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[Adrian Wojnarowski] The Bucks are narrowing group of top candidates in franchise’s head coaching search: Nick Nurse, Golden State assistant Kenny Atkinson and Toronto assistant Adrian Griffin. These coaches will be part of final conversations with Milwaukee leadership this week.

  • May 22, 2023


[Adrian Wojnarowski] The Bucks are narrowing group of top candidates in franchise’s head coaching search: Nick Nurse, Golden State assistant Kenny Atkinson and Toronto assistant Adrian Griffin. These coaches will be part of final conversations with Milwaukee leadership this week.

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  2. Exciting. All have championship experience. Can’t go wrong with any of these 3.

  5. thank god the wide net we threw didn’t catch any of the shitty candidates. i feel very good about this group

  6. Above all else, at least it’s three coaches who are smart and likable. Nurse is my preferred candidate, but could easily get behind Kenny or Griffin.

    Probably would rank Kenny as the second favorite — Griffin seems like he could be a contingency if Nurse falls thru. Great guy but unsure if this is the right job for a first time HC.

  7. Remember when all you baby birds were freaking out about the different coaches they interviewed? And, shocking! we wound up with the candidates that most of us wanted anyways.

  8. Not to sound arrogant, but Nurse would be dumb not to pick us. In hindsight, losing to that Heat team without Giannis for 3 games and Bud dealing with loss, isn’t some stain on our roster. We have a good team and he’d be walking into a perfect culture

  9. Kenny Atkinson was amazing as a player development guy but his coaching style is the exact same as budenholzer as a result of their time in Atlanta together. Would be hoping for the other two guys if you don’t want Giannis getting 30 mpg and a complete lack of in game adjustments

  11. My ranking goes:

    1. Atkinson
    2. Nurse
    3. Getting hit by the Hop, catapulting my body into the Milwaukee River where I get repeatedly waterboarded by passing pontoons as farm pesticide pollution runoff slowly poisons me
    4. Adrian Griffin

  12. I want Kenny a , but I went to middle school with Adrian’s daughter and had a huge crush on her so for selfish reasons I wouldn’t be mad if he got hired

  15. To play devil’s advocate: Woj says the field is “narrowing” but he didn’t say it was down to those 3 exclusively.

  18. The Bucks would never have found themselves in this situation. Had they just drafted a WR in the first round.

  19. I’d love Nick Nurse. One year with a top 5 player and he gets a ring. That’s a great conversation starter.

    I only know Atkinson from his Nets job. I think he needs to have a HC job cause he did some good stuff there but I believe he works better with younger teams that are still developing.

    No idea who Adrian Griffin is.

  21. I will be ecstatic for the two former options and happy with Adrian Griffin. But I was told Nurse wasn’t interested

  27. It’s kind of wild they’re thinking about hiring a first-time head coach after Bud’s failure. You want a championship-caliber coach, right? This is Giannis’ window.

  28. I didn’t get the call for the final interview 😔, but jokes apart this list sounds very good. All 3 wd be a good fit for this team. Rooting for nurse tho

  32. I was hoping Vogel would be in the final group, but I trust whoever the Bucks pick.

  33. All great candidates, I’m a warriors fan but I love Giannis so much I wanna see y’all winning

  34. I’m sorry but these choices are not it. I really don’t get this Nick Nurse love when he’s basically like coach Bud.

  35. Of these I think I’d go for nurse, Atkinson is eh, and I don’t know much about griffin.

  36. Nick Nurse, you are a Milwaukee Buck! Somebody get the edits out. I want you to put the word out there that we back up!

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