After the Milwaukee Bucks’ 112-108 loss to the Houston Rockets on Saturday, player Giannis Antetokounmpo took a hard stance against his team, claiming that nobody is showing “pride” in their defensive play.

According to Antetokounmpo, “offense is going to be there some nights, and some nights, it’s not going to be there.” “However, you must make an attempt to defend. We also didn’t put out enough effort defensively. No pride was present.

“The players were simply moving the ball, making straight-line drives, advancing to the paint, fouling, making three-pointers, and grabbing offensive rebounds.” Nothing was present. This wasn’t the team from Milwaukee. We are not like this.”

Milwaukee lost for the third time in four games, and although the Rockets didn’t have a particularly good offensive night (43.4 percent from the field overall), Antetokounmpo’s annoyance is evident.

It’s possible that Antetokounmpo’s remarks are just pent-up anger following Indiana’s two losses to the Pacers last week, in which the team surrendered a staggering 264 points. In a 125-121 victory over the mediocre San Antonio Spurs—who shot 48.4 percent as a team in the defeat—the problems didn’t exactly get better.

In fact, the Rockets’ offensive production was the third-lowest of any opponent of the Bucks in Milwaukee’s previous 19 games. The Bucks’ recent struggles with careless rotations and poor communication were evident in this game as well; Houston simply missed shots.

“We need to improve. Antetokounmpo told reporters, “We have to play better, defend better, trust one another better, and be coached better.” “Everything and everyone needs to improve. The equipment manager needs to wash our garments more thoroughly. Improved bench play, increased vocal leadership from the team’s leaders, increased shooting volume, improved defense, improved strategy, and overall improvement are all necessary. We’ll see; we have four months to recover.”

It’s not like the sky is falling; Milwaukee is second in the Eastern Conference and has the third-best record in the NBA (25-11). Nevertheless, this is a team that embarrassingly lost to the eighth-seeded Miami Heat in the first round of the NBA Playoffs a year ago, blowing a great opportunity to make the Finals. The front administration moved quickly to make changes, trading for Damian Lillard to get a second superstar and dismissing coach Mike Budenholzer in favor of Adrian Griffin.

There is tremendous pressure to make changes—and quickly.