THE MORNING AFTER the Bucks had turned a double-digit lead into a blowout road
loss in Chicago on March 1, Rivers called for a team meeting. If the Bucks
were to rally into a play-in spot, this week was the most critical. The Bucks
next faced a short-handed Boston Celtics team in Milwaukee on a back-to-back
set March 2 before a pivotal contest against the Hawks.
Rivers, who won an NBA title as coach of the Celtics in 2008 and will be
enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame later this year,
started the meeting by imploring his players to look up his résumé, six
people in the room told ESPN.
"I took teams to the playoffs and to the championship that weren't supposed to
. I thought this was one of them," Rivers told players in the session. "Either
you're with us or against us. If you're not playing hard, we're not playing
you anymore.
"I know everything that goes on in this building."
Rivers showed clips of forward Kyle Kuzma's miscues in recent games. Kuzma was
a DNP-Coach's Decision later that night in the Bucks' 27-point home loss to
the Celtics. It was the first DNP-CD of Kuzma's career.
The session was among a number of instances that rubbed large parts of the
locker room the wrong way and continued the theme of a seasonlong disconnect
between Rivers and the players, according to team sources. When asked by ESPN
to characterize his relationship with his team, Rivers declined to speak on
the record.
在公鹿于3/1对战公牛的比赛被大比分逆转后，Doc Rivers招开了球队会议，如
果公鹿队想要重振旗鼓冲进附加赛名额，这周将是最关键的一周，公鹿会先后对上阵容
不完整的塞尔提克以及老鹰队
据6名在会议上的人员透露透露，这位曾经在2008年带领塞尔提克夺冠，即将入选篮球
名人堂的球员要求球员们去查一查他的履历表
"我曾带领那些不被看好的球队打进季后赛甚至是总决赛。我原本以为这支球队也是其中之
一"
Doc在团队会议上这样说
"现在你要么加入我们，要么与我们为敌。如果你们不努力打球，我就不会再让你们上场"
"我对在这体育馆内发生的所有事情都一清二楚"
Doc随后在会议上放了Kuzma的失误影片给大家看，那一天的比赛公鹿以27分之差
惨败给塞尔提克，Kuzma也领到了DNP
据球队消息人士透露，这次会议是让休息室大部分成员感到不满的事件之一，也延续
了Doc跟球员长期存在分歧的问题，不过Doc本人对此拒绝评论
这篇还有提到说公鹿这一季的目标本来是想用这阵容证明给字母哥看还有影响力
总管跟教练都跟球员保持只要好好维持现况，会随着赛季好转，但球员曾经要求教练严格
指教或是改变战术，可是随着赛季进行 大家都知道这球队完蛋了
有匿名跟球员跟媒体说公鹿毫无自我认同可言 最后就是Doc在团队会议上把气氛也炸了
要大家看看我的经历 要球员振作 但没用
https://reurl.cc/9WRE3v
另外还有一段
The players made points to each other and called out one another to try to
overcome their rut. Multiple sources said Kuzma told teammates, specifically
Rollins and Porter, that they can't take what was said to heart, not to worry
about the coaches and to be their best selves moving forward. Coaches learned
of Kuzma's message over the next 24 hours, and Kuzma did not play in the
following game against the Celtics. Rivers said after the game that it was a
coach's decision, and sources said the two had a conversation later in the
week to hash out the situation before Kuzma's return to the rotation.
球员在尝试把话说开去克服低迷的情况是，Kuzma跟Rollins还有Porter说不要把教练说的话
往心里去，不要担心教练团怎么想，只要在接下来的比赛中做好自己就好
然后他就被针对了 后来双方说话解开矛盾后才让Kuzma回轮替