The 08 Celtics ring is his Infinity Stone I’m afraid. Shit is the most powerful ring in sports apparently.

The truth is that Doc Rivers has one truly incredible skill and it’s the ability to build and maintain relationships throughout the nba—especially with front offices and executives.

He’s not a good coach, but he’s incredibly personable and likable and so he keeps getting and keeping jobs. Hopefully the bucks wise up and fire him in the offseason and bring in someone with actual modern coaching sensibilities

Relax, he hasn’t even blown a 3-1 lead with the Bucks yet.

He probably has the Silverstein files

the second best player on the Bucks this year has been Kevin Porter Jr (who has played 35 games)

Once he pisses off every fanbase in the league he gets a free hoagie.

if he’s still the coach next year than that’s a problem but at this point don’t know if it’s accomplishing much to fire him now, just finish the year out and start the look for a new HC after the year is over

Doc is who he is, but the Bucks roster really isn’t very good. Honestly think he deserves credit for getting as much as he has from Porter and Rollins this year.

There seems to be a belief that just because a coach was good at one time that they will be good forever.

I don’t see why that would ever be the case, especially considering how much the game has changed, how fast it continues to change.

There’s a reason that so many of the current top coaches are young guys. And even the older guys like Carlisle that do continue to have success seem to be particularly good at finding awesome young assistant coaches for their staff.

Someone hasn’t joined the corporate world.

He threatened to release the Epstein files if he gets fired 

I honestly don’t get why he’s so hated in this sub. Doc’s not an elite coach, but it’s crazy to say he has no place in the league with his resume. You don’t see constant posts about how, say, Quinn Snyder shoudn’t have a job even though he never made it to even a conference final in Utah and missed the play-offs the last two seasons in Atlanta or why Billy Donovan is still coaching in the NBA despite not making the play-offs four of the last five seasons in the East (and I’m not saying they’re bad coaches, just to be clear, just that I don’t get this weird fixation on a coach that has a better resume than both of them and plenty of other coaches).

He talks to people up the chain good seriously that’s it.

Be good at interviews and good with people, in general. Actual job qualifications matter less. Works practically for every corporate job.

What was any coach supposed to do with the team this year? Y’all love shitting on black coaches

Bucks should have been able to win this game.

I think people sincerely overestimate the quality of the Bucks’ talent, as well as Giannis’ ability to make players around him better.

Because he gets along well with his colleagues.

because they’re still paying the other coach and the season is washed already

He’s very relationship focused. Building relationships with front office, players, keeping an open door. Works when you have a group of vets like KG, Paul pierce, ray allen, but we have a bunch of young guys that need coaching. Sloppy turnovers, missed rotations, and Giannis is a lead by example sort of guy. Middleton and Lopez were always our voice on the court calling out plays, rotations, etc. just a terrible fit.

Yes Doc sucks at coaching but Doc has literally always sucked at coaching with teams winning in spite of him.

That’s not going to change, just root for him to be hired by your least favorite team.

Bc he knows more about basketball than random redditors online and a lot of coaching is personality management. All accounts are that ppl around the league like him

He’s not been great but the Bucks front office deserves blame as well

I figure its because he’s got a good relationship with Giannis and the Bucks FO desperately wants Giannis to retire a Bucks lifer. If I was enough of a degenerate to bet on this shit my money would be that if Giannis forces his way out or leaves in FA Doc is gone within a week.

We’ve hit that point of the season

Unless Doc Rivers has evidence on Adam Silver in the Epstein files

As a Bucks fan, we’ve all been asking this the last two years.

America is like the poster child of unqualified and incompetent men repeatedly being put in positions of power they don’t deserve.

He has an unredacted copy of all the Epstein emails

Also why hasn’t Griffin had another coaching opportunity?

Players seem to like the idea of him, but then don’t like playing for him

He’s a Doc. The only Doc in the league.

Idk man. On one hand this bucks team is just not good. They’re a first round exit team on a good day and being under .500 seems right. 

On the other hand I’m not a fan of doc and I don’t think he’s a great coach. I think he would actually be better in a gm role or something else but stop trying to do it all, gm and hire a coach. Owners seem to like him too.

I think they should have stuck with AG a little longer and backed him up with the players. I could say the same about Bud too. The bucks were making good moves for a while but they started making panic moves with staff/players and I think what we’re seeing now is the end of that rope.

Same way most of these other mid ass coaches yall don’t complain about have a job

Having an MD opens lots of for you.

Because he does exactly what upper management wants

because glenn only signs 5 year contracts. all it takes is a sucker owner who likes him personally to bring him in and then you can’t fire him for at least 3 seasons

People trust him

Doctors are in high demand

One of the biggest enigmas of this generation.

You cant fire black coach that won championship 20 years ago, who is good friend with media.

Everything down to his name is a fraud. It’s not even his own nickname, he went to a camp as a kid with a doctor J jersey on so they called him Doc there. He’s got to be one of the most overrated coaches ever.

Maybe he pledged his allegiance to Israel

I don’t believe the team is as bad as it is and is playing below the sum of its parts.

A huge issue is that this team doesn’t really have a coherent identity. The Bucks are constantly an efficient offense and dominant as a shooting team but lose every game on the margins and the defensive scheme is a mess.

Back in the Bud days, they could do what the Celtics did last night and roll out a bench unit and compete, because every knew their roles and scheme.

coaches who won it before having tremendous staying power. basically if you’ve won a chip before you have essentially proven that the roster can at least speak for itself.

His tenure has been rife with injured stars. Milwaukee as a whole has gambled and lost a few times. It could easily have gone the other way.

I have a tough time reconciling how bad of a coach he is with how many career games he’s won as a coach. And to be clear, I think he definitely is a bad a coach.

Warriors fan deserve him for how much they want Kerr to be gone from earth

Because he’s an excellent tank commander.

No idea.

Honestly, I really have no explanation or whatsoever.

If anyone knows, it would be nice if they could share their insights.

I can’t stand sports discourse sometimes. Oh yea let me reiterate a talking point that’s popular online even though I’ve never experienced docs entire career as a coach. I just listen to what everyone tells me and then when things go bad I chime in to be a part of the conversation like I have an original thought.

Youre great until you aren’t anymore. Let me know all these coaches who were bad and were just left to obscurity because they weren’t worth hiring with docs longevity.

He knows where the bodies are buried 🙈

He must have some dirt on the owner or GM.

Come on guys. Come on.

Jesus Christ man WE KNOW

Mods need to ban doc posts I’ve literally seen this one 100 times since Doc got hired. We knew he was a fraud then and now he’s a fraud with a mediocre team. He doesn’t need a Reddit post until he gets fired.

It’s ludicrous isn’t it.

Somehow managed to convince Giannis to help axe a good coach and back him

He’s a reminder\proof that if you’re in the good graces of the right people and the narrative is he’s a great guy, he’ll always have a job. Doesn’t matter how many times he fails.

This is what it’s like to have privilege or the protection of the powerful.

Game is passing him by

One factor here that I think gets underrated is his age. We tend to imagine guys as frozen in time, but you really do lose a step as you get older. He won the Celtics chip when he was ⁴⁵⁄₄₆, not he’s 64. I’m not saying you can’t be a great coach at that age (look at Popovich), but it is hard. It is hard to attack a job with the same level of obsessive dedication you had in your mid-forties as it is twenty years later.

Cs also were on the second night of a back to back playing in an opponents building. Bucs totally shoulda won but they got stomped

Doc benched Rollins yesterday…..this man cannot coach.

Tanking.

Cuz Giannis likes him. He’ll probably be fired by the end of this season and hopefully then can stop getting passed around like a blunt by The Association and stop ruining teams with his mediocre coaching

Safe choice for GMs and Owners. Can’t get fired for hiring Doc

At this point the owner is just saving money

The Lakers hired JJ Redick.

…It’s March, you towering fucking genius. If they’re going to fire him, they’ll do it at the end of the season.

Christ, the spambots at least have the courtesy to mindlessly repost the good questions.

Aren’t we paying 3 coaches!? They don’t want to pay a 4th. Thanks Giannis

He won a championship and in-season tournament. It’s not his fault players respect him over a first year head coach like Adrian Griffin. 

Gms are scared of his son austin!!

Have you seen Bucks roster? They will lose to team of pigeons and raccoons. 

Just wait. Rivers is 202 wins off the coaching wins record. He’s one or more dumb hires away.

In 10 years we’re going to see people say:

“Riley, Auerbach, Jackson, Popovich, Doc top 5 GOAT coaches.”

“Doc won a title during Lebron/Curry era when all he had was broken down Garnett, always injured Blake, and broken Dame! Imagine what he’d have won with Jordan!!”

“How many teams went 3-1 against that Celtics team? 3-1 as the UNDERDOG against Billups Pistons? Up 3-1 dragging WEBEMBiid and Ben Simmons?”

“Doc is the GOAT coach. Wins record, traded for a pick. Beat Kobe on biggest stage.”

“Who knows ball better? NBA GMs or nephews on Reddit? Give me DOC.”

I hate it here.

They don’t want to pay him to not work since it was probably his plan all along to get fired after taking over.

How is 2024-2025 even bad? Injured Giannis and the corpse of Khash is insurmountable. This year they have an injured Giannis and literal dead cap space from the dumbass Dame waive

Because he does everything the star player wants.

I said it on the bucks thread when we hired him, that day was my personal ⁹⁄₁₁. Man is a genuine basketball terrorist and should never work in any basketball setting again. No clue how he finds work

What is he supposed to do with that roster and a “star” player that can’t shoot or dribble?

He is usually the best known quantity on the market. You need a coach immediately? Don’t want to take a risk on an unproven first time head coach? Not exactly a long line of head coaches with decades of experience as a player and a coach who have won a championship and gone on several playoff runs. It’s like asking why do people keep going to McDonalds. Because you know EXACTLY what you’re gonna get. Even though objectively better food can be found within a one-mile radius, you don’t want to roll the dice on potentially getting something you’ll regret

Because the media protects him

Doc Rivers is a mossad agent

lesson in life, if you wonder why an, “unqualified”, person has a job, it’s because they are liked more than the, “qualified”, person.

Would imagine like anything Bucs that Giannis doesn’t want him gone….so he isnt

I’m going to guess the Bucks ownership felt the championship window has closed with the Dame trade not working out. So rather than keep pursuing it, they decided to self-sabotage with Doc Rivers and tank. Otherwise, they were just that dumb to hire him.

The NBA named him a top 10 coach. Personally, I think they looked at the list and said, “Oh, shit, the near total dearth of black coaches looks pretty racist on our part. We better choose somebody to represent.” And Glen Rivers was available.

Representation has improved. Glen should be off that list and replaced with some one worthy.

laughs in Sixers

Because what is the point of firing him if you arent going anywhere this season anyways.

Their lack of success this season isn’t really his fault. Giannis has being hurt and trade rumors swirling all season killed them.

Might as well wait and see what type of team you are going to have going forward before firing him and bringing in someone else.

you should have mentioned what the bulls did to them the night before

This was posted by an AI/spam account, just so y’all know.

It’s wild because when Griffin was fired the consensus was pretty much that it needed to happen. He was mid, doc is mid and the roster stinks.

Owners don’t want to be paying 3 coaches at once.

A great people person

Same reason Joe Dumars is somehow still making strategic decisions in the NBA.

He has a ring! He has a ring! And he’s nominated for the Hall of Fame! Surely he should be there for longer! Surely!