Recently, 76ers coach Rivers was wildly ridiculed by the US media, his team was pulled by the Raptors in a 3-0 lead, and many people believed that Rivers could become the first head coach in NBA history to reverse the 3-0 lead. On April 28, Beijing time, Rivers responded rarely to the fact that every 3-1 lead in his career was reversed.
He is the only manager in history to have his 3-1 lead reversed many times, and his career has happened three times so far. "It's easy to use me as an example, but I want you to tell the whole story with me." Rivers said.
The 2003 Magic, as the No. 8 seed against the No. 1 seed pistons. They have stars like Maddy on the team, but other configurations are poor. "The magic of the year was the No. 8 seed, no one believed that I could play against the Pistons who won the championship, we are the No. 8 seed, I want you to go back and look at our squad list, you will feel that the coach's job is really not easy!" 」
Then came the Clippers in 2015, who had led Harden and the Rockets 3-1 but were eventually eliminated. Rivers believes that Paul playing with injuries is the key reason. 'The Clippers lost after taking a 3-1 lead, Paul didn't play the first two games, then he was playing with his injured leg and we didn't have home advantage at the time.
From Rivers' personal perspective, the only thing he really thinks will be reversed is the 2020 series against the Nuggets. "The last one (2020 against the Nuggets), for me, is what we're really reversed. But that's also happening in the segregated division, where anything can happen. There was no home call, and Game 7 was supposed to be played in Los Angeles, but that's how it happened. ”
Summing up the three reversals, Rivers said: "I would say that some of them are something I should have done better and that I needed to always take my responsibility, but others have environmental factors. Now this one (G6 on the Raptors), let's take it down and we don't have to talk about this anymore. ”