{"id":477190,"date":"2024-01-30T06:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T10:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477190"},"modified":"2024-01-30T06:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T10:01:25","slug":"bucks-demand-patience-after-losing-vs-denver-in-rivers-debut","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bucks-demand-patience-after-losing-vs-denver-in-rivers-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks demand patience after losing vs. Denver in Rivers&#8217; debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Doc Rivers&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> match from the bench as manager of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/milwaukee-bucks\/\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> in Denver, he was already talking about how crucial patience would be.<\/p>\n<p>For the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in his 25-year coaching career, Doc is becoming head coach midseason, a challenge he admitted &#8220;he wouldn&#8217;t wish on anybody.&#8221; At the same time, Milwaukee is getting comfortable with an entirely different approach after 1<sup>st<\/sup>-year manager Adrian Griffin was dismissed and Doc took his place.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tough one. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MY7yYsBZxE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MY7yYsBZxE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks\/status\/1752188205095375154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to take a while,&#8221; Doc claimed before Monday&#8217;s 113-107 defeat against Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets spoiled Rivers&#8217; Bucks coaching debut with a defeat, dropping him to 1-4 in his career in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> match with a new organization.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Doc Rivers blows a double digit lead and loses to the Nuggets in his first game as the Bucks head coach. He&#8217;s already in playoff mode! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lU1CbZ9yNO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lU1CbZ9yNO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joki\u0107Nuggs?? (@JokicNuggs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JokicNuggs\/status\/1752187533449117730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The most positive thing for Milwaukee was their defense as they limited the Nuggets to 113 points, forcing 2-time MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> to take 25 shots to notch 25 points. Despite that, the Serbian finished with a triple-double as he had 16 boards and 12 assists, while Jamal Murray finished with 35 points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvnRH71LYws?si=j54r1AnXIYiVHx7H\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Doc Rivers&#8217;s 1st match from the bench as manager of the Milwaukee Bucks in Denver, he was already talking about how crucial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":477191,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16726,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17841,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Milwaukee preached patience after the defeat in the Doc\u2019s debut.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477194,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477190\/revisions\/477194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477190"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477190"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}