Here’s Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers on finding a trusted bench lineup when Giannis Antetokounmpo & Damian Lillard aren’t on the floor following this past weekend’s 114-113 home loss vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers (5-game losing streak).
(via Milwaukee Bucks):
Reporter: “We’ve talked about it a little bit this year, but just what have you seen now when it’s Giannis [Antetokounmpo], Dame [Lillard] on the bench? It feels like it’s not necessarily every time, but a lot of times they’re losing points.”
Rivers: “Our bench: we’ve gotta figure that out. That’s on us. We have not found the correct rotation yet, and we have to. I do like going small a little bit like we did in the third, but we don’t have the right guys to do that obviously. The small lineup is more designed with Khris [Middleton], but we don’t have Khris. I still thought it gave us some punch, some speed, but there’s some negatives to that too that we saw. So, we’re just going to keep searching for that.”
