Shaq sounds OFF on Bucks firing head coach Adrian Griffin 👀

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[@harrisbuild]

Title: SHAQ SOUNDS OFF!! Actual video: Shaq gives a perfectly reasonable take

[@T.Harry79]

I’m surprised they didn’t include Shaq’s surprised look on the thumbnail.

[@RaKnows]

You're confused. Sounding off about something and "going off" hold different meanings.

[@gazzgaspay4841]

thats how you bait views

[@madisonjames4784]

Should've kept Budenholzer at this point

[@philllisphilllis5453]

Highly agreed, that was a dumb firing

[@lorddj9910]

Hell no Mike should’ve been fired way earlier before they did

[@philllisphilllis5453]

@@lorddj9910 like before he won them a championship?

[@lorddj9910]

@@philllisphilllis5453 Correction: Giannis going god mode and Cp3 choking as usual is what won the Bucks a chip

[@philllisphilllis5453]

@@lorddj9910 so coaches just don’t matter either way, gotcha

[@AA-iq1mg]

“sounding off” This is one of Shaqs most tame opinions lol

[@deewood5127]

We know he had to be politically correct......Charles Berkley totally different story!

[@michaelpowell9152]

Damn that’s crazy to hear that he interviewed 14 times for a head coaching job before he got a chance to sit in the 1st chair. To be disappointed is a understatement

[@blablablaa14]

Maybe he is a bad interview

[@prolific1518]

​@@blablablaa14with how quick he got fired, it's clearly something else going on.

[@zooski1516]

@@prolific1518yeah Greek Freak didn’t like the coach = ✌️✌️

[@stephanasrtardedcousin3145]

@@zooski1516nobody liked him

[@JuanP849]

It’s gotta be players having issues with the coach cause don’t forget Portis almost fought him a month back and Giannis wasn’t too pleased with him either, you just don’t fire a coach who has you at the 2 seed without something being internal

[@fitcwebb]

Well we can assume it's not something external

[@telamb9]

@@fitcwebbit could be something personal outside of work never know bucko, you know what they say say about assumptions.

[@fitcwebb]

@@telamb9 The odds of that in this situation are next to none. I'll go ahead and assume it isn't external

[@denigster]

they were obviously bad - thats enough

[@nornor-hg9rm]

Giannis wanted him. That's the reason he was hired. But Dame didn't want him before joining the Bucks. Go figure

[@simply_miki]

Doc Rivers need to pay KG, Pierce, Allen and Rondo for as long as he’s lived off that one championship!

[@Jin125]

😂 true

[@reckless1216]

😂😂😂

[@MeBihhhh]

Did they have rings before him or something?

[@dash4800]

And let's be honest. It was Thibs defense that was largely responsible for that 1 ring.

[@prolific1518]

Keep that same energy with Spo.

[@dub814]

When Barkley ain't around, Shaq sounds like a coach. Jamal Crawford has got some thoughts. I actually enjoyed this discussion.

[@timothymodede8834]

Brought in Doc Rivers was the joke 😅

[@geraldking9385]

Right

[@harrislaurent429]

I have a pretty strong feeling Adrian's firing was not basketball related, If that where 100% the case than Darvin Ham would be gone by now.

[@larrytits]

100% right. This is not game related.

[@rryanc22]

Yeah no my guy if u watch the games two things can be true. Yes non basketball had some part in it but there was still massive issues. 1. The plan was to funnel everything to brook lopez in the drop which left the mid range wide open and if brook had to play help defense then he cant get the rebound. Mid range/floater specialists like trae young tre jones cam thomas exploited this like crazy 2. The bucks had no defensive rotations out of the help which left people wide open for 3 this is how we lost 4-1 to the pacers who got a ton of open looks. This led tryese georges niang and alec burks to rip apart the bucks 3. The dame and giannis pnr was heavily underused and the offense didnt involve much or any off ball movement at all 4. The players didn't really seem to have a voice - e.g the players had to collectively gather the whole team in order to movebrook lopez to the drop which shouldve been a simple request 5. The players didnt like adrian griffin at all look back to giannis subbing himself back in, bobby portis confronting adrian griffin in the locker room, damian lillard having to plea to change his rotations

[@elizaschaeffer34]

Griffin doesn’t know what he’s doing. They need a damn coach. That’s why he was fired. It’s not complicated. These talking heads do not watch bucks games. Bucks fans have ulcers and Xanax prescriptions to get through this season. each game is a stressful battle.

[@azetic1351]

they said he didnt have experience and he didnt coach the game how the players wanted to play

[@frankbeans5921]

Darvin Ham is a coach !? 😮

[@kennn30]

Unrelated to Griffin, but I notice all these guys who have coached championship teams since 2019-2022 have been fired (Nurse, Vogel, Buldenhozer), and I feel like Steve Kerr hasn't been yet just out of respect. Just shows how hard it may have become for coaches to stay with their championship teams.

[@samuelsulaiman]

Kerr been performing bad this season i guess. You never know when he'll get fired.

[@timothymoore2966]

Bob mutes and the president gone Kerr is next don’t worry. I don’t know if I agree but he was handed this dynasty

[@DGoThom]

They will not fire him but he is on the last year of his contract.

[@tynao2029]

Basically all of the players want a coach that will make it easy for them rather than hard

[@rainr.9696]

Tbh, i was one of them who said they need better HC. But i don't expect they would fire him right now. I mean give him a chance for this season, it's his first year as HC. He already gave you all second seed right now, he deserve a chance dude.

[@jpbryl]

Fax. They shouldn’t have signed him in the first place, but Giannis didn’t want nurse to be the coach

[@visualizeme-tz3ng]

You're a clown

[@eternalgamers10]

Dude is a bum, who's in way over his head coaching a win now team. Use your heads Dame time, and ginnas ain't waiting for year 2. Simple as that.

[@MeBihhhh]

He still may be a good coach in the future, but the bucks needed someone that’s not learning on the fly. Doc is only above avg but have handle these situations before and signed with the bucks a month ago as a consultant Learning curve should not be too big

[@TheRealCowlick]

This is a championship or bust team, what do you mean give him time? The hiring was stupid to begin with. You put together this roster, basically running the last year that Brook/Khris/Pat and even Crowder can at least contribute to winning playoff series and you hire a rookie coach, with no accolades, no image and no social presence to coach this team? Firing Bud was a very good move, up until the point where they just decided to replace him with somebody significantly worse…

[@garrettma5758]

They need subtitles when Shaq is talking

[@dantheman8152]

Should have kept Coach Bud!

[@futurehofer1564]

I have not been around the business of basketball and I have the same feeling as Shaq, something fishy going on lol

[@prudhvivankineni4880]

Even dame and giannis cant help when doc is coaching 😂

[@dwade6322]

Jrue Holiday made a difference. Now,it shows😮

[@i.m.2bizee569]

You have to also look at how the head coach treats players and management. Coaches don't always get fired due to a team's performance. A high school basketball coach at a high school in my area won the championship his first season but was fired due to disputes with the AD.

[@HerpaDerp999]

This is 100% something going on behind the scenes. Its his first season and hes got them in 2nd place in the East. Its almost Jimmy Johnson like in its "what the hell is going on?" type of way.

[@prolific1518]

Black coach. It's that simple.

[@kahmarigreen5392]

Bucks fans who actually watch the games know griffin was horrible and was the reason we lost our assistant head coach TERRY STOTTS. Griffins defense plays were horrible and we would lose to teams we shouldn’t have lost to. He would look like it wasn’t a big deal and wouldn’t take those losses seriously and would continue to do the same thing

[@1yungez]

this it right here shaq

[@summerallthetime2616]

But why Doc Rivers?

[@rachelwebber2120]

Ty for the insight

[@Energyclan1]

@@summerallthetime2616I think they were panicking so they were desperate for a new coach. They might even fire this coach after they find someone else.

[@DaNewWaveLee]

TERRY STOTTS?

[@juantootree4990]

it doesn't matter if the players want him gone or if it's something else, if there is disjoint between the players and the coaches in your team, who you gonna get rid of, your 2 superstars or the coach? i think it's good that the bucks are making this decision now knowing it's not gonna work out rather than finding out it the playoffs. now why this happened, who knows, but ya'll need to stop being bitter, this isn't the same as LeGM or durant/harden/irving getting everybody fired.

[@briantep458]

WALMART TNT

[@rileymcphee9429]

I saw Giannis was drafting plays on the bench.. Damn right something else was going on 🤣

[@jonpeterson4309]

They should hire Stan Van gundy. That dudes a defense minded coach.

[@johnnybraxton5539]

DR O'Neal has spoken

[@danielfarmer9533]

Jrue gone. Defense gone

[@dbreiden83080]

Butler lit him up like a X-Mas tree in the playoffs..

[@danielfarmer9533]

Well right now Lillard would get lit up like a fireworks display trying to guard Pat Bev

[@dbreiden83080]

@@danielfarmer9533 Dame is 1 of the best offensive PG's ever..

[@jpbryl]

U dumb asf if u think a team defense depends on only one player

[@danielfarmer9533]

And one of the worst defensive PG ever. He’s a great scorer but he doesn’t try to contain and it hit his coach canned.

[@antno_2064]

Mf is fired because players don’t want to play correctly? Damn! At this point, don’t coach

[@jpbryl]

U clearly didn’t watch the bucks this season

[@antno_2064]

@@jpbryl I don’t need to watch shiiii.

[@rooks9430]

​@@jpbryl yeah, and it's obviously a roster problem?😂 tell me what scheme can make a backcourt of Dame and Beasley make them good defensively? Tell me how this team can get better defensively with Bobby F Portis? It's a roster problem, chud

[@jpbryl]

@@antno_2064Then u know u wrong. U just assuming shit at this point

[@kahmarigreen5392]

@@antno_2064u do before u open yo damn mouth. Griffin was the reason the assistant coach Terry stouts left because griffin didn’t want to listen. Griffins defense schemes were horrible and would cause our team to lose to teams we shouldn’t be losing to. His defense was horrible. The reason the record is 30-13 is because the bucks still have Damian and giannis. So stop. He literally sucked

[@edm1207]

What shaq was trying to say is stringer bell was running the team with good product but the soldiers aint hussling enough to sell it

[@DAWryte1]

Well according to Stringer Bell. If the product is really that good it would sell itself.

[@1lifeonearth]

this is a good thing, anyone who says the coaching is good is a casual. also its damians fault for sucking at defense and not showing up on offense most of the time...

[@owmegwoagm]

Doc Rivers 😭

[@samuelsulaiman]

we know what will happen. He'll choke on finals

[@MrC77]

@@samuelsulaiman I doubt theyll get that far. They're gonna choke a 3-1 lead against the celtics.

[@216Love]

@@MrC77rite they not getting that far

[@B-A-M_10-22]

Man i just hopes they didn’t make the wrong choice

[@texmexman1]

nick nurse gone, frank vogel gone, budenholzer gone. whens mike malone gonna get fired for being white and winning a chip. not making it about race in the slightest but its just weird how quick nba teams dispose of these solid coaches

[@mihawk8676]

Tobias finding his way to bucks hahahaha

[@Geojr815]

NBA is really tryn hard to get Doc his redemption arc. It would be a nice story

[@shprite781]

"Let's watch some basket-strategy"

[@Dog8myhomework]

What did Shaq just say ? They weren’t very cohesive thoughts.

[@Joswag]

Don’t get why they fired Bud

[@youngcity4241]

He had Horrible playoff adjustments I swear y’all don’t watch the games

[@dandan4092]

@@youngcity4241 yet they want to hire Doc Rivers, a man infamous for abysmal playoff rotations

[@LastLapGod]

@@youngcity4241horrible adjustments equals 30-13… bro what 😂😂😂😂😂

[@coreyczech]

@youngcity... Have you watched Doc Rivers playoff adjustments? Doc is one of all-time worst playoff coach

[@jstdun]

​@@LastLapGoddifferent coach man lol. OP is talking about Budenholzer.

[@jq5548]

Kerr and Pop needs to be fired immediately then 💀

[@YvngGoat_]

They should've kept coach bud

[@MeBihhhh]

Stop lying to yourself

[@KingsOwn19]

Could be anything but I’m sure Giannis had to sign off on it.

[@nikhiltrivedi8126]

I love the bucks but feel bad for Griffin at the same time. Hopefully he gets another chance 🙏🏽

[@tylerking5354]

Blazers need to take notes and FIRE Chauncey

[@LegendaryBum-du4bp]

Shaq is right

[@twe_music]

31 & 13 2nd Place In Conference & U Get Fired... Man That's KRAAAAAAAAAYZIE 😅😅😅😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 How U Get Fired On Ur Day Off Griffin 🤔🤔🤔

[@phucyew9394]

Replacing one offence-based coach with another? Yeh that's going to help their defence 😂😂

[@JayEfJai]

I saw it coming after the fight...

[@joncoyne6995]

Players said bye probs texting doc rivers

[@Chillehhhh]

AND NOW THEY HAVE DOC RIVERS HAHAHAHAHAH

[@nikeetime7581]

The players had something to do with this firing

[@shawnchia3611]

Duh. They dont trust/like him or trust his coaching ability

[@serebiipalmer740]

A Sick Work! 💀

[@WhelmedButReady]

Y'all remember Ime's fiest year with the C's and it took till about the midpoint in the season for them to completely flip tje switch and have their best season in over a decade? What I'm saying is MIL management jumped the gun and reacted way too soon. They still had time to work out the kinks

[@marcellthorpe35]

This like when bron tried to get rid of spo bc we were like 11-11 at the start of Miami’s big 3 era

[@squaresided]

Dame takes another one.

[@therealrah]

Their 2nd in the east. He prolly wasn’t clocking out for break idk 😂😂😂😂 😂 firing is wild

[@deesee2051]

Man this why I say championships are sometimes overrated Doc living off that 1 ring forever 😂😂😂

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

The Bucks are currently the 2nd seed in the Eastern Conference and they still feel the need to fire their head coach?! Either Giannis doesn’t like his head coaches past and present or the franchise has bad values behind closed doors.

[@rainbowhouse3427]

I feel like most teams do not respect their coach, they have too much power that when it comes to problems for a team there's always the coach scapegoat. They are too scared to lose their jobs that they play it safe, and do not yell or criticize their players.

[@jeromeharris6060]

Heard about this earlier crazy 2nd place team and fired mid season!!!!! Crazy in sports these days!!!! Thought gambling was the problem Damn!!!!!

[@juantootree4990]

can everyone just finally see shaq as an entertainer and not a sports analyst.... :/

[@justintime720]

It's the office own fault for trading away their defense for a inconsistent street shooter like dame, they really said "cause we fucked up, it's your fuck up now" 💀

[@jpbryl]

U dumb asf if u think a team defense depends on one player only

[@jpbryl]

U dumb asl if u think a team defense depends on one player

[@Kuwago8869]

Street shooter? What’s that suppose to mean?

[@jpbryl]

U dumb if u think a team defense depends on one player

[@Jayjabarij]

I dudnt even know he was the coach 😂

[@tristanthmanredbull4792]

I need to on subs title every time shaq talk

[@Justice777Allah]

If they had the guts to fire Budenholzer a week after his brother died, and two years removed from the chip,; this shouldn't be shocking.

[@temperanza80]

As long as Doc not the next guy in

[@ineedrest7]

Wait. How can you expect to have "timely stops" with its crunch time and can't get those SAME stops during the other parts of the game? You can't "turn" defense on/off like that.

[@paintb0x]

Yes, you can. Just look at LeBron.

[@mcjollirogers]

Griffin probably told Giannis that Thanasis was wasting precious roster space, and Giannis signed off on his firing hahahaha They should've kept Coach Bud rather than now trying to get a coach who keeps fumbling all star lineups

[@mursuka80]

Damn Doc Rivers is true snake. Came to "help" and i bet he talked the owners to fire Griffin.

[@Jon804Official]

he probably wanted to get rid of Thanasis & GA got him outta here 😅

[@Milkylious]

Shaq doesn’t want to speculate but is willing to do a whole segment sh*tting on Nurkic for something he didn’t even say. Go sleep in the back Shaq, that’s what you do best

[@sergioeljefe6755]

Austin rivers now can play again on the NBA

[@Anthonycheesman33]

This was actually a good take lol .

[@madderz952]

So many hot takes in this comment section I love it xD

[@atrealjesus]

Imagine getting fired and your 2nd sees in the east wtf

[@Rixx432]

The original bucks championship coach was the right man

[@t.o.p.6483]

Shaq right. I don't think the players had faith in coach griffins ability to get them through the playoffs or maybe they could see a disaster coming and miss the playoffs. The players seemed to argue with coaches decisions. Like the coach just didn't know how to coach. The organization and I'm sure the players like him as a person, but not as a coach.

[@moneyindabank]

Shaq sounds like he has Covid.

[@RiskXd715]

I mean think about he was a rookie coach his first season he got to deal with Giannis and Dame. If they are in the playoffs what he could do ???

[@Byron....]

Word on the street he tried to cut Thanasis Antetokounmpo.

[@justanobody0]

he's a madman

[@RedHoodFH]

Imagine how stupid this move is going to look if th Bucks dont win a title this year 😂

[@dutchmilk]

Buck be stupid to hire Doc River. That guy aint a river, he is a pond.

[@H.B172]

Istg if they get doc rivers imma lose my fucking mind

[@itsjayn4538]

i could bite my own ass, knowing we could have nick nurse ... and now we going after Doc?!?!? :(

[@SBwilliams4]

Shaq got to experience some of the best coaches in the world and is acting like coaching isn't important lol

[@seriously_illy5231]

Meanwhile Mark Jackson still can't get a look. Smfh. At this point Doc is simply a front running coach.

[@akui88]

They should have kept bud.

[@stockman1514]

Griffin is a horrible coach. I’m a Celtics fan and it doesn’t take much to see that. The fact that they hired Doc is just pure comedy to me. At this point, they should’ve kept Budenholzer or put more effort into keeping Stotts on board. Regardless, this team is not going to the Finals.

[@rachelwebber2120]

Why did he get fired?

[@InvestBetter.]

Outside of Giannis, the Bucks don't have defensive players, so they don't play defense You can try to blame the coach, but the GM built this team to be offensive, not defensive It could work.....

[@AMWHits]

Yup Dame is not known as a defensive player and there is no way he belongs in the top 75 players of all time.

[@likedcascade6625]

Really now I think forming the Superteam with Dame was a mistake. It gets too complicated with another star out there (We don’t know if it’s Dwade’s team or LBJ’s) Same thing

[@griffinpeters38]

what do you expect with a dame, beasley back court. That is literally the worst defenseive backcourt in the league.

[@TpolTime]

Feel bad for Griffin - should never have been given the job in the first place and was set up to fail

[@JK12518]

So is Griffin the highest winning % coach in the history of the league now?

[@user-fb6lf3vl7p]

Magic, gave up coaching because he said millionaires won't listen.

[@kidvicious2227]

I believe shaq. Hes right, nobody plays D anymore.

[@gb5262]

Get Steve Kerr as well

[@lilhyena7534]

this is a Giannis firing 😂

[@TonySmooth678]

Coach Bud was the Best Coach for the Bucks. He always had them ready for the Playoffs , not losing regular season games. That was pure Dumb Craziness to fire Coach Bud . Now look at this team. And people forget this team won a championship like only 3 years ago.

[@DGoThom]

The coach helped them to get a ring was fired too quick. Then hired a first time coach and fire him for his lack of defensive adjustments despite having 2 superstars in their first year together? Defense though will be affected after loosing jrue and Grayson allen and middleton should be playing better defensively if players really do want to win. Should have offer bruce brown a contract instead of jae crowder and malik beasley.😅

[@timothymoore2966]

Willlld. Reminds me of the cavs firing David Blaat. This dude is clearly better than blaat. Confused. Why does rivers keep getting chances? Guy chokes more than anyone

[@flyguy7825]

I get with Shaq is saying and I agree with him to a degree but there are guys in the NBA and it all sports that simply can't do something on the court. Damian Lillard has one of the most complete offensive games in the NBA. He's not a great defender. They got him to bolster up their offense because Layton games they couldn't buy a shot and now since they did that they've sacrifice on the defensive end. That's not on the coach. The coach has pretty much kept this thing afloat like it's been the last several years. It's unconscionable to fight her coach literally halfway through the season 30-13 record There has to be something else involved in that