Derek Bodner and Doc Rivers got into a back and forth on Sunday evening after the Sixers' final game of the regular season, when the Sixers reporter asked the veteran coach about the team's backup center situation between Paul Reed and DeAndre Jordan.
"Coaching is hard guys and you have to get your guys to play the right way, but you don't see that, I do," Rivers eventually said to Bodner on Sunday.
Bodner joined Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie on Monday's 94WIP Midday Show to discuss Rivers' condescending reaction to his question about the play timing for Reed.
"I don't think he believes that we are capable of holding him accountable," Bodner said. "It's not even I really think that's necessarily our job.
"I'm not even a huge believer in Paul Reed," Bodner said of Reed, who had 25 points the regular season finale on Sunday. "I just don't think DeAndre Jordan is playable, I think that's been evident for a very long time. And I think they should have done more to prepare for what was a very predictable outcome...I know DeAndre Jordan can't play in this environment."
Why does Bodner believe Rivers' responded the way he did.
"I think he thinks he's Doc Rivers, he's won a championship, he's been the coach for as long as he has. And I'm a reporter who has never played the game. I think it's just he has the sort of air of arrogance about what he has accomplished and confidence, and sometimes it's hard to prevent that confidence from seeping into arrogance and I don't think he's navigated that well."
