Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 12.06.25

uh just kind of the heater the heater that Scoot’s been on. What have you kind of seen from him to be able to get his own shot? Yeah, he can he’s the one guy that can get his shot whenever he wants to. Um and and I actually think he’s doing it the right way. Like he’s moving the ball. He’s letting the ball come back to him. Uh but then low clock, he we have a guy that you can get the ball to and he can make shots for us. Uh and he’s incredible at at doing that. Um, I just love the way he’s playing because he doesn’t do it early in the clock. He tries to move the ball and then he gets it back. So, uh, that’s that’s one of our big pluses right now is that he can do that. Conversely, Ryan, I feel like he’s struggled a little bit to Yeah, he’s just I think he’s forcing it too much on offense, honestly. And uh God, you know, it’s so tough because he’s so young. And um I’m really, you know, it’s funny. Rondo made a comment. You would have never been given me this much rope. And I said, well, he’s a better shooter. You better score. R was obviously better with the ball. And and I got to keep him unlocked and free. And I the last thing I want to do is clog his brain, I guess. So, uh, trying to live with some of this. Uh, but it is right now he’s forcing it so much. It’s affecting everyone and we got to get him to get the ball, get the ball back. Um, you know, uh, we’re going to start watching a lot more tape with him. Uh, but he’s not doing it for any selfish reasons. It’s just how he plays and, um, yeah, it’s a tough one. um first half. I I would imagine that’s what you envisioned with Yeah. offensive rebounding. Yeah. Yeah. Everything. I hated how we came out in the third. Um and I thought I thought we played perfect in the first half. You know, the turnovers, couple bad turnovers, not many though. Um uh a couple offers, not many, but like we did everything and and as I talked about before the game, we were leading in the margins. Uh then the second half that I thought it started right at the beginning of the third quarter then we kind of caught ourselves caught them and then it it started back but um we got to figure out a way of putting the 48minute game together. Um and scoring is going to be hard for us. We understand that and that’s why our defense has to be better. Uh defensively it felt like as they start to overload that baseline and you three um this these things are going to happen right if you play that zone that much you’re going to start Yeah. you if you play it enough eventually though, I think we we’ll see cuz I I thought we we we did cover that. And you know, I think that was more mental fatigue than than not seeing the action. We went over that action. Uh we told him Duncan, we told him two things that Duncan Robinson was going to start overloading. uh the guys that we were helping off of were going to start setting picks instead of, you know, in the first game they were catching the ball, which is exactly what we wanted today. I thought those guys either drove the ball or set picks more. Uh and I thought some of their drives hurt us as well. And then again, the fouls, like the fouls, you know, Ryan get the two early ones. Uh Miles was playing great. He gets in foul trouble. Um man, that’s what we got to get away from. Um going back to Kevin, he put it on himself. the turnovers from last game. I need to be better. I don’t think he had a live ball one. No, he had one. Yeah, but and so I know he had one. I guess the abil I mean the pretty good the ability to be able to Yeah. I I tell you that kid, you know, it’s it’s funny. It’s and I’ve said this a hundred times to you guys. You don’t know a guy until you coach a guy. um watching them play like in Houston, you know, they it was all it was like an AU tournament, you know, and then watching him play for us and what you didn’t know was his IQ. He is he is one smart basketball player. Um he’s using his voice more. Uh like the leadership piece is growing at a at a epic pace. Uh that’s something we thought was a year away at least and it’s already here. He he can self adjust now. Um he takes criticism way better. It’s first of all it’s coaching. You know in in this generation coaching sometimes is called criticism. You know he takes coaching um and and he catches himself when he ever he doesn’t. He’ll come back no that’s on me. Um, so he’s he’s he’s I keep saying that he’s going to be a he’s just going to keep getting better. Um, we talked about Jericho as a roller. Um, I know the goal of the role isn’t necessarily for Jericho to score points, but I’m curious, are you liking what you’re Yeah. Yeah. It creates what you guys are getting out of it. Yeah. I didn’t think he rode enough and I didn’t think we involved him enough. You know, they were so worried about him and and give JB credit. they start icing to to take him out. And when we work on that, just throw it to Jericho, come back off, dribble, hand off, and you get it back. That’s the next step for us offensively is to be able to work a play, you know, just be able to work the play and and we’re going to get there. I’m telling you, we’re going to get there. I know. I think we’re probably all looking forward to a couple days off. Yeah, this is great. Getting back to practice. Yeah, I’m looking for two things. I’m looking for everyone. I told them we’re going to practice on Tuesday. We’re going to move practice time to like 2:00. You want to get out of town, you want to go somewhere, go do it. Uh just take two days off and get your reset your brains. Uh we’re closer to being a good team, then we’re further away. I can tell you that. Uh but this has been a rough stretch. All these games multiply by back to back tonight. Uh I think we got a chance to really reset our team.

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  4. Hey, what's up doc? I see you are operating on another losing streak, only this one will be the longest losing streak in the history of the buck's franchise.

  6. Pete Nance and amir coffee should be playing a lot more. What do you have to lose by playing thing. Prime example of a coach that gets stuck in 1 box of thinking and can't get out of it.

  7. Go take a break man, you don't gotta coach anymore even this dude Stewart said the bucks 23 defense is awful take a break go play golf you dont have to be a coach anymore

  12. Giannis and Bobby to Atlanta for Richasher, Okongua, Porzingus & next year 1st round pick from New Orleans, this would give the Bucks a bench and a nice team to win now and build with 2 top 10 picks next year. DO it Horst!

  13. I’m just rdy for rondo to be promoted HC and go thru his ups and downs bc rondo needs to replace doc I understand he’s never coached but it wouldn’t hurt look at phx look at LA etc

  17. GO BACK TO THE GOLF COURSE DOC ⛳🏌‍♀ … FIRE JON HORST FOR HIRING SHITTY COACHES EVERY SINGLE TIME … I LIKE DOC AS A PERSON BUT NOT AS A COACH.

  20. Out rebounded by 20! What's with Portis and Trent Jr. can't make a bucket to save their lives. Myles Turner is soft how does Jerich Sims only have 3 rebounds in 30 minurtes? This team is lost!!!! And what's with all the soft picks being set by Turner, Kuzma and Sims.They always roll before picking the defender – looks like they've never been coached on how to set a pick.

  23. So they keep Doc Rivers for 3 seasons but fired Griffin when they were 30-13 in the middle of his debut coaching season? The Bucks deserve this downfall. They ruined their own team for no reason!

  26. Glen Rivers is now 76-69 as the head coach for The Bucks. I’ve seen this guy rush post-game conferences just to watch non-NBA related sporting events so you can only imagine where his priorities lie which is why he’s always promising that certain obstacles will be resolved but they never are, even years later.

  27. It almost feels like the Bucks (GM, Coach), the nba, the refs and the media are all working together to ensure the Bucks fail this season. Heck i wouldn't be surprised if players are involved as well because something is up with this team collectively and individually where we got vet dudes who look like they don't even belong in the nba failing to do the most basic things basketball players should automatically be doing. Everything just seems weird surrounding this team. Are they about to blow this mess up and don't care or what? We shall see because right now it seems like nobody is showing any urgency about addressing this losing we been doing since Doc showed up..We have enough vet players where we should be playing better and winning.. But again Doc's 1 shot and done 3pt missing offense + the turnovers are parts of the teams "staying attached" on the scoreboard problem..

  28. Play Pete Nance instead of Bobby as a Center , Im sure Pete Nance would do better than Turner if you give him enough minutes.

    Specially with all the time Myles had , seeing another Big Competing and grabbing rebound should motivate Myles.

    Myles was good shooting 3s at the beginning of the game but he need to penetrate more cause he s so predictable riggt now….

    Play Ajax instead of Harris.

  29. I would rather not see the zone cause it creates confusion and most importantly .

    From start to finish get close to your players dont let them hit open 3s that easily make teams work very hard to get a bucket.

    Get KPJ, Rollins, Kuz, Ajax to alternate on that full court pressure to disrupt offenses without fouling, And make sure any other Bucks Players stay close to their opponents.

    Anytime Bucks do this they most likely will win or make the game very close.

    Just stay consistent , give your all energy, the team can compete they just have to defend and rebound with agressivity.

    That s really it

  31. Fire Doc !
    Fire Doc !

    Doc was brought in to counsel Adrian Griffin who was winning at the time 🤷🏾‍♂️..

    Bucks fired there winning coach mid season & Doc takes over !
    Perspective is key !

    J. Kidd
    Coach Bud
    Adrian Griffin

    Traded / let go in free agency
    Thon maker
    Jrue holiday
    Malcom brogdan
    Khris Middleton
    Dante deVencenzo
    Grayson Allen
    A.J Johnson

    Just to name a few …

    Every draft pick till who knows when …

    But yall keep screaming that
    “ Doc ish”

    Lillard situation never made a bit of sense, but one thing I respect outta Horst & the Bucks organization,
    They did everything to appease there superstar 💪🏾💯🤞🏾

  34. This team without Giannis is not bad.
    This team isn’t a bad defensive team, they aren’t a bad offensive team, they are FLIPPING TERRIBLE DEFENSE REBOUNDING TEAM!!!!

    They are down 6, giving up three straight possessions of multiple 2nd, 3rd chance opportunities.

    You can’t win till you figure this out. EVER even with Giannis they can’t rebound.

    Don’t put Bobby as the center on your zone. They are attacking him all the time. Put sims or kuzma there, and have Bobby focus on rebounds

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