Passionately passionate about basketball, he left to live in San Antonio to follow Victor Wembanyama’s Spurs after a diploma at the IEJ, his gaze constantly fixed on the NBA, both on the field and on the statistics and contracts.
Doc Rivers will be the next coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. Less than 24 hours after the dismissal of Adrian Griffin, their former coach, the franchise reached an agreement with Rivers to take control of Giannis Antetokounmpo’s team. This decision sparked strong criticism in the United States.
THE Milwaukee Bucks of Giannis Antetokounmpo quickly rebounded. On the heels of Adrian Griffin’s firing, the franchise has reached an agreement Doc Rivers to make him their new head coach. However, this choice raises questions.
Doc Rivers immediately replaces Adrian Griffin
THE Bucks took only a few hours to turn the page. Already Tuesday evening, CNN reported that Rivers had agreed to become the new coach of Milwaukee. This Wednesday, the information was confirmed by three of the most reliable journalists in the NBA world: Adrian Wojnarowski (ESPN), Shams Charania (The Athletic) and Chris Haynes (Bleacher Report).
According to Charania, the team had already contacted the former coach of Philadelphia 76ers in December to recruit him as a consultant. Now she has offered him a lucrative contract to replace Griffin urgently. He will then come out of retirement, only a few months after joining ESPN to launch into the media.
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The choice of the Bucks is strongly criticized
The choice of Doc Rivers is far from unanimous. THE Bucks were looking for an “experienced and available” coach, and the former coach of Magic (1999-2003), Celtics (2004-2013), Clippers (2013-2020) and 76ers (2020-2023) fit this description perfectly. However, he showed clear limitations with these teams, and many observers expected him not to return to the NBA again.
Although he won the title in 2008 with the celticshe then had an exceptional group led by Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett et Ray Allen. But since he left Boston in 2013, it never got past the conference semifinals. His lack of adaptation and tactics is often singled out. His flaws are illustrated by the three series he lost after leading 3-1, a record — no other coach has done it more than once. The rigidity of the game that it sets up is one of the reasons which pushed Philadelphia to kick him out after their elimination in the playoffs last year. Can he do better with Giannis Antetokounmpo et Damian Lillard that with Joel Embiid et James Harden ?
2024-01-25 01:21:34
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