The Celtics signed Doc Rivers to a contract extension today, according to a league source. Terms of the deal were not initially disclosed.Rivers, whose current deal expires at the end of the 2007-08 season, had made it clear that he didn't want to go into the final year of his contract without an extension.His status with the team became an issue as the Celtics suffered an 18-game losing streak and finished with the second-worst record in the league (24-58) although they played a large part of the season without star Paul Pierce, who suffered foot and elbow injuries.Rivers became the Celtics 16th head coach in April 2004. In his first season, the team was 47-35 and first Atlantic Division title since 1991-92.http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/ce...s/celtics_blog/Good and BadLe Bien, Le MalGood - ContinuityBad - He sucks
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!If they stink next year him and Ainge should both get the boot.
Why does Ainge love Rivers so much? He obviously doesn't know how to properly use rotations rationaly with his players as seen with Rondo and Telfair,.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (yankshater213 @ May 10 2007, 09:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>feeeeek too pissed to analyze this reasonably... ask me in a few days what I think.</div> I second that.... OK screw it... <span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:100%">f*cking HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!</span> EDIT: Alright, I have cooled down to the point where I can talk about this without yelling or swearing. Here's my blog post: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><div align="center"></div> The Boston Celtics and head coach Doc Rivers have agreed to a 1-year contract extension. The terms of the deal are as follows: Rivers will continue to get $5 million per year throughout this extension, which will run until the end of the 2008-2009 season, and the deal also includes a second year option. My thoughts: I am not the happiest fan in the world, but at the same time, we all saw this coming. At the least, I am relieved that it was only a 1-year deal. However, I most certainly think that not contacting either Rick Carlisle, Rick Adleman, or Paul Silas was a bad move by the organization. I was pulling for the organization to either fire him this summer or at least let him run through the last year of his contract as a ?lame duck? coach. The injury excuse is valid and understandable, but healthy or not, Doc Rivers does not make good in-game coaching decisions. He?s a great guy, he?s a great practice coach, and he is an outstanding motivator that gets his players to play hard at all times, but his in-game coaching skills are questionable at best. If they really wanted to keep him around to see how he can do with a healthy roster and new additions, then they could have done that without shelling out an extra $5 million. If they truly want to see what he can do, then they should have lame ducked him to see how this team performs next year before they give him an extension. That is the biggest reason I?m unhappy, they gave him an extension without seeing what he can do with a healthy/new roster. I?m not a very happy camper right now.</div>
My title for this thread would've been: 'Celtics buttfuck themselves yet again'what a terrible extension, celtics and twolves have the absolute WORST management.
Some of you are over reacting about this. I've gone over Doc's situation in Boston way too many times to post my thoughts again. My big concern is Doc's in-game coaching decisions but the guy isn't as bad as everyone makes him out to be. Ainge has been flip flopping rosters in and out of Boston with mediocre talent and overpaid useless white guys. Doc's had to endure a ton of injuries and juggling young, unexperienced talent. I'm really not too pissed about this.
Okay...so let's excuse Doc for his terrible coaching that will never win a championship and get you eliminated in the 1st round...and let's excuse him for his terrible rotations..and let's excuse him for his awful "plays" when the Celtics are down by 1, needing a victory and one shot...and lose when there's 18 seconds on the clockHe's an awful coach and I don't care about "continuity" in a situation like this..okay let's keep the same sh*tty roster and same sh*tty coach for 10 years! that will take us places!
There are worse coaches in the league, but not many. With the proven coaches available for hire it's idiotic to extend this guy. The "lame duck" argument doesn't hold water because Sam Mitchell just won coach of the year as a "lame duck". His team didn't quit on him, and if Doc is as good as Ainge says he is then the Celtics won't quit on him either. If he isn't as good as Danny claims and they stink next season, then you can fire him because he's not the right guy and not have to pay him anything the year after. Continuity!? The team is going to be adding a top 5 pick that'll completely change their lineup and just lost a recored amount of games last season. Why would you want continuity from such a bad year when the team is about to change radically? This extension is just horrible from every possible angle. At least if he blows games next year there will be no excuses left.
playoff where the hell do you get off saying let's excuse this and let's excuse that, I never once said he should be excused. And why are you putting continuity in quotes? I never said that either. This extension is meaningless, if he loses the first 10 games next year he's out anyway.
To top off Ainge's contradictory/questionable comments the other day, he follows up with this: <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>?It?s easy to find things that every coach does wrong,? Ainge added later. ?X?s and O?s are somewhat overrated in my mind. Critiques of substitution patterns and timeouts are overrated because, in my opinion, just about every NBA coach is on a fairly equal field in those regards. Those are the least of my concerns.</div> Yeah, start Scal next year. Skill is overrated.
http://celtics.bostonherald.com/celtics/vi...ticleid=1000852Call him loyal, call him enlightened or call him crazy, but Celtics [team stats] director of basketball operations Danny Ainge has said all year how much he believes in his head coach, and now he has put the organization?s money where his mouth is. A day after the team announced it signed Doc Rivers to a contract extension following a 24-win season, Ainge acknowledged the unusual decision while standing firmly behind it. ?I think a coach getting a contract extension in the circumstances the Celtics have been in is, practically, well, it hasn?t happened,? Ainge said yesterday in his Waltham office. ?Maybe it has happened once. I am not sure. But it hasn?t happened very often.? So why has it happened here? Why is Ainge so confident in rewarding a coach who guided a team from a 45-win division championship to the second-worst record in the NBA in two years? The answer may be how Ainge defines what makes a good NBA coach. ?The most important things are his leadership and his character in dealing with difficult circumstances,? Ainge said of an injury-ravaged campaign that included a franchise-record 18-game losing streak. ?How he continued to work and lead the players and never quit coaching the team. ?It?s easy to find things that every coach does wrong,? Ainge added later. ?X?s and O?s are somewhat overrated in my mind. Critiques of substitution patterns and timeouts are overrated because, in my opinion, just about every NBA coach is on a fairly equal field in those regards. Those are the least of my concerns. Of greater concern is the stability which Rivers has brought, according to Ainge, to a franchise that went through a series of quick fix-seeking regimes before Rivers arrived in 2004. In an effort to reconstruct a roster that Ainge felt had reached its ceiling with the veterans he inherited, the Celtics went younger and younger during the past three years. Injuries to Paul Pierce [stats] and Wally Szczerbiak magnified the inexperience. Hopeful that Pierce and Szczerbiak return to full health next season and the youth corps continues to develop, with perhaps one big addition through the NBA draft, Ainge contends the won-lost record of his coach will better reflect Rivers? skill. ?I am confident that Doc, given the right talent, he can win,? Ainge said. ?There is no doubt in my mind. I also think he is a good fit for our team right now. ?I think he?s shown he can coach,? Ainge said. ?That?s the difference between what I think and what most people think. He has shown a firm hand in managing our players.? Rivers was on the record late in the season with saying a firm hand might be compromised in a lame-duck season under his original contract. Ainge would not confirm the length of the extension - reported in yesterday?s Herald as one year with club and coach options, for about the $5 million due in his current deal - but he did say the perception of an expiring contract was not a major factor in offering the extension?Most players really don?t care about (coaches? contracts),? Ainge said. ?They can tell if the coach has the juice that he needs. In any organization, players can feel the amount of authority a coach has, and I think the players on our team know that Doc has authority regardless of his contract situation. When things don?t go right, players will look to other people. Our players know there is no other voice. Doc is the guy they have to please.? Despite the record, Ainge is pleased with the way Rivers has steered the team through two painful seasons, and said he will continue to defend his coach to persistent critics. ?The issues keep coming up because of people (who) don?t pay as close attention, or don?t understand, what goes on here every day,? Ainge said. ?I am not defending Doc because I have to. I am defending Doc because of what I see him doing.?
