Why the Hawks Fired Lloyd Pierce + Mailbag
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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In this week's Hoops Adjacent Hawks reporter Chris Kirschner drops by to talk with David and Wos about the Hawks' firing of head coach Lloyd Pierce. How Trae Young and others inside the locker room were unhappy with the direction, and how ownership has said nothing about it. Also how Atlanta will likely be handling the All Star Game and listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.1 | And welcome to another hoops adjacent episode of the Athletic NBA show, David Aldrich here in D.C. |
| 0:15.8 | Out in Cali, my man, Waslanbrae. Waz, what's up, sir? |
| 0:19.5 | I'm good, DA. I'm good. Just maintaining, man. Just looking forward to the All-Star break because I actually was, I had the wisdom of taking my own vacation during the All-Star break. So, you know, looking forward to a few days off and just relaxing and chilling. You don't have to go to Atlanta with everybody else? No, I'm not going to Atlanta. |
| 0:39.0 | I won't be in Atlanta for that. Well, neither will I, and I can't say that I'm sad about that. |
| 0:46.1 | So, unfortunately. So we're going to talk about all things Atlanta with our buddy Chris Kirchner |
| 0:53.2 | from the athletic who covers the Hawks |
| 0:55.6 | and Chris is this your first time on Hoops Adjacent this is my first time oh my god welcome |
| 1:04.1 | aboard thank you exactly man man glad you can make it glad you can make it thanks for joining |
| 1:09.4 | us man so yeah Chris covers the Hawks. |
| 1:12.0 | Does a great job. |
| 1:13.6 | Had for, you know, the first year had, let's be honest, a really bad team that he nonetheless made interesting through his reporting and writing. |
| 1:22.8 | And now has a disappointing team that's in the news because they just cashiered Lloyd Pierce on |
| 1:29.9 | Monday and it was a bit surprising, I suppose to the outside, but to the inside, not really. |
| 1:38.3 | And Chris talked, I mean, I would love your thoughts on what were the tea leaves that led you to believe in people that, |
| 1:46.9 | you know, followed the team and followed the league to believe that Lloyd didn't have much time |
| 1:51.6 | left? So I knew going into the Oklahoma City game this past Friday that these four games |
| 1:59.2 | were going to be important. I did not realize that he was going to get |
| 2:03.8 | fired in the middle of their four game road trip. I knew that it was trending toward him getting |
| 2:12.1 | fired at some point in the next few days. I expected it was going to be after Wednesday's game against Orlando |
| 2:19.8 | or the day after when they were back in Atlanta. |
| 2:22.8 | So I knew the time was ticking. |
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