As Doc Rivers prepares the 76ers for their first-round matchup against the Nets, fans couldn’t help but look back and compare this modern-day Sixers team to his previous runs with the Celtics and Clippers.
According to Doc, the 76ers are more comparable to the Celtics than the ‘Lob City’ Clippers with Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan. Apparently, that Clippers team was doomed to fail because, unlike Doc’s 76ers and Celtics, there wasn’t complete buy-in from the group.
“Not trying to take anything away from that team. That team was never going to win when you look back at it. We just didn’t get along well enough as a group and you can’t win without cooperation.”
"Not trying to take anything away from that [Clippers] team. That team was never going to win… we just didn't get along well enough as a group & you can't win without cooperation."
Doc Rivers on which team this Sixers group reminds him ofpic.twitter.com/NEN9JpJGce
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Talent was clearly not the issue for the old-school Clippers. With Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, JJ Redick, and others, they had a solid core of veteran stars surrounded by a supporting cast of shooters and bigs.
But for some reason, the Clips could never make a run in the postseason, and they fell short time and time again.
Lob City Clippers Had Major Chemistry Issues
Interestingly enough, Doc Rivers isn’t the only one to reveal the flaw in his old team. Last year, Draymond Green also took a shot at the ball club and recognized that they never really trusted each other as a championship team should.
“Everyone at that time was talking about how the Clippers was the next young team up, and we ain’t believe that,” Draymond said via Joey Linn of The Wichita Eagle. “We felt like, y’all think these are the next young guys up? We felt like these guys are front-runners,” he said. “That’s how we felt. When we beat them, they’re bickering at each other… When they’re winning, it’s Lob City, it’s all of this stuff, but when they’re losing, they’re bickering and stuff. They ain’t really tight like that, they’re front-runners. That’s what we believed.”
Of course, we all know how it ended for that Clippers group. After repeated playoff failures, they broke up one by one, and now there’s nothing left there from that era.
Doc is hoping for a better experience in Philadelphia, and he believes they are in a position to do what Chris Paul and the Clippers never could.
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