Doc Is Winning Over Fans

I am up for Doc coming back, if the players are, I want what the players want.

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the question should be posed the exact same why as it was earlier in the season, i.e. when should doc be let go…

Ridiculous Doc shoulda been gone before he was even hired.

Cant believe some people want another year with Doc. Must be living in another planet

Maybe the people that want Doc for another year believe the Celtics need to be a lottery team again in 2008.

Jeff—-winning 58% of the time will give us 48 wins next year. I think that would be a positive step. That isn’t too bad.

 They should never have hired him he is TERRIBLE!!!!!

i think the recent success should be attributed to Doc. I hope they keep him.

If this is how the organization feels then this is a nightmare! I rather pick 25th and get rid of Doc then have the first pick and keep him.

doc is a good man and has many more good attributes than bad; he just is a mediocre coach and why should we accept mediocrity?

I don’t want a coach that the players like. I want a coach that the players respect. Anyone can run a disorganized country club.

Doc never had great talent in his teams but they always played better toward the end of the season. A bad coach wouldn’t get that to happen. Don’t you Doc bashers notice that the “best coaches” seem to have the best talent on their teams or what happens when they no longer have that talent on the team. Look at Phil Jackson or any other supposedly great coaches when they don’t have the talent to win. They don’t win. If a team has talent , chemistry and desire it takes a pretty bad coach to keep them from winning.

Poll question should be: " Is Doc a Top Ten Coach in this League"
or " Would you hire Doc as a College Coach?".

Well reading the last two headings in here Jeff, it seems to me your poll is hitting it right on the money. 50/50 And it’s funny the passion some express in here. You know I try and always see the positive in things, and I have and do in Doc. I also try and keep some objectivity in my perspective. That said I agree Doc has some faults, but I see what Frankie G sees all around the league. You have talent it’s easy to look good as a coach. Jim Obrien bailed as he didn’t want to attach his carreer win loss record to a rebuilding team. Many coaches are like that, it’s mine (and was Red’s) biggest grip about Phil Jackson. Requilla who I like, is blinded by his dislike for Doc, saying under the other heading that Clifford Ray and Injuries are the only reason youth have developed. Please, first of Doc is the one who gave Ray his 1st NBA coaching job when he brought him with him to Orlando. The reason Ray left Orlando and come to Boston was because of Doc. Red himself coached from a philosphy that you don’t just give rookies minutes, they have to be earned. Most good coaches do, if you don’t team moral breaks down. Players respect that. I have to laugh that when a player get’s minutes either due to injury or whatever, and they excell it’s like see he should of been playing all the time. Not playing him retarded his growth. Could it not be said earning minutes and not playing would instill a player to work harder and motivate him even more? Players don’t grow in practice? They don’t get better? Some in here’s passion has blinded thier objectivity. Step back put yourself outside your emotions and you might see things clearer. Doc won coach of the year, when he had a team of rookies, and got the to ecell beyond expectations. Yes he has coached teams that didn’t have talent in place. Rey you take that as a message of no one will hire him on teams with talent. Who knows, but could it be he sets ego aside, his own win loss record, and puts the franchise 1st. He elects to teach. I think he deserves at least to finish out his contract next year, the organization owes him that. And I think objective thinking fans would have to agree.

todays game vs. the bobcats is a classic example of how really bad doc is. did allen ray, gerald, powe learn anything from this defeat? how does al feel watching from the bench the second team smell out the house? and if doc is tanking, what kind of competitive spirit is he fostering? doc was disgraceful- no other words suffice.

Doc is a nice guy. A ’player’s coach’ in that he was an All Star & knows the what goes into playing the game.

But that’s as far as it goes. He can’t settle on a line-up or roles. His game management borders on incompetant.

I see young teams like the Bobcats who always seem to play well and wonder why Doc can’t get the same effort out of a more talented team.

I do think Doc has his talents as a coach. And you do have to factor in the injuries this year. This team has suffered more injuries than I can recall in one season.

But I doubt Doc can get this team any further.

Listen on the radio after the game Doc said in the 4th when they still had the lead he could of put the starters back in. He figured at this stage the game doesn’t mean much and these guys need to learn how to step up to the plate. And quite frankley, I agree. Heck he can’t win, some of you scream when he doesn’t give minutes for development and scream when he does. Do we really need the win? Or to give time to players like Green to see if he can figure it out? As far as rotations all season, these guys have to develop some consistency then rotations will be dictated by play.

A real coach would have left the reserves in long enough to teach them lesson and THEN put the starters back in.
That’s the win-win situation: teach the kids a lesson but then pull for the for the W.
But no, Doc, once again, has to show everyone what a great coach he is. What irony! NBA coaches, at the worst, either over-coach (tinkering, manipulating, berating) or under-coach (waiting too long to call timeouts, make timely substitutions, being generally too slow to act/react). Doc pulled off the amazing feat of doing BOTH: Over-coaching by leaving in the pups for too long (after countless statements that you have to earn playing time), and under-coaching by failing to react to the circumstances (the other team’s rally). So it was, quite literally, a lose-lose situation.
Amazing. Effing amazing. Red just did another 360 in his grave.