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[QUOTE="Day2, post: 4950154, member: 5348"]
Ignoring his playoff failures is wild.

He won one title with three of the NBA’s all-time top 75 players. People questioned if Phil Jackson could win a chip without Jordan and Pippen. He proved he could. Then he proved he could win one without Shaq. Rivers coached other players from that top 75 list, as well as players who will most certainly make the top 100. He didn’t make it past the second round with any of them.

Rivers has been a head coach for 25 years. Lue has been a head coach for less than 10 and already has more Finals and conference finals appearances than Rivers. He’s also led two different teams to the conference finals.

No one forced the Bucks to hire a first-time head coach. Obviously there was going to be a learning curve. Changing the defense - which Griffin probably designed with Holiday in mind instead of Lillard - after he recognized it wasn’t working was a bad thing? Was he supposed to be stubborn instead of accountable? Were you not one of the 44,000 people who wanted JB to stop playing zone?

And to reiterate, the Bucks had the second-best record in the league. This move was unprecedented.
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