UNDISPUTED | “Dame is the cause?” – Skip Bayless reacts to Bucks dismissed coach Adrian Griffin

UNDISPUTED | “Dame is the cause?” – Skip Bayless reacts to Bucks dismissed coach Adrian Griffin

Good morning it’s f s one skip the BS and put everybody at the BS PS all I spit is fsbr debate I got time to dat tripping on the my diamond say what they got to say if you think it’s a game I com I

Ain’t got a play on in the morning I own my opponent my competition it’s not an issue it’s C tisue unconventional controversial convoluted uncal undeterred and Undisputed good morning it is time to skip the BS it is time for Undisputed it is time for me to say hey to my two favorite sparring partners the two former NFL stars and lifelong Laker fans oh keesan Johnson Richard Sherman whose Lakers last night lost again to

The Clippers whose Lakers fell to 22 and 23 Ninth Place in the west while the Clippers the team in the basement at the Crypt has risen all the way to 28 and 14 just a game and a half out of first place in the west oh the shame good

Morning to you two and congratulations yes skip congratulations good morning the Clippers the Clippers beat the Lakers yay let’s hang up a banner he you guys hung one and that’s the last I’ve seen of you guys right I told Kean we should I know you said it all right

We’re going to get to our AFC and NFC Championship ship game predictions and our dinner bets in just a few minutes but let’s start and stay in the NBA as I just mentioned biggest shocker of the day yesterday if not of the entire NBA season was first year Milwaukee Bucks coach Adrien

Griffin fired after just 43 games likely to be replaced by Doc Rivers okay let’s start with this Kean please did Adrien Griffin deserve to be fired in your estimation you know it it it’s funny ski because the word deserve right second in the conference right now

Behind uh Boston you say to yourself do does he deserve to be fired I don’t think I I wouldn’t characterize it as being deserved to be fired I would look at it as saying hey does the Milwaukee Bucks deserve to go in another direction if they don’t think things is working

Out with Griff at the head coaching spot if that’s what they chose to do even though their record indicates something different I think when you look at the defensive efficiency you look at last year and you mentioned it they were going to lose something as you said

Before skip with Drew holiday no longer there that all of a sudden the fourth they were fourth in defensive efficiency they’re in the 20s now so there’s a a a big disparity right there on on that now you talk about okay what do they do who

Do they go h i mean the SE we’re not even at the Midway point right this is still the beginning of the season and you say well Doc Rivers is who they’re flirting with that is the name that’s floating out there and I’m sure within the next 24 hours or so he’ll probably

Get hired in this situation is that a good hire for them I I think so I think Doc’s a really good NBA basketball coach who had great success in Boston mild success with the Clippers and very little success to a degree with the 76ers but he knows how to coach

Basketball so now when you look at it with Doc Rivers the one thing that you don’t want to do is get to be three and one in the playoffs because you know what happens when he’s three and one in the playoffs he crumbles so if they can

Get to two and two in the playoffs cuz essentially if you if you just look at the big three that he had in Philadelphia so to speak and you look at this three it’s kind of comparable right you you had Joel and B now all of a sudden there’s a possibility that you

Could have Giannis and then you get D L and Middleton you Al you had Maxi and Harden along with in be so you you look at that and you say well you didn’t get far in that situation but can somebody with the dominance in the personality that Giannis comes with take

Milwaukee over the hump and come out of the East with Doc Rivers as a coach I think they can I think it it could potentially be a game changer for them yeah I okay I just I don’t think it was deserved skip I think you you know as a

Rookie head coach after you you fire coach bud you know who who had this team playing really well throughout most of the season I mean all his time there they were the highest scoring team the most wins from since 2018 to 2023 then you fire him because he

Loses the series to the the heat which you know it seemed like everybody Lost the series to the heat but the Denver Nuggets and you fire him and you say oh the grass is greener on the other side we can do better you say we need another

Big time score big time playmaker but to get him we have to sacrifice our defensive minded guard who who drew holiday who who we use to stop everybody who changes the the fundamentally changes the Outlook of our defense and you get Dame Lillard who is not known

For defense but is known for scoring that Dame Lillard can put the ball in the basket Dame Lillard comes over your defense drops what did you expect I mean you what what did you expect and so I don’t understand the firing halfway through his rookie year coaching when

You say they were it it to my notes they were 14th in defensive efficiency last year now they’re 22nd and you expect that kind of drop off when you go from a defensive minded point guard to one of the best offensive minded point guards in the league and

Then you go on to say yeah Dame Lillard isn’t scoring as many points as he did last year Well Dame was pretty much by itself last year he can do whatever he wants he he getting the ball he getting as many shots up as he needs now you got

Giannis you got Giannis and jannis needs his and jannis is going to get his points he’s going to get the system is going to be designed around him and you’re going to have to navigate and figure that out you didn’t even give this this coach a full season to try to

Figure out how to make these pieces work these are two two two totally different this is a totally different basketball team than it was last year or the year before that or the year before that and you got to find out how to integrate Dame into this culture and this team and

Instead of letting him figure it out you fire him and and and I guess you know the 40 40 Point loss to the Cavs on January 17th was a boiling point but you didn’t even have Giannis in the game so so I don’t understand really why the

Firing happened I mean I guess I I I guess you you I need more information more internal information maybe things weren’t going well maybe he didn’t get along with the players as well as but why’d you fire coach Bud then you know well there’s a lot of reports that’s out

There Skippers you know that Griff didn’t win the locker room over he lost the locker room he lost the players they stopped wanting to be a part of what he was teaching that’s the the the rumor mill suggests that and they made the decision based on those sort of things

But it’s interesting that that’s even brought up because if you remember and I love Dark Rivers been knowing dark Rivers for a very very very long time if you remember Dark Rivers skip out here in Los Angeles that’s what happened with the Clippers in Paul George and Company

They they kind of fell out of favor with those guys and so now you’re going to possibly insert him in Milwaukee you know some of that went on in in Philadelphia with James Haron company that they kind of fell out with Doc River so it’ll be interesting to see if

They in fact go ahead and pull the trigger how the players are going to respond to Doc as the coach yeah I agree okay so you two played in the National Football League and that game to me because I’ve covered both very closely is very different than the game that’s

Played in the National Basketball Association MH the big difference is that the basketball league is more of a players league and your league is more of an all for one League where the players don’t actually run the sport quite the way the NBA players run their

Sport can we would you guys agree on that sort of principle that premise yes sure I would I would say that the general

UNDISPUTED | “Dame is the cause?” – Skip Bayless reacts to Bucks dismissed coach Adrian Griffin after 43 Games