The Milwaukee Bucks Made a Horrific Mistake…

The Milwaukee Bucks Made a Horrific Mistake…

There’s so many things that we have to do in order for us to be better and it starts with we have to want it like enough with the talking enough with the perk what do you make of his postgame comments well what Yan’s excuse a little over halfway through this season the

Milwaukee Bucks were 10 and 13 tied for the second best record in the entire NBA the franchise seems secure with superstars Yannis edmo and Damen Lillard and toe and quality role players in the rotation but even while consistently winning the Milwaukee Bucks felt the aura around the team was in positive

With constant defensive lapses so strongly in fact that they stunned the NBA World by firing their firste head coach Adrien Griffin but since replacing Griffin with veteran coach and NBA champion Doc Rivers their season has taken a turn for the worst the Milwaukee Bucks have gone three in seven since

Rivers officially took the Reigns and while he’s helped improve some defensive areas miluk has suffered crushing losses since his arrival is this just an early bump in the road for a coach having to acclimate on the fly or is this a harbinger of what’s to come next in

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Can just use my link in the descript description down below and thank you prize pick for the sponsor mike check 1212 what’s going on everybody after winning the 20121 NBA Finals the Milwaukee Bucks failed to get out of the second round in each of the next two

Postseasons and last year’s was the most disappointing to date after finishing with the best record in the league last season the Milwaukee Bucks were stunningly upset in the first round losing in five games against the eighth seated Miami Heat who were a playing team that went on to advance the NBA

Finals even though Giannis and atak kmo went down in game one and missed the next two games this was a brutal loss for a team with serious Championship aspirations and expectations as a result the Milwaukee Bucks felt a change was needed a little over a week after being

Eliminated on their own home floor Milwaukee fired coach Mike buen holer after a 5-year run with two years and about $16 million left on his deal by month’s end the Milwaukee Bucks had decided on their next coach longtime NBA assistant Adrien Griffin Giannis met with each of Milwaukee’s top three head

Coaching candidates and he strongly advocated for Griffin to be hired over Nick nurse who ended up in Philadelphia but even after getting the coach he wanted Giannis still spent the offseason giving strong warnings that he wasn’t completely satisfied with the organization he stated that winning another championship is his primary goal

Even if it wasn’t in Milwaukee Giannis said it didn’t make sense to sign an extension saying the summer of 2024 would make more sense but even then he still didn’t know the Milwaukee Bucks accomplished the biggest pieces of their offseason agenda reigning both Chris Middleton and Brook Lopez they added

More shooting as well by signing Malik Beasley and yet Giannis was still leaving the door wide open to eventually leave Milwaukee feeling the need to make a massive move in order to win over their Superstar the Milwaukee Bucks went out and traded for another in a massive

Three- team deal that nobody saw coming Milwaukee acquired Damen Lillard from Portland losing Drew holiday Grayson Allen in three years of draft control and that did the trick right before the season began Yana signed a 3-year $186 million extension the Bucks had secured their franchise centerpiece tying him to

The team until at least 2027 when he’d have a player option but while their long-term future was Secure their short-term future was already showing signs of trouble a few days prior to the big extension assistant coach Terry STS abruptly resigned from the team an incident at shoot around in front of the

Entire team in which Griffin yelled at STS to join a coach’s huddle is what reportedly LED to st’s departure and this is significant Terry STS not only had 13 years of head coaching experience but nine of those Seasons coaching was with Damien Lillard in Portland this underscored the complex dynamics of

Employing a firste coach trying to make his own imprint on a team with massive expectations expectations that were raised even higher after the Damen Lillard trade it only took a couple of weeks into the season for Griffin’s coaching to be second guest Milwaukee began the season getting torched at the

Defensive end giving up at least 114 points points in each of their first four games using defensive Ace Drew holiday in exchange for an offensive superstar in Lillard may have played some part in that but the players didn’t feel like they were using their personnel correctly for example they

Used to have Brook Lopez pressuring ball handlers on the perimeter off screens instead of playing closer to the basket where his shot blocking ability could be better utilized the players came to Griffin to ask him to change their defens of approach to something that more resembled what they ran with Coach

Bud Brook Lopez played more in the paint in their next game against New York and Milwaukee held the Knicks to a season best 105 points in a win that sparked a stretch of eight wins over the next 10 games before Griffin’s leadership was tested publicly again in a late November

Game in Boston Griffin subbed out jannis at aumo throughout the third quarter which led to this heated exchange between coach and his Star by the scorers table Griffin downplayed the incident after the game which the Bucks lost by three explaining that he wanted to give Giannis a breather and said he

Told him to stay at the scorers table for one possession before reentering but afterwards the Bucks got back to winning they went 12-2 over their next 14 games with Giannis and Lillard regularly carrying the offense to Big scoring nights but they still didn’t have good answers on defense a two-e stretch from

Christmas to early January saw Milwaukee go three and five with the Bucks giving up at least 120 points in all but two of those games after a loss in Houston Giannis ripped the team’s defense saying they had no Pride or effort the loss of holiday’s defense was big but they still

Had Giannis who won defensive play of the year in 2020 and Brook Lopez who finished as the runner up for the award last season the next night they’d get blown out at home against Utah after trailing by 31 points at halftime they rattled off three straight wins to get

Back on track thanks largely to their offense including a dominant win over the Celtics although they had just beaten Minnesota in overtime the previous night but what followed was a week that encapsulated their season to that point and ultimately would spell Doom for Adrien Griffin the bucks came

Into Cleveland against a Cavs team that was fining their groove on a five-game winning streak while missing two starters Giannis didn’t play because of a shoulder injury and without him Milwaukee looked horrible Cleveland jumped out to a 22-2 lead led by as much as 47 in a wire-to-wire 40-point blowout

The Bucks got a much easier opponent after the loss with a pair of games in Detroit picking up two more wins but even in Victory something seemed horribly off the Pistons owner of the League’s worst record scored 135 and 113 points in those games and stayed compe

Edited for most of the night even after improving to 30 and 13 that was inexcusable and would be Adrien Griffin’s final straw on January 23rd the Milwaukee Bucks announced that they had fired Griffin and named assistant Joe pry as the interim head coach winning regular season games wasn’t good

Enough for Griffin to keep his job not when expectations revolved around competing for a championship it was hard to see the Bucks doing that with the team allowing over 120 points per game which ranked 25th in the league ranking just 22nd in defensive rating enforcing the fewest turnovers in the league

That’s a far cry from last season when they ranked 14th in points aloud and fourth in defensive rating after the move general manager John Horst explained why the team chose to fire Griffin this was obviously a difficult decision um Adrien is a great person brought a lot to the franchise we’re

Thankful for that and I’m thankful for the time that we had with him uh but we also believe that we had an opportunity now with a special group the talent on this team uh the dynamic of the team has changed the team itself had changed from

When we hired him and we felt like we had an opportunity to improve and to get better and we wanted to take advantage of that opportunity uh I also would say that uh we believe that this is a good team right now and with improvements we have

A chance to be great we’re looking for a way to really make this a great team and almost instantaneously Doc Rivers became the name most linked to the Bucks job and a day after the firing reportedly agreed to become their next head coach the Bucks believe Doc Rivers experience

Coaching superstars along with his championship pedigree would be better suited than a firste head coach learning as he goes while Rivers assembled his staff fry coached the team into a two-game split against the Cavs and a big offensive win over the Pelicans with the stage finally set for rivers to take

Over ahead of a western conference road trip Giannis gave his thoughts on the expectations he had for the upcoming change I hope but uh from the little experience that I have I you know I don’t assume and I don’t expect that the moment he I’m in we go 5 and0 or we go

10 and0 whatever like it’s going to take time like uh we going to change our offense you know is our offense going to stay the same is we going to change our terminology how we going to change our adjustment defensively like this are we going to change our practice uh plan how

Like how practice going to look how sh going look all of those things just like different coach different uh routines for everybody so it’s going to take time but and just as Yannis and at akumo for saw the Doc Rivers era was far from a 5 and nothing

Start in a close game in Denver they led by as much as 13 but fell short in Doc’s first game against the Denver Nuggets and Damen Lillard’s returned to Portland they played another tight game before losing to the lottery bound Portland Trailblazers by three points spoiling Lillard’s return to rip city doc finally

Got his first win as the Bucks head coach in their first game in February rallying from a 25o deficit to beat the Dallas Mavericks oddly enough that win meant that Doc Rivers would get to coach the Eastern Conference All Stars leading to this awkward moment that is

Ridiculously bad uh it it really is um well Adrian’s going to get some money that’s for sure and a ring you know it’s one of these quirky things I think there should be a rule somehow that someone else does it other than me maybe I’ll send my staff and I’ll go on

Vacation run that bi I’m going to run that by itum silver I think he’s a he’s you know Adam’s a good man I think he’ll understand looking for some payback in Utah the Bucks blew a 19point lead before getting outscored 40 to13 in the fourth quarter on their way to a

15-point loss playing without Lillard and Phoenix the Bucks lineup got even thinner when Chris Middleton went down with a sprained ankle in the first quarter he ended up leaving the arena in a walking boot Middleton hasn’t played since the injury and while he’s not performing like the All-Star he used to

Be he’s still been a vital player for the Milwaukee Bucks as their third leading scorer Milwaukee lost that night to the Suns by 8 at the trade deadline the Milwaukee Bucks attempted to address their subpar perimeter defense by trading Cameron Payne and a second round pick to Philadelphia in exchange for

Patrick Beverly yeah I know okay I get it I know just bear with me this reunited Patrick Beverly with Doc Rivers who previously coached him with the Los Angeles Clippers and added a toughness the team felt they were lacking they also cleared a roster spot by trading Robin Lopez to Sacramento that night

Without Middleton and Lillard again the bucks lost Dock’s home debut against Minnesota in a game that was essentially over in the third quarter they got a chance to use the Hornets as their personal punching bag the next night with their best defensive performance of the season however their most impressive

Defensive performance would come in their next game against Denver leading for most of the game milwauke held the Nuggets to just 95 points in an impressive win torching the defending champs at both ends of the floor even though Denver’s starting back court didn’t finish the game because of

Injuries it was a vital feather in walk’s cap and an early signature win for Doc Rivers after holding a team to under 100 points in a game once all season the Bucks had done it twice in a row finally there were concrete results showing Improvement on the defensive end

All the Bucks had to do was beat a couple of short-handed teams to head into the All-Star break with plenty of momentum that should be easy right well as it turns out the Milwaukee Bucks would have more trouble than most people anticipated and the Good Vibes surrounding the team would do a complete

180 facing the Miami Heat at home without Jimmy Butler Terry Rosier and Josh Richardson the Milwaukee Bucks never LED trailing by as much as 31 points in a 123 to 97 loss and their last game before the All-Star break in Memphis against a team whose season has been utterly decimated by injuries the

Misery continued the scrappy Memphis Grizzlies were playing guys on two-way and 10-day contracts and they kept the game competitive all night long Milwaukee had trouble guarding the ball to the point where they had to play zone defense for long stretches in an effort to contain the Memphis Grizzlies ball

Hand lers it wasn’t nearly effective enough and the Milwaukee Bucks were handed another L going into the All-Star break against a team averaging the fewest points in the NBA after the game Doc Rivers eviscerated his team’s lack of focus first play we we gamble for the

50th time in a corner guy drives uh we have to help leads to a three we come back in this uh on our Set uh two guys forget what we’re running uh then we missed a shot and then nobody gets back that’s how we start out the third

Quarter that tells you all you need to know about where our heads were um you know um we had some guys here we had some guys in Cabo whereas GG Jackson quite literally thanked Doc Rivers for the win uh you know great credit Doc Rivers and uh Milwaukee bus you know

Have Yiannis and Dame at this point the Milwaukee Bucks have fallen to third in the East with a 35 to 21 record overall just three and seven since Doc Rivers took over under Rivers the defense has improved in some categories such as 10th in defensive rating and in points

Allowed but the team may have overcorrected as the offense has slipped since Doc’s arrival under Rivers they ranked just 24th in scoring and offensive rating dropping their net rating to 19th in the league now 10 games may not be a big sample size especially when considering a head coach

Taking over a team mid-season but the recent results have been concerning this is a team that entered the season tied for the highest over under wins projection and tied for the third best Championship odds Doc’s Edition was supposed to give this team new life on the defensive end but those improvements

Have seemingly been offset by a lack of identity and offensive regression there is hope that a team boasting Superstar Talent will turn the season around as the organization continues to shape the roster in Doc’s image ahead of the All-Star break Muki signed Danilo galinari for the rest of the season

Adding a much needed option at forward who could see the court during the playoffs he passed up opportunities to sign with other contenders for a chance to play for Doc Rivers again after playing two seasons with him on the Los Angeles flippers the second time the Bucks have acquired a player with their

Coach in mind but if they had trouble guarding the Memphis Grizzlies ball handlers how will they Faire in the playoffs against significantly better competition the Bucks are just 18 and8 against teams with losing records a far cry from the other top four teams in the East who regularly win against teams

They’re supposed to be no matter who the coach has been overall Milwaukee has been shaky at best this season against inferior competition the Giannis Dame pairing has been reliably healthy this season and the worst thing an organization can can do is waste a year of their Championship window that line

Of thought pushed the Bucs to fire Griffin but if their record continues slipping under Doc Rivers they will have done just that Giannis and the team didn’t expect to begin soaring under doc initially but these results are troubling they’ll have time to regroup during the break but the situation is

Growing increasingly dire in Milwaukee who could be overseeing yet another coaching disaster let me know in the comments section down below did the Milwaukee Bucks make a horrific mistake aside from that I’m your boy Mike I’m po our mic until our next upload

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