Post#48 » by BroncoBuck » Fri Feb 9, 2024 3:53 am
This is why it hurt so much riding the Griff situation out as long as we did. Griff had all offseason to coach these guys in practice. There’s way less practice in season. Any new coach (in our case Doc) was already coming in with one arm tied behind their back. We’ve already seen Doc make simple changes to improve the defense, but any larger changes are going to take more time. If we cut bait on Griff earlier when it was clearly an inevitable disaster, this team would be much further along.
One of the things Pat Bev mentioned on his pod when talking with Beas was that assistant coach Rex Kalamian runs the defense and he knows that scheme. That’s big, because he can also help the rest of the team grasp it quicker.
Of course, being healthy would be a massive help as well, but that’s just not how Bucks basketball ever seems to work.