Giannis Antetokounmpo Reacts to Bucks Firing Adrian Griffin
Oh what we got um you’ve been through coaching changes before um just kind of how do you react when you find out that news and how do you try to comprehend Building from here um you know obviously it’s tough um you know you build a relationship with
People um and all of a sudden boom they you know they’re not here um for a coach like grief I think from day one was everything was about togetherness was always leading this group um you know into the direction that we set in the beginning of the year and him
Not being here at the end of the day you know like we’re human it’s it it hurts everybody but I then got to keep on moving forward we have a goal in our head which is to be the best basketball team that we can be uh obviously there’s
A lot of high expectations uh from the ownership group from the front office from ourselves um to be great and this is this is the business of the NBA you know um I’ve been in a situation like that in the past I understand how things works I
Got to keep on moving forward today Joe PR is our our head coach uh we played a very very good game and get a very very good team that we last by 40 uh a week ago and tomorrow Coach P is going to be our coach again we going to watch
Film we going going let Coach uh Joe lead us in uh towards the direction that we’ve set as I said in the beginning of the year and um Can to be better um I think 38 games left as whoever comes in to to coach you guys just as you’re like trying to think
Of the idea of getting ready in 38 games with a new coach for a playoff run do you feel like that’s enough time to to mesh in the way that you need to to kind of prepare for for a stretch run that’s a very good question um I didn’t of the
Day I I am not in meetings uh that’s been taking place with I don’t know who ultimately makes a decision like that probably the GM and the the owners um I this time I don’t know if there’s going to be a coach uh that’s going to come
And uh take over uh so I don’t want to make assumptions that there’s going to be a coach obviously there’s um a lot of media Outlets out there that have uh put some names out there but uh as I said today my coach is Joe priny and I got to
Respect him I got to respect that and um I cannot assume that we’re going to going to have you know uh in the near future another another coach when that happen I can uh I can you know comment about that more 38 games also do I know if it’s going to be
Enough no I don’t know I’ve never been in a position like that before I don’t know if 38 games enough to come together and uh try to win the a championship so I don’t know we’ll see we’ll see how how how it goes but I end
Of the day like we we play the game players play the game uh we getting we getting together Chris is dunking the ball all of a sudden dunk last game d this game I don’t know what’s going on um I made the three this game last game too like we just switching roles
Like I think I mean Chris milon is in my body actually no I’m inan Chris milon body he’s in my body now I’m joking but um players players play the game you know and and at times we we need direction but at the end of the day our
Talent will take over and we we’re going to read the play we’re going to make the best uh possible decision um and I think we’ve played a a season that guys have been healthy we’ve played a lot of minutes together like me and D we’ve played 40 something games together
And we going to play 70 80 who knows but we on the court together me Chris D Brook like we on the court so we playing good or bad sometimes we lose sometimes we win um sometimes we we don’t play well sometimes we play well but it’s good that we are out there
Together now who’s going to come and give us that direction um in the future I don’t know right now I know the D the guy is giving us direction is Coach Joe and uh today he was he was incredible uh was able to get a win we play them again on Friday
Hopefully we can get a win again um John John was up there pregame and said one of the factors behind the the decision was he felt there’s another level the team there’s a gear um this team can be better and I know you just said players play so I guess I’m curious
Where do you think a this change can help you play better as a group and get to a different level cuz that’s that’s why JN had said they made the change so I’m curious how you feel that can help help you all the the change yes the
Change I don’t know um you got to I think Jim you got to ask John I do believe like I can break it down and you know go from defense offense from my chemistry from the way we practice from our our our level of uh Focus you know
When we go out there like there’s a lot of things that we can do better from a Twan game with me and day more for uh me and Chris to also connect more from up BR like there’s so many things from not giving up a lot of Threes like you know
Today we were trying to do Sam went off but okay um there’s a lot of things that we can do better so I probably assume maybe I’m not sure you got that he’s uh referring to those things
Giannis spoke postgame after the Bucks win over the Cavaliers on the team firing head coach Adrian Griffin.
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31 Comments
Bro can't even hide that he's happy that mf is gone 😭
Giannis is a coach killer
Giannis is loving this 😂😂
Giannis is the ultimate winner.
Ālea iacta est
How baller would it have been if Giannis just said, "you think I didn't know he was going to get fired?"
he not mad at it
bros probably celebrating inside
Getting more fake by the day, well done giannis
I heard Giannis got him fired because he was talking ish about his bro Thanasis, saying he shouldn’t be on an NBA Team 🤦♀️
Fired a dude who won 3 games to one loss on the season. Odd
GIANNIS
"I'm glad he's out the frigging door. and if Doc does the same he's out too. And then I'm putting Thanasis as head coach with Robin Lopez as his assistant".
Giannis wants to be a General Manager, just like Lebron
really soured on this dude.. his fake persona is being revealed more year by year.. first he was a team player and didnt wanna go anywhere then he cried about how he might ask for a trade then he demanded his bum ahh brother to be in the team and take a spot from a more deserving player… now hes a coach killer.. just like Lebron made the cavs fire David Blatt for no damn reason… ppl forget Blatt damn near stole the 2015 finals and was up 2-1 with 2 allstars injured… if he was coaching that 2016 Cavs team they wouldnt have been down 3-1 in the first place.. they got lucky and had some assist from the league lets be honest
Im glad i never jumped on the Giannis fandom train. Dude just seems like hes sly and will do what he has to get what he wants. No one is just nice. Ive been saying Giannis will never win another ring. Atleast with the bucks. Giannis is worse than Harden in terms of being a diva. Celebrating the loss of your coach as the bucks were doing is influenced by the star player for sure. No class.
I hope they collapse after this, Giannis is fake af and ruining peoples cosching careers lol.
Im glad that they fired that fraud. Defensive minded my ass lol. I dont want to hear about Jrue or anybody, he didnt make any adjustments just trash. The players got that record, not Grif coaching them up foh. See ya
Smug d bag😮
Giannis so full of shit! He wanted that man gone from the very beginning. Stop capping!!!
May this team continue to excel in the midst of all distractions!
The fickle, no brain cell, box score reading basketball fans love clinging onto false narrative that make no logical sense, and here's another one people are going to run with because Griffin got fired. Giannis hasn't had an issue with any other coaches in his career. All reports (from actual credible sources and not random fans making up bullshit like the people in the comments and on Twitter) indicate that Griffin lost the entire locker room. The team wasn't buying in. Bobby Portis went off on Griffin for his lack of organization after their IST loss. It was clearly a case of him just not meshing with the team. If you watched the Bucks up until this point, you could see the glaring issues. Griffin was a fish out of water, it was a tough situation for him. But no one on the Bucks, including Giannis, did anything wrong.
I just don’t get a lot of these comments it was reports that Giannis didn’t even know the coach was getting let go till everybody else found out people saying this guys happy looking at his face he doesn’t seem like he’s happy but he doesn’t seem like he said either he just seems like it’s kind of indifferent I mean this dude has lost two coaches in less than a year he’s probably Starting to get fed up a little bit with the bucks front office if anything I mean literally the media report said that they didn’t console Giannis on anything
🙏🏼
Yeah he got that man fired 😂
LeGiannis not a great liar.
Reading between the lines of his statement…. "Griffin had no idea of what he was doing…… I don't care if we are 30 – 13…. he does not know how to win with this team…… plus, if he played my brother more, he wouldn't have gotten let go"
Stop talking nonsense you haters. If you think bucks was winning because AG was good then you are not watching bucks basketball. Bucks were bearly winning against teams that they were blowing every single time they met before AG. They even had multiple blow out loses which were rarely seen before. Bucks defense sysyem was non existence and improvements were slow. You think just trading jrue caused this? Hell no. You dont go 4th in defense to 22nd because of single player.
AG probably didnt fulfill what he commited during the hiring and his failure to win hearts of players which made him gone. Bucks is contending team not some HS team. If you are not skillful enough to coach world class players, you should be gone.
Before you talk stupid shit, answer this. If there was any time you thought that bucks will win this year, did you have AG as one of the reason? No. So there you go. You already know why he is gone.
Some of y'all showing that elementary intelligence like it's 🔥>🙅🤢🤮. Power and Coach Killer are two different things. Power>Trying to win but someone on the team including Coaches that are not at the same level as the Star Player need to go. But when they start suggesting one of their "Teammates" to be traded then the Star Player will remind you there's only one Alpha here ala "MJ, Kobe, Lebron, Giannis, etc." That is call Power or Player GM. Coach Killing needs no explanation🥴🤦but the Coach Killers are "Kyrie Irving, KD, Kawaii Leonard when not playing, Russell Westbrook OKC, and more recently James Harden". Does that help break it down for you Peanut 🥜 size 🧠☠ kids? Or does someone else need to explain what's going on for you? Like Steven A. Smith perhaps because last I check he didn't say anything about Coach Killing in Espn's Morning Sports News that day. Neither anyone else on that platform. You know what. It might have been Fox Sport News. I forgot ya'll New Gen-e like to believe in Misinformation and Fancy Highlights rather than the facts. Go figure!😏
On another post a dude claimed he knows what really happened (just a rumor of course, but sounds plausible):
Apparently Adrian Griffin wanted to force Bobby Portis to trade, so BP told the team. John Horst then asked the team and they said absolutely not. Then AG told JH it's either Bobby who's going, or him. Knowing the team, JH decided for BP and against AG.
But that's only hearsay, like i said.
Why did they fire coach Bud?
This team does so much for Giannis. It’s a glorified make a wish for his brother.