Game 49: Bucks at Mavs - 2/3/24 - 7:30 - BSWI - Brook Out

[MickeyDavis]

Kyrie has missed the last 5 games but may play this one. Luka missed the last game with an ankle injury but is expected to play. No Bucks injured but this is the first of a B2B (at Utah Sunday) so Khris will likely sit one or the other.

We beat them by 7 at home in November with a big 4th quarter. Khris did not play. Luka and Kyrie had big games as did Giannis and Dame.

Go Bucks

[jschligs]

Would like to get a nice win. That'd be cool.

[rilamann]

We beat them by 7 at home in November with a big 4th quarter. Khris did not play.

Go Bucks

Noticing the trend this season?

[Frank Nova]

Torn between desperately wanting a win and getting back on track and continuing to lose to put more pressure on Horst to do something about the roster….

[mediocrityrules]

Odds on the number of Dame/Giannis PnR's this game? You know, the one move that everyone believed would be impossible to stop. Let's hope they run it at least more than the few times we seem to see it each game.

One of the promises Doc has put out there that's yet to materialise.

[FrieAaron]

Odds on the number of Dame/Giannis PnR's this game? You know, the one move that everyone believed would be impossible to stop. Let's hope they run it at least more than the few times we seem to see it each game.

One of the promises Doc has put out there that's yet to materialise.

I think we have to give Doc the second half of the season before blaming him for too much. Since Griff was let go today is the first time we've had 2 days between games which probably means it's literally the first actual practice they've had.

[FrieAaron]

Torn between desperately wanting a win and getting back on track and continuing to lose to put more pressure on Horst to do something about the roster….

They fired their coach. The front office was clearly seeing the same warning signs we all did. Rooting from wins from here on out.

[chonestown]

Battle of the Mavs and the Cav-nots.

[ReddRum]

Assuming a blowout loss raises the odds of the Bucks making a significant trade? Yeah, so I'll root for that...

[GoldenAntlers]

Horst is gonna make a bold move.

Let's win.

[MickeyDavis]

Kyrie is doubtful. AJJ is questionable with a wrist sprain

[Ron Swanson]

Dallas has been an absolute train wreck lately. In the last 10-games they've got the 3rd worst net-rating and the worst defense in the league by a country mile. This would be a bad loss, so let's please not like, you know.....lose.

[msiris]

Dallas has been an absolute train wreck lately. In the last 10-games they've got the 3rd worst net-rating and the worst defense in the league by a country mile. This would be a bad loss, so let's please not like, you know.....lose.

You should have begged a game earlier. Didn't think you had to.

[BigO]

Rivers is open a lot more than most coaches. There's some good stuff in this article. None of it reflects well on Griffin.


https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2024/02/02/doc-rivers-holds-first-milwaukee-bucks-practice-in-dallas-we-changed-a-lot/72455823007/

[mediocrityrules]

Rivers is open a lot more than most coaches. There's some good stuff in this article. None of it reflects well on Griffin.


https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2024/02/02/doc-rivers-holds-first-milwaukee-bucks-practice-in-dallas-we-changed-a-lot/72455823007/

Yeah, good article. You would never have had something like that from Grief. You would have just had something like 'we just need more energy and effort'.

[MickeyDavis]

First practice with new regime. AG really left this team in a mess

“We made a lot of changes,” Rivers said. “And that, listen, they were great, they got them all, especially on the defensive end. Will be able to do them (Saturday)? Absolutely not. But we’re going to do them (against Dallas). And, you know, we may screw it up too. That’s OK. The guys understand that. Can we win doing it this way? Yeah. But it’s going to take a minute. Doesn’t mean we can’t win (Saturday). We won’t be great at what we’re doing. We understand that.”

Rivers said he’s not worried about losing games early in his tenure because the reason he was hired was to get the team playing at its peak for the playoffs – but it doesn’t mean losses will be acceptable.

“I want to win while we’re trying to figure it out,” he said. “But I understand sometimes those two things don’t go together. I’m not going to say I’m fine with that because I’m not. That would be untruthful. But I’m realistic about it as well.”

“That’s an honest conversation,” Rivers said of the ball sharing. “Guys have to be able to take that. You can’t say you want to be something but you don’t want to hear something. So, we had some clarity conversations today about that, and where the ball should go, where people should be. Guys were great. They were great at it. (Saturday), will they do it? Half the time. But if they do it once, and they see it, then you’re better the next day and that’s what we’re looking at.”

On the defensive side, Rivers said the team acknowledged in practice that their communication was not very good. So, for a part of it, the coaches stood silent as they figured out where to be and when.

“If they run into each other, they run into each other because the only reason they ran into each other is because they didn’t talk,” Rivers said.

“So, today they were great, they were yelling. But at the beginning you could see ‘em waiting for the coaches to say something and all the coaches were just told not to say a word. And so, finally, they started. I thought it was good. Talking is natural, but also believe this – you talk when you know. The reason we’re not talking is we’re not sure what our coverages are.

“It’s like being in the classroom – when you didn’t know the answer you weren’t raising your hand, were you? But when you knew the answer you wanted to be the first to talk. I told our staff, it’s our job to give them the answers so they feel confident enough to talk. And that’s going to take a minute.”

[randy84]

Kyrie is doubtful. AJJ is questionable with a wrist sprain

High Fiving injury?

[mediocrityrules]

Kyrie is doubtful. AJJ is questionable with a wrist sprain

High Fiving injury?

Towel waving

[StickeeFingaz]

A lot of good stuff there from Doc.

[HKPackFan]

Rivers is open a lot more than most coaches. There's some good stuff in this article. None of it reflects well on Griffin.


https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2024/02/02/doc-rivers-holds-first-milwaukee-bucks-practice-in-dallas-we-changed-a-lot/72455823007/

Omg it sounds like a complete **** mess. He's cleaning up an absolute disaster. We knew it was ****. But to hear the players talking, it's so obvious they didn't have a clue wtf they were doing with grief.