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Doc Rivers: Wish Y'All Would Tell Whole Story With 3-1 Collapses

With the Philadelphia 76ers heading into Game 6 on Thursday against the Toronto Raptors despite taking a 3-0 lead, Doc Rivers defended his record of blowing three separate 3-1 series leads.

"Well, it's easy to use me as an example," Rivers said after the team finished practice. "But I wish y'all would tell the whole story with me. All right?

"My Orlando team [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 eighth seed. I want you to go back and look 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 team [in 2015] that we lost 3-1, Chris Paul didn't play the first two games, and was playing on one leg, and we didn't have home court. And then the last one [when the Clippers lost to the Denver Nuggets in 2020], to me, is the one we blew. That's the one I took. We blew that. And that was in the bubble. And anything can happen in the bubble. There's no home court. Game 7 would have been in LA.

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

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