Doc Rivers
Doc Rivers
Glenn Anton "Doc" Riversis an American basketball coach and former player. He is the current head coach and President of Basketball Operations for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers. As an NBA point guard, Rivers was known for his defense...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 October 1961
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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I think the veterans expect pain. They understand what is going to happen and they keep rolling. With young guys, it surprises them. They haven't had it probably before in their lives. They have to figure out, first, if they can play, and then they have to figure out how to play with it.
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Nash is Terrell Owens for them. He came in and turned the whole franchise around with his performance.
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I saw Tony just sitting there when we started practice. That told me all I needed to know.
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I said it the entire time I was here: I don't think people understand the effect of not having Grant Hill on the floor. They don't. They didn't when I was here, and they don't now. And it's too bad.
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Larry is going to be missed. If Larry can be back for the playoffs, no one will want to play Cleveland if he's right.
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It came down to the fact that they've been together and they trusted each other. They made a run and they played great defense. You knew they were going to do that.
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I thought we really lost our intensity. We started watching them play for a while, and I thought that really hurt us.
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I thought we won the game because of great ball movement. That's how you play at the end of a game. If they trap you, swing it, and the ball kept moving until it found the open guy. You could see our guys at the end were getting into the ball movement.
blame falls gave win
It hurts. We had the win and we gave it away. The blame falls on all of us -- players, coaches, everybody.
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I thought, for whatever reason, our spirit was broken in the third and fourth quarters.
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I thought about getting my All-Star ballot back and putting Jake on it. He's not going to be a guy who gets you 30 points a night, but every night, he's willing to do the dirty stuff. He wants to bang. He's going to have good nights and bad nights, but he's an excellent guy to have on your team.
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I thought we changed the game and we went small with four smalls and one big. It allowed us to stretch the floor, and pick-and-roll. Whoever it was, the key was we kept moving the ball.
I did go to school. I did do math, a little bit, and I do know that it's not good.
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I can't imagine shooting like that, but I didn't give it a second thought because I knew he could play,