Doc Rivers isn’t worried that the Milwaukee Bucks are 0-8 against the top three teams in the Eastern Conference. Likewise Damian Lillard.
For them, this is still the qualifying round and there will be a long break before the play-offs.
The team bowed to the New York Knicks for the second time this season and in both cases recorded double-digit losses.
They he lost three times each of the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, although it’s fair to say the Bucks could have won a game or two against those eastern rivals.
Lillard stands by this statement. He’s not too worried about the fact that they have a losing record in the qualifying round against the top three. He accuses him of this based on experience.
I’m talking to reporters after the game, Lillard he spent his years with the Portland Trailblazers put your current achievements into perspective compared to the best teams in the conference.
It was in the 2018-2019 season that the Blazers lost four times to the Oklahoma City Thunder, then led by Paul George and Russell Westbrook. The playoffs are a completely different league, and the Blazers and Lillard looked to up their game and defeated the Thunder in five games in the first round.
This run includes him epic walk-off match winner before Paul George.
Damian Lillard said that they should learn from these defeats
But Lillard doesn’t take these losses lightly. He said they should continue to change their attitude as the season progresses.
“I think we just have to understand how a lot of these games ended. We had difficulties against New York,” he said, as quoted by Eric Nehm of The Athletic.
It’s not just bad habits that the Bucks need to consider. Even the things they did well that almost won their games.
“I felt like we played really well against Cleveland. …We played against Boston in all those games. Possession here, possession there, we could have won all those games. I think it’s a long season, it’s a journey. When we look at our matchups against these teams, we just have to understand what it was.
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