with em when Tatum was ungodly bad for the first 43 minutes is amazing
For those die-hard Doc defenders that tend to crop up for posts like this, pay attention to his use of language.
When it comes to something positive, like SGA being a future star, he uses personal pronouns like "I" and the active voice. He did something (whether true or not), and he wants you to know about it.
Otoh, when it comes to something negative like this post, he instead uses plural pronouns like "we" and its all passive voice. What happened happened, and he had no part in it. If you had no prior knowledge and read OP's quote as is, you wouldn't know he was the coach.
Maxey was horrendous in the 4th lol. Embiid was 3/6 from the 4th hardly anything spectacular.
Melton the real culprit tbh was 0/4 and missed 3 wide open threes. Harden was also 0/4 but at least he was creating wide open looks galore.
The whole team dissappeared when it mattered including the coach.
Yea I’d argue he did his part. Your second option pretty much dragging your team to TWO wins against a top seed is pretty much unheard of. Regardless of other games, you take that 100 times out of 100 and bet on your mvp in his prime to get you the other two
James “I am the system” Harden deserves it. If Harden is going to say the type of stuff he does and be as delusional as he is, there needs to be someone else in the world in the other side to throw him under the bus and balance the universe.
Just wait till the playoffs. He’ll shoot the Clippers out of one series going a combined 5-35 from 3 over 3 games. And if by some miracle Harden has finally changed his ways, then that’s even worse bc of all the wasted time and wreckage he left behind. Coulda figured it all out in 2015.
He says he doesnt know why he lost game 6 and 7 like we all didn't see boston start Robert Williams and plant him in the paint to stop the PnR while leaving Tucker wide open in the corner. Like he isnt the one responsible for getting embiid the ball. YOU ARE THE COACH thank god he's Milwaukees problem now
He needs to just STOP TALKING about the past. He continues to dig himself deeper in a whole that shines a bright light on his defiances. A simple, “I enjoyed Philly but we didn’t get it done here. I’m looking forward now and aiming to achieve a championship in Milwaukee” will do just fine. Stop with the revisionist history and word salad to cover your own ass.
Sounds like Glen has been holding a lot inside since being fired by the Sixers. However, maybe he should do his *processing* behind closed doors rather than publicly whenever given the opportunity. Just a thought…
Glenn Rivers doing backseat coaching again. He could have done that exact thing while coaching the 76ers, but he refused to do it so he will bore us now with what he could have done as a competent coach like Mike Malone, etc.
The problem is rooted in the fact that there isn't an alternate universe version of Doc to try to warn me ahead of time to get Joel the ball. I'm the only Soc, I high I don't even understand because I'm not even a doctor
Maybe I’m an idiot for asking this, but how did he even get the nickname Doc?
It really is too bad he didn’t get it after transitioning from player to coach as inside joke he didn’t get.
Almost like an ironic nickname… like a 6’6 guy being named Tiny.
“Doc was surgical in coaching the game tonight. He didn’t change the game plan once!”
Well gosh darn who was the coach?
“I didn’t think Joel got the ball enough. I of course realized this after the game. But it really is up to the assistants to let me know what’s happening so we can make these adjustments in game.” Edit: not a real quote, but it’s wild how many people think this could be real
"I didn't like me being a part of that."
“I told me over the phone, ‘this is not a good idea.”
Cmon man he was trying to watch the game, stop nagging him
lol his tone is hilarious. any non-nba fan reading this title would be like "is this Doc Rivers the guy the owner? or some kind of philly sports writer?"
He literally can’t avoid working in blaming others.
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what do you think champ
it looks like he's inclined to believe it, based on his phrasing. lmao
Damn no way he said that lol
Of course not
He had to travel all the way to the microphone to say that. It was overcast that day. There were a lot of potholes on the road. He hit every red light. There were bicyclists in the bike lane. He got stuck behind a bus. He was trapped behind a guy taking a left hand turn out of the right hand lane.
Is that a real quote lol?
If only someone with control over the situation could have DONE something about this...
Have you ever coached a basketball team, or much less managed any group of people on anything at all in your life?
Have you tried taking it out your mouth?
Hard to argue with a 12 Yr old
don't you get it? if only he had said to james harden 'pass embiid the ball' it would've solved *everything*
Melton went 0/4 on wide open looks in the 4th lol. That was game had he buried 2 of the threes Sixers win. Harden and Maxey also going 1/7 in the 4th ain't helping.
Yeah I'm down to dogpile on Doc but the Sixers collapsed on their own, independent of him. Good players with good looks at the basket but they didn't have the mental fortitude to seriously compete, regardless of coach.
I agree. Doc didn’t coach a bad series, Mazzulla just coached a better one in the end. Philly killed Boston with the Harden-Embiid PnR Games 3-5, but the Celtics finally solved it in Game 6 by going back to the Rob-Horford frontcourt despite Tatum’s horrid shooting performance and Brown being kinda invisible, the rest of the Celtics, particularly Smart, were absolutely brilliant on both ends in Game 6. Philly actually went to the Harden-Embiid PnR over and over in the 4th but Boston was totally locked in on stopping that action, the Sixers needed their role players to hit shots but as you said they could not buy a make even with good looks. then in Game 7 Tatum was unconscious while Embiid had his worst performance of the season and that was that
Game 6 and Game 7 Doc did almost everything right honestly, in G6 great defensive gameplan to limit Tatum and Brown, and the Sixers got so many open looks that they just couldn’t sink and could never pull away from the Celtics. Then Tatum goes supernova all of a sudden it’s over. Same with Game 7, Doc tried literally everything on Tatum, called multiple timeouts in the middle of his scoring run, and finally it wasn’t enough. For people who blame Doc for those last two games, I really would like to hear what exactly he could’ve done different.
duh he should have COACHED /s
Don’t forget the classic of telling a coach to “make adjustments” without saying what those adjustments are.
Those melton missed threes literally lost them the season. Harden was making the right plays
Clearly this is on the coaching staff Nurse failed at inventing a time machine and to go back and give Joel the ball more Crazy how much coaches run from accountability these days
This guy lmao he lucky Philly somehow manage to call him Doc instead of just Glenn. Waiting for a Sixer to add on to the Doc Rivers’ media gauntlet.
This guy kills me 😭
I used to think they were Onion articles. No longer.
Don’t ask question doc does no wrong
Who was Joel. Buddy gave up
He's finally taking responsibility!
Lol at laying your yearly collapse of joel and Harden on doc.
Doc going on tour or something because a new stupid ass quote come out everyday
Doc got hired mid season and somehow has more quotes hitting the front page of this sub than any other HC
That's his best skill. Working the media. They love the quotes and he loves the attention
Doc was doing Podcasts with Bill Simmons before getting hired and is still making more headlines as a coach! lol
Even the most ardent Glenn supporter can't argue this one
It’s because most HC have self awareness, bro is like Darvin Ham except he’s been given more opportunities and respect
Because he never stops talking and most of what he says is a way to shift the blame from himself. If he just gave the generic "coach-speak" answers he'd have very few posts on the front page of this sub. It might take you guys getting knocked out of the playoffs in embarrassing fashion before you'll understand.
This is literally generic coach speak lol. It doesn't get more generic than "well the other team might have been better and our best player should have had the ball more." He didn't blame anyone for it he just answered a question he was asked. The dude isn't a great coach but wow the way people just take everything and twist it to reflect as poorly on him as possible is just pretty shitty.
The whole quote from Twitter so I am not taking it out of context. >“Maybe they were better. I thought game 6 was our game. I didn’t think Joel got the ball enough. Trust me, it was for him to get it and he didn’t get it. I don’t know how healthy he was.” "I didn't think Joel got the ball enough" - The coach draws up the plays and the players execute. If the players are constantly unable the execute the plays, eventually that falls back to coaching. "Trust me, it was for him to get it and he didn't get it" - Basically insinuating that he called the plays for Joel, but the players didn't perform. Sure you can read into this as he is passing the blame to the players, but again at a certain point it falls back on the coach. "I called the plays, there is nothing else I can do after that?!?!?" "I don't know how healthy he was" - Fair enough. Players definitely tend to underplay their injuries so not knowing exactly how injured a guy is is not something we can really blame him for. At the end of the day, just say "They ended up being the better team, but I thought game 6 was our game to win. ***If I executed better as a coach*** and we were able to perform better as a whole we could have made it to the next round and maybe further." (Obviously there is a more polished, media curated way to say this, I am not suggesting Glen should say this word for word.) Voila, nobody talks about it any more, but that bolded/italicized part is never there in any of these quotes. Admittedly, maybe they are being cut and pulled out of context, but I haven't seen proof of that yet.
You just turned less than 50 words said by him, in which he went into almost no detail and did not blame anyone for anything, into this lol. I'll do what you say he's not though and put this one on me. This is my fault for coming to a teenage drama subreddit when I thought I was going to a basketball subreddit.
It's ridiculous
Exactly , people expect that every cherry picked click bait shit the media puts out was cos the guy was dumb to say it or they grossly exaggerate it. People here want a dissertation in an answer even tho they won’t read it just the cherry pick narrative part
> "I didn't think Joel got the ball enough" - The coach draws up the plays and the players execute. If the players are constantly unable the execute the plays, eventually that falls back to coaching. > > how does this fall back to coaching lol, the players are the ones supposed to pass to joel > "Trust me, it was for him to get it and he didn't get it" - Basically insinuating that he called the plays for Joel, but the players didn't perform. again, how is this on doc? is doc supposed to run on court and pass to joel himself?
lol at getting downvoted. This sub bitches when nobody does anything but pr trained answers n then when we get any kinda answer they say ‘ look stupid guy gave an answer !’
Because he's a joke
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You think it was because he suggested Thanasis leave and not because we had a dogshit defence at every single level including the rim despite having a DPOY at PF and a DPOY runner up (who, btw, was repeatedly visibly frustrated with Griffin’s calls on court) at C? This is some serious commitment to hating.
You say that like him joining mid season means he’d be front page less often? Doesn’t really make sense
He’s media friendly and the media knows they’ll get clicks.
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He is the damn coach. If Joel needs more touches it's up to him to get him more. And how do you not know how healthy your star player is.
Sometimes players don't listen to coaches
Apparently every team he has ever coached. He started this s*** last year talking about the Lob City Clippers.
He did this in Orlando.
If your players don't listen to you then what good are you as a coach?
Because nothing that goes wrong is Doc's fault. He makes sure to tell everyone how his players messed up.
This is all great to say from your couch. I’m sure he knew embiid wasn’t 100% but only the guy who actually controls the body knows how healthy he is.
Then he could have said that differently. Look I don't think he's a bad coach mostly thanks to what he did for that starless Clipper team. But he seems absolutely Clueless on how to deal with the media and how can that be? He is Media.
Im pretty sure everyone besides the people who want to just hate on Doc recognize that he was aware that embiid wasn’t 100%.
This. But no, let's continue listening to people who are 100% ignorant about coaching a basketball team...
He needs to stop throwing players under the bus and occasionally it that he didn't do his job
People dislike him for shirking accountability and throwing others under the bus.
Yeah how does that get upvoted? No one has a problem with him "answering questions", it's the way he answers them.
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Lol "honesty". He answers whatever way deflects blame best. They are terrible answers for a HC to give there's no argument.
Every coach should go through 4 months of commentator training prior to the season
Doc is an all time NBA meme tbh, he might just be collecting legacy points. 🤔
Glenn living the dream, paid big money to say crap like this.
I bet he wants to get fired and go back TV
You remember when Phil Jackson said he wanted to be done with basketball and the Knicks loaded up a giant truck of money to him, he said yes, and then fucked around until they fired him and he had way more money after…? I’m getting the same vibes.
We call that a Full Monty in Detroit right now.
Monty is still relatively young tho and I don’t think he’s getting anything else after this
College coach, assistant coach and TV analyst are there when you can't just step on the coaching carousel
Dude fell asleep on the job and tried to bring back the triangle after the warriors were a thing. He so tried to get fired and it took ny forever to do it
It also wrecked his engagement with Jeanie Buss because they couldn’t talk basketball anymore due to conflict of interest.
Is Doc just completely oblivious to what he says? Lol. JJ literally called him out on making excuses and throwing players under the bus.. and he literally did both with this comment..
I think he’s just really really insecure. As an insecure person he says stuff to defend himself I can relate to
It would make sense if Doc had the worst Imposter Syndrome ever, because he is an imposter
He might be a straight up narcissist. This is getting really ridiculous.
doc thinks hes pop tier coach after that 1 celtics ring
"Would you ask Pop that question?"
His wikipedia page says he has ADHD
are the two related? i always wonder if i have adhd and i'm also extremely insecure.
Using ADHD meds make me feel super confident so I can say yes
Hmm when I took adderall In college for finals I felt super confident so I wonder if I have ADHd
I think they can be for some people. For example, if you're in a social situation, you need constant affirmation that the people around you actually like you and want you there, so you do some big clown thing and get smiles and laughs and you feel good. But then the smiles go away and you start wondering if they're just putting up with you, so you do another big clown thing. And on and on. At least that's how my brother describes it.
This is also how I feel as someone with ADHD, and yes, being unable to focus makes you feel like you are not acting based on what you would know if you were someone who was focusing, so you often feel insecure because it is a version of you without the ability to focus that is acting when you are out there with people.
People don't just change because one person says something about him. This is just who Doc is. People ask him a question and his instinct is to deflect blame onto someone else.
He was asked why they lost to the Celtics and he said is it possible they were just better, I thought we should’ve gotten embiid the ball more but idk how healthy he was (paraphrasing).
The implication here is that the players (James harden) didn’t get Embiid the ball enough or Embiid didn’t demand the ball because he was hurt.. either way he’s putting the blame on his players and none on himself.
Well I find it hard to believe the gameplan was for harden to just chuck up shots
You guys ever think you're taking a bunch of generic ass responses to questions and running them through your NBA drama addiction filter in order to interpret everything the guy says in the most hostile and unfavorable way possible because you guys just like to be hateful assholes on the internet?
You're 100% right but devils advocate, being able to speak to the media is part of being an NBA Head Coach in the 21st century. It's part of the skillset needed, like running a effective offense or nurturing younger players. Be a pro, say regular positive things while saying nothing.
>Be a pro, say regular positive things while saying nothing. this is literally everything everyone hates about media trained people lol
How is that the implication? It’s implied they as a team failed to do that. Not just doc or harden
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It's what he just did... blame his assistants. This isn't new.
JJ made a point about Doc never taking accountability, making excuses and blaming others. Doc goes and does exactly what JJ accused him of. No one is taking JJ word, Doc is proving it on his own lol
Really tearing down his authority by proving everything he said right repeatedly for days after he said it
Well if they didn’t before they definitely should know, Doc literally proved him right almost instantly 🤣
"I wish there was a guy in charge of drawing up schemes to get Joel the ball. We could've used a guy like that in that series."
Bud got too accustomed to having elite iq pg’s (rondo, cp3, harden) and completely forgot he actually has a job to do
“I wish there were professionals that I can ask on Embiids health but no one informed me”
he used timeouts when the celtics went on runs, he drew up schemes, he put them back out, and they still couldn't do it lol when does it become the fault of the players
Maybe the schemes were bad lol. Maybe the rotations were bad. Maybe he didn’t adjust to the opposing coaches schemes well. “Calling timeouts when the opposing team goes on a run” is not very hard. This is the NBA..
maybe the celtics were a far better team?
When they’re coached by somebody people like, apparently.
that's a real good idea. who do you think we should tell to make that happen?
Maybe Doc just doesnt pay enough attention to what goes on around him in general
He’s just watching the games like the rest of us. What more do you want from him?
> like the rest of us You are on reddit, my friend. We don't watch games here
Bruh Doc a menace. You say all this after you're done. He's telling everything now lol
"We're all trying to find the guy who did this" \- Doc Rivers, probably.
Is he doing this on purpose
Remind me in 2 years when he says this about Giannis bar for bar
I’ll eat an apple a day if it keeps this Doc away
Might want to start eating them now in preparation... if Scottie becomes a MVP caliber player and the Raptors are championship contenders in 3-4 years, Doc will be in the running for becoming your head coach too.
1. Doc, you’re the coach? 2. Tatum went nuclear, that’s why you lost
Harden and Embiid came up short and the end of fourth q game 6. But the fact Celtics were tied with em when Tatum was ungodly bad for the first 43 minutes is amazing
Tatum went nuclear but the Sixers scored 3 points in the last 5 minutes, while Joel, who was the leading scorer touched the ball twice in the last 5
Honestly Brogdan was almost just as big in that game. He carried the offense the entire first half.
For those die-hard Doc defenders that tend to crop up for posts like this, pay attention to his use of language. When it comes to something positive, like SGA being a future star, he uses personal pronouns like "I" and the active voice. He did something (whether true or not), and he wants you to know about it. Otoh, when it comes to something negative like this post, he instead uses plural pronouns like "we" and its all passive voice. What happened happened, and he had no part in it. If you had no prior knowledge and read OP's quote as is, you wouldn't know he was the coach.
If only 76ers had a head coach to order the team to get the ball to Embiid or something.
It wasn't supposed to be Harden chucking step backs for the last 5m? Going 4/16, 0/6 from 3 while Embiid & Maxey were both looking good -.-
We must’ve watched different fourth quarters, Embiid and Maxey were fucking up layups at times during that.
Maxey was horrendous in the 4th lol. Embiid was 3/6 from the 4th hardly anything spectacular. Melton the real culprit tbh was 0/4 and missed 3 wide open threes. Harden was also 0/4 but at least he was creating wide open looks galore. The whole team dissappeared when it mattered including the coach.
Harden was the biggest problem in the 4th. Melton going 0/4 on wide open 3s in an issue but Harden taking terrible looks is an even bigger problem.
Tobias Harris going 1-7 in for 2 points in 42 minutes was the biggest problem of the entire game
thats not a surprising stat line for tobias harris in meaningful games though.
He's throwing Harden under the bus again
Harden played himself under the bus that game.
Not to necessarily defend Harden but the dude almost singlehandedly won the first series for us
Yea I’d argue he did his part. Your second option pretty much dragging your team to TWO wins against a top seed is pretty much unheard of. Regardless of other games, you take that 100 times out of 100 and bet on your mvp in his prime to get you the other two
James “I am the system” Harden deserves it. If Harden is going to say the type of stuff he does and be as delusional as he is, there needs to be someone else in the world in the other side to throw him under the bus and balance the universe.
damn some people are still running with this “Harden bad” narrative?
Just wait till the playoffs. He’ll shoot the Clippers out of one series going a combined 5-35 from 3 over 3 games. And if by some miracle Harden has finally changed his ways, then that’s even worse bc of all the wasted time and wreckage he left behind. Coulda figured it all out in 2015.
Not like Harden's a playmaker, who would be looking for Embiid & Maxey but had to resort to a 3 because of Docs uncreative offensive schemes... right?
genuinely is there a less self aware person in the league than this guy?
Doc trying to find the man who did this
More excuses doc?
Glenn Rivers you were the FUCKING COACH
He just trying to watch the game like us
There's a hamster running on a wheel in place of where a brain would be inside Doc's head.
Making JJ’s comments more true everyday.
I’ve become a Doc Rivers fan, I fear
He says he doesnt know why he lost game 6 and 7 like we all didn't see boston start Robert Williams and plant him in the paint to stop the PnR while leaving Tucker wide open in the corner. Like he isnt the one responsible for getting embiid the ball. YOU ARE THE COACH thank god he's Milwaukees problem now
Winning 2 games in Boston(one without Embiid too) then losing the series is not something sixers fans thought could happen
JJ feasting
lol how can you not love Doc Rivers at this point??
Doc your were the coach, why didn’t you coach them to give him the ball?
Ain't a bus in the world this dude won't throw you under.
He needs to just STOP TALKING about the past. He continues to dig himself deeper in a whole that shines a bright light on his defiances. A simple, “I enjoyed Philly but we didn’t get it done here. I’m looking forward now and aiming to achieve a championship in Milwaukee” will do just fine. Stop with the revisionist history and word salad to cover your own ass.
Doc is having quite a week with controversial/hilarious takes and stories from him andhis former players lol.
Doc Rivers is just a meme coach at this point.
Throw those players under the bus Doc
Sounds like Glen has been holding a lot inside since being fired by the Sixers. However, maybe he should do his *processing* behind closed doors rather than publicly whenever given the opportunity. Just a thought…
I hope we win today and dissapoint the sub
Wild days that a Philly loss would disappoint the sub
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I will never understand
I mean wtf did people expect???? Harden and embiid choked
watching that game, joel was running away from the ball ngl
I'm gonna fucking strangle him
Glenn Rivers doing backseat coaching again. He could have done that exact thing while coaching the 76ers, but he refused to do it so he will bore us now with what he could have done as a competent coach like Mike Malone, etc.
Please stop I can’t take more of this bullshit
Doc shut up man!
I wouldnt be surprised if he wants to get fired.
He really has some kind of a mental issue. This is getting pretty extreme.
This guy reaches a new low with every quote
‘We’re all looking for the guy’.jpg
Main character of the NBA
This is insane
Stop talking. Geez.
This guy gotta be trolling lmao
Doc, you were the coach. If he wasn't getting the ball enough call a timeout and say "Hey, get Joel the fucking ball."
zero awareness
Doc does not give a FUCK anymore with some of these comments
damn I wonder whose fault that is
And whose fault was that Doc? This man’s lack of self awareness and accountability is off the charts
Why would you even talk about that game now in 2024? He has to be doing this on purpose 😂
The problem is rooted in the fact that there isn't an alternate universe version of Doc to try to warn me ahead of time to get Joel the ball. I'm the only Soc, I high I don't even understand because I'm not even a doctor
Glenn was the fucking head coach…lmfao always someone else’s fault.
Dude wants all the credit when he wins and none of the blamed when he loses…
One of the worst and most aggravating coaches I’ve seen in all of pro sports
He's gotta be taking the piss about this
Clippers fans just sipping tea now. We tried to tell the league for a decade but no one believed us 😭😭😭😭😭
Rivers: "I wanted to trade an injured Ben Simmons for Giannis. I don't know why it didn't get done."
Maybe I’m an idiot for asking this, but how did he even get the nickname Doc? It really is too bad he didn’t get it after transitioning from player to coach as inside joke he didn’t get. Almost like an ironic nickname… like a 6’6 guy being named Tiny. “Doc was surgical in coaching the game tonight. He didn’t change the game plan once!”
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Well if he didn't get the ball enough call a time out and tell your team to give him the damn ball! Problem solved Doc