Was Doc Rivers one game from replacing Popovich as Spurs head coach?

I don't even know why I'm defending Rivers :lol he's overhyped, but I just think he's a better out of timeout coach than Pop IMO

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Originally Posted by ElNono

Has Tom Rivers done any better than Vinny so far?

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Easily. Vinny's "best" result was getting swept in round 2. Tom at least was competitive.

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Originally Posted by ElNono

and who got 'traded' there? coaches are not tradeable assets...

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Didn't think you could, but apparently it's possible? http://m.espn.go.com/nba/story?story...56&src=desktop

:lol I think every coach fucks up, tbh... even the great Phil lost two Finals...

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Originally Posted by TheGreatYacht

Didn't think you could, but apparently it's possible? http://m.espn.go.com/nba/story?story...56&src=desktop

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IIRC, the league threatened to block the trade...

This was from Stern back then:
The teams are aware that the collective bargaining agreement doesn't authorize trades involving coaches' contracts...The teams know that...It has been confirmed to them... It can't be gotten around by breaking it up into two transactions.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...clippers-trade

I think eventually the deal was completed in a different way...

That good Ol Kobe chucking the series away against the Pistons and Phil not having the balls to stand up to him :lol

Apparently, the trade involved KG too, and Stern threatened to block it, so they ended up going a different route.

But Tom knows what he was doing, tbh... I don't have anything against him as a coach, tbh... hopefully now that the racist is gone, the Clippers can reach their full potential except against the Spurs, obviously

:lol yeah, Shaq was shooting like 66% too in those Finals...

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Originally Posted by Clipper Nation

Easily. Vinny's "best" result was getting swept in round 2. Tom at least was competitive.

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While true, I think you're going to grow tired of Doc eventually... it's not ALL on CP3...

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Originally Posted by ElNono

While true, I think you're going to grow tired of Doc eventually... it's not ALL on CP3...

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It's at least 99% on Choke Paul, tbh.

My one complaint about Doc is that he needs to step away from the personnel decisions. He loves signing washed-up former notable players from the mid-2000s. There's already rumors of Artest and Ray Allen. What we need is youth and athleticism, especially at the 3.

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Originally Posted by Clipper Nation

It's at least 99% on Choke Paul, tbh.

My one complaint about Doc is that he needs to step away from the personnel decisions. He loves signing washed-up former notable players from the mid-2000s. There's already rumors of Artest and Ray Allen. What we need is youth and athleticism, especially at the 3.

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I don't know why he hasn't thrown the kitchen sink to get a guy like Wilson Chandler at the wing... can't be worse than what they have right now

People consider Doc part of the coaching Tree of Pop. I don't. Pop was still finding his way in the FO and Bob Hill was Doc's coach during his time in SA.

Fuck...

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Originally Posted by TheGreatYacht

I really wish Doc was the spurs coach. Tbh

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Fucking Doc :lmao

Can't wait till he calls out the moving screens :tu

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Originally Posted by TheGreatYacht

Fucking Doc :lmao

Can't wait till he calls out the moving screens :tu

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:lol

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Originally Posted by TheGreatYacht

Can't wait till he calls out the moving screens :tu

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I just thought about that! He sure will call them out! :lol

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Originally Posted by TheGreatYacht

Fucking Doc :lmao

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2009 KG would have been more appropriate since they had a dominant record that season before KG got injured. Perkins injure is more like Porker getting injured in the '13 Finals.

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Originally Posted by SnakeBoy

People forget how much Pop was despised for firing Bob Hill. I remember people referring to him as Pop the Snake. Hill was the poor man's D'Antonio and had the spurs playing exciting offense so people loved him...but the defense was shitty. Imo it was Hill who cost the Spurs their first ring in 94. Now everyone says Hakeem owned DRob in that series but what I remember was Tomajanovich double/triple teaming DRob on one end and on the other end Hill just stuck DRob out on an island to guard Hakeem 1 on 1.

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The closest thing to that situation was Riley firing Stan Van Gundy

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Pat would come down and tell Stan how to do something and Stan would want to do it his own way, and that was a fine game plan if you wanted to get yourself fired.

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Yeah but Doc could never recruit Durant like Pop is about to.

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Originally Posted by TrainOfThought5

Yeah but Doc could never recruit Durant like Pop is about to.

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but we'd have austin rivers to play over parker

The gift that keeps on giving :lol

Must be nice to have a coach that still cares about basketball

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Originally Posted by TheGreatYacht

The gift that keeps on giving :lol

Must be nice to have a coach that still cares about basketball

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don't agree with some of your take but you have been on fire tonight tbh..:bobo

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Originally Posted by Spurs_619

don't agree with some of your take but you have been on fire tonight tbh..:bobo

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Thanks :toast

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Originally Posted by TheGreatYacht

The gift that keeps on giving :lol

Must be nice to have a coach that still cares about basketball

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Please take Doc. He's a fucking moron. Gotta love how he tries to talk shit to the Warriors every time we play them, when they're clearly in our heads and not the other way around.