Doc Rivers is finding ways to get his two stars working together on offense, and it's working for the Bucks.
Lillard began to drive toward the basket and Antetokounmpo set a screen right near the 3-point line, forcing Lakers starto turn his attention toward Lillard, who responded with a bounce pass to Antetokounmpo.
"Listen, you want to win all these games, but that's the stuff that we're going to keep doing more and more and more until it becomes us," Rivers said after the loss to the Lakers."There was a stretch where Dame and Giannis were playing a two-man game and it was unstoppable.
"We've laughed about it in practice," Lillard said." be like 'All right, Giannis set the screen. Throw it back. Now dribble it back to Dame. Dame throw it back.' And we're just going back and forth with each other for 15 seconds."Because he's done it so many times in practice and shootaround, it went from a joke to now ... it's reached a point where we're playing the game, but doing the next action with each other in mind," Lillard said.
"Now we work on it. Sometimes, he hits me in the pocket, I look, there's nothing there. Come right back, now what going to do," Antetokounmpo said after a win against the Clippers."Now, we are more patient, we have to play the game more. But again, we don't talk about it only, we practice it." "Doc has done a great job of talking about our spacing after they give us that attention," Lillard said."We're having guys cut so they have to account for a guy under the rim and then we got two shooters, one defender and we're making the extra pass a lot more often."
"You've got to keep all three guys in rhythm at the same time," Rivers said Sunday."That's hard to do. Oftentimes, in basketball history, the third guy is the one who gets the least shots -- Chris Bosh,with Golden State, Ray Allen with the Celtics -- but you still have to find a way to keep that third guy involved and aggressive. That'll be the trick."
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