Bucks Hiring Doc Rivers Looks Foolish Right Now | BEN MALLER SHOW

BEN MALLER SHOW – Ben Maller attempts to take the role of the Milwaukee Bucks owner and assess the team since they fired Adrian Griffin for Doc Rivers as head coach.

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0:00 Doc Rivers was a Bad Hire
4:46 Warriors Bench Klay Thomson
7:29 Aaron Gordon Wants More All-Star Nuggets

Fear the Deer Fear the Deer and at this point I think our our guy artez who works at that soul food restaurant in Milwaukee and he’s making the food right now I think artez could do a better job coaching and possibly even playing for the bucks than what’s going on right now

Uh because the Bucks are doing a belly Whopper and this is always great talk radio a team with headline Stars a team that is supposed to be stacked and they’re underachieving the Bucks the last night before the All-Star break the Bucks lost to the lowly and short-handed Grizzlies

Game played on Thursday night uh the Bucks worked their way back it was a close game at the end but they lost uh so Doc Rivers then dropped for us the money quote the quote of the night and I have a LoveHate relationship with Doc Rivers I hated him when he coached the

Lob City Clippers because he they should have won two championships in that era and they won none uh they didn’t even get to a final four with Doc Rivers as the coach and so uh but as in terms of content and I actually knew doc when he

Played for the Clippers which is even more awkward but in terms of the content doc has provided me over the years it is gold it is content gold so I thank him for that so it’s a LoveHate Thing but if you didn’t hear this latest quote from

From Doc it’s outstanding so the the Bucks have just lost to a team that is playing out the string for all intensive purposes the Grizzlies because of injuries and whatnot and Milwaukee loses the game and Doc Rivers said quote we had some guys here some guys in Cabo he he told

Reporters all right so let us discuss the question you are the owner of the basketball team there in Milwaukee how are the Bucks owners feeling right now about that Doc Rivers move so I’ve got Irish Spring smelling salts and Aristotle and we will connect things that have never been put together like

This together and uh we are going to pump the brakes on all the nonsense is what we’re going to do so first of all uh after getting Dame Lillard from Portland Milwaukee became the popular pick by popular people and I’m not going to distance myself I was on the train

The trendy train with the Milwaukee Bucks it made all the sense in the world you have Dame Lillard who’s a great player and assassin with the Trailblazers and you put him with Giannis sent kumbo who has lacked that assassin in his game right he’s uh he famously had a meltdown after the Bucks

Lost in the playoffs last year and uh and said like WIS don’t matter I forget exactly the quote I can I can look it up but it was it was an outrageous quote and it was a bad bad look and all that well Dame Lillard doesn’t doesn’t do

That kind of stuff so anyway the the Bucks got got off to a good start not a great start a good start they had one of the top records in the Eastern Conference and they fired their coach Adrien Griffin uh turns out he was not the problem but they fired him anyway

Because they perceiv like the team wasn’t good enough to win a championship so we know they hired Doc Rivers and that was the F-word foolish it was the f word Doc Rivers coached teams I I can sum them up in one line Doc Rivers coached basketball teams in big moments

Are like flatulence they’re silent but deadly when it matters most and and while we appreciate the honesty of Doc Rivers nevertheless small sample size but you are what your record says you are and the Milwaukee basketball team is three and seven with Doc Rivers coaching them they have players who doc himself

Is admitting have have checked out for a nice tropical getaway and and that’s fine but that’s embarrassing if you if you own the team it’s embarrassing like what are we doing here like seriously what are we doing and yet again yet again a doc River team

Is going to need some Irish Spring to cover up that body odor for the playoffs I was actually texting uh one of the my buddies who covers the NBA a lot more than than I do and we were going back and forth and he was explaining that the

Biggest problem with the Bucks is Dame Lillard is getting divorced and it’s screwing up his game that he can’t you know he this is such a big thing and it’s a big thing when you get divorced right it’s a lot of you know a lot of

Stuff you got to deal with and it’s a it’s a it’s a messy situation for all involved right and so Dame’s going through a divorce and he has been unable to compartmentalize the stuff off the court with the stuff on the court and he pretty much admitted that it’s not like

It’s it’s a secret he admitted that a while back now turning the page headline from the Great Salt Lake where the Jazz were playing the Warriors now this is a huge story to me uh I know our news Department apparently tonight does not think it’s that big a story but the

The dynamic duo over the last decade in the NBA and maybe I’m wrong in this I don’t know I just do the overnight show uh but the the two dynamic duo players were Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry we know Klay Thompson has fallen on hard

Times he’s a shell of what he had been but he was still starting every game for the Golden State Warriors well Golden State benched Klay Thompson for the game against the jazz on Thursday it’s kind of a big deal you see Klay Thompson last time he was healthy and did not

Start a game was 12 years ago for the last 12 years either he’s played and started or he hasn’t played because he was hurt but that was his rookie year 2012 the last time Klay Thompson did not start a game so what are your thoughts on Steve cerb

Benching Klay Thompson so I have a couple theories on this now I believe it was a direct result of the brain fart he had against the people’s team the Clippers play made the ultimate dum dum play the low basketball IQ play when he fouled Russell Westbrook when Golden State had

Hit a money ball they were down by three in the final seconds and and Steve Kerr had a very public hissy fit had his hands on his head he was he had all the gyration on the sidelines it was it was like a vaudvillian comedy act because

You had you had Klay Thompson foul behind Clay is Steve Kerr dramatically running and putting his hands on his head like he was so disgusted but I’ll tell you this it worked wonders now Brandon psky started for the Warriors and he played okay and he’s been better

Believe it or not a guy who’s got kind of goofy name to say Brandon psky but he’s been better than Klay Thompson but that benching was like pungent smelling salts either that or the fact that the Jazz blow but it was a wakeup call it was varnish remover and wowzers Klay

Thomps coming off the Warriors bench at 35 points seven of 13 from the Moneyball land and these are the ups and downs and that’s how it’s going to be Klay Thompson likely going to leave Golden State unless he takes a dramatic pay cut he’ll be on some other team next year

And we’ve talked about this a lot over the years he is a falling star do not let a falling star fall on you do not do it all right final thought headline we go to Denver where the reigning NBA champion and Nuggets only have one more Allstar than the Fox Sports Radio

Basketball team they only have one Allstar representative and that is the two-time regular season MVP nicoa yic The Joker and I bring this up because Aaron Gordon you might not know who that is because he’s not a household name but he plays for the basketball team in Denver

He believes he he he said quote it doesn’t make any sense for this to happen that the Nuggets after winning the championship only have one Allstar on the team now Gordon went on a mini rant although he did not say uh he didn’t say too much that was

Outrageous uh and he couched it at the End by saying that peanuts it’s peanuts to an elephant was the way he couched it but he did say it doesn’t make any sense so thumbs up or thumbs down are the Denver Nuggets getting a raw deal from

The NBA Allstar voters the allar game so I’m going to go a thumbs down on this I’m going to go thumbs down and this is an unpopular opinion but to me this is a feather in the cap of the nuggets the players don’t want to hear it the

Coaching staff doesn’t want to hear it but it is a testimonial of the teamwork and let me make my my pitch to you why that is in the words of the great Greek philosopher Aristotle if he were analyzing the Denver basketball team here’s how he would describe the Denver basketball

Team the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and the fact that the Nuggets want a championship have a really good record again this year one of the top records in the Western Conference they’ve been neck and neck with Minnesota the Clippers and Oklahoma City but when working together there is

Harmony in the Rocky Mountains I things are going very well and as for the peanuts to an elephant line which Aaron Gordon said at the end there uh it’s a good line and contrary to popular belief elephants do not eat peanuts that myth and it’s been in a lot of movies and

Cartoons and things over the years but it originated back in these circuses the great massive circuses that had elephants and tigers and all the different animals before now now it’s a true dog and pony show at the circus uh now they have humans flying around that’s that’s about it but back in the

19 century and they would they were trying to sell peanuts to get people to buy peanuts and in a marketing stunt to get people to buy peanuts they would feed some of the peanuts to the elephants like they’re so good the elephants are eating them but in reality

Uh elephants don’t actually eat peanuts unless somebody at the circus throws them in their in their mouth uh that’s it uh they eat like plants and fruit and bark and crap like that