Doc Rivers "I can care less about our offense"

[snively]

At one point we had held the Knicks to 30% shooting, and were up by something like one bucket. 

Tonight, the biggest weakness was rebounding.

Ditto.  Not worried about the offense as much as the rebounding.

[fairweatherfan]

Doc Rivers: I can care less about our offense

Trick answer - if he can care less, that means he cares at least a little bit.  That crazy Doc and his media mind games...

But I see his point; our offense usually feeds off our stops on D. 

TP.  Beat me to it.  Still, if he cared so much about defense, you'd think he'd put in the best shoblocker in the series in the last 6 minutes. 

Yeah I didn't like that.  But I think he wanted Baby in for a quicker double on Melo,  who'd been shredding our single coverage.

[Drucci]

I think Doc is out of his mind. The decision to stick with Baby during the game and mostly the 4th quarter was a terrible one that could (should?) have us cost the game. Baby got killed by everybody, and even Jeffries (!!) of all people. Didn't rebound, didn't score (at least he did not force shots though, I guess he made a progress ), didn't defend... pathetic.

If it wasn't for KG's clutch plays, Doc would have cost us the game by letting Baby on the court in the final minutes. He let two crucial rebounds fall in the Knicks hands and most importantly gave Jeffries a free path to the basket which resulted in what was considered at the time the gamewinner. It was so obvious we needed JO instead of Baby I just don't even try to understand Doc's logic anymore because I think he has none.

[Jaycelt]

Doc Rivers: I can care less about our offense

Trick answer - if he can care less, that means he cares at least a little bit.  That crazy Doc and his media mind games...

But I see his point; our offense usually feeds off our stops on D. 

TP.  Beat me to it.  Still, if he cared so much about defense, you'd think he'd put in the best shoblocker in the series in the last 6 minutes. 

Yeah I didn't like that.  But I think he wanted Baby in for a quicker double on Melo,  who'd been shredding our single coverage.

This.  Doc aint stupid.  He knows that if we are going to have Rondo as our point guard then we can't get bogged down in a half court game which means we need to get stops and get out on the break.  That's where the vast majority of Rondo's points came.  Stop, rebound, quick outlet to a streaking Rondo.

That's why our defense is so very important and that's why Baby was in the game at crunch time. If you're going to get stops when Melo is hitting everything he throws up then you will need to double and you can't double Melo with JO.  You have to use Baby for his ability to double and recover quickly.

If I'm not mistaken it seemed to work OK.  .