Bucks’ Rivers reacts after 125-90 loss to Warriors

Bucks’ Rivers reacts after 125-90 loss to Warriors

What did you see defensively in the first half I I know this is going to sound a shock to you I really didn’t think this was our defense I thought it was our offense I I I didn’t think we play solid offense all night um they

Have 21 points off of our turnovers they had with 15 block shots so they were in transition or in early offense that whole game due to our bad offense tonight I I this is the first night in a long time where we just didn’t play together didn’t move the ball we forced

Actions um so I thought it was more of that we we had a lot of defensive breakdowns for sure but a lot of them was in transition where we wasn’t matched up because we we our floor balance was so bad tonight we took so many bad shots we had so many bad

Possessions that when we got back we were never matched up and they took advantage of it um and listen what did they have 3 4 days off after losing by 50 what was the odds of them playing poorly zero but you still can come in

And win the game uh I guess what do you feel like led to that offensively the the fact that you guys did have poor floor balance yeah give them some credit you know maybe they they they played hard they did a lot of switching I just

Thought it was us you have games like this you do um I don’t I’m not going to make a big deal about it uh we’ll watch tape we’ll show the guys and we’ll get better doc um third quarter however 195 run to start yeah so there’s a defensive

Element there did you like leaning Into The Bigs like Giannis attacking Brook it’ss his only two baskets what did youve the ball we moved the ball again I’m I’m telling you in the that first seven minutes in the third quarter our ball movement was Flawless we scored

Every time and so when you score you’re allowed to set your defense and then we play good defense and then the last three minutes of that quarter we reverted back to turnovers four shots the same stuff and and the game was was over um Giannis obviously questionable

To go in do you think he he didn’t have his usual lift kind of explosive and did that maybe impact some things offense it probably could have but I don’t I don’t know that you know I don’t listen we put them on the floor and you got to assume they’re

Healthy hey Doc you talked about the offense obviously when you see your team playing in a way where it’s just not your typical offense what’s your message to them to play right you know it’s not a deep message move the ball play right uh get organized you know where has

Start guys at halftime how many sets did we run in the first half no one could give an answer because we never did we ran random the whole first half so listen we’ll get better uh it’s a good lesson for us um you know you knew coming into tonight this team is a

Championship team right and they got humiliated against the Celtics they’re at home now you knew they were going to be great and so that’s why I was looking forward to this game not to see how they they were going to respond to see how we were going to respond and and we didn’t

Respond well tonight that’s okay we’ll be fine and that was something you said to your bench uh about the organization of it all yeah when you see them playing disorganized how do they correct that in real time as a collective by calling our sets and running them and executing um

There’s nothing go state was doing to tell us we couldn’t run our sets it was more us you know and it happens sometimes it happens for an actually good reason but it’s bad each guy man I want to beat this team I want to win the

Night and I want to be aggressive and then that takes you out of your flow but it happens it sounds like I don’t know you kind of just want to like flush this game and and sort of move on like how do you just approach no this is not a flush

Game uh you do have flush games this is not one of them this is a a teaching game for us I think we’ll be a lot better because of this game anything you know what points I guess like you know emphasize just even right after the game

T wise like just just our offense again uh just watching it you know we we had our own defensive mistakes where we could have done things better but I just I’m so focused on what we didn’t do on the other end uh when I watched the fil maybe I’ll see other

Stuff all right doc uh Mike Robertson African-American athlete um so with this game with standing you got a few games under your belt how do you feel about this post that you have being that you came up from Maywood Illinois to Marquette and then you shared the arena

With the bucks and now you’re coaching this team so have you had a chance to sit back and say wow I can’t believe this happened not really I mean I uh obviously talked about it it’s um it’s it’s more um I don’t know touching whatever the word I’m looking for it’s

Meant more to me than I thought it would I will tell you that um you you want to Shepherd this team even more so because of that um you know if you can pick a place to win it I don’t know if I could pick a better place than in

Milwaukee uh do you feel like that offensive organization not having Chris around it is having an impact on that at all I don’t tonight no uh obviously Chris is a great settler at times um he’s also our voice of conscience at times when he sees you out of whack he’s

The one guy in the three games that I had you could see him all right guys let’s let’s get back to playing the right way uh tonight I don’t know if they would have heard him you know everybody was just going so fast and and so aggressive that

We got out of kilter and that that happens we got off kilter um I’m curious to start the game you were telling we got to keep the pace going um what’s the balance between let’s keep the pace going and work through this versus let’s take a quick time out and and try to

Sett it’s no it’s no science to it you know the one time I let it go they went up and then we cut the lead uh the the the problem is if they have five of those you’re on the timeouts you know so at some point you got to let your guys [Applause]

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Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers after the loss to the Golden State Warriors.