Thanasis Antetokounmpo on Why Adrian Griffin Was Fired From The Milwaukee Bucks

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[@justinharmon8548]

Will dude shut up and let the man talk

[@BiGGCaiN24]

He must’ve been studying the Vlad book of interviewing

[@facecrook3454]

My thoughts exactly, terrible interviewer

[@DontRushExcellence]

Vlad Jr

[@Rayne35]

Kev let him talk I`m from milwaukee I met Thanasis and giannis multiple times two of the nicest people you`ll ever meet especially if you like wrestling

[@JakeYake]

Pause

[@ramseyebryant]

Shut up and let Thanasis speak

[@jimmyhyun8546]

AGREED!

[@kaketaylor]

Thank you!

[@CCEkeke]

Kev, let the guest talk!

[@discipleteo3763]

Thanasis is well spoken for his 2nd language especially.

[@mosesdeleon2481]

Facts

[@MrChoboko]

@@datboycold100 first is greek, 2nd is english. he doesnt speak nigerian.

[@youngerudit2524]

@@datboycold100is a Nigerian language* being Igbo. Nigerian ain’t a language man

[@redheadedstepchild2240]

​@@datboycold100they speak English in Nigeria bro

[@alx_gr1]

@@datboycold100 They never learnt Igbo, the've mentioned it many times. They spoke Greek and some English with their parents, that's it.

[@rafafaron8052]

Freaking let TA talk!!!

[@jonsummersprizepicks]

TA?! He's just giannis brother until he does something don't be giving him a nickname 😂😂😂😂

[@juicedadon3248]

@@jonsummersprizepicksnggas can call him what they want wtf you mean hatin azz ngga

[@SecretSocietyTV]

People that don’t watch the bucks talking about they were winning. They had the easiest schedule in the league up to that point they were not playing good and didn’t beat any good teams. Second half they had the hardest schedule in the league. Follow basketball before you comment.

[@tristenlambert965]

You’re absolutely right. They were winning off is straight talent not coaching. That wasn’t gonna pan out well in the future. I went to almost every home game and watched all the away games. TA is absolutely right, the way they were winning was unsustainable

[@GabbaGhoul3000]

Phhhh they had the hardest schedule, had to play the Pacers 5 times in a month

[@skurrskurr44]

For someone with so much basketball knowledge, that last sentence was dumb asf.

[@vsChris]

During that first half of the season damn near all of our wins felt like a slugfest. It was exaughsting and extremely frustrating to watch. The style of play AG wanted didn't suit the roster he had. The one thing I did appreciate about AG was he that he did give Majon and AJax chances to play relatively consistently

[@jboogie45213]

Lol... So what happened with Doc, because they were worse by a large margin

[@beachavebaby]

KEV LET THAT MAN TALK . HES THE PRO BALL PLAY NOT YOU ! trying too hard to be the “ cool “ guy

[@MARSQUAD]

Damn dawg talking too much, let him talk man

[@matthewgooch8669]

Kev Stooping to new lows lol

[@HewittShaq]

Bucks sabotaged the season looking too far ahead. Shoutout to Jrue Holiday

[@xeonbladev18]

No, injuries sabotaged the season. Jrue had to go. He’s was terrible as a 2/3 option. He thrives as the 5th option on the celtics

[@HewittShaq]

@@xeonbladev18 so Pat Bev was a good 2nd 3rd option?

[@xeonbladev18]

@@HewittShaq Damian lillard is a good 2nd 3rd option. He plays for the bucks btw. Pat Bev is a role player. You’re welcome for the information

[@elmztana1201]

Get well soon thanasis ,

[@AGThatsagenius]

Kev interviewing Kev

[@jasonmusic9938]

thanasis is an awesome man

[@FadedOffLife]

🔥

[@jeffandsherriefranzwa8970]

Hopefully they’re spending the offseason crafting a strategy that fits their personnel.

[@TheDOUBJT22]

Thananis needs more minutes, i love the passion and intensity he plays with and not affraid to attack!

[@bjnowak]

He’s not going on to be on the team. Because he was hurt as a buck, so he can go to the facility and hang out to rehab. And he can travel with the team because he’s family. So he can be there without taking a roster spot.

[@EXTENDO_64]

imagine asking someone a question and then you answer it for them, like damn pointless interview, might as well just interview yourself next time 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Lightdragon773]

Let the man speak

[@JonHassellProphecy]

Most of coaching is rotation, Griffin and Doc had guys on the bench that couldve made them more competitive, you role and play scrubs who prove over and over again that they get cooked and you reap the consequences.

[@atllife7226]

Sugar Coating 💩 while saying I Never Sugar Coat or lie all in one sentence is diabolical. Your bro. got AJ Griffin fired. Yall was the 2nd seed in the East at the time!!!🤔🤔🤔🤫🤫🤫🫣🫣🫣😯😯😯😬😬😬😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@Yasin33]

Yeah bro let him talk man

[@jolosarmiento24]

The host really loves hearing his own voice huh?

[@westburns24]

The goat thanasses

[@bernardhenderson1146]

How do you get rid of a guy that is winning..... Then you trade your best defensive guy for someone that doesn't play any..

[@jerodmyers7180]

I dont get it. Griff tried to run a switchable defense. They cried and went back to drop. They had a good rating for one month under doc in the dog days and went back to being a crappy defense cause they dont rebound or get back.

[@DaRealFatBoi]

A new coach coming in of course he gone make changes, he got his own schemes, his own game plan etc he ain’t gone do what the last coach did

[@jevonteford9172]

Bro this dude did not let Thanasis talk at all 😂 like I’ve never watched a KZbin podcast clip that annoyed me like this

[@bjnowak]

Please read your comments here, stop talking when a guest is talking

[@sgtwiggins]

We are 2 years removed from winning a title and he came in trying to change things... did I hear that right? Obviously, he is supposed to change things. The coach that won the title is gone for a reason. If nothing was supposed to be changed, why get rid of the coach that won a championship with you to begin with?

[@jongray8313]

Even though he not the best on the court he have real N$$$! Vibes

[@Rockie___]

They had no reason to fire that man smh

[@donfreshful]

You clearly didn't watch the games, casual.

[@bighomey1090]

@@donfreshfulthere’s coaches that have been losing for years and keep getting chances , stop it they should’ve let him finish the year unless he was losing games badly which he wasn’t

[@brentcampbell1637]

Why he smilin so hard in the thumbnail lol😭

[@FlyWithVeiga]

Lmao Thanasis is the 🐐

[@tryintomakeit]

Yall barely won those games because of your own effort how tf he gon make yall play inspired basketball against the detroit pistons. Hell my phone didn't even bother to capitalize detroit 😂😂😂😂

[@romerocharite5607]

Are you gonna let him talk or not

[@righttoleftnotlefttoright]

His brother didn't like the defense they were using. So he told ownership to fire the coach.

[@druidobidon2287]

TA was ready to put it all out there, but we'll never know.

[@JakeYake]

It’s hard to win when there’s a designated roster spot for the star’s garbage brother

[@Nick-sr4fe]

The bucks are a confusing franchise They fired bud because they didn’t believe he was suited for this team to win even though he won in 2021 and the next two years Khris was hurt and his brother passed then they fire the man Then they hire a first year head coach and when he does first year head coach things they get mad at the dude even though he was winning games and fire him Then gets doc river who is ultimately a worse version of Bud as he doesn’t make in game adjustments especially come post season time and he ends up with a worse record. People will sit here and defend the players and front office but sounds like the players need to stop being whiny and the front office needs to let things develop.

[@davlet53209]

Doc was making adjustments in the playoffs it was just he didn’t have the personnel. You had like 4 players on the team that was a liability. With Giannis out. Your force into drop with brook portis don’t have that speed to keep up. Now it the off season that haven’t resign anyone yet the only person that would be coming back is pat

[@jboogie45213]

Exactly! You nailed it

[@Nick-sr4fe]

@@davlet53209 nah I won’t blame doc for this post season but ultimately to me he isn’t a better coach than bud that’s my ultimate point it like replacing a Gatorade with a Powerade. Should’ve just kept the Gatorade

[@DaFactsNoNonsense1713]

you're saying MIL sucks, while trying to transfer blame to the coach = you're saying you're not very intelligent, without saying it

[@Nick-sr4fe]

@@DaFactsNoNonsense1713 two things can be true. Doc rivers is a bad coach and Milwaukee as an organization has sucked.

[@Zay279]

They were 30-13 when they fired him

[@SecretSocietyTV]

They had the easiest schedule in the league - they literally didn’t beat any good teams. Second half of the season they had the hardest schedule.

[@avinashmihindukulasuriya6224]

u literally didn't listen to what thanasis said

[@jboogie45213]

Exactly! Then the team got appreciable worse

[@davidparks4835]

2:14 Damn the philosophy y’all fired a man who had y’all as the top 2 seed. I’m glad Griffin got away from that situation. Thanais talking about that you don’t change the style of play that a team plays with. But why would you bring in a new coach (Adrian Griffin) to do the exact same thing you fired coach Bud for doing. Obviously, the style was not working, why not adapt to Griffin’s system or at least hear him out.

[@nightmares356]

bucks had the second worst defense in the league and Griffin had NO gameplan and had 0 ability to adjust He didn't have a system and yet here you are defending a coach that was a deer in headlights

[@davidparks4835]

@@nightmares356 I don’t care, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it. They were winning games. And this is not against Doc, but the firing was too quick that early into the season to judge Griffin on whether or not he could coach. Regardless of their horrendous defense, they were scoring and putting the ball in the basket.

[@davidparks4835]

No one wants to admit it but the Jrue Holliday trade and Brook slowing down and aging is what hurt the defense. As great as Dame is offensively, I don’t think he can guard a cone.

[@whateverman23]

Why hasn’t Thanasis been fired?

[@nothembajozi2862]

Thanasis has such a sexy voice.

[@frankmathews]

Bro not even mid, straight reggie, mexican dirt weed.

[@abi-jl6qo]

This was a hard listen. Host needs to chill

[@leecee9528]

Thannis nay not be a great nba player but he definitely has a future in politics. Basically Milwaukee made a mistake with Griffin

[@kaketaylor]

Let your guest talk bro.

[@jellyman9013]

Interesting, lots of comments in here about how the bucks should've bought into AGs system more. But they tried lololol it didn't take many games for them to realize brook lopez is worthless running around screens or even going high to dish off. It was a train wreck.

[@a1athletes]

Why does he get a interview

[@Ryyian]

Because he's a basketball player playing in the NBA and who are you again ❓

[@timfelix3873]

Put the man on mute and let the guy with actual knowledge speak

[@FROdaRIPPA]

lol. Running out of people to interview i guess 😂

[@TheKennyGM]

Huh?😂😂😂😂

[@steliosioannou2800]

Hey Kev, go and get onother jop , that's not for you

[@clutchk5240]

Lol he making excuses.

[@youngerudit2524]

You’re slow asf😂

[@danielcantrell9227]

Why is he even speaking this is such a joke

[@bighomey1090]

imagine you commenting even bigger joke lol smh

[@cloudnationmedia8326]

I would never listen to an antetokounmpo. This dude is here because of his brother and his brother is a diva. 😂

[@jaypippen7213]

Why he's talking he don't even play😂😂😂😂😂😂😢 the season for him was always just sitting on the bench look just like his brother sound like his brother 🤣😭😭🤣 but don't play like his brother that's tough😢😂😂😂💯🤣👀 this was a terrible interview😢

[@BP-1972]

What a terrible interview. Stop interupping.

[@deesee2051]

Now this show is really living up to the Bootleg name with this one 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ man where is Giannis wtf

[@Emj2679]

"The coach was fired becuase im absolutely worthless in any way possible he called me out on it so i cried to my big brother to fire him and ruin the team"

[@aidenstanek-gp8ls]

You really think Grif was a good coach huh?

[@Emj2679]

@aidenstanek-gp8ls led them to the 1st seed.. they were so good that after doc came they lost more games then they won and still finished as the 2 seed they were a play in team or 8th seed if doc was coaching the full year

[@mbcudatree]

​​@@Emj2679they had the easiest schedule in the league with griffin. You speak so confidently for someone who probably didn't watch a second of the bucks last year.

[@Emj2679]

@@mbcudatree so you think Doc the only coach In NBA history with multiple blow 3-0 leads is a better coach

[@mbcudatree]

@@Emj2679 I mean if you're asking me to choose between someone who's won an NBA championship and someone who couldn't even cut it their first year coach in the league. I think the answer is obvious man.

[@realamerican8069]

This guy is literally the worst player in the league 😂.. he shouldn’t talk basketball at all 😂.. just absorbing a roster spot for no reason 😂

[@mavvvie]

You are a fool

[@bigsmoke7381]

Nah theirs plenty of players worse than him

[@realamerican8069]

@@bigsmoke7381 that a lie and you know it!😆

[@bigsmoke7381]

@@realamerican8069 theirs over 400 players in the nba he better than at least 30 of em and 100% would drop of Bronny 11-0 if they played

[@realamerican8069]

@@bigsmoke7381 Thansis is at the bottom! He wouldn’t even make a g league team 🤣! I bet bronny gets more clock time than Thansis had in his career!