Rob Parker – Milwaukee Bucks Hiring Doc Rivers is Lunacy

Rob Parker – Milwaukee Bucks Hiring Doc Rivers is Lunacy

We got to start here the news of the day uh and and a bit surprising even though you know I think we all can look back and say you know what yeah they they weren’t really clicking but the Milwaukee Bucks uh 43 games into the season fire their first year coach Adrien Griffin

Longtime assistant former player and a guy that you know many thought was going to be a good head coach and it didn’t work out I a lot of reasons obviously defensively they were struggling mightily robbed last year they were the fourth rated defensive team in the league um this year they dropped to

21st uh but they were 30 and 13 that’s the second best record in the Eastern Conference and uh actually tied for the second best record in the league but they didn’t look like Rob now who knows I mean they had a new Damien Lillard obviously that’s a big piece Chris

You’re adding am I right like like I’m not sitting here to make excuses or whatever I’m just saying like like they’re not what’s their record 30 and 13 30 and3 they’re not 13 and 30 Chris okay I get that oh yeah he wouldn’t have even gotten this far if that was right

But but to get fired nowadays with a 30 and 30 can you imagine these older coaches looking going are you serious like that well I think what it speaks to is the desperation that this franchise is feeling right they just made a big trade and let’s face it Damen Lillard

Who we all know is a is a great player top 75 whether you think he should be or not he is and he’s certainly a first ballot Hall of Famer he hasn’t played as well as usual and do you blame that on the coach do you blame that on Lillard

Whatever but I I do think to your point and I correct me if I’m wrong I think you’re kind of saying rob I mean it was going to be an adjustment you were losing Drew holiday who was one of your key pie you’re bringing in a star who

Has the ball in his hand so it’s not going to happen overnight and uh maybe things as time went on would have gotten better but they weren’t willing to wait um because I I gotta be honest right right now I think Boston looked better I think Philly looked looked better and Miami

Getting Terry roier that’s a move I really like I think they we know they’ve had Milwaukee’s number I think they probably in the postseason would have had a great chance of beating uh milwauke so I don’t know if this will work out but I think those are a lot of

The reasons and Rob let me say this and and Giannis here’s a quote Giannis had after they lost to the rockets on January 6 this tell me if you agree with me this is a death quote for a coach and I’m not blaming Giannis but when you hear this

You got it does not speak well of the coach here it is now defensively we have to have a plan this is Giannis what is our strategy are we going to give a lot of open threes are we going to let them get in the paint with they go in the

Post are we going to stay with ours and play one on-one what is our strategy right now we’re giv everything we are giving everything we are giving the threes we are giving straight line drives we are letting guys play in the post and get comfortable we’re giving

Offensive rebounds I mean Rob am I wrong or does that sound like we don’t agree with the strategy we don’t even know what the strategy is defens no Chris you’re being nice I mean that that was it right there there you could go right back to that quote if your ownership or

Management or whatever and you’re like okay uh no no they don’t even the players don’t even know what they’re doing Giannis is complaining about defense forget that you gave away your best defensive player like like act like that didn’t happen right right right like that Chris people said that they

Getting torched on the uh when they made the trade right the first thing people said is you just gave up your best defensive player like this is why you a really good defensive team and now you know Damen Lillard’s not that right okay so so so you’re going to give up

Something you got Firepower offensively but defensively you’re going to give up something and and to you know I I I would expect Chris like there would be some Scandal behind the scenes or the players that total no no no I’m saying I could accept

That more to get rid of a coach at 30 and 13 this early in the season season It Ain’t About Chris where you are now I’m sorry it’s about where you are in in April you know what I mean or when but it it really is like it’s a progress

Like like being the number one seed now doesn’t guarantee you anything it just doesn’t I mean like look there’s the record was fine right offensively they were fine defense was the problem you look you make a legitimate point for giving it a shot and maybe something

Will come out that there were you know issues or whatever that’s what I’m saying that like that’s what it feels like to to make this move you this was not like some guy who hadn’t been around hadn’t paid his dues Chris right all this other stuff this is a guy who’s uh

Bred in the NBA and what were about 16 years as an assistant I mean like a long time a long time with a lot of lot with a lot of teams he”s been around here’s his opportunity and you give this guy a cup of coffee in a Sweet Roll and say

That’s it wow no I I hear you and that’s that’s legitimate now Rob the big thing is a big part of this too is Doc Rivers apparently about a month ago Doc Rivers at the longing of the owners of the Bucks became the consultant for Adrien Griffin

And now he appears to be the league candidate I don’t you know he’s certainly one of the league candidates Chris Chris I’mma stop you cuz this is this is lunacy okay this is absolute lunacy please I don’t understand it I I get Doc Rivers long coaching career won a

Championship we gave him a parade we do confetti on his head all that long time ago Dude that was a long time ago and now here we go again after he’s been put like he had the Clippers job with Kawai and Paul George he was in Philadelphia with embiid in that group

And and that didn’t work out and now you’re going to send him to Giannis really okay I I Rob I’m with you I I why why we and look we said everybody knows we first guessed this we said this when doc went to Philly yes why you remember we were floored we

Were floored that that that happened Doc Rivers has blown more 3-1 leads than any coach in history he’s blown three of them three 31 leads he’s blown 432 leads Rob and another 2 lead and I don’t mean four 3-2 leads that were 3-1 leads at one point separately all right

I what why and I’m not saying docs are horrendous this coach nobody saying that but Doc is has he shown that he can get the team over the hump the Clippers hired him they were a good team they had Lob City to get past the second round never did it and then

Uh tyo comes in he shows up and and and Kawai is hurt and they get to the Western Conference Finals right I’m just saying like and I’mma throw this I throw this out for a lot of the jobs that are out there I know he ain’t going to get it

Rob I like to see him get Mark Jackson a shot I know they won’t whatever reason he’s black balled Kenny Atkinson is another name I think of Kenny Atkinson as a guy that would be good for a rebuilding team young team Scrappy get the most out of him when he was in

Brooklyn Rob the Stars didn’t want him yep I just I I don’t know man they I don’t know where they’re heading the the NBA starting to feel like the NHL chis I don’t know how closely they fired coaches left and right and now it just seems like like like coaches are just

Getting tossed out like everybody wants Darin ham fired everybody like like more so than ever before they just won the in season tournament Chris and two weeks later they’re like get rid of Darin ham he doesn’t know what he’s doing yeah right

THE ODD COUPLE – Chris Broussard & Rob Parker react to the Milwaukee Bucks firing Adrien Griffin as head coach and potentially hiring Doc Rivers.

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