Milwaukee Bucks have fired HC Adrian Griffin, sides working on a deal to make Glenn “Doc” Rivers their next Head Coach.

[RennisDeynolds]

 

[RennisDeynolds]

 

[RennisDeynolds]

 

[RennisDeynolds]

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Giannis: "Git rid of him or I'm gone. I take talents to Bull if need be. You guys can git Delozen and you can watch him shoot 15 footer entire game."

 

[madness]

Giannis made the call. Now he's gonna give a rah rah pep talk to the media tomorrow about how getting fired is actually a sign of success, and the rubes will eat it up.

 

[L. Deezy]

I hope not. Thats a blown 3-1 lead waiting to happen

They need to call Coach Bud back like... "Hey Big Head"

Lol

 

[LezJepzin]

Sonics fire coach Bob Weiss

Jerry Tarkanian fired as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs after 9-11 start in 1992

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Two cacs who were fired well before the 45th game of the year.



Them nikkas in win now mode. They fired Bud..a championship winning coach & tried Griffin. Clearly it’s just not a good fit. Can’t blame them for that.

He actually posted the answer to that.

Jerry Tarkanian fired as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs after 9-11 start in 1992

SAN ANTONIO - Success in college does not always translate to success at the professional level. Case in point - JerryTarkanian with the San Antonio Spurs. Tarkanian built a dynasty at UNLV, taking them to four Final Fours and winning a national championship in 1990. Tarkanian went 509-105 in...

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At least Tark got to finally coach his prized UNLV recruit, Lloyd Daniels.

Ironically, Daniels was the main reason why his coaching run with the Runnin' Rebels came to an end.

From Wikipedia:

Daniels attended UNLV and was slated to play on the basketball team under coach Jerry Tarkanian. One of Tarkanian's assistants, Mark Warkentien, became Daniels' legal guardian.[5]

Daniels enrolled at Mt. San Antonio College, a junior college near Los Angeles, to improve his academics. He played one game for Mt. San Antonio's basketball team, but later quit to focus on improving his reading proficiency. However, on February 9, 1987, Daniels was arrested for buying crack cocaine from an undercover policeman.[4][6] Although Tarkanian was known for taking in troubled players, this was too much even for him, and he announced days after the arrest that Daniels would never play for UNLV.[4] It later emerged that Daniels had first been led to UNLV by Richard Perry, who had been convicted twice for sports bribery.[7] Perry's involvement resulted in an NCAA investigation that ultimately forced Tarkanian to resign.[8][9][10]

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Gianni's gonna have to hold the L when they get bounced in the playoffs I don't want to hear him spin it this time

 

[steph_harden]

How many rookie coaches took a ready made, top four team to the chip?

Damn just looked it up:
Kerr, Lu, Nurse and Mazzulla.

I guess buddy wasn’t it. Why fire and not have a coach in mind. Maybe the are negotiating now.

How would get them over the top right now? Doc? Van Gundy?

That was Udoka not Mazzula

 

[Bleed The Freak]

And for those talking about the record the Bucks have played the easiest schedule so far and the offensive gameplan sucks and defensively they regressed.

They would have gotten exposed after the all star break.

Anyone who saw that team play in the last 30 days knew this

Their defense was absolutely atrocious

 

[steph_harden]

was it?

stotts was a cac who couldn't respect a black man authority. I'm sick of this bs narrative being spread.


Shams Charania from The Athletic reports that Stotts and head coach Adrian Griffin had an incident during the shootaround.

According to a report, Griffin finished the shootaround and gathered the team for a huddle. During that huddle, Griffin informed the coaches that he wanted to have a separate huddle with them once they wrapped things up.

However, after the players and coaches huddle, Stotts went with the players instead of staying with the coaches. Griffin called Stotts to join the coaching huddle. When Stotts asked for some time with the players, Griffin yelled for Stotts to join the coaches' huddle. The incident occurred in front of the entire team, those sources said

Yea Stotts was probably angling for the job and it was disrespectful of him to ignore Griff. But u don’t scream and embarrass your co worker in front of the team. shyt immediately cause tension and throws off the harmony and balance of the staff. If you present that to the players they are quickly gonna lose respect for you.

He should have pulled Stotts aside and checked him privately. As wrong as Stotts was he still commands a level of respect since he has 30+ years in the game as a coach. You can’t just scold him like he was some kid…especially when he was the Damn offensive coordinator and had such a familiarity with Dame.

That shyt was really the start of the ending for Griffin because Stotts leaving really threw the team off and set them back.

 

[JackRoss]

KOBE YEAR
nikkaS NOT fukkING AROUND

LAKERS FIRE HAMAS

What is going on out here?

 

[Born2BKing]

They should have given him time to sort it out. Unless you are a long time head coach it's a learning curve. I honestly think Giannis made the call.

Nothing happens in that organization if it doesn't go through Giannis, so of course it was.

 

[Elim Garak]

Nothing happens in that organization if it doesn't go through Giannis, so of course it was.

That’s not exactly true because I recall him not wanting Kidd fired.