The Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo are a mess after six games of the 2024-25 NBA regular season. A 122-99 blowout defeat against the Memphis Grizzlies gave every basketball fan another data point to use when dissing Rivers as a coach. Rivers is not ducking the responsibilities of being the lead man after overseeing a 1-4 start either.
Instead, Rivers gave The Athletic’s Eric Nehm some postgame notes on what needs to improve before the Bucks can win a game.
“The defensive transition was still awful tonight,” Rivers admitted. “And so that’s on me. Everything is on me until we get it right. We gotta fix this.”…