Daily News | Doc Rivers by the numbers — and how he compared to other recent Sixers coaches
when the team parted ways with the veteran coach after three seasons in which he failed to get any further than his two predecessors, Brett Brown and Doug Collins.
The players were different, and constantly improving after the lows of “The Process” — although an argument can be made that Brown actually coached the best version of these Sixers in 2018-19 — so it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that Rivers actually has the best numbers of any of the Sixers’ previous three coaches.
When you combine that with a table showing the Sixers’ improved shooting, it reveals a slightly better picture of who was the real cause of the improvement — the players. If Rivers was noted for being an offensive guru capable of re-inventing the wheel for Joel Embiid and James Harden to thrive at the same time, then maybe we could credit more of this to the coach. But the team ran a basic pick-and-roll at the top of the key. And aside from Joel Embiid, the player who developed the most during Rivers’ time here — guard Tyrese Maxey — likely owes more thanks to assistant coach Sam Cassell, one of the potential candidates to replace Rivers.
Still despite coaching the most expensive rosters the team has ever constructed, Rivers failed to make it any further in the postseason than Brown and Collins.Number of regular-season NBA games coached.
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