Doc Rivers takes his scapegoating to the next level

After the Bucks dropped a sport to the 15-win Washington Wizards, Rivers advised reporters the staff lacked professionalism on the highway, the place they’re 18-20 this season.

“I’ve simply been sitting again and watching every part. Not simply our gamers however our journey crew, every part,” he stated. “Everyone appears comfortable, you realize, however apart from me after our sport.”

Wednesday evening, the Bucks misplaced 111-101 to Memphis in Milwaukee, suggesting that in addition they haven’t got professionalism and seriousness there.

Damian Lillard is out with a groin harm and Giannis Antetokounmpo seemed drained Wednesday, however the feedback from Rivers appear to comply with a sample famous by his former participant, ESPN’s J.J. Redick, who criticized Rivers in February for “at all times making excuses…at all times throwing your staff beneath the bus.”

Now evidently Rivers is even blaming the staff’s journey workers for his or her losses. Doc Rivers has by no means hesitated accountable a participant for his staff’s failures, however normally he would not scapegoat the staff’s tools managers or logistics specialists. Apparently they are not reserving resort rooms and arranging busses with sufficient professionalism?

Weirdly, it is not the primary time somebody on the Bucks has blamed the workers for not being sufficiently dedicated.

Perhaps the tools supervisor actually is slacking? Are the Bucks dropping video games as a result of their uniforms are filthy? Does Antetokounmpo play higher when he has his most popular cloth softener? 

In seriousness, it is a unhealthy signal that the playoffs have not arrived but and Rivers is already blaming folks for his disappointing staff, which has a .500 file since he took over. If the staff would not get it collectively quickly, the Bucks’ accounting division, public relations workers and even Bango the Buck could be the subsequent ones that Rivers blames.