The Bucks Fired Coach Adrian Griffin…

The Bucks Fired Coach Adrian Griffin…

What’s the word y’all Adrian and Griffin just got fired the last 24 hours the association do do y’all really think about how crazy the league that we follow is we saw a person drop 70 points shout out to Joel and B we saw somebody

Else drop 62 and a in a loss Kevin R had 43 and a game winner and now we see a head coach get fired while having a 30 and 13 record and it’s just interesting I was surprised and I not because I believe that Adrian Griffin had the job

Security of Eric spoker because I didn’t think that Adrian griffi was doing a great job but the timing of it is what surprised me I mean we’re we’re in the numbers in the board studio and it broke right right live on the show and we’re like wait there was no rumbling as far

As we know that this was about to happen and then boom it happened the 30 and 13 record by the way again circumstances are different but I just want to put it on on on a different perspective a 30 and 13 record as again the two seed in

The Eastern Conference and the leader right now for coach of the year is OKC OKC’s Mark Dayton who has a worst record by percentage by percentage so our eventual maybe Coach of the Year might have a lower win percentage than this guy that just got fight now again

Coaching in basketball is more than wins and losses but again 30 and 13 30 and 13 now again I do not believe that Adrian Grifford is doing a very great job and 30 and 13 maybe is underperforming where you have Damen Lillard and Giannis but it’s just you know but even with that’s

It this is not the first time in recent history that we’ve seen a a coach get fired while coaching a good team David BL also had this happened to him um back in 2016 where he had a 30 and 11 record now adj Griffin got two extra games now

He got two extra games but um he also got fired and of course Tyron L took over and they went on to win an NBA championship so Bucks fans history can repeat itself I I guess but only time will tell now the last two Gams for the miwaukee Bucks have not

Been pretty they well a lot of their wins hav been pretty and that’s one of the reasons why adri Griff got fired but the last two specifically you had backtack uh games against the Detroit Pistons and in both of those games these These are G okay so the way I’m watching

Basketball right now halfway through the season I am picking and choosing the games that I want to pay attention to when I see Bucks versus pistons on the docket I don’t care to watch that right but with four minutes left in both of these games the Pistons are in it so I

Switch over to see what the heck is going on that’s what happens you let the Pistons hang around for two straight games people start looking at each other like I I don’t I don’t know about so and so and so and so so right now Adrian Griffin just got fired um this the

Tenure of the 40 something games of Adrian Griffin as a head coach has not been pretty right it started off with Terry STS um Terry stots was the was the the lead assistant on the bench for his this coach of staff and eventually before the season started Terry Stott

Said deuces now there there was reported there was an altercation between him and and adri Griffin not like a physical tussle but like an argument SE and so forth and it was enough for Terry stots who had been around the association as a head coach granted for a very long time

To say heck this is not built for me now some of us speculated that he was just so used to being a head coach not being a head coach was just too much to take in some people said that Adrian Griffin is moving a little bit differently for a

Guy with zero experience right so that happened we thought it was weird but we didn’t think too much about it next thing the team started off dreadfully defensively and hell they’re still not good defensively right now but the start of the season was even worse and then it

Got to the point where the te the people around the team were like hey Adrien this defensive scheme you got is running is Dreadful we want to run the thing that help us win a championship just a few years back adri G said you know what y’all are right and then eventually we

Saw a lot more drop coverage from Brook Lopez and and they’ve adapted that a little bit more and their defense has got better it’s still not good but it has got better since then that’s another thing and then the next thing I can

Think of on top of my head that he had a very particular rotation that Damen Lillard hated Dame said I I am struggling to get a rhythm because my entire time in Portland my rotations were a certain way I want to play all 12 minutes in the first quarter that’s the

Way I get my rhythm and then adri G said you got it Dave you got it so that’s three different things just off the top of mind I’m not I’m not deep into Bucs fanom there might be more that y’all can comment down below but there’s three different things where people are

Looking at Adrian Griffin as a first year hecko said bro you’re doing this wrong and those are just the things that we know that he accepted the fact well I don’t know if he accepted the Terry St thing but we know that he was like you know what y’all are right that don’t

Tell us what’s going on behind the scenes of a player or another coach on the staff saying hey we need to do this he might be like nope that’s not the way I want to do things we only know what we really know so they decided that this

Man was not the coach for them to win that Championship because when you trade for Damen Lillard and you have Giannis you have a top two player in all the basketball on your roster there’s no real room to figure it out if that makes sense and I honestly think this goes

Deeper than coaching um I I I honestly do believe that with him being a firsttime head coach there are a lot of things that he didn’t really anticipate and keeping together a locker room and having a group of people behind you as a head coach is something that you can’t I

Guess I guess you can’t really look look past it and I don’t know if this is the original tweet but this comes from Ryan rude knew Adrian griffi was gone when I saw Giannis drawing up plays on the bench last night I just yeah but this is

Obviously jokes and jokes and jokes but you know like stuff like that now there’s probably a broader conversation to be had about stuff like this that I’ll probably go deeper into it when I have a full hour to talk like the candy Beach podcast links is in the description about

Players players the start players of an organization like Giannis especially in a smaller Market deserve to have their voice be heard right from all of our understanding Adrian Griffin higher was because Janis endorsed him to the max they interviewed a lot of different people and that was the guy that Giannis

Thought could put them over the hump and obviously they thought they thought wrong but I’m sure there’s a broader conversation about how much your star player should have in decisions like this that’s all um who who would have thought that Adrian Griffin would have been the first coach fire considering

There are a lot of Coach around basketball that are underperforming you know again given the circumstances you can argue that 30 or 13 is not good enough or the way they got to 30 or 13 was not good enough now from the rumors and this is from W and this from sham so

Maybe not so much rumors uh Doc Rivers is at the top of the priority list for the Milwaukee Bucks anytime I see something like that I’m just assuming that he’s going to get the job I just it’s hard to find a person on the street that could do the things that you want

To do and maybe they believe that Doc Rivers is that guy for them does that change their Championship aspirations I’m sure there’s some people that were going to say no Doc Rivers over the course of his career other than 2008 has been a subpar coach come playoff time I

Mean we’re talking about the coach that has the most 3-1 leads blown as a head coach you know um but some people are going to say hell that’s even with that that’s better than what we were experiencing with AJ Griffin because I know Bucks fans in my personal life that

If again they didn’t think that he would going to he was going to get fired on this random day in January but they were saying that they don’t believe that Adrien Griffin is the guy some of the ones that I’ve talked to said that they don’t believe he was the guy this year

But maybe he can grow into that guy and I guess ownership and the players in the locker room decided we don’t really have time to watch you grow into that guy you know it’s it’s it’s somewhat similar but maybe not so similar to to last year we

Saw out of nowhere Joe moula had to be the coach because eay udoka did some stuff and E udoka had to get fired for it and um well Joe moula took that assignment and and he came into a team that already established itself as one of the better teams in all the

Basketball and of course they didn’t go on to win a championship they flamed out in the in the Conference Finals but the team decided we saw enough in in this this young coach to say we believe that he can be the guy to get us over the

Hump in in the next coming years and then they gave him an extension of course they traded for poras they traded for for uh Drew holiday and so on and so forth but they saw this young coach on their coaching staff and because of some extreme circumstances put him as the

Head coach and he blossomed right first year head coaching is objectively hard especially when you’re jumping into a team that have the aspirations to win a championship now if you look at recent history we’ve seen a decent amount of first year head coach go on to win championships Nick nurse came in with

The Kawhi Leonard year we saw uh Steve Kerr come in with the first year of the Golden State Warriors so we’ve seen first year head coach do this but they’re few and far in between when you think about just a grand scheme of NBA history and and one of the most

Underrated things under appreciated things about building a culture and becoming the championship team and and again that the Bucs are that just did this a few years ago is finding the coach that the players the organization and everybody believes in Mike Malone is that guy in Denver Eric sposta has been

That guy for like 20 years at this point obviously Greg papovich has been that guy for a very very well break PO is about 20 something years and then I I I feel like spoker have been around for so long I think it was like 20ish 2009 201 so it hasn’t been that

Long but he’s a guy that’s been through a lot of different ups and downs with his organiz and never have we heard any rumors about exposer name being on The Chopping Block finding the guy to be your guy for 5 plus years in current basketball is so very hard and maybe

They thought that Adrian Griffin was going to be that guy but now they’re opting to try to find a accomplished experience coaching and this is what Adrian Griffin is asking and um I’m sorry not Adrian Griffin uh Adrian wojanowski is is saying on Twitter so of all the people that are available that

Sounds like Doc Rivers you know what I’m saying I don’t know who else really interviewing are you interviewing Mike Danton oh you thought the defense was bad wait till Mike Danton get in town so I don’t know exactly who that head coach is going to be um but just this random

Tuesday in January saw a coach get can part of me wants to go back through the timeline of who was available when Adrian Griffin signed on to be the head coach uh because this was a this is one of the best coaching off Seasons we had

We had like Nick nurse and again I don’t know when Nick nurse or who signed first but there there were just a lot of really good coaches on the market this year and they opted to go to Adrian Griffin so I just need to go back throughout the history and see who

Signed where at what day but I just remember it being like Oh my God there’s a lot there’s this coaching Carousel is going to be kind of crazy this year and again they opted to the first year coach um with his own coaching staff and stuff

So uh yeah I I don’t I don’t really know let me know what you think in the comments section Joe prudy again is the interim coach where they go through these interviewing processes Joe prudy has been an interim coach like four times or something three to four times

At this point um and every single time he coached okayish I guess uh so yeah you let me know what you think is Doc River the right guys or somebody else was is the right time to make Adrian Griffin um out of the head coaching job I don’t know I guess time

Will tell

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