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Heavy.
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作者：Steve Bulpett 2024/10/29
媒体网站Heavy.对Doc Rivers的专访
以下主要翻译河流的谈话内容
记者其他的叙述就略过
原文很长 有兴趣可以把他看完
Doc Rivers在2013年离开赛尔提克以来，球队开始慢慢复苏，并在去年春天赢得第18个冠军。
Doc Rivers：离开赛尔提克，去到快艇队的第一年 我就意识到可能犯了一个错误。但我
不会回头的。
赛尔提克在2013年开始逐渐复苏，Brad Stevens做得相当出色。
Doc Rivers：“我一直在想，如果我留下。可以让一切导回正轨。我知道当时球队要重建
了，我们会把事情做好的。我在这个地方待了九年。你感觉到他们可以听见你的声音，但
球员们却改变了。我可能想太多了，事实就是如此，你不能回到过去。”
“你无法在一个糟糕的组织打球，我离开了当时篮球界最好的球队，去了篮球界最糟糕的
球队。”
“让我感到自豪的是，当我离开快艇队时，快艇队已经是最好的球队之一，我是其中的主
要部分。我透过很多方式去建立，为此我感到很自豪。”
之后 Doc Rivers从快艇来到费城，再接手了公鹿队
Doc Rivers：“无论我在哪里，我都赢了。Sxxx！我在费城被解雇了。我们的战绩是
0.653！你知道我的意思吗？我对我的成就很满意，我在NBA中的胜场数排名第八，在季后
赛中排名第四。我有一个很出色的成绩，但我想要更多，所以这就是我为什么还在这边。
”
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. He
could 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 Paul
Pierce 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 to
turn 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真的很自我感觉良好
也不想想谁是最容易被翻盘的教练...
不可否认他有自己的一套方式
但他的这套方式也让很多人诟病
希望他能在公鹿再次证明自己...