Woj - Bucks choose Griffin/add Stotts/Prunty

[MartyConlonOnTheRun]

**** Joe Prunty

What the hell are we doing

Lol I just envision you in the lunch line at a work conference behind some poor soul picking potato chips. "**** Sour Cream and Onions. What the hell are you doing?!!!?"

IDK, seems weird to get so worked up over a perfectly fine 4th? coach. He has spent time under 8 different coaches including 5 years under Pop, was with some damn good Mavs teams, cup of tea experience to see what its like as a HC in the playoffs, good portland teams, and experience with Giannis/Midds. I'm not excited to get him, but seems perfectly fine for his role if not boring.

[soxperry]

Giannis seems to love Joe and my lasting impression of Joe is how hard he made things on Giannis when he coached against him a couple years ago. Giannis had a brutal game.

[The Wet Whistle]

The prodigal son returns!

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[crowhead76]

**** Joe Prunty

What the hell are we doing

Why the hate?

[sidney lanier]

No relation to Dikembe

Too bad.

[crowhead76]

Bucks coaching staff to date

Griffin
Stotts
Mutumbo
Oppenheimer
Prunty
Baker

I think that is all that has been reported unless I am mistaken

[Daver]

Not many teams have 2 former HCs on their staff as assts.I agree prunty is a class dude very well respected asst.This coaching staff looks very good.Griffin has alot of experienced help by his side

[WuTang_CMB]

Mutombo is a nice pick up. Has a nice system and did well as our HC for the 905

High energy, high character person. Youtube his open gym episode. Quality hire.

[WiscoKing13]

Bucks coaching staff to date

Griffin
Stotts
Mutumbo
Oppenheimer
Prunty
Baker

I think that is all that has been reported unless I am mistaken

Looks like Bud had 9. Very interesting a guy who played in the league and coached in the league for 20 plus years has formed a coaching staff with only 1 individual he has coached with.

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[Matches Malone]

Sean Sweeney come on down...

[jimmybones]

Outrage over a 3rd/4th assistant coach god I love this board

[tedbrogen]

Giannis seems to love Joe and my lasting impression of Joe is how hard he made things on Giannis when he coached against him a couple years ago. Giannis had a brutal game.

I noticed the teams Prunty was assisting for were some of the first ones that figured out you need to try to strip the ball from Giannis when he starts to spin or anytime he dribbled near the basket. It was a pretty smart tactic.

Specifically the Suns beat the Bucks twice in 18-19 with Giannis having a negative assist to turnover ratio.

[-Profanity-]

I liked Prunty a lot when he took over for Kidd, it actually gets me a little juiced up to see him back! Give me Scott Skiles in charge of the defense and we will be the clear favorites

[rilamann]

I was actually just saying good things about Prunty not that long ago haha. When the Hawks fired Nate McMillan I said Prunty wouldn't be a horrible choice to have take over the head coaching spot. He wouldn't be one of my top choices, but he's not a bad coach.

Had Bledsoe not completely **** the bed against Boston in the 2018 playoffs, Prunty probably gets us to at least the ECF, maybe even to the NBA Finals with solid but not great roster.

[tedbrogen]

There is also a timeline where Tony Snell hits that wide open corner three with 30 seconds left in OT of game 1 against the Celtics, the Bucks still win all their homes to end up advancing in six games, and Prunty gets the full time job by being the first Bucks coach in a decade and a half to win a playoff series. Maybe they even get all the way to the ECF that year before LeBron puts a stop to it.

[Diggr14]

When is Thon Maker coming back? Do we have a strength and conditioning guy? How about Joe Alexander to run Energee!

[tedbrogen]

I was actually just saying good things about Prunty not that long ago haha. When the Hawks fired Nate McMillan I said Prunty wouldn't be a horrible choice to have take over the head coaching spot. He wouldn't be one of my top choices, but he's not a bad coach.

Had Bledsoe not completely **** the bed against Boston in the 2018 playoffs, Prunty probably gets us to at least the ECF, maybe even to the NBA Finals with solid but not great roster.

Beat me to the punch. Yeah, Bledsoe getting destroyed during the road games was a big issue and everyone besides Giannis and Midds playing brutually bad in Boston and allstar level in Milwaukee was crazy. I think there was a vintage multiple threes game from Thon in there somewhere as well.

[-Profanity-]

When is Thon Maker coming back? Do we have a strength and conditioning guy? How about Joe Alexander to run Energee!

Joe is only 36, I bet he could still throw down some nasty dunks. Probably the same age as Ersan, both guys gettable on a minimum contract, coaching staff starting to look familiar...I bet we could win at least 34 games next year getting the band back together.

[trwi7]

What's Larry Drew up to these days?

[Profound23]

What's Terry Porter up to?