UNDISPUTED | Doc Rivers will turn Milwaukee into champions – Skip on Doc accepts Bucks HC position

UNDISPUTED | Doc Rivers will turn Milwaukee into champions – Skip on Doc accepts Bucks HC position

The question looms how far will they go now Kean you first please you know Skip that’s a fair question right how far if if Doc is the guy I’m I’m the crazy thing is I’ve sit we’ve been here what an hour to two hours or whatever the come number is and

I and I’ve gotten excited about the possibility of Doc Rivers taking over for the Milwaukee Bucks because as I okay as I continue to look and I say to myself Giannis willed his team the victory in the championship a couple years ago despite having a hyped knee he

Came out gave him 50 the whole you you know the story and I’m sitting there and I’m saying Yannis is not going to allow this team to fail and neither is Dame that came over from Portland so I’m looking at the big three and I’m saying to

Myself they only can go up from here they can’t go down and they got a coach a veteran coach who knows how to coach I understand they hadn’t won since 2008 or whatever his NBA final okay there’s a lot of coaches that hadn’t won in a

While but still can coach and Doc Rivers is certainly one of them did he have mishaps along the way has he uh uh squandered opportunities in 3-1 leads and 3-2 leads in playoff serious yes he has yeah he has but that doesn’t mean that that’s going to happen happen again

In Milwaukee so when you look at the Philadelphia big three and you talk about when I say Maxi and embiid along with James Haren last year they averaged 74.4 points the buckers year for that big three if you want to call it a big three they’re averaging 72 you you know

You talk about um rebounds per game 20 for both across the board assist per game 18 across across the board so he’s getting a very similar situation the difference is for me in this equation is Giannis I loving be I loving but it seems like Giannis is always available when in beid wasn’t

Always available in certain situations and so I like the opportunity it presents itself it could present itself for Doc Rivers if he could somehow get rid of those 3-1 hiccups those 3-2 hiccups CU they’re going to the playoffs me and you and and Richard I had to be

The head coach to y’all be my lead assistants and whatnot we could coach them to the playoffs so imagine the experience that doc brings and the knowledge that he may bring to this team come playoff time and I know you you you say well the defense is the problem

Defense is the problem yeah they can fix a little bit of it you don’t have to fix it all because it’s all about scoring and long as you can stop the other team from scoring more than you you’ll be in good shape I I I I I think that doc can fix

Some of their ailments on defense I he has been historically great his teams have been great defensively most of his career the efficiency has been there but could you imagine what Doc’s career would have been if they had fired him halfway through his rookie year coaching because because his team was second

You know what I mean like give a coach a chance my goodness but at the same time he doesn’t have a great playoff history it’s it’s it’s actually insane his record is 16 and 33 in playoff series that his team has won three games skip that his team has won three games that’s

A rough deal and that doesn’t that doesn’t shouldn’t give you the most confidence because these are talented teams I mean the Clippers were really talented Ed team the Sixers were really talented team he’s coached some really talented teams so it’s not lack of talent and offensively they’re number

They’re tied for number one in points per game with the Pacers right now they so it’s not like they weren’t getting it done offensively they weren’t scoring points yeah and it’s not like they weren’t able to beat Boston they blew Boston out uh just a couple weeks ago

And you still fired a coach did they they they beat Boston what what did they beat him skip they beat him 135 to 102 they beat him by 30 33 points and you fire that head coach who who has beat the number one seed in your conference

Right now and beat him badly and the the and now I just don’t know how much more doc can get out of this team than than they were already getting like what what else is he GNA get that Griffin wasn’t getting you you’re going to get more

Defense and then you’re going to get less offense it’s not like you’re gonna hey we’re going to thrive more offensively and we’re going to defense is going to go up one is going to affect the other either you’re going to score more points and and and stop less or

You’re going to score less and you’re going to get more defensive stop stops that’s usually how it goes so I just don’t know so why did the players want him out then well sometimes you just don’t get along with a guy sometimes you just they got more respect for Doc for

What he because of what he’s done in the history that’s why and that’s why you get over the hump because of the respect level that’s why you feel a certain way because you got a coach that you respect a veteran coach skip that comes in here

And he he’s talking to you different it feels different you align with him you see eye to eye with him and now you say well the defense is going to get slightly better maybe that’s all they need maybe the offense doesn’t suffer maybe the defense just get better a

Little bit ski and they feel better about that okay I’m with Richard that I feel really sorry for Adrien Griffin he did not get a fair shake or shot I believe he can coach I think they picked him because they knew he could coach and he fell into a trap because

The whole mentality got changed when they swapped Drew holiday and his defensive mindset and his winners intangibles for Dame and I’m not saying Dame is not a winner he just never won at the highest level he is way better on offense than Drew is obviously though

Drew would take and make big shots and big moments for the bucks but their their whole defensive mindset the tone was set by Drew it’s why they fell from fourth overall in defense a year ago to 22nd now they are who they are and who they are not and Doc would have to

Accept this is who we are and I’m going to have to work with what we’re not they’re more of an offensive basketball team as Richard pointed out there’s they can still score it at the highest level they can win with their offense will will they ever be as good as they were

Under coach Bud because they went five straight years at at or near the top defensively for five straight years and that was their bread and butter that was their signature that was their mindset when when they walked in the door of the Arena at night they they they were like

We’re going to lock you up and lock you down on defense we’re not going to outscore you we’re going to keep you from scoring now with Dame it’s got to flip the script and they have to just come in and outscore teams and they’re highly capable can they beat Boston

Because Drew holiday is now a Celtic I don’t think they can I think Boston’s defensive mindset is returning what they had under OK obviously before he blew himself up there and is gone but the point is I still don’t think they’re better than Boston and yet the one thing Doc brings

As kesan can attest he’s great with superstars he he’s a superstar he’s a TV star and he’s a maid man he’s got his ring he’s been to two finals and doc has star power to him if you’ve been around him he’s very charismatic and because of

That he’ll be better for Dame and maybe for Giannis maybe they’ll feel a little more comfortable like they can trust him more in big spots and big moments than they could a first year coach in Adrian so I I’ll give him a shot but I I I

Think uh kean’s going to pick him to win it all I’m I’m still not I I still think there there’s something you can’t you cannot speak for me skip I’ve feel like this team and correct me if I’m wrong just the feeling with Doc on it the

Feeling feels like his Boston teams to me just the feeling of it and here’s why I say that because when you talk about personalities yeah those guys and Paul Pierce and Ray and them and and and kg they aligned with Doc where in Los Angeles there was a this you know the

Chris Paul and him didn’t you know it was all that then James Harden Blake and Chris Paul Blake and Chris didn’t go Blake and Chris it and so this feels different it just feels like that Giannis is going to accept the coaching it seems like d will accept

Middleton Lopez they will accept the coaching where those Lake those Clipper teams and those 76er teams it was too much other stuff going on and by the way they someone just um tweeted out that they had agreed the terms to hire uh to hire Doc Rivers as the next good for

Coach of the Milwaukee Bucks that’s that’s going to be interesting all right but it’s like how long before they turn on him like that’s what I don’t understand how long before they turn on Doc like once you start a pattern of turning they turned on bud they turned

On Griffin if they turn on Doc like it it it once you start to get in that pattern like man I’m not liking what he wasn’t there with bud but but that’s what I’m saying when you start to say I’m not liking what he doing we got rid

This other dude let’s let’s get rid of him too like then with like it’s a slippery slope that you go down yeah all right back to the National Football League back to what happened Sunday at Detroit how big a blunder was it for the Bucks coach Todd BS toight

UNDISPUTED | Doc Rivers will turn Milwaukee into champions – Skip on Doc accepts Bucks HC position