Bucks’ Antetokounmpo on chance to play for ‘legend’ Doc Rivers

Bucks’ Antetokounmpo on chance to play for ‘legend’ Doc Rivers

Yeah obviously Co coach as a as a legend you can tell like he has great energy about him um you know from the first meeting that we had to the second meeting that we had it was all all about the team how can we keep each other accountable how

Can we touch one another you know how can we come together as a team you know how can we move the ball um you know from just you know the energy that he has he gives you gives you a lot of confidence I think it gives the lock

Room confidence and um I can’t wait you know we have um we have a very tough road trip coming ahead of us I think it’s five games I’m not sure great uh teams all all five teams are great uh and yeah like you have to understand I

Understand and I think the whole team understand like like I don’t I hope but uh from the little experience I have I you know I don’t assume and I don’t expect that the moment he comes in we go five and0 or we go 10 and0 whatever like it’s going to take time

Like are we going to change our offense you know is our offense going to stay the same is are we going to change our terminology how are we going to change our adjustment defensively like this are we going to change our practice uh plan

How like how PR is going to look how sh going look all of those things just like different coach different there are routines for everybody so it’s going to take time but I think the most important thing that he emphasized to come come together as a

Team you know the more we are together as a team the faster we can get to where we want to get to uh but I’m excited I’m excited you know my first NBA game uh I’ve watched I think I’ve I’ve told you this in the past you know I was young I

Was like I don’t remember like 13 I was like doing the TV how you guys say zapping that’s what we say in Grace I was Zapp I was going through channel to channel to channel and all of a sudden we had this old TV I had to hit it on

The side and then uh there was this basketball game was the Lakers versus the Boston Celtics so the first game I’ve ever watch was Kobe and P P but I remember the the coaches too so you know and now he’s fast forward 16 17 years later he’s

Been the same lock room and uh you know I I got to do what’s you know what I can to help this team and I got to follow his uh lead so I’m I’m excited man I’m I’m excited he’s he’s a legend in this in this league and he have accomplished

Great stuff in this league and I hope we can accom some great stuff together yeah he speaks volumes like you can tell like what is build you know what I’m saying like he’s tough you know it’s it’s hard to it’s hard to take this job we spoke about it last time you

Lose feels like the whole world is ending you win by five why you didn’t win by 20 you have Jan you have Dame you have Chris you know it’s hard like nothing is good enough only a championship is good like we’ve got to that point which is crazy but you know

Somebody you know I’m I’m embracing it I’m okay with it I can sleep well at night and I think like having somebody that you know he’s not uneasy that it’s easy like it’s confident you know having somebody like that you know I think he makes the environment of the locker room

Better you know we know that he’s played in tough games we know that he’s played in two NBA Finals you two right am yeah like he’s been there before we’ve been there one time want to be want to go there again and you know sometimes like having people with with experience next

To you uh it helps you when when the when when it’s tough when You Face challenges when things don’t go your way like having somebody like can be like hey I’ve been here before this is what we’re going to do this how we’re going to attack this how we got to stay

Together don’t worry about the expectation we got to do this as a team like somebody can give you that guy that you know lead uh it’s always it’s always great to have him in your locker room so you know I’m excited that he’s you know he understands that we’re trying to win

Championship I think everybody in this L room understands up but this the steps that we got to take in order for us to get there and first step is we got to come together as a team we got them we got to be together as a [Applause] team

Doc Rivers was coach of the Celtics in the first game Giannis Antetokounmpo watched. Now, the Greek Freak gets to play for Doc.