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KD about to get 30 shots up on 20 minutes tonight
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The Official NBA Season Thread: SFA Prevails
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Nurkic sucks. Still refuse to believe they couldn’t do any better in an Ayton deal.
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His only purpose is to not get bullied by joker. Bold strategy
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Christian Wood on defense, woof.
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Do you think he lasts the season?
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Ya more than likely. Ham is on his side and was recruiting him all summer.
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ONG !
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Liberty players skipped the postgame interviews? Wow
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T0INE
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Sabrina can do the "Night Night" after hitting a 3 when her team is already up double digits but can't do a postgame presser after she and the Liberty **** the bed against an underwomanned Aces team.
Sad.
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Players can’t celebrate a jumpshot in the finals. That’s so crazy to me
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Terry Stotts steps down as Bucks assistant days after incident at shootaround
Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Terry Stotts is stepping down, only four months after he returned to the team, a league source said. Here’s what you need to know:
- The Bucks hired Stotts as an assistant in June, marking his return to the franchise after he served as head coach for parts of two seasons from 2005-07 and as an assistant coach from 1998-2002.
- Before his hiring this summer, Stotts spent two years away from coaching after leading the Portland Trail Blazers for nine seasons (2012-21).
- Stotts recently reunited with Damian Lillard, who he coached in Portland when Milwaukee acquired Lillard in a trade last month.
Bucks caught off guard
Bucks head coach Adrian Griffin discussed Stotts’ resignation during his previously scheduled media availability on Thursday afternoon.
“It caught all of us off guard, of course, but again, you just support him,” Griffin said. “He was a terrific guy. I learned a lot from him in a very short time. He was really good at what he does. He made a decision – a personal decision – and we just have to respect that.”
When asked for any reasoning given by Stotts for his decision, Griffin told reporters that he didn’t feel that was a question for him to answer but rather something that Stotts would need to clarify.
“You’re going to have to ask Terry,” Griffin said. “He’s a great coach. I really enjoyed getting to know him. Terrific person. It was his decision. I just wish him the best.”
Before getting traded to the Bucks at the start of October, Lillard had spent 11 seasons with the Blazers, nine of which were with Stotts as head coach. Despite their close relationship, Lillard said he was just as surprised by the decision as everybody else on the team.
“It kind of came out of nowhere,” Lillard said. “I’ve been in this league long enough to know that these types of things happen. Everything continues, so you’ve got to kind of process things like this and other things that may come up and continue to move forward. For me, knowing Terry as long as I’ve known him – playing for him for nine years and him also making this transition for me easier just having a familiar face be such a huge part of it – was a good thing. I think now that I’m settled in, to see him go is unfortunate. It’s sad to see him go, but like I said, everything is still moving forward.”
Trouble between Stotts and Griffin
Although Griffin did not mention any sort of issue between himself and Stotts on Thursday, their relationship was tenuous, league sources told The Athletic, and there was a brief incident at Tuesday’s shootaround in Oklahoma City.
According to sources who witnessed the events, Griffin wrapped up the shootaround and called the team together for a huddle to close out the day and let the players get to post-shootaround shooting drills. During that huddle, Griffin informed the coaches that he wanted to have a separate huddle with them once they wrapped things up.
When the players and coaches broke the huddle, Stotts went in the opposite direction of the coaches’ huddle and instead started walking toward players to discuss the offense. As Stotts attempted to start a conversation with Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo, Griffin called to Stotts to join the coaching huddle. When Stotts asked for some time with the players, Griffin yelled for Stotts to join the coaches’ huddle. The incident occurred in front of the entire team, those sources said.
While brief, the interaction highlighted the underlying complexity of the relationship between Griffin and Stotts in their first year together in Milwaukee. Around the situation on Thursday, there were two perspectives surrounding Stotts’ resignation: His potential difficulty adapting to a bench role under Griffin after more than a decade as a head coach, and the other being a certain treatment and level of respect that needed to be shown to someone with Stotts’ pedigree.
Griffin’s new approach and his relationship with Stotts
Griffin, a first-time head coach, has emphasized bringing a renewed sense of energy to the organization. Throughout training camp, many players have complimented Griffin’s emphasis on competitiveness and physicality and enjoyed the way in which Griffin has gone about trying to instill more toughness to the organization.
The Bucks hired Stotts to be Griffin’s lead assistant for multiple reasons. Stotts has 13 years of head coaching experience with three different franchises, including nine seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, and his offensive expertise would play well with Griffin’s defensive focus. Stotts has a 517-486 record in his 13 seasons as head coach in Atlanta, Milwaukee and Portland. Stotts could also be a useful resource for Griffin as he went through various experiences for the first time as a head coach.
Ultimately, though, the partnership between Griffin and Stotts was not meant to be, and Stotts ended it with his resignation. Both Lillard and Khris Middleton told reporters that they were given a heads up of Stotts’ decision on Wednesday night with Lillard telling reporters that Stotts reached out to him personally.
“We spoke directly,” Lillard said. “I don’t expect anything different. We spend so much time around each other in this league. Seven, eighth months a year, practice every day, flights, hotels, dinners, watching film, we share a lot of intimate spaces and like I said, being with him for nine years and him being my head coach, me being the point guard of his team, we spent a lot of time around each other. We know each other really well, even in the two years without him, we stayed in pretty consistent contact. So, I don’t expect anything different than him to call me directly and that’s how it happened.”
Per a team source, the Bucks will take their time in considering all options in filling Stotts’ spot on the staff.
Backstory
Stotts’ assistant-coaching experience includes stints with Seattle (1993-9, Atlanta (2002), Golden State (2004-05), Dallas (2008-12) and Milwaukee. He also was head coach of the Atlanta Hawks from 2002 to 2004.
During his time in Portland, Stotts led the Blazers to eight consecutive postseason berths, including the team’s first trip to the Western Conference finals in 19 years in 2019 and a 402-318 regular season record. He holds a career head-coaching record of 517-486 in the regular season.
Stotts sat out two seasons before joining the Bucks’ coaching staff at the start of Griffin’s tenure in Milwaukee to help run the offense. Stotts’ offensive expertise was a useful contrast to Griffin’s defensive focus as a coach, but the hire ended up being even more beneficial when the team traded for Lillard, the superstar point guard Stotts coached for nine seasons in Portland.
In recent weeks, Lillard had discussed how the transition to Milwaukee was easier for him because many of the sets they were running with the Bucks were things he had already run in Portland with his former coach. Lillard also was helping his new teammates better understand some of the concepts.
This is very childish by Terry Stotts.
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First off (and I’m not singling you out Lee, you’re just the first one to do it this year) - but can folksstart posting pics or some **** for all these Stephanie Ready sightings because they really feel like Quickstrike drops
Second - semi-related but do y’all got the contact info for any of her peeps? Asking for a recently maybe single friend
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Bill Simmons said Austin Reaves had a Ginobili ceiling, and I was disgusted, shocked and appalled.
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The Reavesgonna be wild this year
Hey if Reaves becomes the 2nd best player on a 4 chip dynasty good for him
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More like meow
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The Reaves
It’s going to be unbearable.
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What
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Brandon Miller still hasnt scored in double figures after 4 games
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Best Bron roster since the 3-1 comeback.
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Diaw Spurs>
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Why only ask for those 2 to be protected?
Why not ask for zero injuries for anyone the entire year?
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