Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 03.09.25

36 comments

1. Your best shooters can’t find a rhythm because you like to play them without your two best players. FIX THE ROTATIONS

2. Word stop the excuses you guys suck I lost faith

3. Hey Doc why are we getting away from the pick n roll with 2 of the best players? Why don't you make they're D switch and chase? If you get smoked on D go back and do it to them on O.

4. Defensively good enough to win the game? How about finishing the D with a rebound?

5. Honestly these last two were winnable with just more 3s. Green, Trent Fr, Prince, heck even Brook, need to be shooting more. I don't care if they miss most of them. I want there to be more confidence in shooting 3s or else this team aint going far.

6. Cant have Giannis and sims playing together…

7. Its your fault pathetic.. this 2 last game.. no gameplay is drawn..

8. Giannis needs to watch Donovan Mitchell Cavs post game and learn everything he’s saying you gotta learn to be a team player and sacrifice trying to be a scoring leader all the time

9. I hope no one has championship aspirations any more. This team is far from the top 2 in East and West

10. Back to back. You got talent. that's why you've won games. The scheme is horrible. Tell Lopez to get down low, closer to the basket. giannis need to learn how to play with Lopez down low. If they help, lop to Lopez. Set off ball picks for Dame more setting up the offense. Dame is on the ball too much. He's working too hard. The offense looks like your working to hard

11. Doc is a good coach, just wait until portis is back. Dark horse team, finals is possible!

12. Cavs is in different class with bucks….don’t blame this mediocre coach…

13. Your game plan same like yesterday, you were awful coach. You over tire Giannis when starters play bad. Yesterday and today's game look the same strategy

14. This guy has absolutely no clue, I want him out

15. As a basketball fan I love watching Giannis but as a Cavs fan I love Kuzma takin L’s even more lololol

16. This trash team will give us hurt problem

17. i dont think Doc Rivers has the solutions at this point

18. Honestly…. why tf would you put dame out with kpj? Kpj can't get anything going like that. He needs to be the head honcho guard out there.
    Giannis and kpj are a better mix
    SOMEBODY TELL DOC GIANNIS NEEDS TO PLAY MORE THAN 6 MINUTES IN THE 4TH!!!!!!!

19. And why does this fool keep changing the lineups?

20. That wasn’t the same old Cavaliers

21. Cavs are a far superior basketball team. This was not a well-played game for the Cavs. If Cavs shot their normal percentage, they win by 30 to 40 points not 20 points.

22. I look at these comments and i think us fans over react to the loses a bit! I know we could have better schemes but a lot of these loses are about effort on the court by players, we can't blame the coach everytime the players don't perform. We have to stop being so one way or another! We win it's mostly praising. We lose and the world on fire! We get spolied sonetimes with winnings people think we're no supposed to lose!

23. What game were u watching Doc?Defensively yall gave up 5 3’s that literally put the game to bed in the final 4 minutes.Yall were only down 7 and when those 3s happened it ballooned to 20 in less than a minute but sure the defense was great Doc.What a fuckin joke this guy is

24. They played small ball and still outrebounded your idea of “big ball”.This team literally won a championship not to long ago and they did wayyyy worse than the hornets did against the Cavs.Hornets literally only lost by 1 point and all they have is Melo.

25. Coach Doc is obsessive. He has kpj a diamond in the the team, and yet he continues to experiment at the team's expense. Yesterday Kpj, played only for ten minutes. Docs, obsessions are strange and unjustified.

26. Play KPJ more minutes!

27. Dame and Giannis should not be on the bench together!

28. This loss showed cavs will beat the bucks in 6. But it also showed they have a chance, though small, right now. I believe it was the correct game plan from a learning perspective to test our team ball against the best and see where we can improve, but its not the gameplan to beat them. If the team learned something, im not mad at the loss.

29. Worst HC in the league

30. Doc is right we have to play more team Basketball, both Dame and Giannis hold the game too much,
    every 2 possession they should be sharing the ball at least,

    not having long stretch when only Dame or Giannis are scoring and not even letting everyone
    touching the ball and be involve in the offense.

    Kuz has to be Establish as the 3rd option cause Dame and Giannis all the time is too predictable
    and once they clugg the paint Giannis must stop forcing shots and go for the open man.

    Kuz was Washington Leading Scorer last 2 seasons, in 2022 23 Season Wizards had a Big 3
    with with Kuzma, (21 points per game, 44.8 % Field Goals , and 33.3 % Three points percentage),

    Bradley Beal (23 points and Portzingis (23 points) so Kuz can be competitive among other players,
    if he did it in Washington he can do it here with the Bucks.

    They just have to give him the ball specially when he runs or cut too many time he is not receiving the ball when the right play is to give him the ball, that s up tio Dame and Giannis to share the ball with Kuz and others more.

    And for all the haters Jimmy Butler was after 9 or 10 Games with the Warriors recently was shooting7 % for 3 point on % average, yes 7 % and I hear no one talking down n him, now he is shooting a poor 20 % at 3 points on average and NOBODY talks about it.

    Reality is Kuz is a VERY good player and did GREAT when Kuz is on the court with the Bucks, they are Top 5 Defensive team
    with the Line Up with Kuz, Brook, Prince, Dame and Giannis they have a Defensive Rating of 104.2 whcih make them
    able to fight any Top team in the League.

    When Kuz and Giannis are playing together they have a Top 10 Offfense and Top 3 Defense.

    And lastly players were defending 27.5 % with Kuz as their primary defender
    which was the best mark in the NBA since the All star game ended,

    might have change a bit since but shows how impatful Kuz is,
    now we Need to Unleash is complete Offensive Game Package
    and let him take the right shots he feels instead of him passing the ball when he shouldnt
    like Doc said, this will make Giannis, Dame and others more dangerous,

    the team offense will be less predictable.

31. All these comments and no solutions. Y'all are just complaining. Lets have real discussions in these comments on what we want to see? what rotations? what sets? etc

32. Nothing has to do with coaching. Zero.

33. GO CAVS 14 IN A ROW GET THE BROOMS OUT WE OWN MILWAUKEE FACTS 😮

34. fired his ashh

35. Trust Kuzma Doc..he needs a bigger role offensively not just defensively even Giannis said it..give him the green light, he is better than he has showed so far.

36. Kevin porter, ryan rollins, aj Jackson and jerico sims need more minutes we need to replace portis,and lopez and find a solid starting sg and center prince and trent jr is inconsistent