Rivers Not Concerned About Lakers, Focused Solely On Heat

[Sportsguy9695]

Doc Rivers isn’t concerned about the Lakers and their recent acquisitions of Steve Nash and Dwight Howard.“Honestly, I don't care about the Lakers,” Rivers said. “My honest thought as a coach right now…I have my eye squarely on Miami. I come up to my players during the year -- they're in the facility now -- I bring up Miami every single day to them. I want them to hate them. I want them to beat them. That's got to be our focus.“I think the Lakers are better,” Rivers continued. “I’m actually not one that thinks they’re way better. The guy they traded, (Andrew) Bynum, we struggled to guard him. Dwight is a great player, but we’ve guarded him pretty well.“Offensively, the Nash part is different. I look at them and wonder how that’s going to work. I hear they’re going to run the Princeton offense, which I want to see the ball move, I want to see Kobe (Bryant) keep moving the ball.

 

Source: RealGM

[Abro]

He should only be focused on the Heat, they are in the East Lakers in the West... They have to go through Miami to get to the finals. And yeah Doc has a point, it'll be interesting to see how this works for sure.

[Sportsguy9695]

I agree the need to get through Miami before they face the Lakers

[Lemon]

Bynum for Howard is, yeah, better and not way better. But add that with Nash replacing Sessions, adding Meeks and Jamison? That's adding solid foundation to a big gaping hole in the roster. That's way better.