NeedleGunMonkey

292 | 11 hours ago

Good think Spurs are fully committed to Mitch because Doc is already eyeing his next coaching job

ForneauCosmique | Spurs

194 | 11 hours ago

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Don’t you put that evil on us Ricky Bobby

JazzlikeRaise108 | Thunder

47 | 11 hours ago

Come on. Wemby has to have Doc Rivers as his coach. Otherwise Wemby is an unfair advantage.

NeedleGunMonkey

20 | 11 hours ago

Doc Rivers’ job search process: find roster with stars and talent all coming together. Coach them out of the playoffs. Repeat.

Mintastic | NBA

1 | 6 hours ago

Don’t forget about adding to his tally of “choking a 3-1 lead”.

SuperH533 | Knicks

62 | 11 hours ago

They really do need that championship caliber coach to helm the ship as they go to the next level. Doc would be the perfect person for that role. I couldn’t think of a more perfect match. It’s only right. I just googled him and I don’t know why they don’t do this right away. If they do lose a series in this playoffs, they should quickly jump at the opportunity. What a dynasty they could build.

mathird | Spurs

8 | 10 hours ago

Good thoughts, but I think first the Spurs should look into hiring Derek Fisher. That would be a truly genius move.

lanfordr | Spurs

2 | 8 hours ago

I hear there is a coach named Mark Jackson who is available and get this…he coached Steph Curry! Yes, that Steph Curry. And somehow, he’s available!!!

We should get him on the phone before someone else scoops him up. Can’t be wasting Wemby’s prime.

ZelezopecnikovKoren

5 | 11 hours ago

i see new yorks afraid of the spurs too, why dont yall take doc if hes so damn good lmao

SuperH533 | Knicks

27 | 11 hours ago

Nope, it would be wrong of us. Wemby is the greatest player ever. Jalen Brunson and KAT are 4b players at best. Who are we to step in between Wemby and his Phil Jackson? We already had Phil Jackson and it didn’t work out. We’re hopeless. Spurs should do it.

Joethetoolguy

5 | 9 hours ago

Wemby is so good that he might be able to drag docs ass to a title like kg did anyway.

ZelezopecnikovKoren

2 | 11 hours ago

i wonder what Wemby thinks about it lol

Joethetoolguy

3 | 9 hours ago

Wemby is happy in SA. He still talks to pop and all anyway.

BOUKEN-BEN

1 | 18 minutes ago

The second half of your comment is what he’s truly afraid of

mercfan3

7 | 11 hours ago

Spurs aren’t that dumb

Efficient-Guest-8702

5 | 11 hours ago

He wants to be a “consultant” to Spurs.

largehearted | Celtics

5 | 9 hours ago

Good call. Then they can wait for an injury to a major player to cause a 6-or-so-game backslide in an otherwise great season, fire their head coach instantly during the season (he lost the locker room, nothing else they could do), and promote Doc up without him actually having been incorporated into the day to day operations of the team. Any great franchise would love to do this

NewConcentrate9682 | Washington Bullets

270 | 11 hours ago

I was expecting Wemby or Jokic, so yeah doesn’t surprise me.

Wemby has taken a leap this season so he’s someone that teams are getting used to. Trying to learn his weaknesses etc.

moby323 | 76ers

108 | 11 hours ago

He’s also probably the most unique player in the league.

Like some of the stuff SGA and Jokic do, obviously incredible, but it’s stuff that other players are sometimes capable of doing, they just do it WAY better than everyone.

Wemby, he just does stuff that nobody else can do, which makes him that much harder to prepare for.

PeopleCallMeSimon

26 | 11 hours ago

Do you know if there is anyone tracking behind the back passes? Because i feel thats something Jokic is unique at, there simply is no other player in the league today who does it as frequently and as successfully as he does.

Fits_N_Giggles | Australia

23 | 10 hours ago

Luka does it a bit but Jokic’s height means a good angle of delivery is usually available to him more often. Having generational vision helps too.

Mintastic | NBA

3 | 6 hours ago

I think Jokic has better hands for the touch passes than Luka. Maybe it’s all the water polo experience.

Lopsided_Path_4460

3 | 5 hours ago

Jokic might have the best touch of any player ever, at least for someone within 6 inches of himself

drewm916 | Kings

7 | 5 hours ago

Sorry, can I get a clarification? Every player is within six inches of himself.

tacomonstrous | Spurs

4 | 4 hours ago

Not sure if this is a genuine question (I did lol), but he means in height.

DomainEntransion

5 | 10 hours ago

Maybe not in the league today, but similar to Bird for sure

twerdy | Rockets

4 | 9 hours ago

Magic probably did it as well and as much if not more than Jokic. Jokic is definitely the best currently, with Lebron and Harden in the conversation.

DoobieGibson

2 | 7 hours ago

Ernie DiGregorio is still the all time best at behind the back passes

this is just one game https://youtu.be/KTOtagUtJ8k?si=rhyitozkJUvdLOzz

cactusmaster69420 | San Diego Clippers

1 | 6 hours ago

Rondo deserves a shout too

drewm916 | Kings

0 | 5 hours ago

My man Jason Williams.

Impossible-Group8553

1 | 3 hours ago

Younger, athletic Anthony Davis is probably about as close to Wemby as Sabonis/Sengun is to Jokic

Vakarian74

-18 | 11 hours ago

Unique and best aren’t the same. And you and Rivers have forgot that. Wemby isn’t the best player by far.

thatsinsaneletstryit | 76ers

15 | 10 hours ago

did OP say wemby was the best in that comment? did doc say what he meant was “most unique?”

or did you just feel should twist their words because they deigned not to gawk nikola “Lord Reddit” jokic for one thread?

Vakarian74

-10 | 10 hours ago

No he was agreeing with Rivers so that’s where that came from. Thinking is hard.

aggiefranchise | Spurs

1 | 10 hours ago

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man

JazzlikeRaise108 | Thunder

103 | 11 hours ago

Does anyone have an irradiated rock from his home planet?

GGTae | Spurs

17 | 11 hours ago

that would be an imported British thing, probably a ham beans infamy

Terrible-Handle | Celtics

16 | 9 hours ago

Tell him croissants were first made in Austria

ConspicuousPineapple

13 | 9 hours ago

I mean we literally call them “viennoiseries”, we know.

Terrible-Handle | Celtics

1 | 3 hours ago

Take that you dirty Frenchie, get owned!

(I’m sorry Id totally move to France right now if my career transferred…)

Mintastic | NBA

5 | 6 hours ago

If you leave out an authentic baguette for a few days it’s basically a rock. Just gotta irradiate it.

AdvisesPTTs | Raptors

2 | 11 hours ago

Perhaps a baguette or croissant? Far be it for me to question the Trailblazers coaching staff after what they went through this year but if they lose the first two games of thw series and don’t come out game three with their bigs having french patisserie goods stuffed in their shorts then maybe they aren’t trying to win?

SeizureMode | Pistons

7 | 10 hours ago

Really the only ways you can disrupt him is playing very handsy defense when he’s holding the ball down low. If he’s holding it up high, nobody can reach it.

And 2, just having a rock as a center in the paint. Wemby is quite skinny, so if you can keep him infront of you and outside the paint, youve got a better chance of forcing a bad shot

Morezingis | Timberwolves

5 | 9 hours ago

Hilariously enough I think Julius Randle when he locked in was the best Wemby defender this year, so this tracks.

Lopsided_Path_4460

1 | 5 hours ago

Randle is also super strong and funnily enough exactly at ball-height when Wemby cradles the ball for a drive. Outside of Rudy, probably the most physically well-off player for that assignment

mvhcmaniac | Spurs

0 | 4 hours ago

By the second time he played yall this season, that wasn’t working anymore lol.

ObeseBumblebee | Pistons

4 | 9 hours ago

I have a feeling his dominance will be lessened next year as more coaches figure out his game. But he’s just so incredibly different than what players and coaches have had to deal with. And Coaches were mostly unable to figure him out throughout the regular season. It remains to be seen if any have a secret weapon for him in the playoffs.

braddeus | Heat

4 | 9 hours ago

I feel like the only thing teams can do (and they will) is just ruthlessly beat the shit out of him, a Jordan Rules situation. The meta was set once OKC figured out that they won’t call a foul every single possession, especially in the playoffs. Clingan might actually Zangief suplex him into the third row.

collax974

1 | an hour ago

Wemby knows teams will try that and he has already planned the training to counter that this offseason: Rugby!

ewokninja123

2 | 7 hours ago

You’re going to have to pull him out of the paint for any shot so you’ll need a stretch big

mvhcmaniac | Spurs

2 | 4 hours ago

He’s 22 with an insane work ethic, he’s going to get better season over season faster than coaches are able to adjust. He’s not even close to entering his prime yet.

GriffinQ | WAS

2 | 3 hours ago

Growth isn’t always linear though - aspects of his skills might get better while there are certain matchups flaws they might find in him that will take more than one season (or offseason, if they’re issues like physical strength) to adjust to. Now that the Spurs are back atop the league and he’s played a full largely uninterrupted season, the other top teams (and the West generally) are going to spend a lot of dedicated time scheming for him - that was far less necessary when they were winning 30ish games and he had health issues.

It’s going to be so incredibly interesting to watch his next few years.

Supermoose7178 | Nuggets

4 | 11 hours ago

jokic also didn’t play in either of the nuggets/bucks games this year

NewConcentrate9682 | Washington Bullets

1 | 10 hours ago

Wow really? I thought he played in one. I do remember the other one, as I watched Giannis unfortunately hurt himself by continuing to play in the game.

Supermoose7178 | Nuggets

2 | 10 hours ago

yea the only starter who played in either game was AG weirdly

I_Set_3_Alarms | Celtics

2 | 11 hours ago

Will be very interesting to see how both Wemby and the league reacts to seeing him in the playoffs this year, when preparing for matchups next year.

EarthWarping | NBA

40 | 12 hours ago

Glenn is right.

PeeledGrapePie

-8 | 11 hours ago

I do not understand Simmons’ love of Rivers. He’s awful on pods, even more so considering the bag of rocks in his throat.

moby323 | 76ers

1 | an hour ago

I enjoy his appearances. For one thing, since he has been in the league as a player and a coach almost non-stop for 40 years, he has great insights into how the game has change.

He shows love and respect for the players that came before but also has a deep appreciation for the modern game, and that is not always the case with former players.

PeeledGrapePie

1 | 30 minutes ago

To each their own for sure. I find my game knowledge from other people, and I may be in the minority, I’ll admit that. I don’t find him engaging, and his insistence on throwing players under the bus really irks me from a coaching standpoint.

Efficient-Guest-8702

0 | 11 hours ago

Simmons would suck anything Celtics. Dude thinks he is part of the team.

CazOnReddit | Raptors

5 | 11 hours ago

Everything except Big Perk

Still waiting on Billy to make that donation after he lost that bet

MeBadNeedMoneyNow | Thunder

2 | 3 hours ago

From what little I know of him it’s probably because of the OKC ties. Simmons is a fraud that just watches a lot of TV.

Captain_America_93

0 | 5 hours ago

You’re not wrong and people just don’t like you speaking the truth. If doc hadn’t been a Celtics coach, Simmons would be raking him over the coals for how ineffective he is, the excuses he makes, and how basically every team he coaches ends up a dumpster fire by the time he leaves

PrestigiousWelder190

43 | 11 hours ago

This isn’t surprising. Wemby poses a bunch of problems that no other player does. Has a unique skillset and size is obviously insane

paddiction | SAS

30 | 11 hours ago

Glenn quit and immediately went back to podcasting

Locksmith1778

34 | 11 hours ago

He’s more suited to it at this point. He’s a charismatic guy and speaks well about basketball, that’s why he kept getting jobs despite disappointing in the playoffs.

Narrow-Key365

5 | 9 hours ago

He was great on ABC during the 04’ Lakers-Pistons Finals

Siakim43

26 | 10 hours ago

If they’re 60+ wins now, I can’t wait to see what happens when Dylan Harper matures. Please stay healthy!

rad_bone | Spurs

6 | 5 hours ago

That dude has superstar potential, imagine the publicity he would have gotten on a team this year where he would have gotten a more prominent role. I think his ceiling is even higher than castles.

Socomisdead

15 | 11 hours ago

Told ya Doc is a master class coach. No hesitation. He knows his stuff.

GuacKiller

9 | 10 hours ago

Such a good coach. Spurs should think about getting a HOF coach

kpeds45 | Raptors

8 | 10 hours ago

Wemby also has arms so long that he can camp in the lane forever and never be called for 3 seconds in the key. There is always someone within arm’s distance. And he is always a few steps away from being able to challenge a perimeter shot no matter where he is. It’s insane!

Ilikesporks_ | Lakers

11 | 9 hours ago

i’ve noticed this a lot when i watch him. he literally always has his arm extended to touch someone while he’s in the paint so the ref can see that he’s not committing a 3 second violation

collax974

1 | an hour ago

“Look ref, I’m in the paint but it’s legal, I’m touching this player that is at the 3pt line!”

SamIAmReddit | Rockets

8 | 9 hours ago

I would think you could say whichever player requires the most prep/scheme work is the most valuable player. So if you need to spend all your defensive prep on Luka/Shai it would mean they are most valuable.

With Wemby you have to spend your offensive and defensive prep focused on him. Because he is such a disruptive force on defense. I think that is his most underrated aspect.

Efficient-Guest-8702

6 | 11 hours ago

He can’t get behind you. Like he literally CAN NOT get behind you in the paint. If he does, there’s nothing you can do.”

Pause.

Soul0103 | ORL

15 | 11 hours ago

When a guy is banging you…

Practical_Cat9204

5 | 10 hours ago

Wemby is dominating so much in the defensive department, it is hilarious to see how players literally run away from him, passing up easy shots or rush their shot because they see him approach. On the offensive end, he is unstoppable when he drops 3s and charges towards the rim. Teams simply have to alter their playbook when he is on the court.

Furadi

3 | 9 hours ago

The “neverminds”

CharacterKatie | Spurs

2 | 7 hours ago

When he’s hunting for a block so he crouches down behind like 6’3” De’Aaron Fox then pops up at the last second as if he wasn’t completely visible the whole time. And it somehow works.

TwoTalentedBastidz | Lakers

2 | 9 hours ago

The real MVP

Medford_Lanes | Trail Blazers

2 | 9 hours ago

How can we get this guy into early foul trouble?

Mediocre-County-7648

2 | 7 hours ago

Truly a unique player like Shaq was, has a critical phisical advantage and knows how to maximize using it to create an asymetric situation for the oponent. He’s also a smart player and has a rounded overall game so he doesn’t have to just rely on that. Going to be very interesting how teams adapt to him going forward as coaches realize they will have to plan for him speciffically and he will have to adapt to strategies catered for him

Legitimate-Elk8595

2 | 6 hours ago

Does anyone actually like Doc on these podcasts other than Simmons and his fellow Celtics fetishists?

I can’t listen to Doc talk but would be happy to be told I’m in the minority and other non-Celtics fans enjoy it

moby323 | 76ers

1 | 5 hours ago

I do, I care about his opinions on the rest of the league because as a recent coach he has studied the players and teams currently in the league and prepared for them and has real insights.

Also, since he was a player and then became a coach over a long period of time I think he has a great perspective on how the game has changed. He respects how things used to be but also respects the ways the game has changed for the better. In otherwords, he gives the old guys full credit without being like Barkley and them where they hate the modern game.

dont_believe_this_ok

1 | 11 hours ago

You have to worry about him on offense and you have to worry about him on defense. There’s no rest.

zeze999 | Suns

1 | 11 hours ago

I read it in Doc’s voice

Phynamite | Bucks

1 | 9 hours ago

Greatest part of this is one game he tossed 6’3 AJ Green on him for multiple possessions.

athomic74 | Raptors

1 | 9 hours ago

Thanks Glenn.

WoweeZoweeDeluxe | Spurs

1 | 5 hours ago

An that’s why he is my MVP

albinotadpole52 | Bucks

1 | 5 hours ago

We get to keep hearing from this guy huh

RealPrinceJay |

1 | 4 hours ago

Doc is possibly right, and he acknowledged one of the key factors fans overlook as they hold onto the box score for dear life: Wemby’s devastating off-ball game

The way he wreaks havoc just moving around the court without the ball… he’s like the Center version of Curry.

He’s not the offensive player Jokic or SGA are overall, but it closes the gap way more than many people acknowledge from looking at the box score. There’s a reason the Spurs had the third best offense in the NBA despite having no other real star level players, his off-ball game enables their depth.

MeBadNeedMoneyNow | Thunder

1 | 3 hours ago

doc rivers asked what franchise he plans to ruin next: “Any of them. I’m gonna come in and make that team gutter. Look at my resume. Keep those checks coming, I’m the man bitch!”

j_voigt

0 | 11 hours ago

I want to train him, is it possible next season💀

Major_Enthusiasm1099 | Cavaliers

0 | 6 hours ago

Bro did not coach the Bucks at all this year so how would he know? He just sat there while they lost

rwoteit | Vancouver Grizzlies

-1 | 11 hours ago

I was thinking maybe he had a shot at it but now I know that has to be completely wrong.

Striking_Food5273

-6 | 11 hours ago

Ouch, wrong messenger.

packim0p | 76ers

-7 | 11 hours ago

Glenn is already back on BS pod? This guy just can’t shut the fuck up. Is Simmons really this out of touch? No one wants to hear from Glenn.

TheGoatPurdy | Warriors

5 | 11 hours ago

I do

packim0p | 76ers

-9 | 11 hours ago

Then you are no one

paddiction | SAS

2 | 11 hours ago

/r/nba is pretty much a hater contest at this point

packim0p | 76ers

0 | 10 hours ago

would you expect a fan of any team who has had to deal with multiple years of glenn pressers to enjoy listening to him on a pod? he’s such a phony

i’m sure Bill could get a multitude of former NBA coaches to talk about the playoffs. he just wants Glenn because of the Celtics background. it’s annoyingly on brand.

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-17 | 12 hours ago

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moby323 | 76ers

23 | 11 hours ago

Every comment that compliments ANY player that doesn’t play for OKC is “pushing an agenda”, according to Thunder fans.

It’s frustrating but also really kind of sad.

m1kelowry | Spurs

1 | 7 hours ago

I already knew before reading this that the little prick who deleted his comment was a thunder fan lol

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-8 | 11 hours ago

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Any_Cartographer2066

11 | 11 hours ago

Thunder fans think they’re oppressed.

moby323 | 76ers

8 | 11 hours ago

Imagine if Jordan played in this era:

“I think Jordan is an incredible player”

“OH SO YOU FUGKING HATE OKC, HUH? JUST ADMIT IT!”

BlunderDefect | Spurs

8 | 11 hours ago

Dude deleted his comment real fast. Lol

paulridby | Spurs

3 | 11 hours ago

It’s good to see shame still exists