finger pointing?

[Ryan W]

Simmons made this point today in his ESPN article, but
let me reiterate: Doc seems to blame players when
other coaches, on occasion, blame themselves (unless
we're talking about the Zen master).  It might have
been nice for him to say after Game 4, "you know what,
I stayed with Sam tonight too long tonight.  I thought
he could get us a few baskets, but they didn't fall. 
And I played a hunch with Big Baby that didn't work
out.  Even though we didn't lose any ground during the
first four minutes of the fourth, I thought we failed
to make up any ground, especially when we were getting
stops.  My bad."  Wouldn't that make everyone feel
better?  Take the pressure off the team (and this team
is feeling huge amounts of pressure on the road), and
put it on himself.  Isn't that what a leader does?  Or
does a leader tell everyone that his team needs to
play better under stress?  Maybe Doc needs to coach
better under stress.

Ryan
--- Tom Murphy <tfmiii at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Saw these quotes in Marc Spears game recap, thought
> they were interesting... Could the stress be causing
> some friction between players and coach?
> 
> Coach Doc Rivers said his team needed to play better
> "under stress" during the final stretch of games.
> Pierce and Garnett begged to differ.
> 
> "I wouldn't say we're lacking poise," Garnett said.
> "In a situation like ours, we are trying to do
> everything that Doc wants us to do. He makes all the
> calls. He gives us direction. For the most part, we
> pretty much try to do what he wants."
> 
> Said Pierce, "I don't know what he means. I'm
> stressed every game. Stressed to get a win."
> 
>
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