Bud Appreciation Thread

[MVP2110]

Bud was(is) one of the top coaches in the NBA. He came in and immediately made us contenders & he leaves and we go right back to being mediocre. Fanbases never like the coach but I expected the Front office to realize how good Bud was. We did him so dirty I doubt he'll ever come back and frankly he deserves an organization better than us.

[aboveAverage]

we **** up

Yup. Majorly. It’s ok though. We all make mistakes. There is still plenty of time to get him back to Milwaukee and fix the mistake. Pay him double and play him up as the mastermind who we never should’ve doubted. I hope Horst is working on this angle behind the scenes.

[MissKhriddleton]

It’s possible the team actually overachieved with Bud rather than underachieved. Choked as a 1 seed sure, but maybe this core never actually had 1 seed talent to begin with. One championship in five years when the best running mate we gave Giannis was Khris Middleton is not that ridiculous.

Bud and Dame…

[El Pooch Grande]

Help us Mike Budenholzer, you are our only hope…

[drew881]

Help us Mike Budenholzer, you are our only hope…

Winnings Takes Bud billboard

[milweskee]

Spoiler:

Help us Mike Budenholzer, you are our only hope…

Winnings Takes Bud billboard

Permanent or digital?

[trwi7]

If we do a billboard can i put in a request?

[soboMP3]

I wonder if Bud has been paying attention. I still think he had to go, but had I known his successor would be AG I’d probably have let him have another year at least.

[neiLz]

We all hated the way Bud had them playing "random" on offense which led to stagnant offense.... but at least he didn't have them play "random" on defense like AG.

[AussieBuck]

Bud's gameplan got figured out years ago, he earned his firing.

[tedbrogen]

Bud's gameplan got figured out years ago, he earned his firing.

He probably wins back to back titles if Midds doesn’t miss that Celtics series as GA would have torn up GS in the finals.

Last season he was awful in the playoffs but he had a legit excuse.

Shame we never got to see his playing the percentages mixed in with Dame closing.

[FrieAaron]

I think the biggest problem with Bud's offense as it related to us is it required good decision making maybe more so than one that was more structured. Really curious what it would have looked like with Dame.

[GoldenAntlers]

I think the biggest problem with Bud's offense as it related to us is it required good decision making maybe more so than one that was more structured. Really curious what it would have looked like with Dame.

Probably very good.

[BUCKnation]

I still think the firing was fine. Bud was just too stubborn on certain things.

I do miss how easy it was in the regular season. We rarely struggled even with 1 or 2 stars out, we'd still cruise to wins.

[tedbrogen]

I think some are forgetting Bud wasn’t bad in the postseason either (maybe with some help from players talking him into switching in 19 and 21).

He won the first postseason series the Bucks had won in 18 years. He was 8-4 in playoff series and won a title. In three of the four series he lost, Midds or Giannis missed games due to injury.

[GHOSTofSIKMA]

Bud's gameplan got figured out years ago, he earned his firing.

every coaches gameplan gets figured out tho. we made small changes to combat certain things but largely stuck with a system that worked that players floursihed collectively and individually with. the fact certain aspects were identified, countered, even ripped off by other teams.....that has nothing to do with it. if anything he deserves a ribbon for that.

a good coach puts a system in place that puts his players in the best possible chance to win despite their shortcomings. thats who we were and we were epic in so many ways doing what we did when we did it well.

for us to win we needed to
A. stay healthy
B. not beat ourselves

thats all you can ask of a coach is to give us such a simple recipe for success. the rest of it is on horst... not bud

we should have run everything back over and over and over and over until the **** wheels fell off with that guy. then we should have kept him around for the rebuild the way popovich was.

giannis first, and then bud second.... they were our treasure

[DingleJerry]

The mocking of "play random" continues to be one of my biggest eye rolls on here over the years. Its easy to make fun of but there is nothing wrong with it, at all. All it means is don't be robotic, rigid, and predictable on O. Which, all coaches in basketball would want. If you ran a set play to a T every time down the court like say a 4th grade team does you'd be completely predictable.

[jimmybones]

Here to pay penance to Bud, I was wrong for wanting to move on. You deserved to coach a team with two stars. We are royally **** with AG - what a complete disaster.

[soxperry]

I think its hilarious how many here are repenting over fire bud and are now fire griff after 1/8 of a season. There's something to learn here and whooooshhh

[chonestown]

First person I think of when I hear Minnesota Vikings. Stoic. Avid outdoorsman. Absolute northwoods icon.