Memphis Grizzlies Fire Coach Taylor Jenkins

[Castle Black]

Time to come home Taylor... Back to where it all began.

Perfect time for Pop to step down officially and the Spurs to hand the reigns to his former Assistant Coach. Perfect timing tbh.

[nomansland]

The timing seems very strange, but often, teams react to a HC firing with a lot of bounce. Maybe the FO knew they were going to fire him anyway and decided to try and take advantage of the situation by getting their team fired up for the playoffs.

That's the only thing I can think of, except if there were some really ugly situation prompting an immediate exit.

Otherwise this is an effing stupid move. The guy seems to be a great coach, despite what message board complainers say about his rotations and whatnot.

[DaGawd]

thibs replacement

[Pattycakes]

Another Udoka situation?

Dude is a 3 at best, let’s not get carried away

[jokeboy86]

If Adrian Griffin can be fired after going 30-13 and having the 2nd best record in the East after 43 games in his first year then anybody can be fired nowadays in this new NBA.

[slick_watts]

taylor jenkins seems like a decent coach but that whole "don't play anyone 30 minutes per game" schtick the grizz were doing this year has never worked. players (especially star players) don't like it and when you lose games the first thing anyone's going to look at is 'how come bane didn't play more' or whatever. pop was able to get away doing this a couple seasons, but the last guy besides him to try it on a decent team was hubie brown also on the grizzlies back in the day and he was also canned. it's just not done for a reason.

*checks notes*
Yup, the #1 team in the East has been doing this very thing, all season, I'd say it works in a marathon not sprint season.

everything works when you're winning.

[JujitsuFlip]

taylor jenkins seems like a decent coach but that whole "don't play anyone 30 minutes per game" schtick the grizz were doing this year has never worked. players (especially star players) don't like it and when you lose games the first thing anyone's going to look at is 'how come bane didn't play more' or whatever. pop was able to get away doing this a couple seasons, but the last guy besides him to try it on a decent team was hubie brown also on the grizzlies back in the day and he was also canned. it's just not done for a reason.

*checks notes*
Yup, the #1 team in the East has been doing this very thing, all season, I'd say it works in a marathon not sprint season.

everything works when you're winning.

Cavs just went on a 4 game losing streak and didn't feel the need to fire Kenny Atkinson with 2 weeks until the playoffs lol

The timing of the Jenkins firing makes zero sense.

[Beethoven]

If Adrian Griffin can be fired after going 30-13 and having the 2nd best record in the East after 43 games in his first year then anybody can be fired nowadays in this new NBA.

Yeah looking back at that now, that's crazy too. Weird.

[jokeboy86]

*checks notes*
Yup, the #1 team in the East has been doing this very thing, all season, I'd say it works in a marathon not sprint season.

everything works when you're winning.

Cavs just went on a 4 game losing streak and didn't feel the need to fire Kenny Atkinson with 2 weeks until the playoffs lol

The timing of the Jenkins firing makes zero sense.

But they did fire Bickerstaff after the team made the 2nd round and lost to the Celtics without 2 of their 4 most important players. Now obviously as we see it may have appeared to be a Mark Jackson/GSW situation where the team was maxed out with Bickerstaff as coach but it still was kind of stunning because he didn't have a healthy squad in the series they were eliminated.

[Capn'O]

Time to come home Taylor... Back to where it all began.

Perfect time for Pop to step down officially and the Spurs to hand the reigns to his former Assistant Coach. Perfect timing tbh.

Back off!!!

[Backcountry]

everything works when you're winning.

Cavs just went on a 4 game losing streak and didn't feel the need to fire Kenny Atkinson with 2 weeks until the playoffs lol

The timing of the Jenkins firing makes zero sense.

But they did fire Bickerstaff after the team made the 2nd round and lost to the Celtics without 2 of their 4 most important players. Now obviously as we see it may have appeared to be a Mark Jackson/GSW situation where the team was maxed out with Bickerstaff as coach but it still was kind of stunning because he didn't have a healthy squad in the series they were eliminated.

That seems to have worked out well for the Cavs, Bickerstaff, Atkinson, and Detroit. A win-win-win-win!

[jasonxxx102]

If you watch the Grizz you’d know why they fired him. His rotations and coaching decisions are terrible. Smart move IMO.

Which rotations and coaching decisions did he make that were so bad?

[knicksfan974]

Everyone who has been following Iisalo longer knew he would be an NBA HC sooner or later. I'm assuming the Grizz have seen how genius of a coach he is and just couldn't wait any longer.

For those who are not familiar with Iisalo, he basically turned all the teams he coached in Europe around and made them winners.

[Big J]

If you watch the Grizz you’d know why they fired him. His rotations and coaching decisions are terrible. Smart move IMO.

Which rotations and coaching decisions did he make that were so bad?

He would bench guys when they were hot. Lost games doing that.

[DaddyCool19]

Maybe to keep Iisalo, before someone steals him in the offseason?

[CobraCommander]

Jenkins is on Udoka time… only possible reason

[Castle Black]

Everyone who has been following Iisalo longer knew he would be an NBA HC sooner or later. I'm assuming the Grizz have seen how genius of a coach he is and just couldn't wait any longer.

For those who are not familiar with Iisalo, he basically turned all the teams he coached in Europe around and made them winners.

Yep. He was going to be a hot commodity this offseason for other teams. I think MEM knew that and decided to give him a shot at the HC gig to decide if he's their guy moving forward.

[jasonxxx102]

If you watch the Grizz you’d know why they fired him. His rotations and coaching decisions are terrible. Smart move IMO.

Which rotations and coaching decisions did he make that were so bad?

He would bench guys when they were hot. Lost games doing that.

Can you give some specific examples?

[kg01]

Jenkins is on Udoka time… only possible reason

I stand with this level of savagery.

Unless we're talmbout something serious, I'm gonna wonder if Mempis looked at all the other dysfunctional places and thought, "Hol' much beer."

What if he put his foot down on some foolery with their star guard that we don't know about yet?

[MrGoat]

Wait what? I just check the basketball news for the first time today and certainly didn't expect to see this. Is there going to be a story that comes out later with a video of Taylor Jenkins at a Diddy party or something like that?