Trysta's concerns about Adrian Griffin prove true; The Bucks fired him and might hire WHO????

the most disgusting moment of the Timberwolves all season. Sounds about cat and it becomes the all scoring night. Wendy puts up thirty three, Katie goes for forty three, woo Wie, and it is the best of times. It is the worst of times for Embiid and Jordan Poole. The snow hasn't even melted yet, so let's go right into it, Anthony and drop that motherfucking beat that should be real. First up, Up. If the energy's a little lower, I'm still a bit under the weather, so forgive me for

not being my normally turned up self. But alert alert. The Milwaukee Bucks have fired their head coach Adrian Griffin middle of the season in his first year, hands selected by Jannis. Oh no, damn, the league's out of control right now. Let me repeat the second place Milwaukee Bucks, who are thirty and thirteen, have fired their rookie head coach just forty three games into the year. And folks, I wish I could say, who would no, who could have seen this coming? I wish I could say this

came out of absolutely nowhere. But it didn't come out of nowhere, did it. It came out of somewhere. It came out of every logical place that you know. If you're an NBA fan, in the fiber of your being, you knew, you knew Adrian Griffin wasn't that guy. Here's what I said on the heat check in October when I was previewing the Bucks for the upcoming season. Mind you, we haven't even had one regular season game yet, and

here's what I said about Adrian Griffin. The thing, though, that gives me great pause about Milwaukee is the fact that Adrian Griffin's a new head coach and he clearly is on some power struggle bullshit. He is literally on the I am new to the job, so I'm gonna tell you I'm in charge. I am gonna let you

know who's wearing the big balls here. And so Terry Stotts, who coached Damian Lillard for nine years, comes to the team right before Dame gets traded, and then Adrian Griffin yells at him about some nonsense and Terry Stotts is like, yeah, I'm done with this shit. That gives me great pause. It is this I have to assert my dominance because I'm new at the job kind of vibe. Turns out it was one hundred percent right my fear, and it

turns out those fears were very well founded. The man couldn't even last a full season before getting jettison before Jannis was going on seven minute rants being like, hey, guys, we don't even know what we're doing plan wise. We need to have a defensive scheme, like are we giving up threes? Are we giving up post ups? Are we giving up slashes to the rim? Are we a Latin? Guys? Just get up dunks? Are we giving up mid ranges?

Because right now we're giving up everything. And as far as I'm concerned, I don't think we should be giving up everything. We are a terrible defensive team as one of the worst defense teams in the NBA, coming on the heels of one of the best defensive teams in the NBA under Mike Putenholzer. He joins Adrian Griffin. He joins David Blatt of the Lebron Calves team who got fired almost eight years ago to the day with a thirty and eleven record, although it wasn't even his rookie season.

That was his second year, so they had a full season and a half to evaluate David Blatt. You may ask yourself why, that's the question being asked Chris Mannix of the corpse that used to be this that's wrong. The corpse that used to be is SI. That's just fucked up for us to say. But it is the corpse. It is SI. They are they are dead. The bodies are hitting the flow Rip two Sports illustrated. This is

what Chris Mannick says. There have been steady rumblings for weeks in NBA circles that several Bucks veterans, including Giannis, had lost faith in Griffin. Appeared to be a smart hire last spring, just never worked out. Those rumblings became full out growls and roars as Jannis repeatedly flamed the Bucks in every way defensively in his postgame pressers as the team struggled to be even the Detroit Pistons two

nights ago. And let's face it, if you can barely beat the Pistons, you are having a real hard time. If you need forty five from Dame to beat the Detroit Pistons, you are a really, really bad defensive team. And yeah, I know Drew's gone in Dame's turnstile, but that just is not enough of an excuse for you to be so fucking bad. Griffin thought he was going to create some new plan about how to become a better defensive team, despite the fact that his roster did

not really align with his quote unquote scheme. Honest, it was really fucking terrible. He wanted to bring brook Lopez up further in drop coverage and then get proceeded to get roasted at the room so much so that a fucking coup, Like two games into the season was stage where they said, no, no, our defensive player of the year, guy who is getting blocks on blocks on blocks, you need to let him do that. He's not a guy who's gonna athletically stay with somebody in pick and roll.

They refuse to adapt to his new defensive scheme that clearly wasn't working and he didn't have the personnel to make it work anyway. So instead of instead of going back to Budenholzer's scheme or simplifying, he just put his feet down. He also talked about the fact that his whole team went against him and he basically had to capitulate the man ran Terry's s thoughts out of town before there was ever a game. And if you don't remember Terry Stotts, shame on you. Damian Lillard's head coach

for nine years. He was there before Damian Lillard even got there, and then was supposed to help with the offense and for some reason they had some sort of tiff and he was deuces. Joe Prunty again is the interim head coach aka I don't know what he's going to be doing, but the leading candidate to replace him full time. You won't believe it. You won't believe it. If I say it, You'll say, Trista, you're lying. You'll say, Trista, I don't believe you. You'll say, how can this guy

get another job. If we know that this team right now under Adrian Griffin is good in the standings, but where if we're honest with ourselves as in the true contender and being mediocre despite the roster that says they should be really good, it's not acceptable in its championship. Then this can't be the leading candidate. You can't pitch me him, And I tell you no, No, he's not only the leading candidate, he's already been embedded in the team like a snake. Snake. Yes, folks, Doc fucking Rivers

the snake himself. He has been signed on since December as a consultant while working for ESPN and helping Adrian Griffin get his feet wet, all the while going back to management and saying this guy ain't got it and he's gonna take this man's job after being fired for doing the exact same thing that Adrian Griffin did, only for many, many, many, many many more years. Look at the way that he's been sneak diss in the bucks in the media. This is fucking outrageous. I would rather

see the return of Mike Budenholzer. Yeah, let's just get random. Let's get random. Dame just shoot from thirty. Dame, We're gonna have a lot more on this. But if if Doc Rivers, if Doc Rivers gets hired, then all I can say is thank you to Jimmy Haslam, because then I will know for sure, Dame Willard, We'll never get that fucking ring. Let's move on. That would just be a shame. Let's move on. There's so much going on

inside the association. My head is spinning. Monday night turned out to be one of the craziest nights in recent memory. Jaron Jackson had six steals in the first quarter. Hit six steals the first quarter. That is insane. I wouldn't That's not even gonna make the podcast. That's how good the scoring, that's how good the performances were. It reminded me we got to talk about something I've been meaning to talk about this. There's a lot of people right now that are older than me to think that the

NBA fucking sucks right now. They think that it's worse than it's ever been, and I am here to tell you no, it is actually the opposite. We are now living in the Golden Age, the renaissance of scoring. It is become and it's not because nobody plays defense either. It is because the players themselves have turned themselves into cheat coats. If you saw Joel Embiid anytime this season, you will know exactly what I'm talking about. Old heads like, yeah,

nobody hustles, blah blah blah, nobody bangs. You don't even remember what it was like in the era of magic and bird blah blah blah. We don't care about that. Look at Nikola Jokic and Aunt Edwards and LaMelo Ball and Donovan Mitchell and Kevin Durant and Embiid so so many more. Their footwork, their ability to get to the rim, their ability to have counters on their counters to score, their abilities to just figure out a way to maneuver

their body. It is so much fun. Look at what has happened in the last five days in the NBA. Tatum went off for thirty eight eleven and five. Jalen Brunson went for forty one to eight and eight. This is a man who some people are saying is not even in an All Star forty one, eight and eight. If he is not an All Star, think about what that means for the NBA. Okay, including at twenty in the fourth quarter in a win over the Wizards. Yo Kich forty two, twelve and eight over the Wizards. Do

you see a trend here? By the way get games against the Wizards. Booker put up fifty two in a blowout win against the Pelicans on Friday. Durant had forty in a back to back games, including one without shooting a single free throw. But all of that, all of that takes a back seat to Jojo Joel Embiid. Why Joel Embiid on Monday night went off for seventy fucking points seventy seventy I thought when it was trending on Twitter, it was a mistake. I thought there was no shot.

The man Joel Embiid has been putting up thirty five, putting his hard head on, and then sitting his ass down against this team. I thought to myself, there's no chance he plays more than three quarters seven zero seventy as in more one more than sixty nine nice. I think it's very difficult for me to process right now. I don't understand that is a figure that, in the grand scheme of things, makes no sense. From nineteen sixty three to two thousand and two, the NBA had four

seventy point games. There's now been three in the last thirteen months. That's where we're at right now. The Golden Age is scoring. Embiid is only the ninth player in history to score seventy only the third seven footer, and he did it shooting two threes only. He is only the second player in history to have a sixty five, fifteen and five or better night. The other guy not Wilt Michael Jordan, speaking of will, Joel Embiid is actually, if you look at it, playing better than Wilt is.

He is scoring more points per minute this season than Wilt Chamberlain, when he averaged fifty points per game. Joel Embiid, if he played all four quarters all the games that he's played, would be averaging fifty. I mean, that's just not even that's not even a debate. He is so good right now. If if Joel Embiid can make it to the finish line with sixty five played games and Jokic continues to play this way, I don't I don't know how they don't just give two of them away.

I don't know why they don't just give them both. MVPs are now the MVP's co for the next decade. That's where we're at right now. In his last ten games, MBAT has gone off for forty eleven and six with three steals and blocks in thirty five minutes per game. Can you process that? Can you put your little mind

to understanding how you score more than one point per minute? Yeah, he gets the ball, he jab steps, and he shoots over you, and you know pretty much what it feels like is one hundred percent of the time it's going in splash unless you foul him, and then he's going to the free throw line and he's splash splashed. The Sixers are eight and two in those games. In the last ten games, they're covering numbers two. I know they didn't cover two nights ago, but boy, oh boy, was

it close. This is the new NBA, and if you don't like it, then go the fuck home. I don't care about you. These guys are so incredibly gifted. Saying this the other night, when Embiid misses a shot, I'm actually surprised, and you're talking about a guy who is seven feet two and you are actually shocked when he takes a guy face up and he and he puts it up. How good was it? How good is seventy points by Joel EMBII. Let's check in with Durant and see what he has to say. I don't know if

you saw Joel and did score seventy? Cat has sixty seventy, Yeah, Joe has seventy today, Yes, seventy. So what did Knights like to that mean?

from three, seven rebounds, two assists, two blocks. He was great. Even if even if you got torched by MB, you're not stopping that man. You're not stopping that man. In fact, Victor gave a great rationale for why we are in the golden age of scoring, the return of the big man. He said this a few years back. It was more of a guard's game. But now it's gonna come back to a big man's game. I think it makes sense in terms of the game. We got guys, some guys all around the league who do a lot of stuff

despite being very tall. It's just the way the game changes now we got to adapt. Yeah, I mean, it's not really a big man's game, Victor, it's a guards game. And those guards happened to be seven feet tall. That's what it is. That's what it is. Watch Shoell Mbid's footage, Watch old Kobe footage and tell me those men aren't the same. I'm not even supposed to be getting hyped up like this. Watch Kobe's footage, Watch Joel Embiid's footage and tell me those men aren't doing the same thing

out there. The back to the basket moves that Joel Embiid has, the face up moves midy right in your fucking face like a killer. Oh yeah, by the way, that was on the anniversary of Kobe Bryant's eighty one point performance. You don't think that was lost. You think that was lost on the players who put up crazy numbers trying to become Kobe. Kobe embid is shooting forty two percent from three, Chet thirty nine percent from three, Jokic thirty five percent from three. And that's just the

regular season. Watch what what jo Jokic does in the playoffs, shooting fifty percent from three in the playoffs. Kevin Durant, who is let's be honest, he's seven feet tall, but he calls himself six to ten because you know why not forty six percent from three? It is still the age of the guard. But there's seven feet two, seven feet tall. How oh, if you're Damian Lillard, do you survive? This is why Aunt Edwards and Anthony Black and kids who are six seven to six nine with guard skills.

That's why they like Survival of the Fittest are eating six' one guards and spitting them to THE g. League if you are six foot one right, now you should be. Terrified if you are a college player and you are under six five six six sixty seven and you play, Guard i'm, sorry you might think about playing In. China this is going. Down this shit is going down every. Night who is gonna be, Today who's gonna be? Tomorrow

is gonna be? Honest going for fifty sixty, Seventy Donovan mitchell going for, Seventy dame going for, EIGHTY i mean probably Not dame going for Eighty with This bucks, team let's be, honest because their offense doesn't work right, Now but, shit would you be shocked If Terry, rozier who just got traded to The, heat goes for one't I Tyler hero forty. FIVE i mean we got let's be, real we got real mid guys that can put up. Fifty that just shows you that the league's really really good right.

Now between ninety five and two, thousand here are the following players who scored fifty or more. Points Michael jordan did it three, Times ai, Twice shack, Twice Malone's rapin' ass, Twice Cliff robinson, Once Vince carter, Once mahmood Abdul raouf once claps to me for pronouncing that, Correctly Aki malaijuan, Once Alonzo morning, Once Tracy murray. Once ten different players put up fifteen to fifty point games in five. Years let's go into the modern. Numbers just last, year there

were twenty five fifty point games from fifteen different. Players Luka doncic four, Times Damian lillard three, Times Joel embiid three, Times Devin booker two, Times giannis, Twice curry, Twice Donovan mitchell, Once Julius, Randall Ad Clay, Thompson, Shocker Pascal, Siakam Darius, Garland, Wooh Drew, Holliday Jason, tatum And Jannis. OH i already Said Janis jannis did it. Twice there have been eleven fifty points or more games already this year and we

are halfway. Through do you think that things are exponentially getting, bigger, better, faster, stronger better, footwork just more? Buckets so, Yes if you don't like, it then probably start billions or. SOMETHING i don't, know BUT i personally love, it just LIKE i love me. Some Joel, embiid he is. Enough him And Kelly ubra And Tyrese maxi And Nick nurse are enough to get

me to fall in love with The sixers. TEAM i truly believe this is the best team in The, east AND i Think Joel embiid And Nick nurse probably Name let's move on some quick news from around the. League as an addend To joel embiid seventy, POINTS i would be remiss not to mention That Karl Anthony towns had a career night himself had a franchise record in, fact and it was very much related to What Joel embid did was. Doing So towns was going. Crazy had forty

four in the first. Half he was the first player in history to hit ten, threes ten twos and ten free throws in the, game goes off for sixty. Two the, problem, though is that The wolves found out that fifty THE embiid had fifty at, half and they decided they were going to try to go toe to toe With. Embiid they were going to try to game the system to get Karl Anthony towns to put up M b type. Numbers and here's the. Problem statadding for Karl Anthony towns

or anyone can lead to big. Problems and it worked for a. While kat had fifty eight by the end of the third. Quarter but the problem was that The Charlotte hornets also were trying to make shots and they weren't gonna lay down and die just because Carl Anthony towns wanted to score seventy as. Well in, fact The, hornets knowing That minnesota was just going to Give cat the ball in the fourth quarter and that was pretty

much all that they were going to. Do they, decided we'll just send everybody at, them triple, team quadruple, Team and of Course Karl Anthony, towns his ego kept missing, shots would not. Pass The hornets outscored The wolves thirty six eighteen in the fourth quarter and one by. Three Only Karl Anthony towns could do. This only only he could turn the best performance in his career to something

that makes me like him. Less guests who also was pissed about the stat padding his head, coach let's listen.

Sign shouldn't hurt him in the long, run but it does go to show you that they have a, weakness and that's how you exploit. It Exploit Karl Anthony towns's oversized ego that is masking his insecure behavior and his soul and, maybe just maybe you can dethrone them in the. Playoffs let's move. On there was a major trade that went on big implications in The Eastern. Conference i'm sure some teams are not happy about the. Move Miami heat

finally pulled the. Trigger decided By Kyle lowry you. Stink they send him twenty twenty seven first round pick to The Charlotte hornets for Scary Terry Terry. Rozier we've been talking about this trade for a while. Now there's been pictures Of Terry rosier photoshopped and heat, gear and he's liking. Them he's talking about heat. Culture he's putting a photos on His instagram of heat. BANNERS i, mean it was very obvious he wanted to go to the Heat he

was telegraphing that all the. Way he's averaging twenty three point two points per game right, now along with six point six, assists also a career. High he IS i think one of the more underrated guards in the league because he's playing For. Charlotte nobody really knows who he. IS i told somebody about him when the trade went, down and they, said who's. That you're gonna find out who he. Is if you're a casual. Fan he's going to fit heat cold like a. Glove the kid is

about as hard As rocks. Pause he's a, younger faster version Of Kyle. Lowry he doesn't play nearly as good a, defense but he can. Score if you look at his advanced, stats really, truly he's in the same category As edwards And Desmond. Bane he's a top twenty five player in the league. Statistically lowry was in the last month. Terrible it's. Horrible you didn't even know how many points he was scoring per game in this month four point. Two four point two points per game For Kyle lowry four point.

Two you got to get rid of that. Man he's on his last. Leg he was an expiring, contract so you knew he was gonna go, anyway and now they find somebody to help him. Produce it's a desperate. Move it's a move that's Like Damian, lillard like they got rid of that twenty twenty seven first round. Pick they were gonna do it. Regardless it sounds like they just needed to make a. Move that's. Huge it's a huge

piece for. Them they now have multiple. Guys they have three guys right now that are scoring more than Twenty, Tyler, Hero Jimmy butler And. BAM i think that's the only trio in THE nba right now that's doing. That you've Got Duncan robinson not just shooting threes. Anymore he's, slashing he's playing really. Well you've Got Kevin, love who's there as a veteran. Player you Got Jimi hawkes is gonna

Make All rookie. Team and now you Got Terry, rosier who you might say has done absolutely nothing of note because he's been playing for The Charlotte. Hornets but let me remind you he's played significant playoff minutes as the starting point guard for The Boston celtics when they made their early deep playoff, run When Jason tatum was actually just, nineteen not just we joke about him being. Nineteen he was the one who, Said, HEY i want to be

the starting point, guard Not, kyrie Not Marcus. Smart and they, said, well we can't do that for, you Scary. Terry you got to go somewhere. Else but he can. Play that boy can, play and the heater going to love him and he's going to make an immediate. Impact but if they're not top, six it's they're still fucked because they're gonna have to face a murderer's Row Bucks, Calves Celtic. Sixers, no you'll. Play if you're out of a play, in you're gonna have to go through, one two three period

in order to get to where you need to. Go, finally a sad, note short And pool. Time today as a funny lead in The Washington wizards were giving away Towels pool towels that Said Pool party on them with a cartoon Of pool on, Them AND i said to, myself are we sure we want to do that where we're actively shopping. Him Jordan poole has had a rough. GO i hate what he has. BECOME i HATE i hate the saga Of Jordan pool BECAUSE i met him when he was a freshman At michigan when they went

to The final, four and he was a great. Kid something somewhere along the, Way Jordan poole has has lost. HIMSELF i can't remember a player so pure that got so good so, fast fall as fast really and still

remained one of the most arrogant players in THE. Nba so he's so bad right now that you have guys that are just being thrown in to trade, fodder and you can just go back to recent trades and maybe figure out who that is clowning him for squandering his opportunity to be the man In, washington to be literally the franchise player not on a good. Team but who fucking. Cares there's only thirty of, them thirty two of, them and so if you can be the number one dude

in any, team you probably should take it. Seriously But Jordan poole does not. Care and when he was told about these randoms talking shit About Jordan poole to his, face you know what he, Said he, SAID i Don't those people don't know, me they don't know what the Fuck i'm. About they just want to be. ME i got my, MONEY i got my. CHIP i don't need to do a. Shit, No Jordan, poole you were about to be one of the most cautionary tales in all

of THE. Nba so they played The nuggets the other, night dropping The wizards to seven and thirty, five, because as you may, imagine they lost that game And Jordan pool had another bad. Game how bad was it? Though four points on one for seven, shooting one, rebound zero, sists two turnovers and four fouls in twenty eight. Minutes they say you can't recover until you hit rock. Bottom and if this isn't rock, BOTTOM i don't know what.

Is in the last, Month Jordan poole has three games of twenty three or more minutes and five or fewer. Points he had three games like that in three years In Golden. State there have been a lot of rapid declines in THE, nba BUT i can't remember one for a player this young and this talented without a major injury being the. REASON i Hope Jordan poole figures it. Out it's gotta be something between the, ears AND i hope that someone gets through to. Him in the. Meantime

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