Doc Rivers reacts to Milwaukee Bucks missing playoffs for first time since 2016

For the first time since the 2015-16 season, the Milwaukee Bucks didn’t qualify for postseason play.

The Bucks were officially eliminated from the playoffs with their 127-95 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night.

After the game, Bucks coach Doc Rivers pointed to a lack of health and a lack of star power for the underwhelming outcome of the season for Milwaukee.

“It’s been disappointing, obviously. Since I’ve been here, I haven’t had a healthy stretch, and it’s been your key guys. It’s been Giannis. It’s been [Damian Lillard]. And you hope you can play through that, but we just haven’t had the ability,” Rivers said.

“This year, having only one quote-unquote star, every other team has two and three. We needed health. We were thin. We knew that before the season started, and it just didn’t go our way. All the talk and all that stuff probably didn’t help either.”

This story will be updated. 

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