Everyone's been killing Doc Rivers all season, most of it deserved, but there's one thing he's actually elite at that nobody wants to talk about: managing microwave scorers off the bench.
Rivers coached Lou Williams for years, and Lou was thriving in that sixth man role. He was everything that Cam Thomas is today: pure bucket-getter, defensive liability, absolute maestro at coming in cold and getting you 15 points in eight minutes. If that archetype sounds familiar, that's because it is. After all, that's basically Cam Thomas' entire basketball identity. And now he's on the Milwaukee Bucks.