Carmelo Anthony is the newest NBA persona to specific their issues about Doc Rivers teaching the Bucks, and he didn’t maintain again.
“As a player you knew Doc was going to be prepared for you, but I’ve never heard, and me and Doc have a good relationship, but I’ve never heard anybody say anything good about Doc, [meaning] a player,” Melo mentioned on 7PM in Brooklyn. “When you think about it, let’s go back, Doc has been coaching for twenty-something years right. Look at all his players, now I’m not saying that nobody, but the narrative coming out of those experiences with Doc, nobody has nothing to say good about him. I don’t know what the issue is, I’m not in those locker rooms but I just know the narrative around that is no one has anything good to say about Doc. To his point [Bomani Jones], for years, even when Doc was leaving going to teams, no players were like supporting Doc.”
Anthony isn’t the one one questioning the longtime coach’s management skill and his functionality to guide a staff to a championship.
Stephen A. Smith mentioned that if Rivers fails, it might be his final head teaching job within the NBA.
Despite the noise, Rivers was surprisingly named because the coach of the Eastern Conference for the upcoming All-Star sport, which Inside the NBA host Charles Barkley overtly questioned.
“Doc has lost his first two games, and he can be the All-Star coach tonight.”
Former participant Gilbert Arenas has additionally been vocal in his criticism of Rivers.
Arenas instructed on Nightcap with Shannon Sharpe that the Bucks ought to take away the one-time champion coach from his place, primarily as a result of his lack of defensive technique.
“The smartest thing for the Bucks proper now’s? Like, simply to enter the locker room and say, ‘Hey Doc, listen. We changed our mind,” Arenas said. “We’re gonna go along with that man, that gave us the win once 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, because the Bucks subsequent sport is towards the first-seeded Timberwolves.
READ MORE: Damian Lillard and Patrick Beverley React to Becoming Teammates After Heated Feud
