The REAL Reason Adrian Griffin Was Fired By The Bucks

Coach Nick went deep into the footage to explain exactly why Adrian Griffin was fired by the Milwaukee Bucks.
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[@spandsbab]

Now, the only thing the Bucks need to avoid is going up 3-1 in the playoffs.

[@kungfukenny1540]

😂

[@xHyperActive0]

or up 3-2 😔

[@SCORP1ONF1RE]

🤡

[@ahahpapa2023]

If they do ,I know it’s over…. I better not see them up 3-1 otherwise I’m winning money

[@user-kj6be8sf3v]

They have to make sure every series goes to 3-0

[@captainsmoke1612]

They all expect Dame to suddenly play defence. The man doesn't know how to play defence! lol

[@ellea3344]

Having watched every game of Dame's NBA career in Portland... ball don't lie.

[@OsceolaNola7]

@@Max-kw2hpthat’s a different variation usually used by people from the UK. Not that uncommon, smart guy.

[@cacaf8989]

Malik Beasley ain't playing it either. One of them guards have to lock up.

[@elizaschaeffer34]

@@Max-kw2hphey watch yourself. I once made fun of some dude for saying “defence” only to find out he was an Aussie and they spell it that way there 😂😂 joke was on me at that point.

[@Foggycallabasashillshelicopter]

@@elizaschaeffer34there’s only one way to spell defense in English. And most Australians speak English so I’m not sure what ur talking sbout

[@ketchupash2252]

Losing both grayson allen and jrue holiday hurt the perimeter defense so much

[@eyeconqueror1185]

i’d rather have both of them instead of dame

[@knacho751]

Grayson was not a good defender. Losing 2 more point of attack defenders off the bench in wesley matthews and jevon carter was what hurt us in addition to losing jrue

[@rooks9430]

@@knacho751 Obviously he's not. He's average, but he's still miles better than Dame, Beasley, and Payne in defense.

[@urbaindelva7869]

​@@eyeconqueror1185How did that work out last year?

[@keeks1130]

Bro said Grayson Allen 😂

[@ellea3344]

Terry Stotts is a wise man.

[@chalnervassor9430]

FR. So this coming and said that I’m not gonna have this on my resume

[@AyeYoYoYooo]

Terry literally said, as deciding to leave the squad “Fu@k this maniac, I’m gone.”

[@SpencerOnYT]

@@AyeYoYoYooohe fr said that? im curious to see a source because thats wild

[@AyeYoYoYooo]

@@SpencerOnYT might have been Shams or Marc Stein that reported that….

[@Joefdgtr]

Why wasnt Terry Stotts hired as the #1 coach ? Pure curiousity given I find it a bit nuts that a contender would hire a rookie head coach.

[@buzzerbeater3350]

Coach, we need a breakdown of the OG/RJ & IQ trade thus far.

[@scottwalters9440]

Yes!!!!!

[@buzzerbeater3350]

@@scottwalters9440👍🏽

[@AyeYoYoYooo]

Your impatient arse ain’t getting that until the playoffs.

[@TR-ju5re]

Huge win for the Knicks thus far. Their advanced stats with OG on the floor are insane. His +/- has been ridiculous

[@nathanwashington9784]

This might be your best analysis yet. The body language of the players speaks volumes and I couldn’t agree more with the points you’ve made.

[@jaze0187]

Haha i just commented on their game 6 loss how the bucks players body language with dame is telling. I watched about a dozen bucks games this year prior to playoffs and saw the frustration lol. It's hard to play hard when dame just puts more effort into inbounding the ball to score faster rather than playing any amount of defense. Billups has been ironing that mentality out of the blazers since dame left.

[@hanialimohamed9509]

Doc rivers did him dirty, some European reported stated, that doc rivers was working in the office of the bucks and he was saying them that he could be the bucks savior by making them better in defense. Griffin was a rookie coach and the office wanted to win now with Lillard on the team. That's one of the reasons why the office pressed the panic button and remove griffin from his position. But rivers is not innocent in this and is one of the major reasons why griffin is no more the bucks coach

[@maxmeier532]

You need to have some sort of diplomatic talent to survive as a coach. Apparently he didnt have it.

[@PWCDN]

Bucks are an incredibly finicky team at the front office level. Firing bud was reactionary and unnecessary. Trading for Lillard was just for change and “looking busy” to keep Giannis happy. The only constant is they will do whatever to keep Giannis.

[@jackmacfakie1387]

Doc didn't make Terry Stotts quit or get Giannis to start drawing up his own plays on the sideline. He was a bad fit, no more no less.

[@hanialimohamed9509]

@@maxmeier532 nowadays, everywhere you MUST be like that. The society doesn't tolerate different opinions. They only want to hear, yes sir , as you wish sir . We are living in a sivk Era.

[@yurimargarin11]

U black right? Thats why u defend adrian that much. See, i get it. 👍

[@Tehui1974]

Thanks for the analysis Mr Coach. I've been waiting to hear your explanation as to what was happening with the Bucks' defence this season. The 'talking heads' were only talking about effort, but nobody could explain the technical issues at play.

[@Dizcrete]

There were a bunch of videos explaining why there defense was horrible 😂

[@elizaschaeffer34]

Right. Talking heads blaming effort and making accusations directed at giannis. Lame.

[@kamonie3331]

Dame's bad on ball defense is a part of the problem.

[@stephonaugustin1384]

@@elizaschaeffer34which is why I totally stopped watching LeESPN.

[@slickvisualpoetry]

It's also a personnel issue. If you replace Holiday with Dame, your defense is going to suffer. Connaughton is also having a down-year and while Lopez never was a lightning-quick big man, he is getting up in age, slowing down even more. On offense, Giannis and Dame are also not a good fit. You see a lot of "your turn/my turn", because Giannis never was the role man, he likes to handle the ball and a Dame also is better with the pill in his hands.

[@taesang5664]

bobby portis hedging is literally just him doubling 😭💀

[@nicholashartling-briggs7806]

Hedging is leaving your man

[@jordansamar7825]

wow, no ads for the first time in a long while

[@MindfulAttraction2.0]

The problem was that doc Rivers was his consultant. This dude is a jinx in every sense of the way. Wherever doc goes he destroys everything but himself

[@ethankuchma5295]

lol. The way you talked about this is so funny like doc is some anthropomorphic storm that just ruins everything he barley touches.

[@annoyingoranger100]

@@ethankuchma5295Honestly that sounds like a pretty good explanation of what doc is

[@pierlouis7325]

Famned

[@dabneyoffermein595]

@@annoyingoranger100 agree

[@garrywallah4966]

When you think they traded one of the best defensive guards ( Jrue Holiday ) in the league for one of the worst defensive guards ( Lilliard ) and they expected/hoped their defense would remain the same is insane.

[@phamawa]

Yeah but still no reason for them to have dropped off that hard! They're almost last in defense lol

[@devinio1676]

defense was bad before watch the video next time. the way he used lopez is whe problem

[@SuperAmazinglover]

​@phamawa They are a top 5 defense with giannis and Lopez on the court. They are giving up less points in the paint and less rebounds per game then last year. All there problems are in the perimeter where defensive assigbemnet have shifted without jrue.

[@jame8618]

People keep saying this like Jrue guarded everyone on the court. Bucks fans who watch the games know that’s maybe 30% of the issue. Trading holiday isn’t the reason why we’re suddenly giving up the most corner 3s in the league. Everyone has dropped off and are doing their own thing

[@SuperAmazinglover]

@@jame8618 no but he usually guarded the number 1 leaving number 2 amd so own to the rest. Now without him that changes you have weaker defenders now across the board as number 2 has to now guard number 1 and so on. It's a domino effect.

[@bballcoachallen]

it has nothing to do with on court problems. It is the off court issues that probably got him

[@ronnakraj]

i hope someone from the bucks analyzes your breakdown. good work

[@bballbreakdown]

Thx! 🙏

[@CaliKidd1001]

Now why would they do that lol you think they know the stats or aware of this lol

[@jackjackthompson5771]

@@CaliKidd1001seems like not….

[@ronnakraj]

@@bballbreakdown 👍

[@SOS-809]

@bucks

[@justnahayo8490]

As a Bucks fan. Thank you for this breakdown

[@kballer151]

Gil said it best, Doc’s resume speaks for itself! Mans can’t coach, he’s had multiple hall of famers on each of his teams and only won 1 chip. Nothing will change!

[@mgschwartz]

And those chokers have never won jack without Doc. Embiid, Harden, CP3, Ben Simmons, etc are literally all time pants poopers in the post season. Those dudes weren’t gonna win under Pop, Phil Jackson, Spo, Riley, or Red Auerbach. All time pants poopers.

[@kballer151]

@@mgschwartz they ain’t win shit with him. You proved my point

[@maartenvz]

​@@mgschwartzkawhi won multiple rings without doc...

[@yawnymoon3116]

​@mgschwartz good point, those dudes haven't won shit under other head coaches 😂

[@kballer151]

@@yawnymoon3116 the point is, Doc is supposed to be an elite head coach. It’s not about the other coaches, it’s about Doc not being good enough to get his elite talent over the hump

[@nb4857]

Hope you can breakdown Steve Kerr's multiple wrong decisions in closed games.

[@ByztinBadger]

For anyone saying we shouldn’t have fired Bud as a result of this Griffin debacle, no we really did need to get rid of him. Flopping in the playoffs all but one season isn’t enough to keep him around. Though I am also still confounded why they think Doc Rivers is a worthy replacement. Guy is a serial underachiever.

[@KushCorp]

i still feel like the pistons and bucks, hired the coach the other team needed. just from a basketball fit and timeline standpoint

[@wesjanson6979]

"flopping in the playoffs" he says while the Bucks see the most success they've had as a franchise in decades, perhaps even ever they knee jerk reacted by firing Bud just because "he lost in the first round to an 8th seed!" Miami had milwaukee figured out for years and Spo is one of the best coaches of all time, every series Miami won after that firing just made it look worse and worse. There isn't shame losing here but Bucks fans think there is for some reason. Did Celtics fire their coach after losing? Did Knicks? Jesus Christ! I know Bucks fans think they should be a dynasty with Giannis but it's hard to win in this league, you can't win every year. How'd they do with Bud? First season, Bud wins coach of the year and the Bucks make the ECF for the first time in almost 20 years, losing in 6 games to the eventual champion Toronto Raptors. Second season, lose in the second round to the Heat and the Heat would make the Finals, not a scrub team or a fluke win. Third season, they actually overcome Miami and immediately win the championship. Fourth season, lose a close series in 7 games to the Celtics in the 2nd round and the Celtics would go on to make the finals. Last season, lose in the first round to the Heat who would go on to make the Finals. Bud gets criticized by Bucks fans for this loss but Giannis lost the series for the Bucks by shooting abysmally from the foul line and actively choked game 5 away by missing a staggering amount of free throws in the 4th quarter and overtime. You see the pattern? The Bucks have only ever lost to the team that would advance to the Finals, not a fluke win or a choke or anything other than just sometimes it's not your fucking year. Somehow Bud gets all the criticism when losing was a *team* effort. The Spurs went 7 years between winning championships between 2007 and 2014 so by Milwaukee's logic they should have fired popovich after losing in the first round to the Grizzlies in 2011. Bucks fans are spoiled rotten and they deserve to see the disappointment they're going to have with the most famous choke artist coach of all time.

[@_Xds_]

​@@wesjanson6979bud was a bad coach brodie

[@LaughingJokerProd]

@@_Xds_ and as a result, this lead to a rookie head coach and then Glenn Rivers

[@johnnyirons222]

⁠@@wesjanson6979bro you had to just watch the games to get it

[@ac230010]

Great video coach. Loved the analysis.

[@phothewin6019]

Doing Adrian dirty with that thumbnail, coach 😭

[@yurimargarin11]

What?? U black and u dont like it? Bet if it was white coach, u approved that kind of thumbnail. Smh

[@Ugnep-sw9ng]

Cant wait for the analysis of the Bucks 3-1 blown lead to the Pacers this year.

[@MuttonErase]

Nah. We need them to face the 76ers and get swept or blow a 3-1 lead for the memes

[@greyyb8860]

You really think the Pacers offense gonna show up come playoff time lmao

[@JackahoonaLaGuna]

@@greyyb8860why not

[@mentalprograming5365]

@@JackahoonaLaGuna inexperience, their going to blow their loads too early and be gassed, not to mention that playoff physicality they never had in their lives and it will throw them off thinking they can get the same fouls they got in the regular season, young teams NEVER do good their first time in the playoffs but for some reason almost every so called nba fan keeps disregarding this.. it takes a few cracks at the playoffs to figure it out, aint no way pacers beat the experienced bucks when lebron, jordan, kobe, shaq and every other star not named magic johnson failed their first time in the playoffs.. the pacers will fail due to history in nba never fails.. they couldnt even beat the weak lakers when the lakers used playoff energy on them, why would they beat the bucks that are a superior team and much bigger and tougher? thats unrealistic af bro

[@SCORP1ONF1RE]

🤡

[@jimmytwotimez]

Not gonna lie, but after watching this I not only see the firing of Griffin as justified, but feel like why not make Brook Lopez the interim coach lol. The guy seemed like he instinctually knew where the players should be on defense, but the coaches kept contradicting.

[@themilliondollarbaby]

lol, aint no way u tellin a 7 footer with 3 blocks a game to sit on the bench and coach

[@donaltc]

Correct, we're not. A player-coach once won the championship actually ​@@themilliondollarbaby

[@august6281]

@@themilliondollarbaby i think what he meant was make Lopez a playing coach(defense), not benching him.

[@jsdzx]

That’s what you took out the video? Griffin tried to correct the problem they have survived with for years. The video showed an unwillingness for everyone to buy in more than anything. Griffin probably was just letting them do them. And guess what if that failed it still have been a problem. Lopez looks extremely childish in these clips

[@_lamar5059]

Brook actually looks like an old Dinosaur out there. He will be picked on forever?

[@grownupcaillou2685]

The biggest mistake the bucks did was not signing Nick Nurse. Nurse would of made them elite. As a heat fan im glad they didnt get him.

[@patrickstarfish420]

I heard he was a toxic in the locker room from my mate who is a raptors fan and apparently giannis doesn’t want his kind of play style. Since giannis gets the final vote, they didn’t hire him.

[@jackmacfakie1387]

@@patrickstarfish420 That's a weird shout. Dude has won shit at every level and is the Canadian national team coach to boot. I'm calling BS on Nick Nurse is toxic. That being said, he couldn't coach this Bucks team any better. Nick Nurse coaching style is very analytics based. Analytics would show him Giannis can't shoot, Beasley and Dame can't defend, Splash Mountain moves like a cruise ship turning around and Bobby Portis has the attention span of a goldfish. The title winning Raptors were a team of two way studs who valued points in transition and the three ball. Gasol, Danny Green, Lowry, OG, Kawhi, Freddy. The Bucks roster is nowhere near this. You see Lillard taking charges Lowry style? Beasley locking someone up like Danny Green? It's ridiculous.

[@rapshabs]

100% agree w/ you. As a Raps fan I am happy too... but cheering on NN in Philly.

[@rapshabs]

I call BS too.... he is very well respected across the league amongst players. If you lack a hard driving work ethic you won't like playing for Nick.. imo he's in the top 5@@patrickstarfish420

[@rapshabs]

well said @@jackmacfakie1387

[@tsun1906]

Great analysis video … love 💕

[@SicilianDefence]

Appreciate your work coach 💯

[@hubrisalt3261]

Genuinely if I have Gianni’s and Brook Lopez in my front court I’m telling them to do their own thing defensively they’ve been two of the best defensive players in the league the last couple years

[@user-xe5mf3nd6o]

This is a good video breakdown of a defensive strategy and specifically as it related to the bucks Very helpful to see the techniques and the player frustration Liked and subscribed!

[@krisskrosssss]

I feel like they scapegoated the hell out of the coach because they have the inability to use defensive coverages that almost every elite defensive team currently use. Just either late rotations from the person tagging the roll man (usually Lillard) or Brook taking too long to recover after his soft hedge, combining that with poor close outs and overall just horrible perimeter defense. Brook doesnt seem like he ever gave the coverage a chance at all and was never fully committed to ever making it work. He’s also been a diva lately, blatantly arguing with his teammates for everyone to see. I still remember tht clip of him looking dissatisfied that Lillard took the last shot instead of passing it to him even though he made it. Seems like he’s just blaming everyone else but himself. Not all of it is Brook's fault, I feel like if they would've just gave it a chance throughout the season they would be able to figure it out come Playoff time. The biggest concern is Lillard. He's always had a track record for being a poor defender, but it's been really bad this season. Just lost on defense, wrong rotations in x-out closeouts and either super late on tagging the roll man, poor effort or not recognizing it's his job to tag the roll man altogether. And with his track record, I have no faith in him improving this weakness. Not to mention he's also just a poor on-ball defender who's undersized. They went from a big strong guard with excellent perimeter defense in Holiday to Lillard who just seems like an F in all aspects on defense. He's such a double edged sword, he can create and be the engine for a great offense but be the absolute worst defender on both teams in most nights.

[@jaahnnn]

You knew this and Miami knew this before you got him but you decided to make moves to spite Miami instead of actually trying to improve your team

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

That's the thing, Lillard was always a terrible defender, but the rest of the roster is not that bad, one dude deficiency shouldn't literally break the entire defense, it's a collective effort. Lopez is acting like a diva tho. In the end, I do agree it's a mix of individual play and bad coaching on defense, but Lillard alone doesn't seem to be the major weak spot. And I am not even a Lillard fan, for the contrary really, but I guess the Bucks were so used to have Holiday and Allen navigating through screens, they are struggling to have "normal" perimeter defenders. Also they gave a up extension to Middleton even if his knees are banged up and the dude will never be the same (and he was already inconsistent when healthy), so the roster is in a weird spot, very talented, but crooked at the same time

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

@@jackmacfakie1387 Allen is just a role player, idk if others are "raving" about him or not, but it's a simple fact he is good at navigating screens. Jrue is arguably the best perimeter defender in the whole league, different level really, navigating screen is just another monday for him. Healthy Middleton was also good at that, hell, even Wesley Matthews coming off the bench was also good. Now the Bucks lost all that activity on the perimeter and they are still attached to the old drop schemes, of course it's not going to work. To accommodate Lillard, Beasley, slowed Middleton and Lopez, they have to play a different scheme, it's a collective effort as I said. It's easy to point fingers at Lillard and Beasley (even if Beasley is just ok, he is not awful like Lillard), but if the team is struggling to rotate with these dudes, the coach is to blame, also the GM who did not got rid of Middleton

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

@@jackmacfakie1387 Compared to the league standards, no one plays defense anymore in this shitty ass soft league, I honestly think Beasley is not abysmal (like Lillard), he is mediocre. Maybe they will have to play zones with Lopez, then change to full switch with Portis. If Jae Crowder ever achieves some consistency back, he can be the starter SF, shifting Middleton to SG, etc.. either way, they will have to change their ways defensively, they are too attached to Budenholzer's schemes (which only makes his firing even dumber, if these players are not willing to let it go)

[@dmoore3213]

Holiday is so good , that Butler and Miami dominated them last year. The Bucks had a different scheme and there were more defensive players on the team other than Holiday that's no longer there. Dame is way better than Holiday , things just take time to figure out. People are complaining and Bucks have 2nd best record in league😂

[@garvin9939]

Citing "not as good as reputation" because they were 14th when Brook missed like 60 games and they effectively played without a center the whole time lol

[@jackmacfakie1387]

If you know you know. Most of these "experts" miss things like this it's cringe.

[@jabraillemorrison8051]

the bucks needed a scapegoat for a lukewarm off season that truly sacrificed their defensive identity. in return they got Dame, who’s name has been way more impactful than his play. he as defensive liability, simply doesn’t produce enough fire power for this team to make a deep run. and the front office knows it. so they got a coach that everyone will blame when this experiment is over.

[@iam-12345......]

Just say you don't watch or follow the Bucks and keep moving. Griffin was hired before Dame trade, as they thought they would take a step back. Thus were willing to give a rookie head coach a year to adapt. Dame Trade came out of nowhere, and he has been average defensively. Bringing Dame put championship pressure on a rookie coach, and the gave him half the season to try. Now as a defensive coach, he can't even make them average, and there has been dissent in the locker room, he had to be let go.

[@roycedot]

Facts. From top 4-5 in defense to bottom 3rd

[@mlc7million]

But the Bucks moved to #1 on offense what did you think would happen you gave up your two best perimeter defenders in Holiday and Carter. Dame’s D is not that bad but Beasley and Middleton are another story. I think they have to go to a more sagging Man with pressure on dead balls with a fixed rotation. Some of the issues I have witnessed is no resistance off of penetration just to easy to get into the lane without a pick.

[@JakeJohanson12]

Dame is the guy the bucks needed for situations in the playoffs. Outside of Khris Middleton the Bucks lack shot creators. Dame is what they need. If they can find a defensive scheme that can make them average, they will win the finals. Kind of like the nuggets last year. An unstoppable big (Giannis/Jokic), a Shot making PG (Murray/Dame), and a secondary scoring option (Porter Jr./Middleton).

[@dflowhoops]

appreciate your work bball breakdown

[@JamesAF]

great analysis dude!

[@portlandreign81]

Huge dame fan so I watch a lot of bucks. This just goes to show how much better the team could be. I’m not a huge doc fan but he has to be better than griffin

[@timmyzhou1]

It’s funny that 1min after coach Nick posted this vid, DW posted a vid called “the why with DW3”. They are next to each other in my feed.

[@buzzerbeater3350]

Fire video!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@buzzerbeater3350]

Coach can you list the websites that you use to analyze the NBA?

[@michaelbarnes2126]

You don’t lose a defensive player like Holiday AND THEN change the defensive schemes away from what was successful. Adrian was in over his head he needed to coach a rebuilding team not a contender with new players and a established culture

[@rashardstallworth9240]

That would make sense if he didn’t have the number 2 record in the Eastern Conference

[@michaelbarnes2126]

@@rashardstallworth9240 they played the easiest schedule so far. It’s supposed to become the hardest at this point in the season. They would have started dropping games with Adrian

[@sakamoto8354]

Tbf he was in a tough spot as he's a rookie coach. It doesn't help either that Doc was his adviser so while there are no concrete evidences, you would still have that gut feeling Doc screw him over.

[@arkfamkk7046]

Thanks so much for this breakdown coach. You won’t even get this on ESPN or fox unless Tim Legler shows up. Thanks so much coach 🎉

[@philliprhinehardt6268]

Thanks for the breakdown.

[@mikangel1644]

If they are struggling to organize their defense and offense and somehow have the 2nd best record in the league. Tells me they are just winning strictly on talent, and when they finally figure it out, they'll win it all.

[@DIVISIONINCISION]

They have played the easiest schedule in the league so far. Wait until they have to play the best teams from the West.

[@sydneydance]

Great breakdown coach Nick 👍

[@tiffajessi6647]

Cannot be understated how washed Pat Connnaughton is. Even bud realized this last year, and DNP'd toward the end of the season, before being forced to play him due to injury in the playoffs. Griffin was playing him 25-30 mpg. Just pure idiocy

[@benmairs4628]

Coach nick has been waiting to make this video for years 😂😂

[@ahmedmalik-kahn3092]

Great job this was top tier

[@blackstallion2545]

Was waiting for the ad

[@marcellphillips2055]

I felt Doc backraised Griffin, to grab that coaching position

[@basanova22]

I like the investigative sounding music for this vid. Very fitting.

[@MrTCass]

Awesome BreakDown !!

[@tiffajessi6647]

His little Grinch pose in the thumbnail perfectly sums up him as a head coach- just totally lost at every aspect of the job. He played pat Connnaughton 38 minutes in a loss, a bottom 5 defender by many metrics was being played 25 mpg... Not to mention using him and Marjon as ball handlers with dame on the floor. Pat, cam Payne, Beasley,Portis lineups don't work due to their poor defense (especially pat) and he ran lineups like this so often. Just mind-blowing how horrific his rotations and schemes, as we see in this video, were. Even if doc isn't the guy to lead them to a ring, they were *NEVER* going to win anything giving up 130 pts to 5 win teams with griffin

[@ch.illmatic]

You should probably explain that 1. In 2021, the Bucks weren't playing drop as much. They were switching everything all year, and in 2022, brook was injured all year so bobby Portis was in at center and Giannis at power forward. Bud went to the zone all year cause obviously Portis isn't a great defender. Not to mention they hedges with Portis all the time. And 3. In 2023, the Bucks perimeter defense was an anomaly BECAUSE they stopped helping so damn much from the corner, and in turn helped them dissuade the most corner threes in the NBA. You can see this as they typically held teams to the fewest shots in the paint in years past, but in 2023 allowed teams to shoot the most in the paint, and not as much from deep. There's a lot more than what you explained in years past

[@ch.illmatic]

Wdym? ​@@jackmacfakie1387

[@ciello___8307]

replacing him with Doc though??

[@baldeagle4710]

Doc will be fired by this time next year

[@Fresh360Waves]

@@baldeagle4710 With Giannis demanding a trade to Miami, OKC or Toronto

[@dannyslea]

Brook should do the Kornett Kontest when he is playing back from the pick and roll.

[@ezekiellin]

Love me some bballbreakdown❤️

[@thomaswatt99]

Get his cookie snatched lol😂 8:30 thank you for this video. Wow!!! As a bucks fan I see now what was wrong

[@EllisHCN]

Another fantastic breakdown Coach Nick! Thank you for the time and hard work that you put in, I appreciate it!

[@ven1939]

Why can't the players be held accountable

[@eyeconqueror1185]

that’s not how it works in the pros. coaches will always be the first scapegoat. at least they get guaranteed money.

[@thelastquincy1457]

Griffin clearly didn't have the personnel to do what he wanted on defense. And Bucks fans had been saying that for a while. So yes it actually was a really bad idea what he wanted.

[@Coolhand69]

The funny part is the Bucks hiring Doc Rivers like that’ll be any better in the long run. Early playoff exit probably incoming lol.

[@ryanandal5525]

its the beer belly

[@mikecross7019]

I heard some NBA players say you don’t help off the strong side corner because it’s a shorter pass to make. Basically a layup catch and shoot.

[@Rajonrondoo99]

This is a great breakdown to show how the players really wanted him out and Lopez at 8:12😂😂😂 he must have really been fed up with his coach to do that

[@Bimmeraudi1]

The thumbnail is brutal 😂

[@dboii9741]

It’s all started when they traded Jrue for Dame😒 why did the FO bend over backwards for Giannis?

[@Shark_In_The_Box]

thats a great video

[@macalloway1]

You dont fire a rookie coach halfway through their first year because of x's and o's period let alone if they are fielding one of the best teams in the leagueml. This was not an x's and o's problem or difference in philosophy

[@aaronmurrayvazquez]

the investigatio music is back!

[@dcobbs1]

well, so far Doc's current record with not is 3 -7 since taking over. a hiring mistake. you have to give a coach time in his 1st year. you hired him, give him the chance to do the job. Doc has proven that he's a failure at multiple organizations. why would you hire him and think it was going to get better.

[@cesarcanete3402]

I forgot where I heard it, but I think it was eitther JJ Redick's podcast or Andre Iguodala's podcast where they mentioned the real reason why he got fired. Adrian Griffin wanted to release Giannis's brother & Giannis didnt like that & got him fired.

[@flavios0101]

5:08 Love that sync

[@nemoanon585]

Doc would be good replacement for Idris Elba until the playoffs come

[@Teddy42O]

The thumbnail 😂😆🤣

[@aimson]

It's also difficult to cover PnR's when there are so many moving screens allowed. I sometimes wonder if I'm watching football defense in the NBA...

[@superSIZEmee]

Adrian Griffin auditioning to play the role of the lowercase letter d in the thumbnail…! 😂😂😂😂

[@spiritoflifeinchristminist9764]

The bucks will be worse NOW especially offensively. Any NEW coach NEEDS a mob type sit down with his team leaders to iron out how they feel about defensive/offensive schemes you the coach wants to impliment if they are comfortable with those... Otherwise if u loose your leaders u ve lost your team. In this case AG lost Lopez n Giannis. But honestly i think the *REAL PROBLEM* is the *PINK* *SNEAKERS* 🫣

[@paulhyde8427]

And then... Once you run exactly what the players want you to run and it doesn't work, those same players take shots at you in the media and demand that you get fired. Coaching in the NBA is a lose-lose situation in MOST instances. If you're not elite schematically and flexible enough to highlight the players who would be a problem otherwise (ex. Spo, Udoka, Thibs) it's just not even worth it. A player's job should be to play. A coach's job should be to coach. This whole player driven movement is infuriating when those same players lack the accountability and integrity to admit they were wrong. I mean... Durant and Kyrie created the sinking ship in Brooklyn. And then they demanded that both the coach they hand picked and GM (who did nearly everything they asked) be fired, AND they both probably would have asked for a trade anyway. Absolutely spineless.

[@spiritoflifeinchristminist9764]

@@paulhyde8427 Exactly, I hear u Paul.... In BK another issue was who be ball dominant runin the plays at the point...O think JKidd will ran into the same problem. The games Luka dominates the ball Ky get bored, plus the teams offense doest not run as smooth as when Ky has the reins...Lukas passes the ball only when he has no shot while players just stand n watch, as opposed to ky ppl know the ball can come to them any time.. Thats how the Mavs lost to Warriors since Luka deceided he will ran the offense...

[@paulhyde8427]

@@spiritoflifeinchristminist9764 yep. The level of basketball IQ of star players in the NBA has never been lower in my lifetime. It's very clear a lot of these guys don't have a complete understanding of the game and just want the ball to play some variation of 1 on 1. Isolation basketball does not win championships. It can close the door in a game you're already winning once you've established your main offense... But you have to have more than that

[@GoneFishingWithJames]

Good video

[@darrenedwards6705]

Gianni's said GET HIM outta here .. that was best player...😮

[@user-nw4ln6gr5v]

1:00 I like how the NBA just refuses to call 3 sec violations. But 2K will call it every 2 seconds. 😂

[@malemanjulpax2155]

Doc Rivers aint doing nothing on this defense issues. His clippers were up 3-1 and he refused to make adjustments on guarding Jokic

[@claudioalves6275]

This is masterclass

[@lazzi2462]

I'm glad someone with BBall knowledge is finally talking about this. Griffin was too inexperienced, they were strictly winning just based on talent, Giannis (& sometime Dame) bailing them out on every W. Too many casuals think they can judge the Bucks just based on their record without having watched an actual game of theirs this season. And they also think losing Jrue was the problem, even though the Bucks had better defensive ratings before Jrue joined them, as you brought up. They were always a great defensive team, Jrue wasn't the reason why they were good like the casuals like to think lol. Although with Bud, they were always the worst 3pt defending team too during his 5 years, but at least their interior defense was elite. The 3pt defense was always one of the main things that killed them come playoff time though. And Bud choked 3x's out of 5 years during his stint with Milwaukee, 2019, 2020, & 2023, so something had to be done right there.

[@justnahayo8490]

Facts. Casuals look a the record and think he shouldn’t have been fired

[@PuchuKt]

I would classify me as a casual and my problem wasn't with firing him (I was against them signing him to begin with), but the fact that they replaced him with Doc of all people

[@Mitch_Feral]

I dunno, thinking 'losing Jrue Holiday didnt hurt them defensively' is a pretty silly take.

[@lazzi2462]

@@PuchuKt I was against hiring Griffin too. A rookie coach to take on a team of this caliber, you just don't see that work out often. But if you don't think Doc is better than Griffin, then that's laughable. I mean who else was available at this moment that is better than Doc? People are mad the Bucks fired Bud, yet laughing at them for hiring Doc. Doc is basically the black version of Bud, both of them suck in the playoffs, but at least in this situation Doc will be an upgrade from Griffin.

[@lazzi2462]

@@Mitch_Feral If they had Jrue still, with Coach Griffin it would still be the same story. A lot of it depend on coaching, as Coach broke down in the video that the Bucks perimeter defense was still not great with Bud, who had Jrue on those teams.

[@Ho_Lii_Fuk]

There's reports that claimed the players didn't respect him anymore and that was the reason he got fired.

[@thewizardhowl]

We all know it's Thanasis 🤣🤣

[@GraniteQuarrier]

Seeing them against Denver tonight. Let's see how they look

[@warrenprice8945]

As a Bucks fan, we are doomed.

[@SCORP1ONF1RE]

🤡

[@TheBenedictchan1]

Well, at least you already got your title.

[@kako191919]

🤣🤣🤣 yo, we're done

[@warrenprice8945]

This season has turned into a complete shit show and dumpster fire all at the same time. Such high hopes that turned into such disappointment.

[@kako191919]

@@warrenprice8945 I’m still holding out hope haha. Hopefully doc can figure something out.

[@illwafer]

Brook Lopez and Body Languarge ironically have the same initials. Also 9:13 lol.

[@oldfrend]

there's a lot of luck involved in the bucks record. their average point differential is +4 while the sixers are +8 with a worse record. the cavs and knicks also have better pt differentials with worse records. in short, they're winning a lot of close games which mostly comes down to luck, but they're not as good as their record would indicate. also they're only 13-10 against >.500 teams. for comparison the celtics are 20-8 vs >.500. imo sneaky smart move by management. early season seal clubbing disguised a lot of issues with the bucks, but once they start playing more quality teams they'll be exposed.

[@DMANZAN0]

You have a backcourt of Dame and Beasley of course the bucks defence is going to suffer

[@MaxwellGriffin001]

They're trying to make it Dame's team and "win now"...what we're seeing is a team that can easily be exploited because too many players aren't in sync with Dame. So they need to make Dame a support player, and go back to what they've been doing, or it's a lost year for them. When's the last time a coaching change happened mid-season and they won?

[@likkeanimal8610]

can you 1 video of knicks post-OG trade

[@ThousandairesClub]

*y'all got AG on the still shot with the Booty Do, stomach stick out farther than his booty do 😂 why y'all do that man like that* 😭

[@natiive1444]

The thumbnail... 😋🤗 wtf lmfao

[@bbains8195]

It’s because Giannis 3rd uncle ain’t wash the uniforms correctly

[@friction5001]

This is why we should of kept Holiday and Allen as they were top notch in defense and spacing the floor, we should of sacrificed Middleton (obviously with some picks and probs chuck beauchamp) for Dame

[@iamwhatiam187]

Holiday couldn’t score come playoff time, that’s what they say

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

It's surreal how they kept Middleton, the dude's knees are banged up, he will never be the same (and he was already inconsistent when healthy), idk if they could bring Lillard by using Middleton as the main piece of a trade, but to lose Holiday in favor of Middleton is a obvious mistake, Holiday still have some gas left in his tank. I guess this is yet another move to keep Giannis "happy", to keep Middleton as his "friend" and etc.. as usual, the US leagues pamper their athletes way too much, you don't win championships by playing with "friends", even more so when the "friend" in question is demanding a lot of money to stay, so the entire roster suffers. If it was a "friendship" between a star and role player, like Kobe and Fisher for example, why not... but Middleton demands star money to score 14 pts a game on limited minutes because he is banged up

[@GOLVEL]

"Should have went", Coach... please. Other than that, amazing work 😊

[@ShockwaveDawn]

I don't know anything about coaching, so I'm not gonna claim I could do better... But. For a long time it has seemed to me like there's a _big_ disparity between the level of talent among players, and the level of talent among coaches in the league. I mean, aren't these supposed to be the 30 best coaches in the country - if not the world? And yet we have coaches that don't make adjustments, only know how to coach one end of the floor, don't have any answers against certain schemes, doesn't seem to get the most out of the roster they have, etc... There are those like Spoelstra and Pop, and then there are a bunch of guys a few steps down from that. I would love to hear some thoughts on this. Seems to me like often coaches gets hired on their name rather than on their skills and merits.

[@Koolkamjam_KKJ]

I don’t think I’ve ever been more worried for a team in the NBA. Last time I felt close to this way was the 2015-16 Houston Rockets . If you remember that team than you know……..

[@BD-xo7vk]

Any non expert knows that trading jrue and Grayson for Dame and Beasley would lead to less defense and more offense

[@kennethalmanzor]

The dip on defense can't be helped. Dame has been a one-sided player his whole career. Someone always had to pick up his slack. Unfortunately, the Bucks had to move all their backcourt guys who could do that.

[@allsunday1485]

Great breakdown. Doc denied the consulting rumours today btw

[@DIVISIONINCISION]

Thanks for this breakdown! Didn't realize how bad a coach Griffin was until I watched this. He had no business as an NBA HC.