Comments from the Other Side - Bonus Clippers/Rockets 5/17/15

Talk about a complete fan meltdown.  No one was safe from being thrown under the bus.   I do have to say that everything they complained about with Doc were things that drove me nuts when he was the coach of the Celtics.  Playing his starters too much, sticking with players who didn't get the job done, and lack of defense and rebounding on his teams.  I'm glad he's their problem now, not ours.  Enjoy today's bonus Comments from the Other Side... My favorites are in bold, what are yours? 


This game will separate the men from boys. The percentages about home court, etc can be thrown out the window. This is it.

We got this. Clips will not be denied. Some one will step up and make it happen.

I think Tony Brothers will be good for us in this game. Millions of people watched him fix a game against us last year, hopefully we get the make up call this year.

CP getting locked down by Jason Freaking Terry

What happened to this team...its like they forgot about everything they learned throughout the season...

Barnes still sucks but what's surprising how CP is passive and letting Jason Terry dictate where he goes on the floor

Barnes is officially garbage again....

Second foul on Dwight Howard w/ 3:32 to go in the first. Huge break for the Clippers on what looked to be a real iffy call

Whatever Doc did during these last few days, it didn't work.

Blake is soft as ****

Why can't clipper fans get this loud? Look at how they're all wearing red

Nice to see Doc has made 0 adjustments. How about giving Hawes some minutes? Stop playing Jamal and Davis that much.

Jamal Crawful at work. Good job Doc. Keep playing this bum....

Doc again plays Davis with Griffin. Getting outcoached

All I wanted was heart and effort, even in a loss. Instead the Clippers give the middle finger to their fans.

Eh. Good season but SAME OL SH**. F****** CHOKE ARTISTS!

Blake sucks man. No effort on defense, no hustle, trade Blake

Doc they have young athletic plays you can't f***** play Davis at C!

Making dropping my season seats tomorrow even easier...,thanks Clips.

Crawford needs to be released at half time. I don't care that he made a shot, release his ass in Half.

**** at least Crawford is trying. He is sucking, but Blake isn't even trying to f***** win.

This team is filled with frauds starting with Doc Rivers.

Um why is CP just standing in the corner every offensive possession? And how about playing some defense Clips?

Crawford keeping us in this game

I'm sorry Doc may have ruined Chris' legacy guys. This is damn ridiculous. Give JVG a few hundred thousand Ballmer, switch him and Doc and win this damn game

Maybe we can have a box-out minicamp at halftime.

Does this team have any heart?

Doc instructing his team that everyone has to play defense and not just Blake. Maybe after the season, he can give a tongue-lashing to the Clippers' GM for assembling such a squad losers lacking in heart while looking in the mirror.

Ladies love cool beard? Smh

To be fair, there are those ladies from Amish, Russian Orthodox, and Duck Dynasty viewers who actually like those nasty beards.

I wish nothing more than those "clutch" shirt wearing **** Texans driving home sulking in pity this afternoon.

CP3 flops and throws up a wild layup hoping for a foul when he could have probably scored easily. They get it in transition. We take a foul. One of the few times in watching Clipper basketball, watching one of our player's flop genuinely pissed me the hell off.

Griffin was saving himself for the playoffs. I think now he is saving himself for next season

We need a whole new bench and a new starting 3 but everybody knows that. Just sayin'

I blame short arms.

Look at the body language you would think they are trying to get doc fired.

CP got locked down by Jason Terry. Let everyone think about that

I gotta say reffing has been great today. No soft or BS calls either way really. Just Rockets outplaying us legit.

10 points down is not the end of the world, but we need a different team to come out of the locker room. Leaving Jamal in that locker room, for starters.

Doc would probably leave Austin over Jamal.

Where is nepotism when you need one?

Not a doubt in my mind Doc and Jamal are related. I wanna see Jamal's birth certificate.

All this time quite a few people were so angry at doc for trading for his son and accusing him of nepotism. Now we're begging for more of it just to keep jamal on the bench.

We don't have a lead to squander-away this time...which is oddly reassuring at the moment; I get the feeling our guys will play lights-out for the rest of the game.

Doc is totally overrated as a coach, just allowing his players to play anyway they want. The softness starts at the top and trickles downward. No effort, no compassion, just showing up and for what? I'm so disappointed again!

We lose, fire doc. Simple. He didn't delivered anything and is only disassembling this team

I hope he is fired, its a damn shame saying you won a championship and this is the best you can get from your team.

I'm beginning to think that doc is like spolestra. Won a chip with the best roster in the league..

Doc Withers- might be the only coach to lose a series up 3-1... TWICE

***** Redick. Stupid clown.

The clips starting to get something going and then the refs step in like ''nah guys you're not doing this''

With the 29th ranked bench in the league its debatable whether were more talented or not. We don't even have 5 players that are average. Barnes is below average for his position.

We really have little talent on this team outside of CP, BG and DJ our bench is a pile of turd.

Wow Doc how f***ing dumb do you have to be?

The players loved when Doc was brought in because they got so many days off with no practice. That may make sense when you have a stacked team. If Doc had brought in young talent to develop then all those missed days could have been put to good use.

Blake just let a 39 year old pg get the rebound. I'm done. Trade Blake

Hey Doc, your son does not hustle!!!

Please trade Blake. He is embarrassing himself and this organization

Blake is really soft no heart

Josh smith has taken Blake's man card... Incredible.

If you don't think doc has been outcoached with the glen and Blake combo you are insane.

Doc Rivers is not only a terrible GM but a fraud coach. He is basically another Spoelstra.



Prigironi has more heart then most of the scrubs on our team. YO DOC WITH YOUR BOY and CRAW Do you wana lose this??

What's the use of playing defense if our guys don't rebound? Coach's son again fails to box out. If Doc can't get his son to do it, how does he expect anyone else to?

Time to draft a petition to Steve Ballmer to hire an actual GM.

Wish we could go get Thibs but I doubt he would take his mentor's job. We could just let Doc be the president then he would still have personnel decisions..

I just can't comprehend how a coach who has won a championship can make the decision that Doc does. Either he is stupid or a genius because I am constantly puzzled by his decisions both on and off the court.

Doc had Thibodeau in Boston to go along with Garnett, Pierce, Allen, and Rondo when he got his ring. He hasn't been able to get one since despite the roster and assets handed to him. He does less with more worse than anyone I can think of.

wish i were a reporter so i could ask doc about his personnel decisions. Someone needs to make him answer. too bad nobody has the balls to ask him the tough questions.

Doc Rivers is the one wholly responsible for this epic failure.

We're in for an interesting off-season.

Are we? I thought that last year but all we did was get Hawes.

Damn it! We don't even have a pick cause we gave that up to get Doc, who can't coach and built this crap fest of a team.

They will probably never ever get past the 2nd round in our lifetimes. It's just not the fate of being a Clipper or a Clipper fan. You have to accept, I guess , what they are and have always been, or become a bandwagon fan of someone that does come to play every night when it counts.

fire doc rivers clap clap fire doc rivers clap clap fire doc rivers clap clap

Doc is so damn overrated. Think this team gets blown out we are capped out and I think DJ walks. We still won't have cap space and Paul may demand a trade. It's either treadmill or reloAd With the criticism coming from LA Ballmer may rethink a move to Seattle.

The fans deserve better than this. This isn't about the refs or the other team, the clippers are gutless. Been a fan since 99 and this moment is the most embarrassing

This team is going to Seattle without a doubt and being rebuilt

If doc won't get fired I'm done. AS A GM AND AS A COACH. Goodbye Mr. Rivers. YOU DISASSEMBLED this team and didn't take us anywhere. I give you the MIDDLEFINGER

We choked. Led by the most overrated coach in the league and the worst GM in the league Doc Rivers.

Even if the off chance we win this Doc has still been exposed.

Oh, I do hate our team, but hate the Rockets, too. Said all year I didn't even think we'd make the playoffs with our passive play. I'm surprised we got this far.

Blake has 0 ft's in a game 7 close out #tradeblake

Dear Mr. Balmer: Please fired Doc Rivers and his son.

Oh doc get the **** out of here. You won't be missed.

Don't you just want to light that beard on fire?

I'll bet Doc gets his walking papers....you don't pay 2 billion for this.

Lol. I wouldn't go that far, but I hate him

Hopefully we can get the bulls coach

Over the past 15 years, NBA teams down exactly 16 with between 9 and 10 minutes left in 4th quarter are 22-1,233. So, yes, there is a chance for Los Angeles. Sort of.

Message to Glenn Rivers: when you get to LA you better start packing your bags 'cuz yo ass is outta here boy

We better get a real GM this offseason and Doc better let go of his title of pres of basketball operations. Otherwise his clown ass needs to be fired. He is a pretty good coach but nothing special in the big picture. I don't want him to have a role in roster moves ever again.

I don't ever hashtag but what the hell this one is an exception #firedoc #seriously #stubbornoldfoolthatdismatelsateamandactslikeitsnothing

I can't believe I was so excited when he came on board. Now, I just want to see him gone as fast as possible

Do you think NO would trade AD for Blake?

People saying fire Doc must have forgot that Ballmer just gave him a $50 million extension.

And witness more 50 year old bums and his son to play for us? No thank you. Nothing against young rivers. He's shown promise but doc trusts him waaaaay too much. An we have a few young guys down there who didn't even get a chance to show if they belong in the league.

If you put an incomplete crap roster out on the floor and can't get your team to play defense, rebound, or exhibit fundamentals, you're not only a horrible GM but a terrible coach to boot. It is a creation of his own doing.

At least d12 giving cp3 piggy back ride was funny

This is embarrassing, nothing else to be said, I can't take this disappointment anymore, and if Doc Rivers is in charge of making the right changes, I have no faith in anything positive happening, this is just ridiculos

If we can dump doc and get a real coach and gm, pick up a couple guys, we will be in pretty good shape come next year.

I feel bad for Chris Paul, I don't feel bad for Rivers.

Doc mismanaged game 6 horrifically. By the end of the game the starters were too tired and ineffective to do anything but give the game (and as it turned out, series) away to Houston.

Team disgusts me what a epic choke. Doc Rivers got outcoached by Kevin Mchale.

I'd take Durant with pins in his foot over Blake

At least this team achieved something, they will go down as the 9th team with the worst choke job in playoff history clap...clap....clap

Blake doesn't have the mentality of a franchise player. It's just not in him. I'll never trust this franchise as long as Blake is the franchise player

So sick of Blake and his soft play.

Blake isn't the problem. Guys like Crawford, Barnes, Redick, and Rivers are

Take that Kobe. DW12 made it to final.

The ability to choke is in the Clippers blood, but this is the ULTIMATE choke job

Doc Rivers: 1st coach in NBA history to lose multiple series when leading 3-games-to-1

He is a poor man's Spoelstra.

I say trade Doc for Thibs and 40 breakfast hotpockets.

I really feel bad for little Chris. He will be laughed at when school starts.

Balmer is being laughed at for paying 2 billion for this team. The Atlanta Hawks went for +800mil? And they're going to ECF, hum!

Doc is a good coach at best and that's fine, but his evil twin GM is one of the worst in the league.

Years past we were beat by better teams or by the refs, this year we lost to Corey brewer and josh smith

I'd rather have a lottery pick to look forward to than continue to be stuck in second-round purgatory with Chris Paul. Karl-Anthony Towns on a cheap team-controlled deal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>Chris Paul on a bloated $107 million contract.

This is the best supporting cast we can afford when CP3 and (soon) DJ are making max money. The Small Three aren't good enough. Two of them have to go, and it shouldn't be the future first-ballot HOF power forward.

So we should get rid of a future 1st first ballot HOF point guard who is one of the top 5 players at his position of all time to a PF who is in no way a HOFer at this stage in his career. Makes sense.

Chris Paul won't even make the Hall of Fame with his pitiful resume. He's certainly not a top 5 point guard of all time. He's also 30 and not getting any younger. As Kobrick once said about Bynum, "ship his ass out!"

Chris Paul will take a hit legacy wise. He didn't take that next step as a scorer when the team needed and it's not like he had a elite defender on him it was half the time Jason terry.

This JJ (Joke of a Jumpshooter) Redick should be traded for missing that three to pull us -- unbelievably -- within five with two minutes remaining. The overpaid bum AIR BALLS it. He also missed an open three to put us up 22 in the last game.
CLIPPERS COURT OF LAW: JJ Redick guilty of single handedly losing the Houston series.

We need a new name. I suggest "The Los Angeles Ocean." Remember an ocean is bigger than a Lake. LOL! It's the only way to eliminate the curse.

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