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Agree. It was Pops in game incompetence.
Seriously doubt Pop's pre-game impact played any role in Embiid going off
Agree. It was Pops in game incompetence.
I'll actually go the opposite way of this one. I don't care that Embiid went for 70. We lost by 10 to a far superior team while their star player had a career game, and generally hung in there. This game is at the bottom of the list of examples of why Pop needs to go.
Bucks just fired Adrian Griffin
Doc Rivers on the shortlist
Bucks have the second best record in the Association and just fired their HC. Meanwhile, in San Antonio....
"What have you done for me lately?" - Red Auerbach
Riding the GOAT talk to your grave despite record/results (which I don't think Pop even is, that's Red or PJ) is NOT common at all in sports, in any era.
Is Griffin popping the owners wife or daughter.
I mean i have seen some Bucks game this year and while they look disoriented at times, 30-13.
Vs Doc Rivers what in the F-ing _uck!?
National media half got their wish. They've been whining since Griffin was appointed, upset that Antetokounnmpo wanted him over their buddy, the unethical self promotor Nurse.
Unfortunately for them, Rivers, their favorite punching bag will be taking over instead of one of their preferred white buddies.
Well at least Tom will be good enough to get them to a 3-1 series lead
If the Bucks hire Rivers that‘ll be hilarious. Especially once they lose to the Sixers in the playoffs
Thats Aaron Rodger’s girl tbh. Maybe it was the wife tho
But for real tho Lillard got him fired. Giannis doesn’t have the balls to do it and Lillard is a cold mfer. Probably didn’t like the way his coach treated Lillards old coach. Only way a coach of a winning team gets fired this early in the season is if the star players agree to it
Damn, is Giannas a coach killer?
Last game with OKC was sort of a stark compare/contrast. Not just Victor vs Chet. Two youngest teams, yet two way different ways to rebuild. I don't think Pop is senile, I just think he started tanking way too late. Not many others share my theory, but I still believe the DDR years was all about Pop holding on to get his record. Now he has committed to tanking for last year and now this year evidently. You see OKC as a team that knew when to jump ship and aggressively tank. Hard to critique Presti now after last night.
As for what Pop does next, it feels like he's got momentum with tanking and I don't see him quickly changing directions until he is gone. Everything with San Antonio and the Spurs moves slowly.
The problem is the whole franchise is waiting for Pop to make his decision and no one will make him as far as I can tell.
I suppose beyond that the biggest issue is for the team to be able to evaluate talent. This draft will be a huge test to look through the pile of ambiguous talent for this year.
Anyway. Just rambling.
The same people who used to clown presti and saying he’s overrated because of that PATFO link is now saying how they knew presti is good all along which is why he left PATFO.
Sounding more like Liliard.
Altho hard, near impossible to believe they canned Griffith without Greeks approval.
He says he's very surprised. If he's not acting.
So all the sniffers can start preparing their justifications when the Spurs don't reshape the roster this summer:
A far cry from:
I had a coworker accuse me of being too negative today. we are 8-36. Im just reading the standings you Popsucker.
Durant left in 2016. They agressively tanked after 4 years. Kawhi left in 2018 SA agressively tanked after 4 years.
this is a clear sign of them overrating the roster
Hard to believe Griffin was fired at 30-13 without an opportunity to coach a playoff. It’s the opposite extreme being demonstrated from a FO. The Bucks have some holes that are going to be exposed against top teams and those had nothing to do with who’s coaching.
Spurs have major holes in their roster as is being proven simply by inserting an average point guard into the starting lineup and seeing the +/- improve dramatically. Our FO is awful. Pop clearly doesn’t have his foot on the gas but maybe it’s just because he knows pushing this team too hard isn’t going to produce much more in the win column. And, that said, I’d argue his coaching drive is clearly not at the level it used to be.
It was a wrong hire to begin with. Never should have hired a first timer for a team with championship expectations. They are a bottom feeder defense, masked by an acceptable record. One of the best podcasts I watched about this said that you have to have a defensive system, and stick with it. Budenholzer did, come or high water, and they were always good on D because the players knew what they were doing. Oh, and don’t lose your star player. Giannis refusal to come out of games showed that Griffin didn’t have the locker room. The Stotts incident showed that he was massively insecure, as well.
Bellichick not being able to find a HC job
Sounds about right tbh
We've never seen Pop take a bad team and make it good. That's not to downplay his success, he's had possibly the greatest NBA coaching run in history, but this is new territory.
I'm sure this has already been observed by others, but until now he's really only developed young players within the construct of a compe ive team. Now that he's in this position it's almost like he thinks losing is a better teaching tool than winning, and that's a scary prospect for the next couple of years. When your head coach doesn't care about winning, that's toxic.
Apparently the nail in the coffin was Griffin's obvious animosity toward Giannis' brother. Saying stuff like he didn't belong on the team, etc. That'll get pretty much any coach fired if your organization wants to keep an MVP around.
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