While Rivers has not given a detailed rundown of the Bucks’ defensive strategies to reporters this preseason and we’ve yet to see Antetokounmpo and Lopez share the floor, Rivers made it clear he would like the Bucks to do a better job taking advantage of their dual rim protectors this season. “I think the biggest change you’ll see in our defense is the basket will never be without one of them. Never,” Rivers told The Athletic during Bucks training camp in Irvine, Calif. “I don’t want Brook running out to f—ing corners. I want Brook protecting the basket. I want our guards to run out to the corners on 3s. “And so the biggest change we’re making is in our shell defense — forget pick-and-rolls — where we would like both of them down there. But one of them will always be there, and those two now are a tandem. And they gotta understand if one’s out, the other one has to work his way down there, and they’re working on that.”
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