Since the Los Angeles Clippers blew a 3-1 lead in the second round to the Denver Nuggets, there has been no shortage of finger-pointing as to who was to blame for the debacle in the NBA bubble.

Paul George took the brunt of the blame, considering his poor performance in Walt Disney World. George averaged 20.2 points per game on 39.9 percent shooting in the playoffs and failed to come up big on either end of the floor.

Doc Rivers and the Clippers parted ways after the failure, and the veteran head coach was quickly hired by the Philadelphia 76ers.

In an interview with Sports Illustrated, TNT analyst and Hall of Famer Reggie Miller told Justin Barrasso that he rejects the criticism of Rivers from his former players.

“I think it was a little unfair for the blame to be put on Doc Rivers for that collapse,” said Miller. “I thought it was unfair for Paul George to come out and talk about not making in-game adjustments, solely putting it on Doc Rivers. I thought it was a little bit selfish for none of the other Clipper teammates to come out and say, ‘No, that wasn’t the case. We messed up.’ When Paul George said that, some other Clippers should have come out and said, ‘It was all of us.’”

George—who just signed a max extension with L.A. that guarantees him as much as $226 million over the next five years—clearly believes the coaching staff fell short, too.

“During that whole process, we never worked on adjustments,” George told Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes on the ‘All the Smoke' podcast about the Nuggets series. “We never worked on what to do differently. We just literally had the same sh*t happen over and over again.

It started to play a trick on you like, ‘Man, like what's going on? We talking amongst each other, the conversation is like, ‘We gonna be alright. The conversation should've been like, ‘Nah, we need to change .. we need to switch this up.'

At the end of the day, I don't think we deserved it. We wasn't prepared enough going into it.”

George also cited the Clippers' lack of chemistry as a hindrance as things unraveled.

Miller was a historically clutch playoff performer in the 1990s, averaging 20.6 points per game on 39 percent 3-point shooting in 144 postseason games across 15 seasons, including numerous cold-blooded buckets.

The awkward thing about George's comments is that his new head coach, Tyronn Lue, played a major part in crafting the gameplans in the playoffs. (Rivers pointed out this irony when asked about George's comments about his usage.)