Doc Rivers, head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, can admit that final season didn’t go as deliberate.
The crew suffered from a whole lot of huge modifications and a few nasty accidents too.
Talking to SiriusXM NBA Radio, Rivers stated that Damian Lillard coming to the crew proper earlier than the beginning of final season led to the Bucks “not having great team connection.”
He promised that issues could be very completely different this season and stated the crew has been spending a whole lot of time collectively in the summertime, taking journeys to Greece and Portland and constructing actual camaraderie.
“It just lends itself to not having great team connection.”
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Lillard’s addition to the crew was very sophisticated.
After months of him wanting a commerce from the Portland Path Blazers, he was despatched packing to the Bucks.
However Lillard hoped and planning to be dealt to the Miami Warmth as an alternative.
This had an impression on Lillard, Rivers stated, and it required an adjustment interval.
Crew chemistry is significant and the Bucks simply didn’t have a whole lot of it final 12 months.
Each Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo are unbelievable basketball gamers however they weren’t working in tandem like followers had hoped.
That hopefully won’t be the case in 2024-25.
After a season collectively and rising nearer, this may very well be the duo that folks anticipated.
A big a part of the crew’s success has to do with Rivers, in fact, and he’s adapting to main the Bucks.
This shall be his first full season teaching the crew and he is aware of the strain is on.
The times of a foul crew connection are gone, Rivers stated, and followers are hoping he’s proper.
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