Woj Bomb: Doc is "Out" with Clippers

[Tr1boy]

So who do clippers sign as their coach?

Where does Doc go?

[coco]

Doc back to Boston, should we start the rumors? 

I think Brad Stevens is a better coach.  Has done more with less.

[gouki88]

Fully understandable really. Even the Lob City Clippers never did as well as they should have (in my opinion) under Doc. So he won 1 championship here, when he should have won more, had Orlando's record between 41-44 wins every full season he was there, indicating that they basically plateaued from the get-go, and has disappointed with 2 different title contenders in LA.

Wonder if anyone will give him a shot

Choking that 3-1 lead to the Rockets several years ago was enough to be fired imo. I don't know who would want him. His premiere strength has always been being a player coach, and that seemed to fatally failed him with this Clippers team.

Yeah, he's choked a lot of leads. Way too many to be acceptable if we're honest. Maybe Indiana?

[BMark]

Doc's greatest strength is as a TNT play by play guy

[GreenFaith1819]

I thank Doc for 2007-08 - that was a GLORIOUS year.

Dude's BEST performance was him WILLING our team to that AWESOME come-from-behind win against LAL in game 4 NBA finals 2008.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpxtiQZiK2c

We would've won it AGAIN in 08-09 until KG's fateful visit to Utah that year.

If it wasn't for HIM LAL would ALREADY be bragging about their championship count.

[RPGenerate]

Fully understandable really. Even the Lob City Clippers never did as well as they should have (in my opinion) under Doc. So he won 1 championship here, when he should have won more, had Orlando's record between 41-44 wins every full season he was there, indicating that they basically plateaued from the get-go, and has disappointed with 2 different title contenders in LA.

Wonder if anyone will give him a shot

Choking that 3-1 lead to the Rockets several years ago was enough to be fired imo. I don't know who would want him. His premiere strength has always been being a player coach, and that seemed to fatally failed him with this Clippers team.

Yeah, he's choked a lot of leads. Way too many to be acceptable if we're honest. Maybe Indiana?

That makes sense. I think Doc offers much of what McMillan offered in terms of defense, but isn't as offensively inept.

[gouki88]

Fully understandable really. Even the Lob City Clippers never did as well as they should have (in my opinion) under Doc. So he won 1 championship here, when he should have won more, had Orlando's record between 41-44 wins every full season he was there, indicating that they basically plateaued from the get-go, and has disappointed with 2 different title contenders in LA.

Wonder if anyone will give him a shot

Choking that 3-1 lead to the Rockets several years ago was enough to be fired imo. I don't know who would want him. His premiere strength has always been being a player coach, and that seemed to fatally failed him with this Clippers team.

Yeah, he's choked a lot of leads. Way too many to be acceptable if we're honest. Maybe Indiana?

That makes sense. I think Doc offers much of what McMillan offered in terms of defense, but isn't as offensively inept.

The real money question is who do the Clips sign? D'Antoni??

[RPGenerate]

Fully understandable really. Even the Lob City Clippers never did as well as they should have (in my opinion) under Doc. So he won 1 championship here, when he should have won more, had Orlando's record between 41-44 wins every full season he was there, indicating that they basically plateaued from the get-go, and has disappointed with 2 different title contenders in LA.

Wonder if anyone will give him a shot

Choking that 3-1 lead to the Rockets several years ago was enough to be fired imo. I don't know who would want him. His premiere strength has always been being a player coach, and that seemed to fatally failed him with this Clippers team.

Yeah, he's choked a lot of leads. Way too many to be acceptable if we're honest. Maybe Indiana?

That makes sense. I think Doc offers much of what McMillan offered in terms of defense, but isn't as offensively inept.

The real money question is who do the Clips sign? D'Antoni??

I dislike D'Antoni's offensive and defensive philosophy, but I think that could actually work. Need an actual playmaker for that system to work tho. Relying on Pat Bev and Lou Williams to be your point guard wouldn't work.

[gouki88]

Fully understandable really. Even the Lob City Clippers never did as well as they should have (in my opinion) under Doc. So he won 1 championship here, when he should have won more, had Orlando's record between 41-44 wins every full season he was there, indicating that they basically plateaued from the get-go, and has disappointed with 2 different title contenders in LA.

Wonder if anyone will give him a shot

Choking that 3-1 lead to the Rockets several years ago was enough to be fired imo. I don't know who would want him. His premiere strength has always been being a player coach, and that seemed to fatally failed him with this Clippers team.

Yeah, he's choked a lot of leads. Way too many to be acceptable if we're honest. Maybe Indiana?

That makes sense. I think Doc offers much of what McMillan offered in terms of defense, but isn't as offensively inept.

The real money question is who do the Clips sign? D'Antoni??

I dislike D'Antoni's offensive and defensive philosophy, but I think that could actually work. Need an actual playmaker for that system to work tho. Relying on Pat Bev and Lou Williams to be your point guard wouldn't work.

I think both those two have to go. Beverley's defence is a complete myth, he benefited from playing alongside great defenders this year but he is not what he once was, and he's injury-prone AND causes trouble. LouWill should still have some trade value, and with his size and inability to defend he should go too.

If they try and resign Harrell, he has to improve his rebounding. Not sure what playmaking guard they could find. Going to be a very interesting off-season

[celts10]

We would've won it AGAIN in 08-09 until KG's fateful visit to Utah that year.

I don't think Doc gets enough credit for keeping that 2008-09 group together. We lost KG for half of it (including the postseason) and played without Leon Powe for almost the entirety of the playoffs, yet we barely missed out on the #1 seed while almost reaching the Conference Finals with a washed up Marbury and absolutely useless Mikki Moore.

In fairness, I do think Danny coasted that year, though.

[Roy H.]

Sixers and Pelicans have already reached out.

[hpantazo]

Sixers and Pelicans have already reached out.

I think he'd actually be a great coach for the Sixers.

[Who]

The players let Doc down. They didn't work hard enough or play for each other enough. The overwhelming majority of the blame deserves to be at the player's feet.

[GreenFaith1819]

We would've won it AGAIN in 08-09 until KG's fateful visit to Utah that year.

I don't think Doc gets enough credit for keeping that 2008-09 group together. We lost KG for half of it (including the postseason) and played without Leon Powe for almost the entirety of the playoffs, yet we barely missed out on the #1 seed while almost reaching the Conference Finals with a washed up Marbury and absolutely useless Mikki Moore.

In fairness, I do think Danny coasted that year, though.

Letting James Posey go was HUGE, too.

It just seemed like Danny started slowly peeling away our layers after 2007-08. I know he couldn't have predicted KG's injury.

He did bring in 'Sheed....he did bring in Shaq...Shaq played GREAT for us that first half of 2010-11....JO provided a defensive presence. Sheed played well in that game 7 2010....I thought he was going to fight the refs at the end, though. He just wanted to wish them well.

And of course it seemed like much of our toughness left (Perk) for OKC when Danny made THAT trade.

Ray left for greener pastures in MIA.

All of this is under the serious question of whether LeBron James would've stopped us and he did a few times.

Danny's FINAL grand stroke was KG and PP trade. Oh boy that is STILL paying huge dividends for us even now.

I wish Doc the best. I'm glad we are where we are right now, though - with our two best players being 22 and 23. Our window is WIDE open.

I'm sure Doc will go somewhere else real soon and be successful there, as well.

[liam]

Fully understandable really. Even the Lob City Clippers never did as well as they should have (in my opinion) under Doc. So he won 1 championship here, when he should have won more, had Orlando's record between 41-44 wins every full season he was there, indicating that they basically plateaued from the get-go, and has disappointed with 2 different title contenders in LA.

Wonder if anyone will give him a shot

Choking that 3-1 lead to the Rockets several years ago was enough to be fired imo. I don't know who would want him. His premiere strength has always been being a player coach, and that seemed to fatally failed him with this Clippers team.

Yeah, he's choked a lot of leads. Way too many to be acceptable if we're honest. Maybe Indiana?

That makes sense. I think Doc offers much of what McMillan offered in terms of defense, but isn't as offensively inept.

The real money question is who do the Clips sign? D'Antoni??

I dislike D'Antoni's offensive and defensive philosophy, but I think that could actually work. Need an actual playmaker for that system to work tho. Relying on Pat Bev and Lou Williams to be your point guard wouldn't work.

I think both those two have to go. Beverley's defence is a complete myth, he benefited from playing alongside great defenders this year but he is not what he once was, and he's injury-prone AND causes trouble. LouWill should still have some trade value, and with his size and inability to defend he should go too.

If they try and resign Harrell, he has to improve his rebounding. Not sure what playmaking guard they could find. Going to be a very interesting off-season

Beverley and Lou Wil are both like a hundred years old.