{"id":172506,"date":"2020-09-16T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T12:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=172506"},"modified":"2020-09-16T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T12:33:24","slug":"doc-rivers-becomes-first-coach-ever-to-blow-three-3-1-series-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/doc-rivers-becomes-first-coach-ever-to-blow-three-3-1-series-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc Rivers becomes first coach ever to blow three 3-1 series leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Rivers made history in loss in seven games against the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers became the first coach ever to blow a 3-1 series leads in three different playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoopshype.com\/2020\/09\/16\/doc-rivers-3-1-playoff-series-lead-record\/\">Per Hoopshype<\/a>, it first happened all the way back in 2003, when\u00a0<strong>Doc Rivers<\/strong>\u00a0was still the head coach of the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n<p>That year, with MVP-level\u00a0<strong>Tracy McGrady<\/strong>\u00a0leading the way, the Magic held a 3-1 series lead over the Detroit Pistons and looked poised to reach the second round of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons went on to win Game 5 by 31 points and Games 6 and 7 by 15 points apiece to win the series in seven.<\/p>\n<p>However, it happened again in 2015, in the second round of the playoffs this time.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, now charged with leading a Los Angeles Clippers team who had prime\u00a0<strong>Chris Paul<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Blake Griffin<\/strong>\u00a0as their best players, held a 3-1 series lead in the Conference semifinals over the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers went go on to lose the final three games of the series by a combined 44 points, falling just short of reaching the Conference Finals for the first time in the franchise\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Like the prior two Rivers-helmed meltdowns, his team wasn\u2019t really\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0competitive in any of the final three losses, as the Clippers lost Games 5, 6 and 7 to Denver by a combined 34 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers lost in 2003, 2015 and 2020 after leading 3-1 in the playoffs series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-172506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172506"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=172506"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=172506"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=172506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}