Grizzlies FIRE HC Taylor Jenkins weeks before the 2025 NBA Playoffs

[The God Poster]

Calls were made. League wants that Steph vs Bron 1st rd match

 

[concise]

Who cares?

It is never too early or too late to fire a bad coach.

 

[Damnshow]

Ok I can understand the coach firing after reading more of the grizzlies fanbase

But what the fukk is this shyt?

Ja had let down his team with all them suspensions and he wants to play primadonna picking which games he's trying hard? Cause he don't like coaching? Bro should be happy he didn't get fired after cosplaying as a GTA character.

How about stay healthy and help your team do something in playoffs like winning one series?

 

[In The Zone '98]

This story is moot because the offense is a cultural philosophy

He gonna be mad a lot going forward

 

[Conan]

Ok I can understand the coach firing after reading more of the grizzlies fanbase

But what the fukk is this shyt?

Ja had let down his team with all them suspensions and he wants to play primadonna picking which games he's trying hard? Cause he don't like coaching? Bro should be happy he didn't get fired after cosplaying as a GTA character.

How about stay healthy and help your team do something in playoffs like winning one series?

He's done that dummy

This story is moot because the offense is a cultural philosophy

He gonna be mad a lot going forward

And coaches who can't utilize their best talent will get fired if their best talent stays frustrated with their coaching.

It happened with Adrian Griffin. It happened with David Blatt. It happened with Darvin Ham.

Occasionally you'll get a retard like Nico who trades his best player away for peanuts.

 

[Blackrogue]

Still doesn't make sense. Complaining about the offense but the person who came in with the new offense is the new head coach? Isn't Toumaso responsible for the offense?

 

[Don Homer]

No thank you id rather beck

I’d be fine with that too

 

[DonRe]

Odd odd timing.

Probably found fukking a staffer. Aint no way aint some bullshyt tied to this. Theres like 10 games left

 

[901Cory10]

Still doesn't make sense. Complaining about the offense but the person who came in with the new offense is the new head coach? Isn't Toumaso responsible for the offense?

nope that would be Noah laroach who was also fired

 

[StatUS]

They brought in that offensive guru from overseas.

They probably just wanna give him the reigns and trade Ja in the off season.

Apparently they fired this guy too

 

[holidayinn21]

Still doesn't make sense. Complaining about the offense but the person who came in with the new offense is the new head coach? Isn't Toumaso responsible for the offense?

The no-screen offense they were running all season was Noah Laroche(Jenkins guy). He was fired

The PnR offense they were supposed to run initially was Tuomas Iisalo(The FO hired him)

 

[Regular_P]

What we’re hearing about the Grizzlies’ surprising firing of Taylor Jenkins

Preseason staff changes set an uneasy tone for the season to come in Memphis, and now there's uncertainty as the playoffs loom.

www.nytimes.com

What we’re hearing about the Grizzlies’ surprising firing of Taylor Jenkins

Preseason staff changes set an uneasy tone for the season to come in Memphis, and now there's uncertainty as the playoffs loom.

web.archive.org

But when it came to Taylor Jenkins and his future in “Grind City,” the writing was on the wall last summer. And it was written in tears.

In early July, three months after a disastrous, injury-riddled 27-55 season had come to an end, the Grizzlies front office, led by executive vice president of basketball operations Zach Kleiman, made the unilateral choice to swap out five members of Jenkins’ coaching staff.

While Jenkins consulted with the front-office on the hires for six replacements to his staff, those final interactions between Jenkins and the assistants he was forced to fire, league sources say, would set an uneasy tone for the season to come. As some close to the Grizzlies saw the situation, it was only a matter of time before Jenkins would be gone, too.

Former assistant Tuomas Iisalo, whom the Grizzlies hired before this season, will take over as interim head coach, the team announced. He and fellow newcomer assistant Nate LaRoche were driving forces behind Memphis implementing a renovated, motion offense this season, which lifted the Grizzlies to sixth in points per possession, an adjustment the front office encouraged. On Friday, Memphis also fired LaRoche, as well as Patrick St. Andrews, another assistant hired before the season, a league source confirmed. In the end, it’s clear Jenkins’ diminished organizational support coupled with the Grizzlies’ decline over the past two months did him in.

In large part because of its first-year assistants, Memphis has revamped an offense that formerly struggled in the halfcourt. Once reliant on pick-and-rolls, it now leans on clever cutting and off-ball movement. The Grizzlies set fewer screens than any other NBA team. This philosophical shift was a point of contention as this season progressed.

League sources say Morant, in particular, was upset that last summer the team let go of one assistant with whom he was particularly close, Ahearn, who worked with the two-time All-Star more than anyone on staff. This season, Morant worked most commonly with LaRoche, a former trainer with individual players who was in his first season as an NBA assistant and, like Iisalo, played a pivotal part in implementing the new offensive system.

Morant played his entire career for Jenkins and remained supportive of the coach up to the end, a league source said. Morant did not, however, like the new offense. He has played in just 43 games this season, missing this most recent stretch because of a hamstring injury while also dealing with right shoulder soreness. But when he’s been on the court, according to a league source, Morant has complained about the new scheme, which takes the ball out of his hands and removes the screens he likes to use as a ball handler to make plays.

One league source who has seen Morant work out with the Grizzlies recently said, “Some days he looks like he’s ready to play, and some days he looks like he doesn’t want to be there … because he hates the offense.”

Jenkins had begun to reinstall some of the plays Morant likes, a league source said, reimplementing the pick-and-roll and other plays involving screens Morant could use to break free. If doing so angered Kleiman and played a role in Jenkins’ firing, one could understand, but LaRoche was the driving force behind the Grizzlies going away from ball screens to begin with — and he’s gone too.

Sounds like Jenkins got hoed by the front office.

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[Damnshow]

Like I said, their franchise ain't shyt. Those who own Grizzlies are Vivek levels of bad.

 

[staticshock]

What an unserious franchise

Them nikkas will be in Seattle or Nashville soon