Milwaukee Bucks GM Jon Horst wants to make it clear that former head coach Adrian Griffin didn’t lose the locker room.
(via Milwaukee Bucks):
“Honestly, going through this in the last however many hours, my biggest frustration with kind of the aftermath is that that’s the narrative. Doesn’t mean that I’m right or wrong, but my opinion, my assessment, the ownership’s assessment in going through this wasn’t an assessment that he lost the locker room, that there was dysfunction, that there was players jumping off a ship. That’s just not our assessment. I believe, and I truly mean this, that that’s the story. Everyone’s trying to look for a bigger story than that we have an opportunity to get better and we want to get better and we think that we have a chance to do that.
“And so they’re trying to look at things that in my mind are relatively common throughout the course of an NBA season and most NBA teams, and generate stories out of it. And in my opinion, that’s just not really the true narrative. Did some of those things exist? Absolutely. Is that uncommon in the NBA? Now it’s almost 20 years I’ve been doing this, it happens all the time. So, I’m really frustrated by that. I get it, it’s part of the business. Adrian Griffin did a hell of a job. He’s an incredible person. I believe he’s going to be a very good coach going forward. This was a chance for us to resource our team in a different way after a change from when we hired him, and that’s what we did.”
