 What's the word, y'all? Adrian Griffin just got fired. The last 24 hours of the association, do y'all really think about how crazy the league that we follow is? We saw a person drop 70 points, shout out to Joel and B. We saw somebody else drop 62 and in a loss, Kevin Ray had 43 in the game winner and now we see a head coach get fired while having a 30 and 13 record. And it's just interesting. I was surprised and not because I believe that Adrian Griffin had the job security with Eric Sposter, because I didn't think that Adrian Griffin was doing a great job, but the timing of it is what surprised me. I mean, we're in the numbers in the board studio and it broke right, right live on the show. And we're like, wait, there was no rumbling as far as we know that this was about to happen and then boom, it happened. The 30 and 13 record, by the way, again, circumstances are different, but I just want to put it on a different perspective. A 30 and 13 record is again the two seed in the Easter conference and the leader right now for coach of the year is O.K.C., O.K.C.'s Mark Daytonaul who has a worst record by percentage, by percentage. So our eventual maybe coach of the year might have a lower 1% in this guy that just got fired. Now again, coaching in basketball is more than wins and losses, but again, 30 and 13, 30 and 13. Now, again, I do not believe that Adrian Griffin was doing a very great job and 30 and 13 maybe is underperforming where you have Damian Lillard and Yanis, but it's just, you know, but even with that said, this is not the first time in recent history that we've seen a coach get fired while coaching a good team. David Black also had this happen to him back in 2016 where he had a 30 and 11 record. Now, Adrian Griffin got two extra games now. He got two extra games, but he also got fired and of course, Tyrone Lutik over and they went on to win an NBA championship. So Bucks fans, history can repeat itself, I guess, but only time or two. Now, the last two games for the Milwaukee Bucks have not been pretty. They, well, a lot of their wins haven't been pretty and that's one of the reasons why Adrian Griffin got fired, but the last two specifically, you had back-to-back games against the Detroit Pistons and in both of those games, these are, okay. So the way I'm watching basketball right now, halfway through the season, I am picking and choosing the games that I want to pay attention to. When I see Bucks versus Pistons on the docket, I don't care to watch that, right? But with four minutes left in both of these games, the Pistons are in it. So I switch over to see what the heck is going on. That's what happens. You let the Pistons hang around for two straight games. People started looking at each other like, I don't know about so-and-so. And so-and-so right now, Adrian Griffin just got fired. The tenure of the 40-something games of Adrian Griffin as a head coach has not been pretty, right? It started off with Terry Stotz. Terry Stotz was the lead assistant on the bench for this coaching staff. And eventually, before the season started, Terry Stotz set deuces. Now, there was a report that there was an altercation between him and Adrian Griffin, not like a physical tussle, but like an argument, so on and so forth. And it was enough for Terry Stotz, who had been around the association as a head coach, granted, for a very long time to say, heck, this is not built for me. Now, some of us speculated that he was just so used to being a head coach. Not being in a head coach was just two months to take in. Some people said that Adrian Griffin is moving a little bit differently for a guy with zero experience, right? So that happened. We thought it was weird, but we didn't think too much about it. Next thing, the team started off dreadfully defensively in hell. They're still not good defensively right now, but the start of the season was even worse. And then it got to the point where the people around the team were like, hey, Adrian, this defensive scheme you got us running is dreadful. We want to run the thing that helped us win a championship just a few years back. Adrian Griffin said, you know what? Y'all are right. And then eventually we saw a lot more drop coverage from Brooke Lopez and they've adapted that a little bit more and their defense has got better. It's still not good, but it has got better since then. That's another thing. And then the next thing I could think of on top of my head that he had a very particular rotation that Damon Lillard hated. Dame said, I am struggling to get a rhythm because my entire time in Portland, my rotations were a certain way. I want to play all 12 minutes in the first quarter. That's the way I get my rhythm. And then Adrian Griffin said, you got it, Dame. You got it. So that's three different things just off the top of mind. I'm not deep into Bucks fandom. There might be more in the chalk and comment down below, but there's three different things where people are looking at Adrian Griffin as a first year HECO said, bro, you're doing this wrong. And those are just the things that we know that he accepted the fact. Well, I don't know if he accepted the terrorist aspect, but we know that he was like, you know what, y'all are right. That'll tell us what's going on behind the scenes of a player or another coach and a staff saying, Adrian, we need to do this. He might be like, nope, that's not the way I want to do things. We only know what we really know. So they decided that this man was not the coach for them to win that championship because when you trade for Dame and Lillard, and you have Giannis, you have a top two player in all the basketball on your roster, there's no real room to figure it out if that makes sense. And I honestly think this goes deeper than coaching. I honestly do believe that with him being a first time head coach, there are a lot of things that he didn't really anticipate and keeping together a locker room and having a group of people behind you as a head coach is something that you can't, I guess you can't really look past it. And I don't know if this is the original tweet, but this comes from Ryan Rue. New Adrian Griffin was gone when I saw Giannis drawing up plays on the bench last night. I just, yeah, but this is obviously jokes and jokes and jokes, you know, like stuff like that. Now, there's probably a broader conversation to be had about stuff like this that I'll probably go deeper into it when I have a full hour to talk like the Canary Beaches podcast, links is in the description, about players, the star players of an organization like Giannis, especially in a smaller market, deserve to have their voice be heard, right? From all of our understanding, Adrian Griffin higher was because Giannis endorsed him to the max. They interviewed a lot of different people and that was the guy that Giannis thought could put them over the hump. And obviously they thought wrong, but I'm sure there's a broader conversation about how much your star player should have in decisions like this. That's all. Who would have thought that Adrian Griffin would have been the first coach fired considering there are a lot of codes around basketball that are underperforming, you know? Again, given the circumstances, you can argue that 30 to 13 is not good enough or the way they got to 30 to 13 was not good enough. Now, from the rumors, and this is from Walsh and this is from Shyam, so maybe not so much rumors, Doc Rivers is at the top of the priority list for the Milwaukee Bucks. And anytime I see something like that, I'm just assuming that he's gonna get the job. I just, it's hard to find a person on the street that could do the things that you wanna do and maybe they believe that Doc Rivers is that guy for them. Does that change their championship aspirations? I'm sure there's some people that we're gonna say no. Doc Rivers over the course of his career other than 2008 has been a sub-part coach come playoff time. I mean, we're talking about the coach that has the most three-one leads blown as a head coach, you know? And some people are gonna say, hell, that's just, even with that, that's better than what we were experiencing with Adrian Griffin. Because I know Bucks fans in my personal life that have, again, they didn't think that he was gonna get fired on this random day in January, but they were saying that they don't believe that Adrian Griffin is the guy. Some of the ones that I've talked to said that they don't believe he was a guy this year, but maybe he can grow into that guy and I guess ownership and the players in the locker room decided we don't really have time to watch you grow into that guy. You know, it's somewhat similar, but maybe not so similar to last year we saw out of nowhere Joe Missoula had to be the coach because even Yudoka did some stuff and he made Yudoka had to get fired for it. And well, Joe Missoula took that assignment and he came into a team that already established himself as one of the better teams in all the basketball. And of course they didn't go on to win a championship. They flamed out in the conference finals. But the team decided, we saw enough in this young coach to say, we believe that he can be the guy to get us over the hump in the next coming years. And then they gave him an extension. And of course they traded for Perzinkas. They traded for Joe Holliday and so on and so forth. But they saw this young coach on their coaching staff and because of some extreme circumstances put him as the head coach and he blossomed, right? First year head coaching is objectively hard, especially when you're jumping into a team that have the aspirations to win a championship. Now, if you look at recent history, we've seen a decent amount of first year head coach go on to win championships. Nick Nurse came in with the Kauai Leonard year. We saw Steve Kerr come in with the first year of the Golden State Warriors. So we've seen first year head coach do this, but they're few and far in between. We think about just a grand scheme of NBA history. And one of the most underrated things, underappreciated things about building a culture and becoming a championship team. And again, that the Bucks are a team that just did this a few years ago is finding the coach that the players, the organization and everybody believes in. Mike Malone is that guy and Denver Ericsposter has been that guy for like 20 years at this point. Obviously, Greg Poppins has been that guy for a very, very, well, Greg Poppins is about 20 something years. And then I feel like Spokes have been around for so long. I think it was like 2010-ish, 2009-2006. So it hasn't been that long, but he's a guy that's been through a lot of different ups and downs with his organization. Never have we heard any rumors about Spokes' name being on the chopping block. Finding the guy to be your guy for five plus years and current basketball is so very hard. And maybe they thought that Adrian Griffin was gonna be that guy, but now they're opting to try to find accomplished, experienced coaching. And this is what Adrian Griffin is asking. And I'm sorry, not Adrian Griffin, Adrian Wojnowski is saying on Twitter. So of all the people that are available, that sounds like Dr. Rivers. You know what I'm saying? I don't know who else he's really interviewing. Are you interviewing? Mike Dantoni? Oh, you thought the defense was bad. Why did Mike Dantoni get in town? So I don't know exactly who that head coach is gonna be, but just as random Tuesday in January, so our coach get canned. Part of me wants to go back through the timeline of who was available when Adrian Griffin signed on to be the head coach. Because this was a, this is one of the best coaching off seasons we had. We had like Nick Nurse. And again, I don't know when Nick Nurse or who signed first, but there were just a lot of really good coaches on the market this year. And they opted to go to Adrian Griffin. So I just need to go back throughout the history and see who signed where and what day. But I just remember it being like, oh my God, there's a lot. There's this coaching carousel that's gonna be kind of crazy this year. And again, they opted to the first year coach with his own coach and staff and stuff. So yeah, I don't really know. You let me know what you think in the comment section. Joe Prudy, again, is the interim coach why they go through these interviewing processes. Joe Prudy has been an interim coach like four times or something, three to four times at this point. And every single time he coached, okay-ish, I guess. So yeah, you let me know what you think is Doc Rivers the right guys or somebody else was the right time to make Adrian Griffin out of the head coach and job. I don't know. I guess time or two.