Can Doc Rivers Cure the Bucks?

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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ESPN NBA writer Jamal Collier has been following the Milwaukee Bucks all season long. Today he explains to us how Adrian Griffin’s tenure with the team ended after only 43-games. With transcendent stars Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard on their roster, the Bucks entered the season with sky-high expectations. A 30-13 record had them near the top of the Eastern Conference. But cracks were forming both on and off the court. Collier takes us inside the Bucks organization to pinpoint the moment the first-year head coach lost his grip on the locker room, and gauges whether new head coach Doc Rivers can right the ship and get this team back in the Finals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamal Collier, paint a picture for us.
0:03.6	Take us to the moment you found out, head coach Adrian Griffin was going to be fired by the
0:09.0	Milwaukee Bucks.
0:10.0	You know what, Clinton?
0:11.8	The Bucks had lulled me to sleep
0:18.1	They came off a pair of wins. They weren't really impressive over Detroit, but you know things had kind of
0:24.0	stabled after a rocky start to January. So I was chilling man. I was I was at the
0:28.8	gym actually when I saw the alert from Woad. We start our show with breaking news.
0:33.6	The Milwaukee Bucks have fired head coach Adrian Griffin,
0:36.8	according to our senior NBA insider Adrian Wojjrowski.
0:39.6	So why is this happening now, Woj?
0:41.8	Yeah, I think this was an agonizing decision for this Milwaukee organization.
0:45.0	They were very fond of Adrian Griffin.
0:48.0	They gave him his first head coaching opportunity.
0:52.0	As I texted some people immediately on the team after that, they were just as
0:57.6	surprised me at the time at the news when it came down.
1:02.0	As you wrote, the Bucks GM John Horst, the guy whose job it was to do the firing,
1:08.0	had a dog, not just named Griff, but specifically named after Adrian Griffin, that's cold-blooded.
1:16.2	The dog's 15 years old man, like John knew that,
1:19.5	you know, eventually, eventually the end is coming.
1:29.0	In all seriousness though, I think that this is something that the bucks would not have done lightly. And if the alarm bells weren't reading in a way that kind of made it hard to ignore.
1:35.0	Yeah, but this team was 30 and 13.
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