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Doc Rivers really isn't here for even more talk about his blown 3-1 series leads.

The 76ers double-decker is the just motorcoach in NBA history to have more than one loss after taking a 3-1 serial lead in the postseason — something Philadelphia is trying to avoid heading into Game half-dozen on Th confronting the Toronto Raptors.

In fact, Rivers has washed it iii times.

"Information technology's easy to apply me equally an case," Rivers said on Wednesday. "But I wish y'all would tell the whole story with me, all correct?"

Rivers has blown a 3-1 lead three times in his career, first with the Orlando Magic in 2003 against the Detroit Pistons. He then did it twice with the Los Angeles Clippers, first in 2015 against the Houston Rockets and then again in 2020 against the Denver Nuggets inside the NBA's COVID-19 chimera at Walt Disney World.

Rivers had a defence force for all of them.

"My Orlando squad [in 2003] was the eighth seed. No one gives me credit for getting up against the [Detroit] Pistons, who won the title. That was an 8th seed. I want you to go dorsum and expect at that roster. I dare you to go back and look at that roster. And you would say, 'What a hell of a coaching job.' Really.

"I mean, the Clipper squad [in 2015] that we lost 3-1, Chris Paul didn't play the outset 2 games, and was playing on ane leg, and nosotros didn't accept home court. Then the last i, to me, is the one we blew. That'south the one I took. We blew that. And that was in the bubble. And annihilation can happen in the bubble. In that location's no home court. Game 7 would have been in 50.A.

"Simply, it just happens. So I would say with me ... I gotta practise ameliorate always. I always take my own responsibility. So some of it is, circumstances happen. This one, let's win it, and we don't have to talk about it."

In Rivers' defence force, he'southward right well-nigh all 3 of those series. His logic surrounding those diddled leads is audio and at least understandable.

But at present in 2022, that doesn't matter much. Rivers has all the same lost a 3-1 lead iii times, any manner you look at information technology.

Volition Doc Rivers blow another iii-i lead in 2022?

A diddled 3-1 atomic number 82 doesn't occur very often.

It's only really happened 13 times in NBA history — meaning near 23% of them vest to Rivers.

The Raptors, nevertheless, take won two direct heading into Th night, and are climbing out of a 3-0 hole. They beat Philadelphia 110-102 in Game 4, and then won by 15 points in Game five.

If momentum is a real matter, the Raptors undoubtedly accept information technology.

While a win at Scotiabank Arena would abruptly end whatever talk of Rivers' by issues, a loss would merely amplify them headed into Game 7.

"Being upwards 3-0, peculiarly 3-0, I would say that [teams feel differently]," Rivers said, via ESPN. "A lot of teams don't win those games. The Celtics are the just one that won that game [in the start round of this twelvemonth's playoffs]. Everyone else lost that game.

"From a coaching standpoint, you hate that, because you experience similar, 'Let's just accept care of it.' And so you get to Game v the other night and they played better. We didn't play well. Nosotros didn't play with a sense of urgency. And then clearly now, I think both teams have kind of served observe and both teams have the other team'due south attending.

"If yous don't have that, then we're all in trouble."

Doc Rivers is the only motorcoach in NBA history to accident multiple 3-1 series leads in his career. A fourth could exist right around the corner. (Neb Streicher/U.s.a. Today)

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