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This article can also be found at North Station Sports Since day one, I have been a fan of Doc Rivers. I liked him as a player and appreciated him as a coach. The former NBA point guard seemed perfectly equipped to handle the mega-ego's dropped on his clip board in the Summer of 2007. He proved that his freelance style of player-coaching was just what the Doctor ordered for a veteran team craving their first title.

While most NBA skippers over-coach their teams and allow them to make very few decisions without the call of a play, Rivers allowed his players to be independent thinking. He allowed them to call upon their experience to carry them through slumping stretches while not wasting a time out. For two seasons this philosophy worked to perfection on most nights. As 2009 gave ...

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