Head Coaching Candidates - Finalists Nurse/Atkinson/Griffin - Another New Poll Added

[MickeyDavis]

Daver interview next

Not much makes me literally

[Prez]

If Bud would have just been more open to committing to change we wouldn't be here. Not feeling the apologist crap. This list is underwhelming but so was Bud, he had to go after Miami.

Agreed, not really interested in any victory laps with Bud just because the coaching search post-firing has been bizarre. Bud wasn’t a good playoff coach, straight up. Glaring flaws that repeatedly showed up time after time for most of his playoff coaching career, and was a huge (if not the biggest) factor in yet another catastrophic playoff exit.

There are very good to elite level coaches with HC experience either on the market now or could be soon (Lue, Nurse, Atkinson, Vogel, etc). There are promising young assistant coaches ready for a step up (Quinn, Fernandez, Young). The Bucks could **** it up but it’s a separate event and it doesn’t just erase Bud’s failures as a playoff coach.

[TroyD92]

If Bud would have just been more open to committing to change we wouldn't be here. Not feeling the apologist crap. This list is underwhelming but so was Bud, he had to go after Miami.

Agreed, not really interested in any victory laps with Bud just because the coaching search post-firing has been bizarre. Bud wasn’t a good playoff coach, straight up. Glaring flaws that repeatedly showed up time after time for most of his playoff coaching career, and was a huge (if not the biggest) factor in yet another catastrophic playoff exit.

There are very good to elite level coaches with HC experience either on the market now or could be soon (Lue, Nurse, Atkinson, Vogel, etc). There are promising young assistant coaches ready for a step up (Quinn, Fernandez, Young). The Bucks could **** it up but it’s a separate event and it doesn’t just erase Bud’s failures as a playoff coach.

This is my feeling as well. No idea if it’s going to work out, but you can’t run it back after getting bounced by the 8 seed with a consistent pattern of mistakes dating back 4-5 years ago.

[Frank Nova]

If Bud would have just been more open to committing to change we wouldn't be here. Not feeling the apologist crap. This list is underwhelming but so was Bud, he had to go after Miami.

Unfortunately this is ultimately true. Bud wore out his welcome. The Bud lovers seem to forget that if he didn’t win that 21 title he was going to be fired after that season ended. He was on the hot seat since blowing a 2-0 lead and losing 4 in a row in 2019 with no adjustment answers to the wall Nurse built to stop our offense. Bud had ample opportunity to prove his worth and he fell short every time essentially. He’s a solid coach but insanely far from spectacular, basically just like this list of replacement coaches.

[mke_design]

If Bud would have just been more open to committing to change we wouldn't be here. Not feeling the apologist crap. This list is underwhelming but so was Bud, he had to go after Miami.

Agreed, not really interested in any victory laps with Bud just because the coaching search post-firing has been bizarre. Bud wasn’t a good playoff coach, straight up. Glaring flaws that repeatedly showed up time after time for most of his playoff coaching career, and was a huge (if not the biggest) factor in yet another catastrophic playoff exit.

There are very good to elite level coaches with HC experience either on the market now or could be soon (Lue, Nurse, Atkinson, Vogel, etc). There are promising young assistant coaches ready for a step up (Quinn, Fernandez, Young). The Bucks could **** it up but it’s a separate event and it doesn’t just erase Bud’s failures as a playoff coach.

This is my feeling as well. No idea if it’s going to work out, but you can’t run it back after getting bounced by the 8 seed with a consistent pattern of mistakes dating back 4-5 years ago.

And sometimes you need to sift through the garbage to find treasure

[TroyD92]

Agreed, not really interested in any victory laps with Bud just because the coaching search post-firing has been bizarre. Bud wasn’t a good playoff coach, straight up. Glaring flaws that repeatedly showed up time after time for most of his playoff coaching career, and was a huge (if not the biggest) factor in yet another catastrophic playoff exit.

There are very good to elite level coaches with HC experience either on the market now or could be soon (Lue, Nurse, Atkinson, Vogel, etc). There are promising young assistant coaches ready for a step up (Quinn, Fernandez, Young). The Bucks could **** it up but it’s a separate event and it doesn’t just erase Bud’s failures as a playoff coach.

This is my feeling as well. No idea if it’s going to work out, but you can’t run it back after getting bounced by the 8 seed with a consistent pattern of mistakes dating back 4-5 years ago.

And sometimes you need to sift through the garbage to find treasure

Just think of the trash like packages and Horst will find the right one for sure

[Dick Tate]

Wake me when they get to Cassell.

[RogerMurdock]

Fine, I'll coach the team. Cool? I'll just need one of you to be in charge of assigning who brings the team snack for each game.

[rilamann]

This is my feeling as well. No idea if it’s going to work out, but you can’t run it back after getting bounced by the 8 seed with a consistent pattern of mistakes dating back 4-5 years ago.

Not just got bounced by an #8 seed, but got bounced 4-1 by an #8 seed.

And if KD wore half a size smaller shoe, Bud would have been fired two years ago for losing to a Steve Nash coached team that was ravaged by injuries.

I've been reading this board since 2001 and posting since 2003, in that time there hasn't been anyone - player or coach - who has been more overrated on thas board than Bud.

The How are we going to replace Bud? comments are comedy.

[Milbucks96]

I’m a Bud guy, think he’s a very good coach, he had to go after that loss. I feel like some core guys should be heading out the door too but that’s a lot more complicated.

All the guys named in the search have been meh. Pretty much all worse or maybe in the same tier as Bud at best with guys like Vogel or Williams. I don’t mind the random interviews because it’s always like that, but the agent talk through woj and shams about the bucks going hard after Williams and others have me pretty worried.

Nurse and Lue are being courted by everybody so I’m going to assume that neither ends up here and it’s no fault of the front office. At that point, I’ll just go with one of the top assistants like the Miami guy or Atkinson. The roster changes are going to have more effect on playoff success anyway so get a guy who’ll tinker around halftime and focus on the roster and this new cba stuff.

[Mtsportsfan]

This is just nuts , we going to interview the ball boy from the Celtics , personally this just tells me Horst can't make a decision ! He's going to dick around so much the guy he wants is going to get hired before he pulls the trigger.

[RiotPunch]

Interview Jordi Fernandez.

[buckboy]

Daver interview next

Not much makes me literally

Same.

[buckboy]

Just hire Atkinson if Nurse is truly not a candidate.

Oh, and shoot Kelvin Sampson into the Sun. **** scumbag.

[ReginaldDwight]

Fine, I'll coach the team. Cool? I'll just need one of you to be in charge of assigning who brings the team snack for each game.

**** it sign me up and ill just bring the snacks every game.

[RubberSoul]

Maybe RealGM Bucks as a whole entity can coach the team. Have a rotating governor like ownership. I’ll take all star week. We can make decisions via poll as long as we block troll Raptor fans from voting.


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[averageposter]

This coaching search has me googling candidates not to see the whole history, just so I know who they are.

[drone3]

Even the forum poll wasn't designed for this many options

[MVP2110]

Bud was a great coach 95% of the time. He had one major flaw. And while I personally would have kept him I can understand moving on from him if you are going to hire someone you know will fix that specific area, in this case we are talking about in game playoff adjustments. The problem is the only guy on our list you can say has proven to be able to do that is Vogel. Maybe Quinn can be Spo 2.0 but he also might completely fail at the job considering most new head coaches are bad at the job, or atleast a downgrade from what Bud brought.

Firing Bud isn't specifically the problem, but the fact that the Bucks don't seem to have a plan on how to fix the playoff issues Bud had is very discouraging and if we aren't going to fix that then I'd rather have Bud who was great at all of the other stuff

[averageposter]

Need a poll for who you'd least want at this point. Obviously pull out Mark Jackson