So, now that we’ve had a few weeks to digest issues and get all of the Doc Rivers 3-1 lead jokes out of our methods, it’s time to get all the way down to enterprise. Now that Milwaukee has performed just a few video games and had a while with their new head coach, it’s painfully clear that this disaster is the definition of “doomed to fail.” Rivers isn’t even a full two weeks into his tenure and gamers are already claiming exhaustion that lingers into video games due to intense observe classes.
It truly is hilarious and unhappy that this stuff are popping out and Doc has solely actually simply arrived. We love transparency, however some gamers may be too sincere. Then of us within the media report it and when the backlash occurs, we get blamed. However when the feedback come from a workforce’s celebrity as they’ve on this occasion, it’s normally a giant deal.
“And like in practice, people are going faster and running up and down. And obviously, you know, having a new coaching staff you got to kind of show what you’re made of and what you can do. In shootarounds, guys are more aggressive, shoot more, cut more, play harder. We have a longer shootaround because we’re adding stuff, and then you go to the game and you’re kind of a little bit gassed, I’m not going to lie,” mentioned Giannis Antetokounmpo.
One would possibly say Rivers is “Thibs’n” (thanks Carron) relating to having gamers work a lot tougher than wanted on off days. This has been hooked up to New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau throughout his teaching profession. Many blame Thibs for the fast decline of Derek Rose.
Thibs is a defensive-minded coach who’s recognized for making you’re employed further arduous. Even skilled athletes want a time without work to be simply that typically. In in the present day’s NBA, no one needs to observe arduous for hours on a “day off.” We’ve talked about load administration for a decade now so what makes anybody suppose guys wish to observe like maniacs. That doesn’t imply you by no means observe when no video games are scheduled, however it may be toned down a bit.
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Life is about steadiness and that’s what coach Rivers wants to search out in Milwaukee. Regardless of the midseason teaching change and points inside the group each on and off the court docket, the Bucks are a top-three workforce within the East. At the same time as they sit in the present day with a 33-18 report (they’re 3-5 beneath Rivers), it doesn’t really feel like they’ll catch Boston, however might end No. 2 within the convention come April.
Though, it’s arduous to belief them towards the Celtics within the postseason if they’ll’t get issues cleaned up, and even the Miami Warmth, for that matter, who’ve been recognized to shock groups. Final postseason the Warmth made fast work of the Bucks within the first spherical, beating them in 5 video games. Milwaukee’s defensive effort wants to enhance dramatically amongst different issues in the event that they’re to go deep on this yr’s playoffs. Oh, wait, let’s add Patrick Beverley to the combo. Now we’ve received a championship successful system.
It truly is superb how Rivers continues to get hired for top-tier NBA head teaching gigs. All of the speak concerning the a number of 3-1 leads his groups have misplaced through the years, but these homeowners fall for his obvious wit and appeal each time. Possibly it’s him winning his only Coach of the Year award in his first season as a head coach. That yr the Orlando Magic gained 41 video games and narrowly missed the postseason.
If not for that championship he was in a position to squeak out in Boston, who is aware of the place Rivers can be in 2024? It’s fairly potential he’d nonetheless be on somebody’s sideline barking and flaming out within the second spherical. More true phrases have by no means been spoken when somebody mentioned, “It pays to know people.” Rivers has used this higher than virtually anybody in American sports activities for practically a quarter-century. That alone deserves a spherical of applause.
