The Milwaukee Bucks are adjusting their style ahead of the 2025-26 NBA season, but head coach Doc Rivers insists the shift is not about copying the Indiana Pacers or any other team.

Speaking to The Athletic’s Eric Nehm following the Bucks’ first training camp session Tuesday, Rivers addressed speculation that Milwaukee’s new approach mirrors Indiana’s up-tempo, chemistry-driven model that carried the Pacers to the NBA Finals last season.

“There’s a difference,” Rivers said. “There’s copycats. Everybody spent years trying to be Golden State, and nobody was. We’re not going to be (the Pacers). We’re going to be us.

We’re going to play at our pace, but we’re going to do things quicker. We are changing because I think that’s how we have to play. But if we were a slow, big team, I wo

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