Doc Rivers
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
I told you guys, hey, everyone was like, hey, this guy, he's a fraud. He's blown more 3-1 leads than anyone in NBA history. Guess how you blow 3-1 leads? You got to be up 3-1 to start. No one ever talks about that. No one ever acknowledges, hey, you got to be pretty good to blow a lead that big. If I was trash, we would never even be up that much. Do I get the thanks? No. Do I get the credit? No.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
I said, now you ain't won yourself a champagne. They brought that champagne out. I said, you know what they're waiting for? They're waiting for us to drink this. The next time we lose the game, they were drinking champagne. They were drunk in Vegas. Keep running. No way. No way. Look, let me tell you something, Dan Levitart. This wasn't Blake's fault. It wasn't Giannis' fault.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
And it damn sure wasn't my fault. When is anyone ever going to say it's not Doc's fault? Huh? When? I'd like to hear that one time. Oh, oh, oh, the Bucs don't defend. Hey, hey, you guys love Oklahoma City? Guess what? We put them in shackles. They're in the drunk tank down there in Vegas. They still have it left.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
You think this is easy? Oh, I'm full of energy? You hear my voice? I have to talk to my throat guy. I don't know why I have a throat guy. Does everyone have a throat guy? Am I the only one? I'm a throat guy. He did say he had a throat guy and he had to talk to his throat guy.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
I heard it being the last to talk about, oh, our schedule was soft. Hey, I mean, how soft was that, huh? That was a hard one, and we gave it to you right up there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Well, first of all, he didn't say that, Dan. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. What he said was every great winning streak, every great record is built on beating up on bad teams. And the true test is, when you get through that, did you build good habits or did you build bad habits?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Well, I would say, based on what we've been doing in the NBA Cup, the last three, four games we played, great defense. Great defense. We've locked them down. We locked up Trey Young. We locked up Shea Gildas Alexander. Andre Jackson Jr. You don't know who that is. But he's a hell of a player. I'm losing my Doc boys, by the way. Okay, all right. We'll come back to you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
So let me get this straight. So market has team that wins title, and that's why. No shit. No shit. I hear you. No, no, no, hold on, hold on. First of all, hey, Greg, what did you think about the NBA All-Star format that they're going to do? The new one? Supposedly it's several games.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
What do you think of it? Don't explain it. What do you think of it?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
It's ridiculous. Pretty dumb, right? Pretty dumb, right? It's gimmickry.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Nobody's asking for it. You know where they got it from? No. The hockey all-star game. The hockey all-star format is like that. But you guys won the cup, so it's awesome.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
That takes me to point two. Point two is Mike touts the toughness of the Florida Panthers after game seven, all those guys in braces. So let me get this straight. Headline. Players playing in a win-for-everything, all for a win-or-go-home scenario, all put it out on the line versus players in a regular season. Wow! Oh, my God! They really tried?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
My point is, you're touting what they did in a game seven of the goddamn finals as your comparison.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Hold on, there's a time out. No time out. Number one, I didn't show my ass with the NHL All-Star Game. Go to 2017 NHL All-Star Game. Tell me what the format was. It wasn't Nations, motherfucker. They played by division.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
That represented their divisions. They played in a round robin. That's the ones that did it. Is this a red eye that you just called me a motherfucker?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Okay, so you're going to distract from the point I made.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
My point is, to call it gimmickry while praising the NHL, who were the originators of said gimmickry?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
That's what I said. You said I was showing my ass at the All-Star game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
You said that right now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: Is The NHL Better Than The NBA?
Distract all you want, but you could Confirm or deny, okay, I said that, my bad, I mean, you could do that, or you can distract and say, oh, he's ruling, oh, he's ruling. I kind of lost me a motherfucker, to be honest.