Bucks Reportedly Hire Doc Rivers as Head Coach | Inside the NBA

Bucks Reportedly Hire Doc Rivers as Head Coach | Inside the NBA

Breaking news so great inut time okay are we ready for breaking news um we have news in from CNN they are reporting from CNN Sports from CNN Sports that Doc Rivers has accepted the Milwaukee Bucks head coaching position as you may remember earlier today Adrien Griffin relieved of Duties uh they were second

Or third best record in the NBA and CNN Sports is now reporting that Doc Rivers will be the next coach of the Milwaukee bucks the athletic had some reports earlier that during the inseason tournament Doc Rivers was being used to give advice to Adrien Griffin to try and

Help out the firste head coach and now about a month later Doc Rivers is the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks Shaq you said earlier in pregame that there’s something else going on here Beyond how we got here your thoughts of Doc Rivers as the coach well he does have

Championship experience he does have experience with dealing with a large name individual Superstars Dame Lillard and Giannis and he does have experience with being a defensive mind of Coach but again as a player you have to want to play defense you have to want to have timely stops and again when you’re the

One two punch on the team you rely on the coach in my opinion a little bit not a lot like you have to say hey this is what we need to do hey you need to get in line boom boom bam but uh you know a

Big name coach I’m I’m happy for Doc and he gets a chance to you know get another one because you know for so long he’s just been you know surviving off that one Championship so I would like to see him get another one I have heard a lot

Of comparisons today towards David blat David blat in that 2016 season started off 30 and 11 he was let go teron Lou came in they won the championship but Lou was an assistant on that roster Doc Rivers has not been on this coaching staff but he was a

Consultant yeah he was a consultant so what does that mean as someone who’s never been in that locker room he knows what’s going on if you’re Consulting a guy helping him out obious the guys you know saying he helped what should I do yeah yeah oh helped him out got

It we don’t know now Joe PR uh uh so with with Doc Rivers trying to fix this defense you guys were actually talking the back about in the NBA right now so many things are similar schemes is it easier in today’s NBA to come in in the

Middle of the Season like this what kind of hurdles do you think doc has ahead of him yeah I think it’s easier because everything looks the same offensively defensively that’s why players get traded it’s almost Plug and Play you don’t have to like when we were coming

Up it was like okay these are our top five plays give a assistant coach so you can study these plays it’s different now now it’s just plug and play Go side to side get down here with a pick and roll you got a good one go to a great one

It’s three-pointer get as many threes as possible so you can do that anywhere it’s no different than almost open gym in some ways you can play with guys who know how to play you can just plug and play so for them I think it’ll be easier and if Doc’s been watching their team

And Consulting some way shape or form he watches the lead League anyway I’m sure he’ll fit right in I think uh also it’s not been their offense and I don’t think it’ll ever be their offense when you have Giannis on your team and you have Dame Lillard on your team it was their

Defense I mean that Milwaukee Bucks team is 22nd at one point defensively in the league and that just can’t happen if you have aspirations to win a championship and so with that being said I don’t think there’s ever been a question about Doc and defense I think that there were

Questions of Doc offensively but not questions about Doc’s defensive philosophy and we’re trying to cover up holes just lost Drew holiday which is one of the best perimeter defenders in the league yeah but if you’re looking at these players right here these are effort players like you don’t have you

Got to get back like you just show four Hol two open guys and get back you got to turn around don’t you think that’s Buy in too like you have guys that aren’t getting back defensively you want to do it I think you you have to know

And real that’s buying with a coach as well well but but hold on how what do we expect like yeah we lost Drew holiday but you you figured you didn’t really lose him you traded him to get Dame Lillard you were going to lose defense you said okay we’re giving up this

Defense to be more of a high-powered offense that’s what you’re getting I just looked up until tonight Denver and the defending champs and Milwaukee Bucks had the same record and they fired their coach and Denver’s like we’re just truck along we’re doing what we’re doing so what they expect to happen defensively

If you’re giving up Dame for Drew but don’t you think that optically the record didn’t tell the story because looking at Milwaukee you were like something’s not right but even then that’s not you’re right and agree with you but that’s not fast to pull the trigger they still have the second best

Record yeah if they like I’m in agreement with you but I think you have players like Giannis I mean again I’ll go back to what Chris Hayne said if you have players that aren’t buying into what the coach is saying and then you also have an organization that hired

This coach not to win a championship to me that was that was number one where you said okay well then our aspirations changed when we got Dame Lillard there have been stories that have raised questions throughout the basketball community this entire season before the final preseason game he got

Into a verbal altercation with assistant Terry stots two days later Terry STS resigned later on the Year Bobby poris called like a team only meeting said we don’t believe in the scheme then in January they came and they said we don’t think this defense they’ve constantly been questioning the scheme throughout

The year I agree with you they have the same record as the Denver Nuggets as Shaq in the pregame something is going on not getting out right and I’ve always said if you’re a great player you don’t respect your coach so at least doc could get a little

Bit more respect has a championship been around League you know knows how to deal with those type of players listen he’s a young guy yeah who was NBA player like if you’re Giannis would you listen to him if you’re Dame Lillard would you listen to him but let me ask this

Question as an organization youve just mentioned all those things right but then you hire somebody that’s a consultant and then comes in and takes the job don’t you think that that’s a little from an organization with consult with a great resum say it again a consultant with a

Great resume in agreement but was this consultant to take the job initially anyway because have they really faltered that much since the end season tournament one other note Underdog just whispered in my ear up until now the Bucks have had the easiest strength of schedule going forward they have the

Toughest strength of schedule so the series The Season really does start now just to wrap you guys have been on teams in which the coach has been let go what is when a new coach comes in does it really change the energy does it feel like a fresh start for everybody at

First like the first couple days you remember when Harden went to Philly last year or the year before and the first few games were like oh they’re the new kobian Shaq we didn’t say it but we heard that right the honeymoon period is going to end in a week or two and then

Reality sets in so that part of it like you you wanted them to adjust with Dame coming now you got to adjust the Dame and Doc so is that that honeymoon we kind of have two weeks until the All-Star break you kind of do these two

Weeks then get like a week off to maybe figure some out and planning is that the mindset you think they’re doing I think that’s the mindset there is a fresh beginning and then also it puts puts the onus on the players we’ve done everything that you have wanted to do

You got the trade you got Dame Lillard okay you have the pieces to possibly win a championship even though I still think that they’re going to make one more move and then now we’ve changed the coach so I think that that changes the energy of like okay I got to get back in

Transition defense I got to buy into the scheme because this is what the players have wanted but I do think and this how I thought personally I do think resumes are important because again if you never been where I’m trying to go do I believe you think you need more people and you

Yourself have been there yeah but when Phil Jackson came when he said something I was like and then when I was playing with Stan Van guny hell of a coach but when he you know got got replaced with Pat Riley we all know who Pat Raleigh is

Like I watch Pat Raley growing up so whenever he says something not only will I pay attention but all all the guys were pay what was it like playing for doc I I mean it wasn’t my time so but you saw the way he commanded a locker

Room and talk to the team I mean he he treated him like men he had great plays you know he had great schemes and you know the guys respecting them but Rondo uh kg and Paul they really took control of that lock we’re about to watch the

Clippers possibly beat the Lakers for a long left go get his wolitzer there was only one Kobe and sha by the way don’t get that Twisted oh good Clippers W starting

Inside the NBA reacts to CNN Sports report that Doc Rivers has accepted the head coaching position with the Milwaukee Bucks after Adrian Griffin was fired.

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