Post by DERRENMATTS on Aug 2, 2006 2:51:43 GMT -5
I've been a Doc Rivers supporter since day 1. I like him as a person and I think he has good people skills. I even overlooked some of his coaching strategies, summing it up to inexperience as a head coach.
But this has to be the last chance for Rivers to show that he can coach this team to a title. He doesn't have to coach our team to a title this year (though it would be nice ;D), but he certainly has to show that he can coach this team to a winning record. We have good players on the team to get us at least to .500. Actually, if we finish this season at 41-41, that would be a big disappointment. Doc should be able to coach this team to a 45 win season at the minimum.
But most importantly, he has to show that he can get this team to become a defensive unit. All the strategies and schemes he used last year didn't work out so well, and I don't want it to be the same story again this year. I want us to be a strong rebounding team and I want our team to be able to get stops when we need it.
Ainge has a lot of excellent players to build his dynasty team around, but without a coach who can make the right calls and get the team to play the right way, we aren't going to capitalize on our talents we have.
I say that Rivers is on the hot seat this season. I like him, and hope he can pull through and make believers out of his doubters. But there comes a point when the right move is to move onto something else before the window of opportunity begins to shrink. Granted, injuries and getting players to change their attitude toward the new offensive system was a big challenge for him in his 1st 2 years. But some of his coaching moves were questionable (like not using Gomes earlier in the season, playing Blount and Raef too much instead of letting Jefferson and Perkins have more developmental time, etc). He has to show better player management this season and make better substitutions.
But this has to be the last chance for Rivers to show that he can coach this team to a title. He doesn't have to coach our team to a title this year (though it would be nice ;D), but he certainly has to show that he can coach this team to a winning record. We have good players on the team to get us at least to .500. Actually, if we finish this season at 41-41, that would be a big disappointment. Doc should be able to coach this team to a 45 win season at the minimum.
But most importantly, he has to show that he can get this team to become a defensive unit. All the strategies and schemes he used last year didn't work out so well, and I don't want it to be the same story again this year. I want us to be a strong rebounding team and I want our team to be able to get stops when we need it.
Ainge has a lot of excellent players to build his dynasty team around, but without a coach who can make the right calls and get the team to play the right way, we aren't going to capitalize on our talents we have.
I say that Rivers is on the hot seat this season. I like him, and hope he can pull through and make believers out of his doubters. But there comes a point when the right move is to move onto something else before the window of opportunity begins to shrink. Granted, injuries and getting players to change their attitude toward the new offensive system was a big challenge for him in his 1st 2 years. But some of his coaching moves were questionable (like not using Gomes earlier in the season, playing Blount and Raef too much instead of letting Jefferson and Perkins have more developmental time, etc). He has to show better player management this season and make better substitutions.