I personally don't respect his coaching skills in relations to substitution patterns, when to call time outs, letting vets barge in huddles, disciplining young players hard but saying nothing to the vets etc. Yes i do agree he overall has good relations with the players and is not bad with teaching younger players about the game, but overall he is damm lucky to have a gm like ainge who pretty much spoonfed him two other HOF to the roster.
When we lose everyone bashes him good. When we win he is a good guy, he got us a championship, he should be coach of the year etc.
Why the two face reactions?? (no offense for those who stand by their decision about him)
To also add another point why he is below par compared to some other coaches, on some other thread i stated that mchale is a better coach than rivers. Everyone pretty much disagreed with that notion. So i provided the ultimate example that if you replace rivers with mchale right now the celts would be as good of a team if not better however if you replaced mchale with rivers, the wolves would stink again. (i would like to hear a real counterargument about this example for those don't agree)
In any case , i like to see people be decisive about rivers and for me personally i think he is [dang] lucky and lacks true coaching skills during crucial moments of the year and game. If he improves on those facets i can admit he is a good coach , that but thats a big if