Doc Rivers needs to get over the Warriors
Doc Rivers, who has lost seven games in a row to the Golden State Warriors, made a silly comment about the Dubs not being a super team.
Doc Rivers won a championship in 2008 with the Boston Celtics. He led Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen to the title over the Lakers. Two years later, Rivers lost in the Finals to Kobe Bryant’s team.
In 2013, Rivers was sent to the Los Angeles Clippers and he’s helped turn the team around. With Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan, the Clips have had some of their best seasons in franchise history. Every year, expectations are sky-high.
They have yet to get out of the second round. Sure, the Clippers have had some bad luck with injuries, but they’ve also just fallen apart. Rivers has spent more time pleading to referees than trying to build a good bench.
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The Clippers, as a whole, are obsessed with the Warriors. Golden State surpassed Los Angeles years ago. They’ve beaten Rivers seven times in a row, won a championship, developed a two-time MVP, won 73 games in a season, and signed Kevin Durant. The rivalry is dead.
So the Clippers are obsessed, in like a Mariah Carey/Eminem way. Paul Pierce couldn’t stop talking about Durant and the Dubs during the summer. Rivers wanted to get in on the action too, before the Dubs blew the Clippers out of the Staples Center 115-98.
Doc Rivers on the Warriors being a 'super team': "They've only won one title, by the way."
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) December 8, 2016
*Googles: how many championships have the Clippers won?*
Yes, this is a fact. The Golden State Warriors with the majority of their core has won just one title. It just seems like an odd thing to point out.
The Warriors have been to more championship parades than the Clippers and the Western Conference Finals. This is also Golden State’s first year with Kevin Durant.
To say that a roster in it’s first year that has the last three MVPs, a Finals MVP, and two All-NBA players isn’t a super team because they haven’t won a championship that they haven’t played yet is ridiculous. It just seems really silly.
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Rivers is reaching. His team is nowhere near Golden State’s level and the talk is just embarrassing. The Warriors proved that they are #LightYears ahead of the Clippers in every single way. If he wants to talk about a team winning just one championship, he should also go back and look at his entire career.
Instead of talking about them, Rivers needs to figure out how to beat them.