[專欄] Doc Rivers:I'm Fine With My Legacy

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作者：Steve Bulpett 2024/10/29

媒體網站Heavy.對Doc Rivers的專訪
以下主要翻譯河流的談話內容
記者其他的敘述就略過
原文很長 有興趣可以把他看完

Doc Rivers在2013年離開賽爾提克以來，球隊開始慢慢復甦，並在去年春天贏得第18個冠軍。

Doc Rivers：離開賽爾提克，去到快艇隊的第一年 我就意識到可能犯了一個錯誤。但我不會回頭的。

賽爾提克在2013年開始逐漸復甦，Brad Stevens做得相當出色。

Doc Rivers：「我一直在想，如果我留下。可以讓一切導回正軌。我知道當時球隊要重建了，我們會把事情做好的。我在這個地方待了九年。你感覺到他們可以聽見你的聲音，但球員們卻改變了。我可能想太多了，事實就是如此，你不能回到過去。」

「你無法在一個糟糕的組織打球，我離開了當時籃球界最好的球隊，去了籃球界最糟糕的球隊。」

「讓我感到自豪的是，當我離開快艇隊時，快艇隊已經是最好的球隊之一，我是其中的主要部分。我透過很多方式去建立，為此我感到很自豪。」

之後 Doc Rivers從快艇來到費城，再接手了公鹿隊

Doc Rivers：「無論我在哪裡，我都贏了。Sxxx！我在費城被解雇了。我們的戰績是
0.653！你知道我的意思嗎？我對我的成就很滿意，我在NBA中的勝場數排名第八，在季後賽中排名第四。我有一個很出色的成績，但我想要更多，所以這就是我為什麼還在這邊。」

BOSTON — As Doc Rivers was coaching the Bucks against the Celtics Monday
night, he could look up to the TD Garden rafters by the Bucks‘ bench with
pride. That 2008 NBA championship banner? He’d helped hang that thing.

But along with the satisfaction, there can also be a measure of wistfulness
for Rivers in the skyward gaze. Since he left the Celtics’ sideline in the
summer of 2013, there has been a resurgence here that culminated last spring
in the club’s 18th title.

Had Rivers stayed, he would likely have his own chapter in franchise lore. Hecould be well on his way to a spot on one of the retired numbers flags —
perhaps with the total of his Boston wins after he retires, or maybe DOC
written in descending diagonal order as with the LOSCY for former Celt Jim
Loscutoff.

“Yeah, what could have been …” Rivers told Heavy Sports, his voice
trailing off. “I thought about it that first year with the Clippers, like, ‘
Uh, I may have made a mistake.’ But after that, I didn’t really think about
it at all.

“Listen, in my first year with the Clippers I said, ‘Uh-oh, I may have made
a mistake.’ But, you know, one thing I’ve never done is I never look back.
I just don’t. I’ve never done that.”

Celtics Made a Push in 2013
Well, maybe a little. The Celtics were fairly pleading with Doc to stay in
2013. They were beginning the process of a major reconstruction, trading PaulPierce and Kevin Garnett to Brooklyn in a swindle that later yielded the
draft picks that in consecutive years became Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum.

Danny Ainge, then the Celtics’ head of basketball ops, wanted Rivers to
remain, believing his reputation would be a key to attracting free agents.

The Celts did pretty well in that regard anyway with new coach Brad Stevens,
now running the show from the front office. But what would riding out the
rebuild have meant to Rivers in the long run? Alas, he found it impossible toturn down the money and roster control with a team seemingly poised to win
big in Los Freaking Angeles.

That this came three years after he’d thought about moving on but chose to
stay, declaring, “I am a Celtic,” made the uncoupling a little awkward. And
as Rivers stood in the Garden’s backstage hallway following the Bucks’ loss
to the C’s late Monday night, he acknowledged the departure was not at all
easy.

There was the lure of the lore.

“That was the only thing that almost made me stay, was because I kept
thinking, Jesus Christ, if I stay, we’re going to get it right back,”
Rivers told Heavy. “We knew we were going to rebuild, we were going to get
it right. My whole thing is nine years in one place, you start feeling like
they’ve heard you. But the players change…

“So I always look back at that and say, ‘Ah, I may have overthought that
one.’ But it is what it is. You can’t get it back.”

Clippers Never Lived Up to Billing
And with starry triumvirate of Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan,
Doc and the Clippers could never get past the second round of the playoffs.

“The lesson that you learn,” Rivers said, “is that you can’t play through
a bad organization, you know? I left the best organization in basketball at
the time to go to the worst organization in basketball, and you can’t outrun
that. You can’t beat that. And I realized it early. I said to my coaches, ‘
Oh, boy, this is…’

“Now, we got lucky with the Sterling thing,” he said of disgraced former
owner Donald Sterling being caught on tape making racist remarks and being
banned (his wife stepped in and sold the team to Steve Ballmer before Donald
could make it a legal mess).

“And then the thing that I’m proud of is I left the Clippers as one of the
best organizations. I was a major part of that. I built that in a lot of
ways, so there’s a lot of pride there. I’ll always have pride in that,
because that was not a great organization, and now they have a new arena,
they have all this, and I was a major part of that. So you never look back;
you just look at the things that you’ve done.”

And Rivers has done a lot. In a lot of places. He went from the Clippers to
Philadelphia, and after a short stint back in TV last season, he took over
the Bucks when Adrian Griffin was let go.

Boston Remains Big for Doc Rivers
Instead of deepening his ties to Boston, a place he still appreciates greatly(the Bucks play Thursday in Memphis, but he kept them here in the interim),
Rivers has gathered stamps on his NBA passport. There will thus be quite a
few transitional paragraphs when his legacy is written. After playing for
four teams, he’s now coached five.

“Everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve won,” he said when discussing his bench
career in perspective. “S***, I got fired in Philly, and we were .653
(regular season winning percentage, 154-82) in the three years I was there,
you know what I mean? So, like, I’m fine with my legacy. I’m eighth in (NBA
career) wins, fourth in playoff wins, so I’ve got a great legacy. But I want
more. That’s why I’m still doing it.”

This latest location, Milwaukee, fits well. Rivers went to Marquette and is
from Chicago, meaning friends and family can connect in person.

“No, no one likes (moving around), but, you know, it doesn’t bother me,”
he said. “I always look at it that there’s 30 jobs, and I’ve always had
one of the good ones.”

Of the Bucks’ stop, Rivers noted the geography and said, “This has been
phenomenal. Now we’ve got to get it right.”

With that, he went to grab his coat and head off for a late dinner in the
city he once thought would be his forever basketball home.

心得：
Doc Rivers真的很自我感覺良好
也不想想誰是最容易被翻盤的教練...
不可否認他有自己的一套方式
但他的這套方式也讓很多人詬病
希望他能在公鹿再次證明自己...

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