Perk ISN’T BUYING that Giannis was surprised about the firing of Adrian Griffin 👀 | NBA Today

Perk ISN’T BUYING that Giannis was surprised about the firing of Adrian Griffin 👀 | NBA Today

The Bucks they were in action for the first time since Adrien Griffin’s that is so P they look a little un phazed yeah jannis put up 358 and 10 in their wire to wire win over the Cavs and then after the game Ted Topo he spoke for the first time about

Their coaching Change in Milwaukee take a listen I think he caught me by surprise um I’ve been here 11 years this have happened one time before I love the guy I invited him to my wedding you know uh I talked with him I was coached by him and we did very very

Very well I got to trust the front office I got to trust the ownership group that they can see the bigger picture my job is to be the best version of myself to lead the this team out there and help win games and their job is to you know create the best team

Possible and the best atmosphere around the team possible yeah honest didn’t know do you believe him oh my God I am so surprised I did not see that coming he got fired what why do you sound like this is really wow all I know is this Adrien

Griffin will still be there if jannis out to Copo wanted him there period it ain’t no end no say but at the end of the day though Adrien Griffin out Doc Rivers is in so who is facing the most pressure to make this work in Milwaukee because that’s the reason there’s a

Coaching change yeah unfortunately it is Doc Rivers because Giannis he said he’s been there 11 years and the reality is that in those 11 years this is his sixth coach they changed the dial on that pretty quickly we all know W sat at this desk for the last two days and dropped

Some bombs and what he said to close our show not too long ago was that this is Doc Rivers’s last best chance to really coach at a high level he’s getting you know gianis San de kmo Dame Lillard a really good team and so as much as the

Players like we all know they can’t make Personnel tweaks right like they just don’t have the assets to make Personnel TW he’s going to have to coach his butt off to make up for the defense and also get them back on track and yeah I know

We’ve seen a history there but I think it’s co it’s not fair but it is him listen I am not going to start I look look I am not going to start a relationship with somebody that is 5 foot 6 and then complain that they not

Six feet tall you know what you are getting with Doc Rivers we are not in a situation here where Doc Rivers can be in a space where I I don’t don’t my point is this we know who the hell Doc Rivers is the pressure is on in my

Opinion it is on Dame Lillard when we are spending more time talking about what they lost than what they got back that is an issue they’re like oh well their defense is 22nd and they lost Drew holiday and they lost this and and this is what they had to give up you’re not

Talking about you just got a top 75 player but won’t Dame have multiple opportunities to potentially win a championship no no no D is last best chance no when I say last best chance I mean in that this window Doc Rivers is gonna be there for two seasons three but

Dame is gonna play for another five or six or seven years yes but he’s not going to be Dame lard for five or six or seven more years maybe if it’s three or four D under PR well y’all could stop going 22 in defense y y’all could stop

Going back and forth because both of y’all are wrong okay the the person who needs who is under the most pressure is Giannis right Giannis is the one that put pressure on the organization to trade for Daman Lillard and get Drew holiday out of there Yannis is the one

That has been there for 11 years with six different coaches Giannis had his hand in Mike boen hoser getting fired Giannis had his hand in Adrian Griffin getting fired so don’t come sit up here acting like it was a surprise it wasn’t no damn surprise Yiannis know exactly

What’s going on he has a voice in that organization Yiannis an to Copo since Aon Rogers has left Wisconsin he is the biggest superstar in figure he is Wisconsin he he is Milwaukee so don’t come tell me anything about pressure no other no other areas I don’t want to

Hear about Dame I don’t want to hear about Doc is all about Yannis okay so the guy that’s won a finals MVP in the last few years and and and a championship won all of that the there’s a coach that hasn’t won hold on I let you finish there’s a coach that hasn’t

Won anything since 2008 wa let let me finish look at me let me finish no he’s he’s making my point here meish right so 2008 has won a championship he has a long list of playoff struggles right a long list of playoff struggles then you have another guy named Dame Lillard who

Just came over and he is a Hall of Fame player one of the NBA 75 greatest he is Dame time but but in this situation their defense has dropped to a point where it is like it is unrecognizable so if I’m walking into this situation is it

The coach that not a lot of people believe can be the deciding maker in between second round in Conference Finals is it the coach or is it the player that has not proven to keep that team at the elite level Giannis is the reason why they’re in this position to

Be successful in the first place Dame will have a lot of opportunities doc won’t that’s what I’m saying in this moment Doc is under pressure to do the most with the least given their circumstances with their personnel but I agree with you at the end of the day

People are going to say did D win a championship or not doc has Giannis has the Dame Doc is gonna be with him for three years that’s three years of Dame Lillard window one one look can we stop with the game sevens and Doc not winning game sevens no we cannot

Absolutely hold on bro hold on I’ll let you talk let me finish did you really the reason being is because in game sevens majority of the time and speaking from experience because I didn’t played with so many Hall of Famers y your Superstars they take you home in game

Sevens it’s no game planning in game sevens either you got it or you don’t when you up 32 when you up 31 up out out out we we label Giannis as one of the most dominant players he’s going to be one of the most alltime greats how

Do we lab how do we view them we got to keep the same energy we keep for Kevin Durant a Steph Curry a LeBron James one Championship is not enough one Championship is not enough and you have the pieces around you to get it done you’re second in the Eastern Conference

Can you get it done again because look one could argue that they were KD big size 18s if he wasn’t on the line he wouldn’t have won the championship that year Yannis got to get it done and the pressure is on him Doc is a Hall of Fame

Coach I I think he’s a great hire for this job but at the end of the day when we’re looking at it we know who Doc Rivers is it he has been for 15 years it’s been up 31 up 32 the you just said you

Said hold on we need hold we need to back and for out this is the best team Doc is the most championship ready team that Doc Rivers has had since 2008 and when he was coaching the Celtics I would agree okay so the pressure is on him

Then the Golden State Warriors they were back in Action last night for the first time since the death of assistant coach dehon movich and here’s how they honored him last night the Warriors they wore shirts that said bratte which translates in Serbian to brother they also had his

Initials on the court m his family his wife Natasha his children Masa and NOA were in attendance for the game The Warriors as you can see they wore special jerseys with his name on the back and Steph Curry Draymond Green Klay Thompson clearly emotional and as Steph

Hits his first three here of the game watch him here afterwards he dedicates this basket to dehon which the team called Dei and the Warriors they really just got rolling from there Richard yes no this was a big you you talk about emotional win but some of it is they had

Those two games that were canceled spent five days really just being with your thoughts not able to use basketball a as an escape but I think if this team cannot rally with this moment here then yes a lot of people have been saying their Dynasty their run might be over

But this is an opportunity for them to come together and they were led by Jonathan kaminga last night Jonathan kaminga I mean he went crazy CH he absolutely did and you could just see the Warriors they’re playing with joy I think you know they all were looking for

Each other and it just was true Warriors basketball I mean look bearing the ball Steph doing his thing this is what we expect and I think it was a truly special moment for them to honor their their coach kaminga I mean Steph is loving what he’s seeing from him golden

State gets the win 134 to 112 the Warriors they now have seven games remaining in the two weeks before the trade deadline all but one of those games is against a team within a half game of the playin tournament so Richard you touched on this this might be the

Most important stretch of the season for the Golden State Warriors just when you look at the fact that they’re still three games games under 500 one game out of the last playing spot do you think CH that there is a world in which the Warriors can turn the season around

Right now I think they can definitely turn the season around I do think that their expectations have changed like I’m no longer thinking that this is the Warriors of two years ago that can make a run to the NBA finals I think they just need to figure out what is working

And what is good and be able to beat the teams that they’re expected to beat you know what I saw yesterday was Steph being Steph clay making open shots the ball moving around them playing you know just you could see you know a weight off of them because they realized that they

Had been brought together through this tragic circumstance and it just reminded you back of like this is this is them at their best this is them at their finest now unfortunately their finest is different the landscape of the West is completely different way more competitive they’re going to have some

Big decisions to make but they can win more than they had in the first half of the season but they’re not the team that we thought was you know the Champions two years ago okay look my last year in college lude olsson’s wife she passed away she passes away in the middle of

The Season he has to take some time away that was like our mom but that was really our rallying cry for the rest of the season that took us to the final four and we were just we were kind of struggling cuz our coach wasn’t around this is a different situation but it’s

Still a family member you have a family member that you break bread with every day that has been working with players every day last year we knew that there were some internal squ squabbles we knew that there was some pettiness there were some things going on they tried to

Change that so now this is a perspective moment for them right nothing’s guaranteed these are a rare opportunity to have this group together and if we want to ma maximize it this is not a about contracts anymore this is not about who’s playing who’s starting this

Is about hey we have an opportunity here and and can we maximize that opportunity so I stand by if this can’t be a rallying cry for this team to say we still have enough and the last thing I’ll say is this they’re similar in my opinion in a very different way to the

Milwaukee Bucks the Milwaukee Bucks are struggling because some of their role players are looking like they’re older they’re looking a little bit slower they don’t look like they have that same burst and I see the same thing with the Golden State Warriors their core group is a little bit older they don’t don’t

Have that exact same burst and that’s what made them dominant not just their three-point shooting so they got to get some of that energy some of that fire back and these are moments that can help that I mean the question is Right are the war can the Warriors turn

This season around from disappoint being disappointing to real contenders and the answer is no um I think they got a three game stretch at home right against Philly and I believe what is it the Lakers and the sacrament know Kings tonight like this is the stretch that’s

Going to identify to the front office uh with Mike Don leevy and and Joe Lake of whether or not they should move in a different direction and you just touched on how this team look old I mean the speed lder is not going to help them out

Right like going do agility is not going to get them faster like at the end of the day the Milwaukee Buck still got Damian Lillard and jannis an tupo the Milwaukee Bucks are 30 and 13 this team is struggling and I feel like at the end

Of the day last night was the emotional win and rightfully so but still they still got a lot of ground to make up and I just don’t see them turning the corner to getting back into the contentions M being a contender if if they’re going to

It has to start right now another team that really [Applause] [Applause] can’t

Perk ISN’T BUYING that Giannis was surprised about the firing of Adrian Griffin 👀 | NBA Today
The NBA Today crew react to the Milwaukee Bucks firing Adrian Griffin after 43 games and then hiring Doc Rivers as the next head coach and discuss how the Golden State Warriors can turn their season around.
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0:00 Giannis’ comments on the Bucks firing Adrian Griffin
1:50 More pressure on the Bucks players or Doc Rivers the rest of the season?
6:00 Perk says it’s time to hold the Bucks accountable
9:00 How can the Warriors turn this season from disappointing to real contenders?

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