According to NBA insider Chris Haynes, Doc Rivers called a meeting with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard after the Milwaukee Bucks lost to the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday (3/18).
The Bucks have been struggling lately. They are only 5-5 in their last 10 games.
Sources: With Bucks struggling and after dispirited loss to Warriors, Doc Rivers called a meeting with his two superstars: Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard. Details inside #haynesbriefs pic.twitter.com/lhC0PfREoG
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) March 19, 2025
The Bucks scored a season-low 93 points against the Warriors, who won despite playing without Stephen Curry.
Milwaukee is 38-30 on the season. The team is in fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings.
“We just gotta be better,” Lillard told NBA reporters after the Bucks-Warriors game. “Just be more intentional about what we’re doing on offense. We gotta do things with more force, more pace. We gotta help each other out. We gotta screen for each other. We gotta cut hard. We gotta be aggressive and attack. That will help us.
“I think right now our offense is not forceful enough. It’s not intentional enough. Each part of our stuff, we gotta have pace. We gotta hit people. We gotta do those things consistently and right now, we’re not doing it well enough to have an effective offense.”
The Bucks lost to the Indiana Pacers in the first round of last year’s playoffs.
Another short postseason run this year could result in major changes in the offseason.
“It’s everything,” Rivers said. “We’re missing shots too, but we don’t have the right spacing. The ball’s not moving. We’re not attacking. We’re not getting to the paint. I got a whole list. But we gotta do it, and I gotta get them to do it. That’s my job. And it’s on me. I think we get in these periods where we just stop trusting. We try to do it on our own and that’s just not going to work.”
Antetokounmpo and Lillard are in their second season as teammates. The Bucks are 73-43 in the regular season when the two superstars play.
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