LONDON - Much has been made of the fact that Paul Pierce [stats], Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen finally have a legitimate chance to play deep into the postseason. And rightly so. All own sterling individual resumes, but have yet to be surrounded by the type of talent that can take them into late spring.
While he doesn’t have the lengthy, luminescent resume of the new Big Three, Doc Rivers is every bit as giddy about what’s going on. Just as Pierce, Garnett and Allen are often asked about the joys of their new situation and respond with a long stream of superlatives, Rivers, too, is smiling broadly when he sees the trio traversing the court in green and realizes they’re on the team he gets to coach.
“I would say that’s exactly true,” said Rivers, who spent the first off day of training camp holed up in his hotel room. “I try not to think about it too much because there’s so much work to do, but it’s definitely there. I had an interesting conversation with Scot Pollard and Eddie House. We were wondering how many opportunities you really have to win in this league.
I think players - especially the young players - think those opportunities will come every year, but they don’t. As a player, you usually realize that late in your career, or after your career is over. Then you think back to how many legitimate shots you had to win a title. Danny (Ainge, the team’s director of basketball operations) is lucky. He had chances in Boston and Portland and Phoenix. But the average player only has maybe one or two in his career.
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