To:  The Boston Celtics Organization

Name: Carl McGown Comments: Doc just isn't getting through

Name: Peter D Comments: It's time for a change, see ya Doc.

Name: Tina Ryan Comments: It's about time!!

Name: Mike Symes Comments: When Ainge took over we were told #17 (championships)was only 3 years away.  Truth...it's much further, Danny "Dynasty" has to start somwhere and Rivers is the first to get voted off the Island. Doc: "The Hub has spoken.........You're fired."

Name: Rick Houle Comments: The Bruins have a better record. Do I need to say anymore?

Name: Matt Dursin Comments: You're a better fan than me.  I'm pretty much in the apethectic mode myself these days.  Maybe changes are ahead.

Name: Greg Belcher Comments: The streak of underachieving continues.  I'm not going to say the Celts have a championship contender on their hands but with the players they have their record should not look like this.  The Celtics need a change and Danny Ainge needs to open his eyes and realize it before the season is lost.

Name: B. smyth

Name: Nancy L. Donovan Comments: It's time!

Name: Richard Pulkinen

Name: Eric DiMartino Comments: Hey Doc Is not doing his job here he should be gone say bye bye doc.

Name: Chris M

Name: Sam

Name: Harry Pantazopoulos Comments: Please find a new job Doc. I have been a dedicated celtics fan for many years and I never imagined that they would reach such a low point, they need a change. No offense to Doc but whatever your doing is either not working or it's having a negative effect. I stopped going to games early this season and I'm about to stop watching the games on tv soon. It's just ugly basketball, it makes me sick.

Name: andy miller Comments: I have never been more proud to sign anything in my life.

Name: Sherman Douglas Comments: you are losing fans every day.

Name: Robert Fuller Comments: Enough lieing, excuses, and down right horrible coaching, Doc must go!

Name: Brickowski

Name: Michael Buccieri Comments: 5 wins 11 losses with the talent we have.  you have to be ****ting me. It's time for Tony Brown to take over.

Name: Rebecca Comments: Please just go Doc, if you care about the Celtics and their fans at all, which I think you do because you seem to be a decent guy. The sooner the better

Name: Dan Heaphy

Name: Paulie B Comments: Been saying it for over a year, we can never win with this guy. I could hardly watch last year; this year is a joke. That was hideous game. We need a fresh start. I know we are not going to win a lot this year regardless, but we need a fresh start and if Danny can't see this he should go as well.

Name: Curtis T Comments: I am struggling to watch games. I used to get excited to watch the Celts play, but it's just getting harder and harder to stay committed. It shouldn't be this hard. Doc... It's been real, it's been fun, but it hasn't been real fun!

Name: NDW

Name: Vincent G. Perrone

Name: Edward B Diaz Comments: For the betterment of the team please fire Glenn Rivers.  Bringing back Jim O'Brien should be better.

Name: Alexis Avila Comments: Time for Danny Ainge to get in the pit, and let the young guys get some burn.

Name: Rebecca Kanter Comments: it's not personal Doc, but you need to go.

Name: Ross Comments: Go away, I want you to stay as far away from my beloved organization as the earth's dimensions will allow.  FIRE THIS LOSER NOW!

Name: Kevin Comments: Enough is enough, and its time for a change!

Name: Vic Perry Comments: Doc..Just go away. Please just go away!

Name: Brian O'Leary Comments: Sorry Doc, best of luck with TNT!

Name: Chris Comments: I have no problem watching this team loose, but the poor game management is driving me nuts.  I'd love to see Tony Brown get a shot, or Danny can take over and clean up his own mess.  Doc seems like he's a nice guy, but its clear the young players haven't responded to him.

Name: jose oliveira

Name: Scott Mahan Comments: Watching Doc coach (or lack there of) our team is kind of like watching your heavy set aunt join in on the volley ball game at the family outing.  Everyone kind of stands around and cringes, pretending not to look, just waiting for something horrible to happen...well its happening!!  Get rid of him!!

Name: CB Comments: RIGHT NOW.

Name: Trevor Morgan Comments: Yes Please

Name: ShamRoxStar Comments: Fire Doc on one condition: Promise me you take the man who hired him with him, bc he is the TOOL that is truly responsible for this mess, not Doc. You can't give Doc a bottle of Arbor Mist and ask him to p*** you Crystal.

Name: Damian Donaldson Comments: It;s time to step down, Doc. Sorry, you had plenty of time.

Name: Justin Provost

Name: ALeX Comments: he's terrible

Name: Joe Dipasquale Comments: Our rebuilding process has to start producing, and right now we currently do not have the coach to take it to the next level.  It's not personal, it's business..........RIVERS NEEDS TO GO!

Name: Jai Comments: Forget firing Doc. FIRE DANNY AINGE. How much more can he mess up this team.? He added a bunch of heartless losers that only care about themselves and his "star" players aren't any better. Wally takes himself out of games. Pierce only cares about spinning and driving between 5 guys from the other team. Rondo is a ball hog and so is Gerald Green. Perkins is useless, Al shows up only half the time. Delonte is brain dead on the court. Tony Allan has his head in other places. Bring back Antoine. His shot selection wasn't always great but at least he cared about winning. He knew what Celtics Pride was all about. Not a single person currently on this team can say that including Paul Pierce.

Name: Michael Capone Comments: I actually don't watch the Celtics because he is the head coach. I never liked him and never will. His dumb smile after we lose a game he messed up will be burned in my memory forever

Name: Stanley Chen Comments: Doc Rivers just makes stupid decisions at the end of games. This is my 100% honest opinion, and although I am only a celtics fan, I know there are thousands if not millions of people who agree with me.

Name: Brad McNamara

Name: Bucky Rogers Comments: He's killing them.  Simmons has a good outsider view of the whole thing as a loving fan. Help bring #17 by getting rid of Doc.

Name: kevin gamble Comments: I hear your local Mc Donalds is hiring.

Name: Jungle Jim Comments: Now, where can I sign to dump Danny Ainge and get rid of these carpetbagging owners?

Name: Jay Links Comments: Sorry Doc.  Great guy, bad coach.  Bring in Silas.

Name: Steve Bossen Comments: He's so horrific he ALMOST makes me wish we could swap coaches with the Knicks.  It turns my stomach to see this once proud and great franchise being run into the ground by its inept coach.

Name: Jet Striar Comments: He seems like a nice enough guy but he doesnt no anything about coaching. Terrible game planning, terrible substitutions, and terrible play calling all highlight his career in Boston. Not to mention the fact that he cant win a close game to save his life.

Name: Gene Kearney Comments: Please fire him. he is the worst coach in the history of basket ball. And if you think that isn't possible, watch a Celtic game. He is at least, the very least, the worst bench coach ever. I don't know what is wrong with him, but he is coaching disabled.

Name: Scott Magill

Name: Mike Tracey Comments: 1.  End of game situations are clearly handled amateurishly 2.  I really don't think he understand how to communicate to these guys.  He's talking AT them not WITH them.  He has none of the relationship management skills of a Red Auerbach or even a  Phil Jackson 3.  Seems like a great guy and I'm sorry to gang up on him, but it's just time for a change.  We've acquired good talent here, now is time for good leadership.

Name: scndtony Comments: Doc is trying to prove that nice guys do finish last.

Name: Jason Comments: GET OUT!!! GET OUT!!!! GET OUT!!!!! SERENITY NOW!!!!

Name: Alex Comments: I agree with everything said, he seems like a great guy, but this team never looks prepared for what the other team is doing, and never makes adjustments for the way the other team plays them. It's like he thinks once a game starts, he's not allowed to change the gameplan.

Name: Keegan Beckwith Comments: Celtics are the laughing-stock of the NBA.  Lets start cutting the fat by giving this practical joke of a coach the axe.

Name: tiangiks

Name: Ant

Name: Ben Comments: DOC ****S

Name: Jeff Soucy

Name: G. van Eikeren Comments: I think we're all tired of being up 20 in the third quarter & still expecting to lose

Name: FRED ROBERTS Comments: I WILL NOT WATCH OR GO TO ANOTHER GAME UNTIL DOC IS GONE!

Name: J0EMI Comments: The sooner the better!!!!

Name: Dan Kirouac Comments: It pains me to do this, but I just can't bear to see the team perform this horribly anymore.  Why do I have to be one of the few who actually likes the Celtics more than the Sox and Pats?

Name: Will Clark Comments: Please don't let Doc ruin another season!

Name: Will Clark Comments: Please don't let Doc ruin another season!

Name: Byron Khoo Comments: I have never seen as many blown leads by a single team in one season in my life.  His rotations are awful and does not make sense.  Put him out of his misery.

Name: GEORGE NASH

Name: David S. Comments: This coach has yet to win one playoff series in his entire coaching career (including the team he coached before us). His team is stacked with young unproven players. There is a lack of veteran leadership to accompany the only legitimate all-star on the roster.  His team plays with no heart. They cannot execute in the fourth quarter. They do not run the floor well. They play no defense. They rely on the three point field goal at the most inappropriate times. The bench play is increidibly inconsistent. There is no roster stability. We are losing games we should undoubtedly be winning. *** Provided here are the reasons why we fired Rick Pitino . Any of this sound alarmingly similar??

Name: John Blaze

Name: james kane Comments: Its no secret.. the entire National Basketball Association knows what the problem is with the celtics... Except for our frontoffice... Why? How? i do not know. Release Doc Rivers. Hes a nice guy but please for the benefit of a franchise which hasnt seen success in 20 years. Where is the celtics pride?

Name: GEORGE NASH Comments: The current roster needs to be evaluated under a new coaching system before more mistakes are made.Celtic Pride is being damaged ever day this Coaching Staff is allowed to continue.

Name: chris Comments: for the love of god fire DoC

Name: Kelly Kasaras

Name: Milzy

Name: oscar saavedra Comments: please, fire doc...

Name: matt

Name: Dennis Uy Comments: It is about time for a change... We're not improving at all..   am sure even the players are frustrated now...

Name: Tyler Comments: The Doctor is out!

Name: Lee Collyer Comments: I am at the brink. This is the only thing that will bring me some serenity. There is no way Al Jeff is this bad. Scalabrine should only play when we are down to 4 men on the floor. Please god help.

Name: Peter Miles Comments: If you can't say something nice about someone you shouldn't say anything at all.  Within those guidelines I can say this: Doc.......you wear nice suits.

Name: RAY Comments: Bye Bye Dock

Name: TJ Comments: To be clear, there are more problems to this team than just the coach (I hope you "fire Doc guys are aware of this), but the coach IS a problem nevertheless. It's not like he's made all the coaching moves and the talent alone has lost this many games...Right now, this guy is "Pitino", and we need our "O'Brien": the right guy that can turn it around, and get the best out of what he has... I'm not sure who that guy could be (Westphal? Adelman?), but it surely doesn't look like it's Doc Rivers.

Name: Robert Bruce Comments: Doc Rivers needs to go.  I like him as a person but he is not fit to coach this team.  Maybe we can keep him the whole season and lose enough games to get Greg Oden?  Is that the thinking?  And Ainge.... I can't beleive you traded Antoine.  You disesembled a playoff contender in the East with two franchise players.  Now we only have Pierce and young players who aren't going to be stars (Maybe Green). FIRE DOC...THEN DEMOTE AINGE TO SCOUT

Name: Mike Ford

Name: Joshua Motenko Comments: The only grain of salt have have left to hang my hat on is his impact on Telfair's development.  He isn't helping any other players develop past their current level.  Overall, His time has come.

Name: Noel Santos Comments: Doc's coaching ****s!

Name: Cesare Comments: I'm an italian fan, please fire Doc!!

Name: Cam Anstee Comments: For Christ's sake - even in Australia we can see that this bloke is useless! Hire Silas, or Adelman, or SOMEONE!! Just get rid of Rivers!

Name: gerry reyes Comments: im a celtic fan from the far east and i've been a fan since 1979. i agree that doc is agreat guy but as a coach i think it's time for him to go. wish him the best.

Name: wigglestrue Comments: http://firedoc.ytmnd.com

Name: Pablo Pérez

Name: boston21

Name: Antonio Custodio de Oliveira Comments: A great guy. A terible coach.

Name: sam Comments: Too much losing...starting to...go into....coma...until...Doc....is.....gone.

Name: Steven Comments: sorry doc, seems to be a great guy, and not a bad coach. but not in our situation of young guys developping.  nice year man

Name: jim smith

Name: Amem E Comments: ...enough is enough...

Name: eurobird Comments: if a team can build a 20 point lead against almost every team, it´s talented. if this team loses almost every single games of these above, it´s talented but horrible coached. fire doc. hire a coach. trade for men & balls. get rid of darth celtic.

Name: Laura Comments: Please.

Name: MMM Comments: fire Doc, its time for Ainge to take full responsibility for the team as a head coach... at least until next season... and if we keep losing fire them all!! leave only Paul...

Name: DOSREIS Comments: I HATE DOC RIVERS, I HATE WATCHING HIM COACH, I AM A SEASON TICKET HOLDER, PLEASE FIRE DOC RIVERS

Name: Joe Sosnoff Comments: While Doc isn't a very good coach, I do support his return to music videos ala "Atlanta's Air Force".

Name: Mike Myers Comments: Sorry, Doc.  Danny screwed you over by not even coming close to a competitive roster during your tenure.  Now, you both must go

Name: MJC Comments: Can't wait to hear Doc in the studio for the playoffs!

Name: K$ Comments: Needs to be done.  Literally.  With flames.

Name: Shawn Rollins Comments: All I can say is "small Ball".

Name: Tai Comment: I have a feeling Doc will be fired over this, but...I think the person who should be going is Danny Ainge.  Doc is doing the best he can with what he's got.  Danny really decimated the team with his decisions over the last two years to bring in so much young talent that the few remaining veterans on the team can't bring the level of play up to where it needs to be.  But, I think Doc will take the fall and whoever the next coach they bring in will take the fall when he fails to make this a championship team, when it is doomed from the start!  Put a better decision maker in at the top and they will make better decisions about putting together a winning team that's not JUST young talent. Cheers, Tai

Name: Brendan Comments: Fire Doc, let Danny coach out the rest of season and find someone good in the offseason.

Name: Prophet Comments: He is one of the worst coaches in the league. Tony Brown and Doc need to go now.

Name: Ho Comments: Please, please please let River go!!!  We need a new winning attitude and a new hope.

Name: Beau Edwards Comments: Nice guys finish last...

Name: Diego Comments: FIRE DOC!!! FIRE DOC!!! FIRE DOC!!! FIRE DOC!!! FIRE DOC!!! FIRE DOC!!! FIRE DOC!!! FIRE DOC!!! FIRE DOC!!! FIRE DOC!!!

Name: Hunter Blais Comments: he ****s

Name: gary stone

Name: Jas Kemper Comments: I can't even imagine why there is a question. In Parcell's words you are what you are, so lets look at performance and results since Rivers has been the coach. Want a comparison? Look at Phoenix since their new coach arrived. Look at their performance even when their star went down for the season. Look at the Lakers. Do they have better talent or do they have better coaching? Want another angle? Look at players that didn't play but when given a chance--due to injuries--became starters, like Gomes. Look at Powe who's delivered fire everytine he's been on the court but doesn't get to play. Look at Jefferson--he went from untouchable rookie hall of famer--to a second rotation man. So, if the team doesn't win and the players don't develop, what does the future look like? Maybe Rivers was a good choice but it didn't work out. Move on. Find a better fit. Jas

Name: Derek Showerman Comments: No team should continue to have blown defensive rotations the way the Celtics consitently do under Doc Rivers. This is not about youth, but about poor coaching. Danny, you made this team, now you should coach it.

Name: Steve S   Comments: Doc's a nice enough guy, but when it comes to coaching... I think he's in over his head.  I would give a great recommendation for the TNT broadcasting booth, however.  Great analyst.

Name: LiSandra Comments: Please Fire Doc!

Name: Amir McManus

Name: Amir McManus

Name: Jaims Comments: mediocrity must stop now!

Name: Paul Massari Comments: Rivers has been a useful lightning rod until now, taking the heat and drawing attention away from the fact that the Celts consist of Paul Pierce, a handful of marginal vets, and kids who were low first round and second round draft picks. But while it’s defensible (barely) to lose six of your first seven games to teams with a combined .661 winning percentage, it’s just a disgrace to be spanked by the Bobcats and then run off your home court by the Knicks – teams that are a combined 7-17. The rubes were crammed in the tent looking to buy the religion last night. They left avowed basketball atheists before the end of the third quarter. You think Wyc, Steve, and the rest of their buddies aren’t getting sick of seeing their $360M team blow yet another opportunity to move up in the Boston sports hierarchy, particularly with the Red Sox and Bruins playing poorly? How much would a new coach help? The Globe’s Peter May says not much. Then again, who’d have predicted Jim O’Brien would take a team of perennial losers and bring them to the conference finals in a little over a year? Was that team more talented and capable than this one? Of course not. They were simply committed to a style of play and they executed consistently. That’s what good coaches get players to do. The enthusiasm and anticipation that accompanied the new season is rapidly waning. It’s been 20 years since the last championship and four since Danny blew up a playoff team. Maybe ire directed at Rivers is misplaced, but it’s a fact of life now and, more to the point, a fact of business. The team stinks and fans are turning away. Fair or not, the owners may soon have to heed the furious shouts of their paying customers and “fire doc.”

Name: ugh Comments: Bye, bye, bye.....

Name: Bukes Comments: I am not one to come to quick decisions, and this case is no different.  I have watched this team for years.  And while I understand the "rebuilding" process, I feel there should be clear evidence of progress with our young players. I can say with certainty that whatever Doc could have taught this group, he has.  He has nothing left to offer and his limited skills as a hard nosed, in-your-face, X/O's coach will cease any forward developement of this team.  I feel he is a great guy.  I feel the players respect him and genuinely like him, but he seems to have reached his peak as head coach.  I respectfully request Doc Rivers be terminated from his contract and a new coach be hired for our beloved Celtics.  A coach that will teach fundamentals and the drive to win.  A coach that will start were Doc left off, and continue our climb up the ladder. Until The Green show a noticable increase in knowledge of the game... I will refrain from renewing my season tickets, and instead focus my attention on watching these painful games on T.V. only.

Name: Roger S. Belanger Comments: Fire Doc. Dump Pierce too, he'll never lead us to the promised land. While we're talking about excess baggage, how'bout we send the cuties (aka dancers) back to where ever they came from.

Name: Steve Comments: LOSSING RECORD as a coach for too many years in the NBA.  AKA ORLANDO AKA BOSTON.  He is like the NFL coach DAVID WANSTEAD who coach the bears to multi losing seasons and went to Miami and ruined their chances.   That has been doc for me in the last 3 years.   He knows how to loss games in the last 5 mins in every 4th Qt that they are in.  Their is alot of other proven NBA coaches out their for the pickings.  STAN VAN GUNDY, RICK ALTILMAN and Lenny WILKINS as well as larry brown.

Name: Ryan Comments: SEE YA DOC!!!!!

Name: Brian Comments: HE IS A JOKE, HE IS KILLING OUR STORIED FRANCHISE, THIS HAS TO STOP

Name: Dan Comments: I have watched this team struggle for years... It's time to fire doc - Get a proven coach in here: Rick Adleman, Paul Silas, anyone that has playoff coaching experience. Bring back Jim O'Brien if you must. Danny needs to do whatever it takes to make a move for Garnett. Kevin is going to want to move him before the end of the season either way. Boston needs to pair Pierce with Garnett. If not, the ship continues to sink and we throw the season for Oden, only to watch history repeat itself as in the Duncan draft. You can't depend on the lottery to build a team. We have the pieces to get talented players into Boston. It's time for Danny to make some moves, it's time for the owner's to spend some money and it's time to fire Doc.

Name: CJK Comments: The team needs a new coach; they've stopped caring about what Doc has to say, and with good reason.

Name: Tony H8r Comments: Keep Doc Rivers! (Draft Greg Oden)

Name: Sean Byrne Comments: ASAP

Name: John Wamback Comments: Trade Doc to the Knicks for a bag of balls and a Walter McCarty Bobblehead. ISIAH WILL DO THIS TRADE!

Name: Ken Ti Comments: simply put, Doc is a nice guy, but there are way too many coaches now out of the NBA who are much better than him....

Name: Adam Comments: Sorry Doc...you gotta go. Enjoy working with Barkley on TNT

Name: Sue Ellen Rogal Comments: They're not "kids", Doc - they are adults, playing in the NBA, and they need to be treated as such.  You're a nice guy, but it's time for a change!

Name: Steve Halupca

Name: Darin Senneff   Comments: It's hard to be patient with incosistency and incompetence.

Name: Common Sense

Name: rickyfan... Comment: i like what you are doing, but I feel bad for the guy. I suspect you do to, thats why you threw in the "he's probably a great guy..." thing. that being said, the players on this team are terrible. we are stocked with self-overrated talent.

Name: Paul Bonner Comments: I like Doc. He seems like a good guy. I'd love to sit down and throw back beers and talk basketball with the guy. But his time as head coach of the Boston Celtics has got to end. The young guys aren't getting any better, and you can only make so many excuses. Time to move on.

Name: I earned a Tommy Point! Comments: I've been waiting for this since last year...

Name: Brian St.Cyr Comments: Get rid of this bum.

Name: Dave Sullivan

Name: Fil Lebre Comments: No comment.. just get rid of the guy.

Name: Ryan M. Ross Comments: his record speaks for itself....

Name: Chase Seibert Comments: It's time for Ainge to coach the team himself. Put up, or shut up.

Name: Ben Adams Comments: It is time for Doc to move on...

Name: Joseph Tremblay Comments: The number one thing that makes DOC a bad coach is that he coaches mistakes.  When a player makes an ingame mistake he pulls him aside and trys to correct it.  Players don't learn like that, players learn in practice and training not to make mistakes.  IF you see players continually get in foul trouble(perk/Jeff) or make bad dribbling decisions (Allen) it is because they are not be taught properly in practice.  Great coaches are the ones that prepare their teams for anything that could happen,  Bad coaches have one game plan and make in game attempts to coach.  Doc i love you but please go away.

Name: Justin Hall Comments: I like Doc, but he is not the right coach for this team. Players have been brought in to run a certain style of ball and he has not interest in doing that judging by his offensive schemes. It's time to go Doc, sorry!

Name: Richie Comments: Please make it stop...please...I've been suffering through his terrible coaching/leadership too long.

Name: Jens Comments: Doc Rivers has had 3 or so years trying to get things right. I have yet to see any spark of hope as I tune in week in and week out. The Celtics are looking more and more like a high school team than a legit NBA team. Sorry Doc, but its time to go!

Name: Mike Comments: Doc Rivers has no rotation, no strategy and no clue how to coach in general; you want the celtics to make a giant leap forward? Fire Doc Rivers and bench scal and ta (until he pulls his head out of his***). I guarantee at least  15/ game from GG if he gets more pt.

Name: miles silverman Comments: doc needs to go.

Name: Joey Rocha

Name: Matt Comments: Step down to the bench Danny.

Name: B. Garner Comments: As a life long Celtics fan, I have never been so disgusted in its complete lack of decent coaching.  Doc is a good TV analyst, but he is not a coach.  He must go or the Celtics will have another cellar season.

Name: Paolo Dellasandro Comments: Doc has got to go, period. I watch all the games and I have no idea what is damn game plan is half the time.  Also you never know who is playing as I think he justs "Wings" it from game to game.  One game Rondo is in the next he's out, Leon is in, the next he is out!!!!!!!  When is Dannny Boy going to wake up and kick some damn dead weight out the door and push these guys to help the Truth win some games.  You can see that Paul is out there giving up some of his game to try and involved the rest of them and it just isn't working.  This is where a knowledgable coach needs to come into play.  I'm sorry, Doc is a nice guy, but he can not coach or manage a game.

Name: Patrick Markley

Name: Dave Codero

Name: Omar Sympaila Comments: Listen, he's a nice guy he represent sthe team well as a person. However, he was hired to coach the team and he hasn't done that. The young guys have not improved and the rotations don't exist. There are no offensive or defensive schemes. The team is not prepared for games or game situations. This lack of identity; inefficiency; and preparation; fall directly under the blame and jurisdiction of coaching. He has shown no track record as a coach that improvement is on the herizon. It is time to have Doc Rivers to move on.

Name: Rear Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.D., M.P.H., Acting Surgeon General Comments: I am currently investigating Doc Rivers for malpractice.

Name: RyB Comments: Talented young guys should not be getting worse, as they are under Doc.  There is no semblance of a line up or any consistency with the coaching strategy. Ainge needs to take over and fix this situation quickly.

Name: John Ronan Comments: Worst set plays in the NBA, Worst defensive rotations in the NBA, and most inconsistent rotations in the NBA. Can we have someone come in and teach how to defend a high pick and roll? Doc obviously hasn't taught anyone

Name: Andrew C

Name: frank rizzo Comments: sorry doc

Name: Frank L Comments: Anyone that plays Scabs ahead of Powe should be gone!!

Name: Sean Mac   Comments: can him

Name: TomHamilton30   Comments: He needed to go before he came.  I hope he moves to Boston b/c he's a good guy, but teams don't pay $5 mil for a "good guy".

Name: Terry "Poopaphone" Dolan Comment: Doc Rivers is the best assistant coach in the NBA.

Name: MetroG Comments: At some point the coach of an underachieving team has to be held accountable for its repeated poor performances.  Especially when the same mistakes are happening over and over again.  And yes, I did say "underachieving" because I truly believe that this team should be much better than they are.  I peruse other teams' rosters and I see their box scores, etc.  I really believe the talent on this team is such that we should be fighting for a mid-level playoff spot.  We have one of the 15 best players in the NBA in Paul Pierce.  We have one of the NBA's most lethal scorers in Wally Szczerbiak.  We have many young, able bodied players who should be playing tough defense and honing their skills.  Yet we have seen little to no improvement from last season to this season.  How can that possibly be the case?  It has to be put on the coaches.  Has to be.  The defensive and offensive schemes/philosophies are gimmicky and unproven.  Players are constantly in the wrong positions and are unable/unwilling to correct this.  Either way, it comes down to poor coaching.  Whether they can't or won't do it the way Rivers wants, it doesn't matter.  He refuses to adapt or find another way.  His strategic abilities are extremely limited and we see this fact exposed every single game. Doc Rivers it is time for you to go.  You gave an honest effort for at least half a season in your first year.  We all know you want to go back to Florida and play golf.  So bow out and do it.  Stop waiting around for them to fire you (so you can keep getting paid).  Bow out gracefully and show a little class. Yeah right.  Like that'll ever happen.

Name: Masood Amini

Name: john Comments: and get rid of danny also -- this is sad. I was 16 in 86 and NEVER thought I would wait so long...!

Name: Timothy Kistner

Name: Boom Comments: Great guy, awful coach...see ya Doc

Name: Scott Slaney Comments: Lifelong fan.....I can't take it anymore!

Name: Ken Salmon

Name: Marty Conlon   Comments: Our team still stinks.

Name: Stefan Schubert Comments: I don't hate Doc, but he definitely isn't helping this team do anything. They badly need a fresh voice.

Name: Kazu Haga Comments: We deserve better.  Doc seems like a good guy, even a smart basketball guy.  But he is a terrible coach.  We have too much talent on this team to be playing the way we are.  Please, for the sake of all that is sacred in this world, let him go.

Name: Travis Weaver

Name: Tim McDonald Comments: You're not going to win a championship with Doc.  Matter of fact you will never win a playoff series with Doc.  Doc can't even draw up a single effective play at the end of games.  I'd take anybody over Doc.

Name: Jason Schwartz Comments: I think I'll remember Doc most for that time against Cleveland this year where he forgot that basketball games typically have 4 quarters, not 3.

Name: Mike   Comments: Isn't it funny how Doc constantly stresses playing defense, but over and over again there is nothing but blown coverages?  Doc has had two years to make what he is teaching stick.  It is not working.  Neither should he.

Name: Sevan Comments: The youth movement has failed. Bring in a coach that knows what he's doing.

Name: Greg Maloomian

Name: Connor Hayes

Name: Carlos Medeiros Jr. Comments: Although Doc has been a great sport I do agree he should be released from his contract. Not only would it benefit him because of his family situation but it would benefit the Boston Celtics all together. Doc just isn't the guy we need.

Name: Patrick Lynch Comments: Doc must be fired for this team to improve.  He doesn't know how to make good subsitutions or make up a good rotation.  His in-game decisions are terrible, particularly in the 4th quarter.  When late game offense goes away from what we do during the first 3 and turn into isolation time for Paul Pierce while everyone else watches, THAT'S BAD COACHING.  Please fire Doc, we need a new system.

Name: Rick Burke Comments: Doc, You've done well with what you had to work with but let someone else take this team to the level you cannot. I would like to see the energy back in Celtics basketball starting with Rajon Rondo getting some minutes.

Name: jay Comments: For the love of celtics nation get him out of here!

Name: Don Rumsfeld Comments: Doc: Can we talk? I just went through a similar experience. One day the Prez took me aside and said: "Don, how can I miss you if you won't go away?" Don

Name: Gord Goldy Comments: Please. You know it's time.

Name: Ariel Hernandez Comments: Why call him "Doc"? He is the disease himself. Fire away!

Name: Adriano Comments: This team has the talent, as evidenced in all the close games we have been in except one or two. Seems like with Doc, he makes all the wrong decisions and we end up losing those close games a majority of the time. Blowing that Nets game a week back was devastating and the team has shown that they have given up on Doc since then.

Name: Galen Wilk Comments: It is just time for a change, we should not be the third worst team in the league.

Name: Steve Comments: FIRE DOC

Name: Matt Nevins Comments: Doc Rivers Bl***!

Name: Teddy Bach

Name: Max Chou Comments: If the object of the game was to lose by 1,2,3,4,or 5 points Rivers would be king.

Name: rob kelly Comments: nice guy, bad coach

Name: Michael Scaduto

Name: Nima Aghili

Name: Jack Hamilton Comments: I seriously root for them to lose so that he gets fired sooner rather than later.  Bring on Rick Adelman.

Name: Benjamin   Comments: Doc, you are a good guy, I wish nothing but the best for you... but you were not meant to coach our team... I have so much respect for you... but you just can't do it, you have to go...

Name: Ryan Labarre Comments: Doc I will miss your great playcalling skills at the end of games. Ok I won't, but I really will miss your ability of never playing rookies. Ok that's a lie too.

Name: Ryan Comments: see you on TNT!

Name: brian

Name: George J. Sliney Comments: Doc does not have the ability to turn our raw tallents into a good baskeball team.  Time for him to be in the broadcast booth.

Name: Ed Reyes Comments: I forgot the title of the song but I think its "Fire me a River".

Name: jose3030 Comments: Another loss. Are we trying to get Greg Oden? It's looking pretty obvious by now.

Name: ClipSet Comments: PLAY GERALD GREEN AND DELONTE WEST

Name: Robbie Comments: He s****

Name: Yousuf Azadzoi Comments: There's really nothing to say. It's over.

Name: Aquila Rosa Comments: I LOVE the celtics, i dont hate doc just its not working out, sorry g

Name: jason kane Comments: every dog has his day.

Name: Richard W. Karski

Name: Nate Ungerleider Comments: I bought league pass to watch the celtics out here in arizona. Im just very glad this site is up and running.

Name: GG Comments: just get it over with... get a true-blue (green) Celtic to coach the team (Danny Ainge and ML Carr excluded)

Name: Roy Hayward Comments: I'm from the Philippines. Ive been a Celtic Fanatic since 1988.The team had gone through several lows through out the years, but I think the Doc Rivers era is the lowest low. The team is falling apart!

Name: Raymopnd Smith Comments: Absolutlry no improvement off the young guys this year.

Name: Mike Casey Comments: It's, simply, time.

Name: Omar Longus Comments: I have given him the benefit of the doubt in every situation. However, in his time here he has 1) not made an effective crunch time play set 2) not challenged the young guys to step their games up or rewarded them with minutes 3) struggled at maintaining the Celts fire 4) not challenged Paul Pierce to be a team player and move the ball quickly 5) not developed an offense that would help the players 6) made some terrible crunch time decision making (putting TA in when we need points, subbing out Delonte when we need a big shot, play Scals in the crunch, always letting Paul take the last shot regardlses of his being double or even triple teamed, etc...). Although I respect and admire Doc Rivers, the team will not succeed with him at the helm.

Name: Brian Long Comments: I agree with this petition.

Name: Jon Damon Comments: doc ****s, kills our young players confidence.  gotta get him outta here.  SOON!

Name: joze alcindor Comments: if doc goes danny's comin wit em

Name: Andy Wiggin Comments: Better yet, the ailing Doc should resign.  This will save face for him.  However, it will not address the deeper problem -- the decision-making power of Danny Ainge.  Doc remains because Ainge is standing by Ainge's choice.  We don't frickin' care if Ainge "likes" him, or if Ainge still has the brazenness to promise that these "young" players will be better in the future. It's time to replace these two shameless bozos with others who expect to WIN, and who know how to use or get the talent to do it.

Name: John LeBonte Comments: Doc is nice,  but nice doesn't win championships,  great coaches do.  Doc has neither won a champ as a player or a coach.  Ainge has,  and so has Heinsohn.  I say Tom Heinsohn as head coach and Ainge as Asst.  Look at Don Nelson.  If he isn't too old,  neither is Tom.

Name: kevin mahnken

Name: Wozzy Comments: If he's trying to prove something by benching our best players, I don't know what that is? Gomes isn't a power forward, AL or Powe are. Rondo has outplayed Telfair in every game I've watched and I've watched every one since the summer league. Green...say no more.

Name: Paul Wang

Name: Marco C Comments: Now's the time!

Name: Findawgg Comments: I thought Doc was a good choice because he was able to make something out of nothing in Orlando.  That said, it's time for the Celtics brain trust to go in a different direction.  There is a competitive fire that is vacant from our guys in green.  Every Celtics team that ever earned a banner had that fire, and it was a reflection of their coach (Red, Russel, Heinson, KC).  Doc is not cut from the same cloth, and it's time he was hung out to dry. --Fin (Writer for Celtics Pride)

Name: Ariel Comments: Can't we ever get a set rotation...why isn't Rondo and Green getting more minutes than Telfair and Scalabrine?...c'mon Danny, it's time for you to coach these kids!

Name: George in Springfield Comments: I'm sorry Doc you are probably a great guy, but you and your staff just aren't getting anything done. Jim O'Brian got ran out of town, well at least the teams were competetive and did go to playoffs. For three years you've been trying to utilize players talents and come up with good rotations. We get worse all the time. Danny Ainge is to blame too for there is no plan. Losing to Memphis last night was pathetic, everyone crying about youth and undermaned well Memphis didn't have Gasol and had plenty of youth. Every team has youth but good coached teams have a plan and play as a team. The Celtics are a absolute mess right now and it is time for a change in GM and Coaching staff. One other thing that does bother me for a while now. I heard Doc still lives in Orlando and that just never made sense to me. A focused staff should be more dedicated than that. Maybe that explains why we suck at freethrows, gameplans, stupid injuries from lack of PT, and have a team that just isn't listening.

Name: Aaron Comments: I have no doubt Doc is a great guy but he has lost this team. Absolutely lost it. There is no organization, no sign of fundamentals being taught, no offensive or defensive philosphy or identity. I mean, if you wanna be real about it, the whole organization needs a complete enema right now. Doc isn't by far the ONLY problem, but he is one of the prominent ones. I think its time to just start over again in order to stop the bleeding.

Name: Dan Secatore

Name: Inc Pagliuca Comments: Doc, please have some pride and leave.  Just go.  Now.  Please.

Name: Alex Diamitas Comments: Time to move on, doc. Boston - Rivers simply do not mesh well.

Name: thanew Unnamed: Doc Rivers is a phony, a great big phony

Name: barbara gisabella

Name: Scott P.

Name: Spencer Comments: He's had enough I respect him as a person but he just isnt a good coach.

Name: adam vallerie Comments: doc is horrible

Name: Joel   Comments: Doc is a great guy but the celtics are a bad team and coaches get fired for having a bad team. Fire danny ainge as well

Name: David hiestand Comments: Doc is the most amazing coach i've ever seen. he can turn a possibly winnable game(like the one against the suns) into a tragedy with a single call. he only has one play (give pierce the ball thirty feet away from the basket and have him try to beat the other team). he waits until players start to get hot and then take them out. He can't teach defense. In crunch time he looks like keith van-horn caught in a double team with two seconds left in a playoff game 7. we'd be the best team in our division with a good coach, but we have doc. Doc rivers was a very good player. he's not a very good coach. every time we have a chance to win, doc makes us lose, and his play is terrible. the other teams know it now, and we will not win any more games with him as coach. other teams may lose, but we won't win. even if we get iverson, we're going to be a sub-par team. we need a new coach. DANNY!!!! LET US WIN! Lose doc before pierce demands a trade.

Name: rai chu Comments: I'd like to see doc fired but danny should go as well he's the main key of destroying this team

Name: Nathan Alger   Comments: Sorry Doc you have done nothing for the team.

Name: Henry Ip Comments: please dont clap when your team just lost a game.. this isnt high school basketball LOL.

Name: bubbsy Comments: get him outta here

Name: Hugh G. Rection Comments: Doc isnt a bad guy, just a bad coach.  the celtics dont play team ball its 5 guys out there playing for themselves.

Name: Joseph A. Comments: Just fire Doc!

Name: Scott Turecek Comments: Doc your cool adn all but you are a terrible coach, jsut get outttta here already will ya