BAD LOOK! – Stephen A. BASHES Bucks’ ‘tone deaf’ actions after Adrian Griffin’s firing | First Take
Right after the coaches fired the dancing the comments do you feel like it’s a bad look by Giannis in the Bucks in poor taste it was a very bad look a very bad look and I’m not accusing anybody of anything other than appearances I think that Giannis is a
Superstar in this league and if he wasn’t enam with the coach he has every right not to be enam with the coach I think Damen Lillard is a superstar in this league I’m not saying he felt that way but if he wasn’t them with the coach
He had every right to be not not enamored with the coach um at the NC in um n Season tournament in Las Vegas obviously red flags was raised as we articulated on this show because uh Giannis and his response to a question of mine about the team and he went into
It about the coach and how we just didn’t seem we we seem off-kilter disorganized he was using words like that which is not something that’s good for any coach to hear about themselves so I knew the handwriting was on the wall all you know me Molly I came on
This show on three separate occasions and said that I didn’t think that Adrien Griffin was going to last a year and sure enough he didn’t last more than 43 games having said all of that the bottom line is this this man went through 14 interviews before he finally got a head
Coaching job on his 15th tribe over the years um this man was fired to ver to have the very first game after his dismissal and y’all are acting like that clearly um you’re either tonee uh which is bad in and of itself or you really didn’t care you wanted the
World to know how happy you are that he’s gone and I just think that when you look at it from that perspective um to be on camera doing that knowing everybody’s watching knowing that everybody’s talking about how he got let go and you got the new coach Doc Rivers
Coming in there shortly um these guys are usually class personified they conduct themselves in very high and pristine fashion uh they to be admired and revered and then last night happened and I think the best thing to say is that it was not their Shining Moment
What I would tell you is this it it it’s not it’s not that I don’t see where JJ reck is coming from it’s just that um if you going to tell a story tell a story um if you don’t believe Doc Rivers a coach you played for is going to get
Them a championship JJ reck is more than qualified to make that point got love and respect for him you know that but the flip side to it is that as unfortunate as it was for them to fire Adrien Griffin the handwriting is on the wall when you have players talking about
How they don’t respect the coach how we’re disorganized and we’re discombobulated and you’re using those kind of words like Yannis used weeks ago that made headlines everywhere because you’re highlighting the level of ineptitude that they were not accustomed to when being coached under Mike buen
Hoser all of these years and so when you go and you’re giving up 121 points per 100 possessions and you’re ranking 28th or 20 you know 27th and 28th in defensive efficiency in a month of January after finishing fourth overall in the NBA last year and you look like
You can’t stop a cold you know what desperate times call for desperate message John hon is a pretty damn good executive I think he’s proven that and major props to him for just being able to keep Giannis and Milwaukee all of this time but he’s not making a move
Like this lightly there’s no way in hell that he’s going to roll up in near 43 games in and make that kind of decision and here’s where our throat lean on my experience Molly I’mma beat right for the Philadelphia 76ers I don’t I don’t I’m not trying to throw anybody under
But I’m just I have a job to do and we talking Sports here I just got to tell a story during the Philadelphia 76ers Randy SS is coaching the Philadelphia 76ers they in East Rutherford New Jersey in a game against the Nets it was his first year as the head
Coach and Glenn Big Dog Robinson no disrespect big time player Big Time offensive player comes to Philadelphia and wasn’t too fond of playing for Randy AES and he walks off the sidelines after being taken out of the game he walks off the court towards the sideline he bumps his shoulder to
Randier Billy King Billy King fired him the next day and I said what happened man and he talked about you cannot have players openly feeling that way about a coach and keep the coach it’s not fair it’s not right I know that but no coach can
Coach his team if they don’t have the respect of their players that’s what happened in Milwaukee not physically but subliminally that’s what happened but Stephen that’s why is gone if there’s no respect I mean right but yeah yeah but that’s why Adrien griffi is gone because the players clearly and four games into
This SE mly they had to pull him to the side and tell him Brook Lopez don’t need to be out there switching and trapping at the three-point line you need to get his big behind down in a low post and guard the rim they’re looking at it like
Why do we have to tell you that you can’t see that Brook Lopez think it was really a fair shake for him like I understand listen they want to make a run they they’ve got ready to go but yeah I mean that that I don’t think it
Was fair but but here’s the deal it wasn’t fair but it was necessary because even though we may feel it’s not fair after 43 games as Wendy said yesterday you can’t find anybody in the NBA that’s saying that’s a bad decision which is another indictment against Adrien Griffin unfortunately I don’t say that
With any pleasure I truly don’t I was rooting for him and I hope he gets another job but when that kind of stuff is being said about you you cannot Stay
BAD LOOK! – Stephen A. BASHES Bucks’ ‘tone deaf’ actions after Adrian Griffin’s firing | First Take
On First Take, Stephen A. Smith says the Milwaukee Bucks’ pregame dancing and postgame comments are “a very bad look” in the wake of Adrian Griffin’s firing.
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35 Comments
How you An analyst and ain’t analyzed that they do this before every game as a ritual? What are we doing?
This is getting disgusting at this point. Yall hate Giannis soo bad that you guys gonna go to pregame dances as a bad optics hit piece for the coach firing? What kind of journalism is this? Now don't get it twisted, Adrian Griffin was not the right coach for this team, but Giannis should've handle things better with Bobby Portis when that reported incident happen in the Lockeroom. Because he's suppose to be the leader of this team. But besides that, this segment is just a hit piece on the Giannis, but because they have favorites and Giannis ain't one of them
these clowns who keep bashing the bucks. and the clowns who dont have giannis as top 3 for mvp race will soon be eating there words
let the countdown begin.
Please just stop justifying the firing and praising the GM and executives. If they were that good why would they need to be firing anyone they hire. The problem is them not the coaching staff. They are clueless on running a championship team.
finally i agree with stephen about something
They do that all the time. It only mattered now because of the firing. That aside, the Bucks front office pulled a Raiders and made an impulse decision without a plan. Fired a Champion coach for a rookie. It should be a bad look on the organization that they made such an idiotic move that resulted in that type of behavior when they corrected it
🤣🤣🤣🤣
they do this every game for year… this is ridiculous
They lost a coach and they’re supposed to be low energy and sad so they can lose more games?
I'm not the biggest Steven A Smith fan, but the comment section's Zone Defense for the Milwaukee pregame shuffle failed to cover a key point. Tone Deaf to the fact that a Minority coach was ran out of town, yet the dancing couldn't wait a few games? 🤡
The Greek, Dame Time, and the Bucks upper management have just put their chips all in for a coach who did nothing with his last two CHAMPIONSHIP ready teams. In the words of that dude from the other end of the phone in Taken…"GOOD LUCK."
What postgame comments are y’all talking about? I watched both Giannis and Dame’s postgame comments and they were completely professional. Stop with this non story nonsense!
The same idiots who were crucifying the refs for not allowing the players to play and keep the game fun are now complaining about a pregame dance that these players has been doing all season long?! Give me a break.
Did it ever occur to you that they could have been rooting and advocating for Joe?
Hey Stephen, SHUT UP!
Bless up from Nassau 242! I just subcribe too your channel… That's really petty how the Bucks fired they coach and they 30-13 now I want judgement too hit that team now Giannis and the Bucks will not win a championship this year you watch… #CryBabyGreekFreek
giannis is a diva. bucks deserve glenn. i'm looking forward to spoelstra dissecting them.
It another term for warming up for the game.
Just say you don’t watch the bucks play, Stephen!
They were like what 30-13 and they're supposed to be crying over a coach getting fired? SAS trash takes as always. When is he going to become irrelevant?
I think think Griffin had to go despite the record, but I don't think Rivers is the answer. And Stephen A has always hated Giannis, so no surprise he's badmouthing him here for something his team does before EVERY game.
Stephen A Smith is still suffering from PTSD from comments Terrell Owens said about Max being blacker than he is. So much so that he’s going full pro black in situations where it’s unwarranted.
They dance before every game 😂 Stephen is just dumb
What’s wrong with dancing
Players get cut, summarily dismissed, harshly scrutinized and replaced every day, every season. They're not good enough; upside not high enough; too old; not mentally tough enough; not talented enough- no problem.
Stephen A just don’t like the Bucks. We been knew that.
"Oh deer" 😆
Yet y’all didn’t like what Jameis and his team did against Dennis Allen
But aint they do this before every game ?
Does Stephen A even know what went on between the coach and players? He's just poisoning the well and doing typical clickbait headlines.
I think these diva players need to learn their place the coach is above you the players should be fined when questioning or speaking ill of their coach
The man got fired, he didn’t die😂
people were saying earlier in the year, u have Giannis and Dame and they have the lowest pick and roll usage in the NBA????
Stefan Urquelle is really scraping the barrel here. I bet he doesn’t even know what hand he would shoot a basketball with….
giannis not the humble guy yall think he is and its coming out slowly
It’s more relieved for Giannis and his teammates! They played very relaxed basketball and fun and actually played defense! Don’t judge Milwaukee Bucks for having fun and pulling together before the game! Imagine if they lost, oh the media will chewed Giannis and his teammates for not playing just because their coach gets fired! Either way Giannis and his teammates do or don’t do, they will judged the same way anyway! You can’t please anyone! I glad Milwaukee Bucks are having fun!