Carmelo Anthony is the newest NBA character to precise their considerations about Doc Rivers teaching the Bucks, and he didn’t maintain again.
“As a participant you knew Doc was going to be ready for you, however I’ve by no means heard, and me and Doc have an excellent relationship, however I’ve by no means heard anyone say something good about Doc, [meaning] a participant,” Melo stated on 7PM in Brooklyn. “When you consider it, let’s return, Doc has been teaching for twenty-something years proper. Have a look at all his gamers, now I’m not saying that no person, however the narrative popping out of these experiences with Doc, no person has nothing to say good about him. I don’t know what the difficulty is, I’m not in these locker rooms however I simply know the narrative round that’s nobody has something good to say about Doc. To his level [Bomani Jones], for years, even when Doc was leaving going to groups, no gamers had been like supporting Doc.”
Anthony isn’t the one one questioning the longtime coach’s management capacity and his functionality to guide a staff to a championship.
Stephen A. Smith stated that if Rivers fails, it might be his final head teaching job within the NBA.
Regardless of the noise, Rivers was surprisingly named because the coach of the Japanese Convention for the upcoming All-Star recreation, which Contained in the NBA host Charles Barkley brazenly questioned.
“Doc has misplaced his first two video games, and he may be the All-Star coach tonight.”
Former participant Gilbert Arenas has additionally been vocal in his criticism of Rivers.
Arenas steered on Nightcap with Shannon Sharpe that the Bucks ought to take away the one-time champion coach from his place, primarily attributable to his lack of defensive technique.
“The perfect factor for the Bucks proper now could be? Like, simply to enter the locker room and say, ‘Hey Doc, pay attention. We modified our thoughts,” Arenas stated. “We’re gonna go along with that man, that gave us the win if you wasn’t right here. …So, Doc, pack your s**t, after which we’re gonna go forward and end this season with out you as a result of, on the finish of the day, we had been good earlier than you bought right here.’”
Rivers has gone 1-4 since his tenure with Milwaukee started and issues don’t get any simpler, for the reason that Bucks subsequent recreation is in opposition to the first-seeded Timberwolves.
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