The Milwaukee Bucks made the difficult decision to move on from Adrian Griffin just a few months after hiring him as head coach despite a 30-13 record.
“I think the way it’s been described to me is there wasn’t necessarily something that sparked this or one particular thing,” said Jamal Collier on The Hoop Collective podcast. “Clearly just an accumulation of a lot of mini red flags and signs over the course of the season.”
While the Bucks were frustrated with some elements of Griffin’s coaching, Collier said that he was well-liked on a personal level.
“I think, in general, the players… there was not throughout some of these butting head incidents or questions of how their scheme was working, I think the players enjoyed Griff,” added Collier later in the podcast. “People liked working with him. He’s a nice guy. People tried to give him as much benefit of the doubt that he was going to get better and grow and work. It just kind of is the championship expectations and demands that begin with a player like Giannis [Antetokounmpo] and you have so much invested in this time financially, draft pick wise with each year having to matter, I think that all sort of equaled to a pressure cooker.”