Giannis and Dame Beef? Bucks Continue to Struggle with Doc Rivers

Giannis and Dame Beef? Bucks Continue to Struggle with Doc Rivers

And the Bucks as a reminder are three and seven since Doc Rivers got there and after the All-Star break and all the interviews that were conducted I it just feels like things might be worse so first up you have doc telling your own whitesman of Yahoo taking a job when

You’re about to go on the toughest road trip of the season is not the smartest decision I even told them that can we wait till Allstar break it would have been a lot nicer um I like to think that this was said in just but it’s a quote so we can

Only take it for what it is thoughts I feel like that’s is something you don’t say out loud that’s that’s something you realize and you understand but you don’t you don’t say that out loud you’re you’re an adult you’ve had coaching situations before you’ve had multiple opportunities this this is now your job

So like take it how you want don’t put this on the players don’t put this on the ownership saying it’s I don’t know why you’re firing Adrien Griffin things like that that’s just just it feels like he’s deflecting and I saw the whole beef with with Austin and JJ and I see both

Sides there but like Doc Rivers again you you’ve had your you’ve had a lot of lives in the NBA you you keep getting these opportunities and you have a very very talented team so I do understand the point where like this is now you’re in control you have the talent you it’s

The the the deed is done they fired him this is now your situation you can’t say things like I wish you would have waited till after Allstar Weekend they didn’t and so now you’re almost making the ownership look bad by saying things like this but I think there is still light at

The end of the tunnel I think I think this is getting to the point where it’s almost like Steve Curry like they’re they’re saying too much just go out there compete when make the I hope he made adjustments during this break with his staff got more comfortable uh the

Bucks the Dame had a great all-star weekend hopefully that’s some sort of momentum going to the second half of the season but there’s a lot more by the way this is the tip of the ice yeah it’s like Doc it’s this isn’t a smart thing to say as somebody that’s worked with

Doc Rivers for five years even though it’s just a quote I guarantee was sit in ji semi joking and and I agree with Chandler as well some of these things are are also better left unsaid and I think the two His Two Worlds clashed I

Think he was he still had has a little bit of his TV job in his system and he probably was oversharing trying to say something a little clever a little yeah little light a little light-hearted and listen if they’re seven and three and he says this we brush past it but because

They’re three and seven you take it a little bit more seriously and so you know I think doc was saying this just in just I don’t think he was making an excuse for himself mhm um I’m I’m actually a a big Doc Rivers fan you’ll never get me to say anything negative

About him um very much like JJ reic very much like Pat Bev and people who spoke out about these issues doc changed the trajectory of my career I’ve had my I had my best years under his guidance and so I know who he is as a coach I know

The type of things that he says and so I I I understand this it doesn’t look good when you’re three and seven but again if you say that and you’re seven and three he still say the same qu okay so let’s throw that one out let’s go to the next

One cuz there’s more uh here we go this is this is also doc this time with Sirius xm’s NBA Radio personally I you know I’ll be honest I I told our owners when they called I said I think you I don’t understand why you’re doing this you

Know um and they said you know one of the things they said was well it doesn’t matter we’ve done it now and um we we we want you and and so that was a tough one I didn’t I that was that’s where you had the hesitation okay there’s no room for

Interpretation that’s straight from the horse’s mouth see this I think this is a private conversation that he have with the ownership that should never get brought to light like no matter if that that clearly was said and a lot of people listen doc you’re a smart guy

You’re a cool guy like you you you you know this this is that goes without being said like if we everyone thinks it doesn’t mean you have to say it right and this is just an opportunity where like he can just just take all the bullets take take the your three and

Seven take it just like the the Tyron Lou was just like James Harden was when that trade happened to LA and they turned it around now no one talks about it I would just stop talking about it I would stop giving sound bites in general because this is these are all things

That people know already people assume this is it’s it’s it’s an awkward situation you coaching the All-Star game was weird it should have never happened it’s it’s a kind of a silly thing he’s in right now but also no one had a gun to his head he didn’t have he didn’t

Have to take it and he didn’t have to take the job and so I I think he understands that there is potential here they do have two absolute stud all NBA players they do have a chance to win right now so I’d be focusing on on on those things instead of deflecting and

And not making excuses necessarily but come on Lou kind of making excuses this but he’s also but again he’s also one of those polarizing coaches where no matter what’s he say it’s going to be dissected he’s one of those personalities he’s part of the show he he’s part of the NBA

Show he’s one of those coaches that people love to hate that people love to hear what he has to say at the same time you know that’s why he can if he get fired tomorrow he’ll be back on TV by Friday he’s one of those type of

Personalities and so no matter what he says there’s going to be something to go go with that and like I said if they’re seven and three opposed to three and seven all three of us don’t really care which they very well could be the next

10 games they could go 73 eight and two and then now he can say whatever the hell he wants to say it doesn’t matter because they’re winning games and that’s the ultimate goal so this is the the last of the dock part we players yeah

Cuz JJ IC um made a few ways when he said this the trend is always making excuses we get it taking over a team in the middle of the season is hard but it’s always an excuse there’s never accountability with that guy that one felt rough I disagree I I disagree that

Wasn’t my experience with Doc you know there were there were games and situations where he came in and said damn I screwed that up I really messed that up I’ll fix that and I’ll be better and there was times when he was like y’all need to do better you know and

That’s a that’s that’s the balance of being a good coach and that’s also the balance of being a coach that has Championship aspirations and expectations everybody expects doc um to do well no matter what the team has and you know he’s been blessed to have a lot

Of talent and when you have a lot of talent you’re going to put a Target on your back you know we said this when he first got the job now that Milwaukee was a team that can kind of go under the radar and do that thing when you hire a

Doc Rivers that puts you in the Forefront of criticism and people talking and so I disagree with JJ saying this uh it hasn’t been my my my uh experience for Doc to make a bunch of excuses he may be talking too much may be doing too many interviews but again

He’s fresh off of TV might have some of that still in his system but that I just disagree with JJ on this I’ll tell you this there every player has a different situation in relationship with the coach right so this does and I’ll make it quick but sorry Conrad this uh Conrad’s

Like shut up stop we got to go uh like JB bigger staff to me he’s the greatest guy in the world I’ve never had him as a head coach clearly there’s some issues in Cleveland right now with Donovan Mitchell and other relationships with him in Cleveland so it it depends on on

That Dynamic I’ve never played for Doc Rivers but clearly with the way J JJ reck is saying that there’s some animosity there’s some there’s some tension there between those two Shams the the mood with the Bucks and I know you know things get kicked off again tomorrow but what is it right

Now Michelle it it literally does not matter what any one says this team has a championship goal from ownership on out this is a title orust season you have Damen Lillard Yannis into DMO and Doc Rivers they made that coaching change at the Midway point of the season

Because they truly believe this is a championship quality team and that’s why they went out and got Doc Rivers to win a championship so it literally doesn’t matter what anyone says uh internally like that’s what they want that’s what they’re Desiring that’s what they’re going for and hopefully they for them

Their sake they have a healthy second half of the season they just added Patrick Beverly at the deadline they got Den galinari in the buyout Market I know Lou is familiar with both of those guys and Giannis and DMO he his voice matters the most he told Eric name of the

Athletic that we need to stop feeling bad for ourselves we need to stop you know talking here and like we need to just go out there and produce I think second half of the season the relationship between Yannis and DMO and D Lillard that’s going to be the most

Important for them we saw Dam have a massive like Chandler said big time Allstar Weekend but having the ball in his his hands down the stretch games that’s going to be important but this team it’s just about winning a championship and if they fall short of that it you there’s there’s no excuse

They’re going to fall short of that um by the way Giannis Giannis is also talking a lot more these days because he had a bit of a head scratcher of an answer so hear his his answer to something I just did not watch basketball so stats highlights how people play I have no

Idea and I I love it you know I love it when I go to the game I have no idea who I’m playing and what they do all right so but you know what’s crazy I read the quote I didn’t see the interview and at

First I was like is this guy serious but now you think it’s f one he’s lying clearly he’s joking after seeing the interview he’s trolling it’s not a good Joker but it’s yeah it’s also not very funny you have lost in the postseason you haven’t won a championship so it is

Weird to make jokes that kind of have some truth to’s like wait a minute this quote alone take away all the accolades everything that we know about Giannis just this thing alone Y and we want to blame Doc Rivers for everything that’s fair like you can’t say at the same time

Of Doc Rivers you can’t go out as the as the the the leader of the troops and say oh I like to come into games unprepared I don’t know who which is which is which is a joking or not it’s not funny because you have lost in the postseason you haven’t won anything

Which is a which is a which is a a story by the way because if you guys don’t know how preparing for a game work you have Scout teams you have D teams you go through the team’s plays the day before if you have a couple days of practice

You’re going through everything they’re doing so does he watch basketball probably not a lot of us we consider it time off we consider it a job when we’re sitting at home we’re catching up and binge watching something else but when it comes to game preparation there there’s certainly scenarios where you’re

You have shoot around film all of these things that you can’t uh avoid to get prepared for a game so trying to say something clever sure but it didn’t come off right yeah and that goes into winning a championship which obviously they they did uh they did they won a

Championship you don’t just roll the ball out there and play this is it’s a free Advantage watching film and playing and again after watching the video he’s he’s clearly making a joke that’s just not very funny it’s just yeah it’s the delivery it has a lot that needs to be

Worked on um and now the final piece got a lot of lot of the D drama Milwaukee that we have so he was uh I mean Allstar gave us passive aggressive it well this one feels I don’t know maybe it’s nothing maybe it’s just honestly a mistake but he named his starting five

Of current players in the league that Dame would you want to play with whatever it’s Tim Steph LeBron Katie and Bam out of Bio uh me and Lou disagree on this he thinks there’s no issues it’s just it feels weird I think it’s weird it’s like Jamal Murray going out there

And saying Joel embiid’s the best center in the NBA and Y I don’t care if that’s what he actually thinks it’s again it’s like Dr it’s just something you don’t say I don’t Weir to say a lot it’s weird to say especially when you’re putting Kevin

And LeBron James two guys his same exact positions like people he’s got to go through this year right it’s a little weird it’s a little it’s his list yeah it was no it’s his list it’s no Luca there’s no yic they’re not his teammates just he got traded to he got traded he

Didn’t go there yeah but he he had a love affair with the Miami Heat by the way they were following each other on Twitter that’s true he thought you got traded to the Milwaukee Bucks I don’t have any I don’t have to put anybody on

My list that’s not on my list it’s my list you would be on my list and I think that’s hurtful that I wouldn’t be on yours I appreciate it no not you but yeah I think this is I think this is a non story I think LeBron is

Fine like if someone says if I play for Carlile and I say papovich is the best coach I don’t think he cares so if I’m if but like throw in K Kevin Durant in there we’re like Jan is kind of so do we want do we want guys to be honest

Sometimes or not I think you need to Li to provide you need to support your teammate I think that’s more important than telling your truth especially this week it feels weird with all the going around Milwaukee too and then the guy that just got traded there it’s arguably their best player leaves their

Arguably their other best player out of his starting five it’s weird it’s uncomfortable it makes for an awkward situation in the locker room when you don’t have to do that jannis probably hadn’t even heard this this is this is nothing everybody hears everything these guys that say they don’t follow they’re

Off social Med they they know everything it’s never leave you off a list of favorite people why is everyone getting on the list except me you figure that out I never leave you three off of any list team player

On today’s episode of ‘Run It Back’ on FanDuel TV LIVE co-hosts Michelle Beadle, Shams Charania, Lou Williams, and Chandler Parsons talk about the recent drama within the bucks organization with Doc Rivers and Damian Lillard leaving Giannis off his top 5 list.

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00:00 DOC RIVERS
07:04 GIANNIS
11:00 DAME TOP 5

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