Joel Embiid and Jayson Tatum Benefit From Bucks Hiring Doc Rivers | BEN MALLER SHOW

BEN MALLER SHOW – Ben Maller discusses what to make of the Milwaukee Bucks, speaking out about why Doc Rivers was hired and the narrative that Giannis got Adrian Griffin fired. Ben then breaks down how that impacts the Eastern Conference. Ben also touches on Shaq’s preference for Damian Lillard over Steph Curry.

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Uh but if you’ve not heard uh the reports were not satire this was not the work of Sports Talk Berry or the Babylon B turns out that Doc Rivers the good doc Doc Rivers not a real doctor has reached agreement in principle to take over the

Bucks he is the new coach of the Bucks and he will be the coach of the Milwaukee Bucks shortly now Milwaukee’s GM somebody named John Horst we think we’re saying that right and he was asked a bunch of questions about the you know standard protocol in the NBA your star players getting the

Coach fired and and all that of course he followed the Rules of Engagement the game of Charades that so many people in that business do in professional basketball uh he denied that the Bucks had any input from Yannis senta kumbo and Dame Lillard he said that the idea of input from from

Players is what led him to fire Adrien Griffin is he just dismissed it out of hand he horse the GM there in Milwaukee said he wanted to improve the group at a coaching level to maximize the Milwaukee basketball teams’s championship window uh this season so of course you hire a guy that

Is the conductor of Choke Doc Rivers to be your coach that certainly solves the championship window thing that you’re worried about so let us break it down toss it up put some cayenne pepper on it put it in the oven and have a grand old time so the

Question now that it’s a done deal now that it’s official it’s not a rumor anymore it’s official official official did the Bucks make a mistake hiring Glenn Doc Rivers as the coach so I’ve got human Cannonball box jelly fish and genetics and we will combine all of

These things together and we are going to make a wide open wide openen three-point shot which is missed 99% of the time in a playoff game by a Doc Rivers coached team in the fourth quarter so first of all the answer to this question it’s a rhetorical question

Did the Bucks make a mistake hiring Doc Rivers did the person that was doing the test on choby hit the wrong button I think that is the case I wasn’t there I don’t know I wasn’t in Russia but I think they were doing a test and they

Screwed it up and yeah that was user error chern no in the case of the Bucks it’s just gross negligence by the Milwaukee Bucks to bring Doc Rivers in shame on you right the the GM they’re running interference with the star players which is what you expect that’s

That’s the guy running the naked bootleg but Doc Rivers is the living in body ENT of the Peter principal you rise up to your highest level of incompetence and then you stay there and we we have a pretty good idea now as as we understand

It and who knows if this is true or not but as we understand it Giannis and Dame both signed off on this they rubber stamped Doc Rivers which makes us question the basketball IQ of Yiannis and Dame L now they are playing in the playoffs often so maybe they haven’t

Watched the other teams in the playoffs maybe they haven’t experienced the full Doc Rivers thing but you would think with Doc in Philadelphia Giannis uh benefiting against the Sixers and Dame Lillard in the west and seeing when when doc was coaching the Clippers uh Dame’s been around for a while so these guys

Have been around but Doc Rivers to Milwaukee a team with championship pedigree it’s a pit of Curiosities is what it is right it’s it’s like a carnival attraction at a mixed with a train wreck uh is is what it is because right next to the human Cannonball you’ve got the fire breathing grandma

You’ve got the uh the hairy woman uh which has become very popular these days but you you’ve got that uh and it’s just not squeamish for the uh not for the squeamish or the faint of heart I think is what they say in the circus right not

Going to end well now secondly who benefits if if Doc Rivers is as bad as we think is who benefits from Doc Rivers taking over in Milwaukee so I circled two names two names I’ve got Joel embiid and Jason T because if you look at the big board

The path just got a little easier the path got a little easier in the Eastern Conference it’s bundled up in the East the Celtics are the top regular season team but Milwaukee’s Got Talent the the heat obviously we’ve seen them in the playoffs even if they’re not that great during the regular season

Some Hocus Pocus in the playoffs and you go around and then Philadelphia’s Got Talent now that they don’t have Doc Rivers maybe things will work out in Philadelphia um but here’s the thing uh you look around and and if you’re in a playoff series against the Bucks and

Milwaukee’s up three games to one or three games to none all it takes is a Doc Rivers pep talk to cause the team to get Shivers and it goes shiver me timbers uh or just timber for the Milwaukee Bucks Doc Rivers is booby trapped at this point

The media guys like him he’s a good quote we’ve talked about that many times so it’s good sound bite and all that but he is booby trapped he’s essentially being dropped when you when you coach like Doc Rivers your team in playoff games it’s like being dropped into a

Tank with thousands of box jellyfish the most venomous animal in the world the box jellyfish people aren’t aren’t scared of jellyfish but the Box according to the Sciences the box jellyfish is the most venomous uh creature in the land uh but don’t worry doc Doc Rivers again he’s a good quote

Sounds like he knows what he’s doing he’ll say the right things and then watch his team go out there and pee in the pool uh that’s usually what happens all right final thought turning the page we’re going to Pivot and throw a bounce pass to wisdom from Shaq now Shaquille

O’Neal recently ruffled some feathers in the Bay Area why why what did he do Shaq stated that he would prefer to play with Dame Lillard rather than Stephen Curry say what uh yeah so why well Shaq’s analysis was that in clutch situations close late clutch situations that it’s you’re just better

Off that Dame Lillard’s the the way to go uh because lard is a better standstill shooter according to Shaquille O’Neal so where are you at on this one where are you at on Shaquille O’Neal’s take that he’d rather play with Dame Lillard that Dame lard is better

Than Steph Curry in those situations so it’s it’s hard to disagree with this if you’ve watched basketball over the over the years here I think that’s kind of a Salient Point by Shaq I don’t think it’s an outrageous Point people are some people up in arms that this is slander

Against Stephen Curry I don’t believe it is Steph Curry can be a game changer a guy that changed the NBA he can also be a guy that you don’t want to take the last shot of a game both these things can be simultaneously true LeBron James

Is not a guy you want to take the last shot either LeBron chokes quite often fact you often defer he’s often afraid to take the last shot unless the game is tied and he knows the game will go to overtime we’re not supposed to talk about that part out loud but Steph Curry

When you break down his game and all the three-point shots and all that Shaq is drinking from the punch bowl of wisdom on this one right it’s it’s Steph is deficient in pressure genetics the term the clutch Gene comes to mind if that’s such a thing and Steph Curry fans

Are going to have to take the L on this Curry changed the game of basketball I don’t disagree every little punk kid that comes along now thinks they can shoot the ball from midcourt because they’re Steph Curry 2.0 uh is that better for BAS basetball is that worse for basketball that’s open to

Interpretation but the fact that if you had possession of the ball down by a point and 1.1 seconds left and you have to pick one Steph Curry or Dame liard Who you gonna pick well I know the answer if you’re gonna pick uh you’re gonna pick uh Dame L that’s a fact Jack