Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 03.28.24
The game but why why did he need go out the third uh I had to get stitches in the lip um going back to the second quarter um they points off turnovers points off Second Chances The made up the deficit yeah at that point just what were they
Doing or how are they able to to sort of affect you all in that way you that’s what they do give them credit like they’re um they’re big Force turnover team they’re big offensive rebounding team um I thought the offensive rebounds came from dribble penetration you know
Guy drives you senior big it allows valent Tunis and the other guys on the glass um did think there was a lot of I thought we did a better job in the third quarter of cleaning that up um we took care of the ball in the third quarter
Got it down what four or five then we have three turnovers in a row and Bam it goes right back to 10 um it’s a team you just can’t turn the ball over they’re too big they’re too long they’re too fast going downhill from a turn perspective what were you seeing off
I just thought some of our passes were not they were um a lot of risk passers uh you know we thre a full court uh pass we we we kept telling them when you roll with their double-sided they pre-rotate you got to throw it back and that in the
Paint we kept doing it they kept getting it so um you know we’ll watch the film and and be better for it y scores 20 straight points yeah what you see from just I thought we fell in the set honestly you know um and and the only
Disappointing part of me is we got away from it like you you fall on something that works and they hadn’t I mean we literally scored uh either Yannis or somebody probably 12 13 straight times and then we just literally went away from from just four plays uh four misses
Bam they score and it goes back to 10 um you know it’s a good lesson for us fourth quarter I think Giannis doesn’t take his first shot until that last bucket with 28 seconds yeah what do you see with not same thing they they they start taking a away right they they
Crowded the paint and they forc us to move the ball so what’s the last game talked talked about maybe the ball sticking at times yeah so what’s is that part of you mentioned a lesson is that part of it where if it is going like
That maybe it is okay no we say that every night like we we mention that I said it today to you guys I don’t care if a guys isce oning we’re scoring that’s what we were doing but when they take that away you have to go to the
Next option uh Chris was 3 12 yeah I thought he you know listen I don’t know I a lot of front rim shots you played a lot of minutes the other night you know that’s what sitting and watching that’s what we felt uh I thought he got his
Legs a little bit later in the game um but I you know again Chris can shoot the ball so we that that concerned by it can you talk about’s production from your view point on both ends yeah he’s fighting you know he’s playing hard uh moves the ball uh shoots it when he’s
Open uh and he’s guarding the best guy every night that takes a lot when the are playing their game what do you identify as their you know every game’s different there is no game one game you know it’d be great if we can say but we
Do have to play at a better Pace every night uh when we play Slow um I don’t think we’re a great basketball team but when we play in transition meaning we’re getting misses when we move the ball from side to side in half court offense that’s what we’re we’re trying to do
Every night and how do you push that well you just keep coaching it you keep doing it you know um I always say if it was easy we just start doing it on the first call but there’s stretches in the game that you do it and then there’s
Stretches that we don’t it’s not often that Bobby kind of gets caught up and stuff like in five fouls and and yeah he’s Bobby’s got to be better than he was tonight bottom line uh we need him too much um you can’t get caught into a
A hand game uh 25 ft away from the basket and and I think he got three fouls uh where he wasn’t even on in the play that that just can’t happen I don’t care where your emotions go uh but you got to catch yourself um you know it’s
Important to the team um and so I love that he’s competitive I love that he’s uh quote unquote enforcer uh but the great enforces are the Smart Ones they never get texts like never uh you know I play with Charles Oakley never got a tech but he was doing some every night
Uh so that’s a lesson for Bobby but we got to get better and we tried to you know I I always look I probably should have taken him out right at the start of it and brought him back in maybe give him a chance to gather himself I left
Him out there uh so I looked at it I I probably should have taken him out just to give him a breath uh I don’t know Bobby well yet but I know by leaving them in wasn’t smart so that’s a lesson for me in that second quarter it’s been a
Real struggle for them yeah what are you just struggling I mean we got shots they went own a ton uh we didn’t run our zone offense uh very well um you know Pats coming off the injury uh again always look I should have put AJ in just for
Shooting uh but we didn’t we didn’t get in anything in that stretch their Zone hurt us tonight uh I think we’re second in the league in our zone offense uh tonight it was effective so we’ll look at it what did go well tonight uh there were stretches we play well the third
Quarter was good you know we got back in the game we showed that we can get back in by uh getting stops and cutting the lead cut it to five you know that’s a good sign
Doc Rivers speaks to the media following Thursday night’s game against the New Orleans Pelicans.
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34 Comments
I dont like the way we looking rn…
How about you rotate the lineup so the young players can bring more excitement and energy to the game. I can't believe you barely adjusted anything. Today's lineup looks dead & shots were horiblllllle! You need Green & Ajax Coach!!
Plzzzz can we play off dame mannn
PLAY OUR YOUNG PLAYERS…we play terrible cause we too fucking tired. With pat being hurt AJAX SHOULD ATLEAST get the chance to prove himself AT THE LEAST
Why are you using Dame like a traditional point guard ? He’s not Rondo
Fire this man
the bucks. will be paying this guy while. he's working. for Espn as an analyst. what a mess.
We seriously need to stop running lineups where Giannis is the only playmaker or scorer. They load up way too much on him in those situations
I remember doc saying when khris was come back that they were learning something offensively—a 3 man game. He said I’ll look pretty bad at first, but it’ll improve
lol hopefully that’s…. True? And it’ll magically come together
Problem is with expectations this is not a contending team plain and simple just accept it. The one thing that baffles me is why did they trade for Dame knowing they wouldn't run the offense thru him . This is what made Dame an legend. Giannis is all world and the offense can't run through two guys . Dame is a smart man their was a reason he was pushing for Miami . Oh well
Khris had 7 pts in 33 mins. Pat C. had 3 pts in 22 mins. Horrendous!! I almost think Khris needs to come off the bench. AJ Green only played 2 mins…I just don’t get it Doc!
Khris is starting to become a liability
Khris needs to step away and let Dame and Gannis play their two men game.
There we go again
Since doc rivers has refuse to learn, this might be his last coaching job if he doesn't win this season or next.
Yes run the offense through Dame but they need to find Giannis in transition. Playing before the defense is set is what Giannis does.
Wat h 4th quarter Beas throwing up bricks Portis fouling. Giannis out of energy
Horrible play calling stats don’t lie then run everything thru Giannis and see how you get bounced 1st round normal fans want more Gianni’s give to them to shut up these fans
This team is just flawed and talent can only get you so far. Dame/Malik and Khris post-injury are all bad perimeter defenders who gets blown by easily and to add to that, Bucks don't even have good wing defenders, which forces Bucks to run 2 bigs at all times when Giannis at 5 should be the answer to a lot of matchups (when Giannis dominated that 3rd quarter and momentum was all on Bucks' side, Pelicans hit 3 straight threes coz Brook couldn't get out to perimeter).
And to add to that, Dame doesn't want to play off-ball at all so Giannis have been trying to adapt offensively but he is also at his best with the ball in his hands as well. Then Khris has lost a step so he can't beat anyone off the dribble anymore and is reverting to contested jumpshots all the time. When the team is shooting well, the offense is hard to stop because of all the talent but both Dame and Khris can be inconsistent and an offense that runs through them just ain't gonna be consistent enough – it needs to run through Giannis with Dame learning to play offball more and then he can take over in the clutch, yet no one is talking about how Dame has not improved his offball movement and catch and shoot accuracies at all when Giannis is creating tons of open looks whenever he has the ball in his hand
Doc ain't nothing
The trick now is to figure out how KM can be comfortable in the offense. Dame and Giannis have it down, as so does Kris and Giannis.. but the three still out of rhythm. Kris might need to move more off the ball so when Dame and Giannis pick and roll , he is also moving and cutting. To much standing around when the ball is in Dame or Giannis hand
Typical Doc Rivers choke job, so what did you expect when the Bucks stupidly brought him in as head coach 🤪 !
Doc River, he's so good at bullshidding his way through the season. And people somehow buy it😂
Do something else Doc cause you don’t know what you doing
I’ll be fr I be running out of patience gave him the benefit of the doubt before all star break but we got zero consistency and I see why no team regrets letting this dude go
Play AJ Green 20 minutes a game holy shit!
Spam the Dame and Giannis Pick and Roll!
Brook has to sit if he can't get 10 rebounds a game!
Play AJax and AJ for the love of God. We need to play our young guys for spark!
Stop turning the ball over!
This is not Dame's team, he has to feed the ball around and be a better play maker.
Several Bucks fans & I have been trying to be patient. We knew what a challenge it would be with Doc.
We can’t go back, but we loved Mike B. We said it at the time, letting Mike B go was a mistake. So many Bucks fans wanted coach B’s head. We were so excited about the Bucks. Giannis was staying. Things were looking up. Can someone tell us where is megastar Dame Lillard? It’s disgraceful. He’s supposed to be a generational talent. WTF? Doc is shoveling it. Sad. It will take something spectacular for them to head back to the promise land.
Gotta give Dame the Portland green light, let him play his game he gone hit Giannis but let him get in a rhythm. I also think we should go after Klay Thompson, bring in another big and get rid of Lopez
Done with this. This Aint the bucks
What happen to GA getting shots in the 4th?
Maybe next year guys
Dame slows the game up to much & takes too many shots, shooting us into losses. Way too inconsistent to rely on, I'll take my chances with Giannis over Dame. Trade him for Murray (Atl)
Doc is frustrated.
Coach stop telling everyone the game plan. Stop telling everyone what the team practices. Stop telling everyone how you play other players. Stop telling everyone how you plan to utilize each player. You giving away your game plan to much.