The Milwaukee Bucks are set to enter this crucial 2024-25 season. It will all tip-off on Wednesday when they take on the Philadephia 76ers for their season opener.
This season will tell us a lot about the Bucks and their trajectory for the next handful of seasons potentially. Nonetheless, spirits are high for the Bucks as they are healthy to enter the season, and they hope that remains the case once they embark on this 82-game plus marathon.
It’s been a while since the Bucks reached the mountaintop, and it’s been tough on the organization, especially considering how their seasons have ended recently.
They hope that is all behind them as they have head coach Doc Rivers at the helm for a full season this time.
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Rivers has been a coach in the NBA for the past 20 years and is arguably one of the best coaches of this generation. However, there is this narrative on Rivers and how he’s fallen short time and time again.
That’s how many around the basketball world view Rivers, but if you were to ask him, he doesn’t feel like that’s the case. Rivers told The Athletic’s Eric Nehm that he doesn’t believe in the ‘falling short’ narrative that has played him for over the last decade or so.
“But I’ve never come up short, in my opinion,” Rivers said. “Come up short? What does that mean? Like, we didn’t win a title? I go back in Philly. I took that job after we lost in the first round 4-0 (to the Celtics in 2020 under Brett Brown). The next year, we win the East in the regular season. All right. We are one game away from the Eastern finals.
“So there’s times where I’m like we’re being evaluated on a different standard. And the great news is I’ve created that standard. So for me, that’s good. But then when the narrative comes that you can’t do it, that’s bulls—. Because I’ve done it and I can do it. It’s just hard to do it. It’s just hard. So I’ve always looked at it that way.”
The 63-year-old coach can deny all he wants, but his track record tells us differently….
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