Outside of the championship season, the team has always outperformed expectations going into the playoffs (and we weren't favored against the Lakers either in those Finals either). Doc deserves a great deal of credit for that and for a team in the depleted situation that we are in now, I'd rather have him than even Pops. He's a great motivator. There's now way we should have gotten to 7 games against MIA last year with Pierce and Ray playing hurt, AB injured, and without one legit bench scorer. (OTOH, give Doc 13 competent players that can play in the NBA and we'll see 10,000 different combinations as he searches for the "best" possible solution).