Adrian Griffin has renew his contract with the bucks for $150mill…
Several days ago, we took a look back at the Bucks’ not one, not two, but THREE head coaching changes since May 2023, and we wanted to hear your thoughts on what turned out to be very nasty. This was not something we expected when Griffin was hired around this time last year. First and foremost, with former head coach Mike Budenholzer now back in the league with his home state team, how do fans feel about his dismissal a year later?
This is a pretty big deal. Following the Bucks’ first-round, five-game loss to the Heat last spring, it appeared that most fans were done with Bud. The general consensus among both the typical loud voices on Twitter, who had been hammering the #FireBud drum even after he won a title, and the fanbase as a whole wanted to move on. Well, it appears that a large swath of fans, including possibly those who wanted Bud gone a year ago, have realized: the grass isn’t
Always greener. Perhaps we were too quick to pass judgment on a player whose two early post-title playoff exits were mostly due to injuries to Khris Middleton and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Regardless, I believe Bud was superior to his two successors. Talking about…
Despite his 30-13 record and Doc Rivers’ (who, it should be noted, had a much more difficult schedule and dealt with injuries at the top of the roster) subsequent sub-.500 record, most fans believe moving on from Adrian Griffin was the right decision. Griff was given a bad hand with his job description altering considerably from a team poised to retool around a rookie head coach to one firmly going for it after acquiring Damian Lillard, but he didn’t handle much gracefully in his half-season. He swiftly made a high-profile assistant depart, had his vets questioning his ideas and basketball understanding within four games, then appeared to lose any respect he had from
The team will be formed by the new year. Griffin was clearly in over his head, and firing him in order to salvage the season and avoid wasting any more time made as much sense then as it does today.
But what about what happened next? We put it this way: should the Bucks have concluded the season with an interim coach and conducted a comprehensive search this summer?
