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OT: Bucks fire Adrian Griffin

Edward Sargent said:
And his daughter plays at UConn
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She's out for the season. I can't remember if she has another year of eligibility, or not. She was a fun kid to watch as she was amazingly athletic and made a lot of great hustle plays. Decent outside shot, but she looked terrific when she took it to the hoop.
 
Superstars writing up their own plays from the bench, refusing to change the D scheme to fit the players, obvious relationship issues with players and other coaching staff combined with a record that looks great at the top until you look at how close every game has been. They've been down in the 4th quarter for seemingly half their wins and they've lost or played soooo poorly against sub par competition.

Firing Bud was a terrible decision, firing Griffin made sense. Get it together so they can still go all the way this year and not waste all the talent they have.
 
Bucks fan friend said roughly that Griffin prioritized super aggressive defense that causes turnovers (probably why he liked Andre so much), but the Bucks don’t have the personnel for that so it doesn’t work and end up giving up a lot of paint looks despite having Giannis and Brook Lopez down there

Too stubborn to change playstyle to match the players, guys lost trust, and lost interest playing hard for him. Friend thinks their good record is just a matter of out-talenting everyone else
 
NBA is a superstar league. Giannis/Dame weren't buying the AG view. Case closed. Could tell by watching their body language during huddles/timeouts with AG that something was up.
 
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I read that they are still paying Bud's remaining salary on his contract and now they let Griffin go 4 months into a 4 year contract. They'll be actively paying 3 head coaches salaries once they have a replacement. Wild.
 
Dove said:
Not at the moment.
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How was that relevant when Andre was picked up by the Bucks? Or are you suggesting that the her playing at UConn was a contributor to Andre getting minutes? Honest question.
 
Being reported on the TNT NBA broadcast that Doc is accepting the job, gonna be interesting how many of the younger guys he's going to play
 
87Xfer said:
How was that relevant when Andre was picked up by the Bucks? Or are you suggesting that the her playing at UConn was a contributor to Andre getting minutes? Honest question.
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Probably only saying that Aubrey Griffin is injured and out for the rest of the season .
 
aceboon said:
Being reported on the TNT NBA broadcast that Doc is accepting the job, gonna be interesting how many of the younger guys he's going to play
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Article I posted suggests that a bad defensive strategy that pulled Giannis, Brook Lopez, and Bobby Portis away from defending the paint, and not consistently playing younger guys that could've helped shore up their on ball defense issues were reasons for the firing.

Also Doc worked for the bucks as a consultant earlier in the year so he's aware of the issues and may know that playing young guys like Dre is part of the solution.
 
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87Xfer said:
How was that relevant when Andre was picked up by the Bucks? Or are you suggesting that the her playing at UConn was a contributor to Andre getting minutes? Honest question.
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Edward wrote that AG's daughter plays for UConn. Being that she is hurt, I clarified that she wasn't at the moment. :(
 
CL82 said:
She's out for the season. I can't remember if she has another year of eligibility, or not. She was a fun kid to watch as she was amazingly athletic and made a lot of great hustle plays. Decent outside shot, but she looked terrific when she took it to the hoop.
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She has another year left
 
My only point is that AG has several connections to UConn BB one being his daughter is a currently injured member of UConn WBB
 
bigknight3 said:
Article I posted suggests that a bad defensive strategy that pulled Giannis, Brook Lopez, and Bobby Portis away from defending the paint, and not consistently playing younger guys that could've helped shore up their on ball defense issues were reasons for the firing.

Also Doc worked for the bucks as a consultant earlier in the year so he's aware of the issues and may know that playing young guys like Dre is part of the solution.
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This makes sense. Doc has been at an abnormally high number of Marquette games this year and I thought it was odd. Now I know why he's been in town so much!
 
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Doc has been an "informal" consultant to Buck's GM/AG for part of this season. He's certainly familiar with the roster and what Andre can/can't do and how to utilize his skill set. As to whether he prefers to not to play rookies-I can't say. But he is aware of Andre's talents by virtue of his input/observations with Horst/Griffin over the course of this season prior to him being hired.
 
NJHoops said:
If this happens, I’m launching a rescue mission to save Dre.




Also, Danny- see how temperamental the NBA game is? Stay where you belong, buddy.
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