So the way I analyze it is that he has a lot of haters, and a lot of homies. However, some are friends, and some are phonies.
I think many believed he was able to remain in the league due to his old man. In other words, he got many chances that other players might have not gotten. Not that he isn't NBA material now, but he got too many chances to prove himself, whereas other players wouldn't have.
I never had some deep rooted hate for Austin Rivers. Did I particularly like him? No, but he wasn’t relevant enough for me to truly hate. The bulk of my hate has been reserved for GS the past few years. only time I ever even thought about Rivers was when we played the Clippers I have grown to love him tho...Idk where we’d be right now without him
Its different to shoot quick threes against gameplan and its different to shoot with headcoachs and all the players encouragement to shoot as many as quickly. Look at the **** Gerald takes sometimes... imagine same shots under jvg. He would be out after first shot like that
I never considered it nearly as bad as the treatment Danny Ferry got/demanded, because of his NBA Exec dad.
Forgive me if I'm late to the part on this revelation, but... this video was taken before the Chris Paul trade in 2017, so presumably Austin Rivers hadn't yet developed a reason to hate Paul. Why would he hate on a guy who was still his teammate at the time?
He reminds a lot of what Sam Cassell did with the Rockets hitting big 3 point shots, while talking trash.
I saw something interesting at the MODA Center last night. In the second quarter, Rockets were on offense and Rivers had an open look on the wing while Harden was dribbling up top. Rivers called for the ball, but Harden took a contested 3 and missed. On the way down the court, Rivers said something to Harden and Harden responded -- it didn't look ugly, but neither guy seemed happy. The Blazers scored and MDA called a timeout. After the timeout, Rivers was on the bench and I'm pretty sure he stayed there until the second half. I'm not sure whether MDA was sending a message to him about getting out of line, or whether it was just the typical rotation. But seeing as how Rivers was lighting it up at the time and Harden was struggling, I have to think it was the former.
Said he was better than guys on the Olympic team. Trash talks a lot which can about people ,but a lot of guys do that. Can have a tendency to act like he's a star when he's clearly not. ....but nepotism can also breed disdain.
I listened to episode 1 of his podcast "go off" he talked quite a bit about his immaturity in his first few years in the league and how he felt about his reputation being tied to being the coaches son. I empathize with him, he seemed cool. Imagine if Eric Gordon was out there playing big minutes, throwing up 30 foot 3's, whining to the refs, having a cold shooting night under head coach Mike Dan Gordon.
I like that he contributes. Good basketball signing. But I don't like him. Didn't like McHale. Didn't like yalls boy, Jason Terry.
It's all about perception. Ryan Anderson shot .396 on 6.1 attempts from 3 point range and most of CF thought he was straight trash. Granted Rivers is playing the role the Rockets need with decent defense ATM.
