Giannis on Spo: “I just wanna be coached hard.” … “I’d rather you tell me the ugly truth than a beautiful lie”
“Tell me the ugly truth Spo”
“your brothers suck and we’re not signing them”
“Thank you may I have another”
Your humble upbringing schtick is wearing real thin as you try your damndest to become a billionaire
Oh yeah daddy harder
*Grunts with satisfaction*
“The accountability you publicly demanded from your organization was not itself reflected in your own actions.”
Whoa whoa whoa. My limit is personal accountability. My safeword is Kalshi.
We need you to play at an MVP level, DOP candidate, first team all NBA… and we still might only make it out the second round of the playoffs.
“The Heat still aren’t real contenders”
It ain’t rags to riches if you don’t get the riches. Truth is nothing like a “humble upbringing” to make a man hungry for wealth lol.
There is wanting wealth and then there is being greedy. Giannis is already very wealthy, but that isn’t enough for him. So, he partners with shitty organizations that harm others in order to make an extra dollar. Seems he doesn’t mind if a kid goes homeless if their parent gambles the rent money away on Kalshi. That is him being a greedy piece of shit.
Tommy dreamer to the Miami Heat confirmed
Giannis: so who does my agent call to get a new coach exactly like I request without me requesting it
I hear Pat Riley has a fax line
Giannis: “I know, but hey!”
“I’d sign Bronny before I’d sign Thanasis.”
You joke, but I’d bet that literally happened.
Oh so it’s kind of a kink
Requests trade
You suck at FTs and 3s and game management.
Scrolled for this, thank you
If any coach gonna tell him what it is it’s Spo. Job security like no other Giannis will hear the truth lol
Especially coming from a known liar and alleged basketball terrorist in Doc Rivers
For all the hate Giannis definitely deserves, you cannot tell me Doc didn’t bumble fuck the Bucks more than anyone else.
Can’t say we didn’t warn you.
For some reason he gets a pass for his time here and people blame Harden and Embiid more. They weren’t the ones putting 5 bench players on the court in his rotations.
Can’t even say he didn’t warn them himself. Almost immediately it was reported he asked them why are they doing this.
Didn’t make sense why he then proceeded to be as bad as he was overall at crumbling the lockerroom even more.
He was fine doing TV, until i think the Bucks just said please let us just hire you lmao
Like no ones going to say no for millions of dollars
Doc will never get enough blame for the collapse against Boston good lord
Jo and Harden weren’t good enough but the Celtics sold out so hard to stop the pick and roll and instead of countering Doc for 2 straight games just went “try harder guys. You gotta want it more”
Or the Clippers collapse against the Rockets. The guy is a serial underperformer when you give him a good roster.
God that was such a fun game. Josh smith turned back the clock and Corey Brewer popping off. I still watch that game highlights every once in a while. Can proudly say I didn’t turn the TV off for that nor Tmacs amazing comeback
When the pacers had crazy comebacks against the bucks, Cavs, Knicks, then Thunder two playoffs ago I accidentally missed the bucks comeback. I had to leave my house and planned on pulling the ending up on my phone. I forgot and 10 minutes later I got the alert we won.
I made sure not to turn off any game from that point on and was able to witness every second of the insane comebacks they pulled off miraculously.
It wasnt fun for us clippers fans. It wasnt even josh smith turning back the clock, he was hitting every 3 as the worst statistical shooter in the league that year. Him shooting 3s was the rockets admitting defeat in my eyes, but they just kept going in and the clippers just kept turning it over
Don’t forget about the Hawks series. I know Simmons is the scapegoat for that series, but Doc deserves the most blame for that one too.
I don’t think you need to warn them when Doc was known as an ass commodity at that point and people are confused why they selected Doc.
The worst part was, they fired their coach who was actually doing well for Doc. What a crapshoot.
Edit: I also wanted the world to know. All these years, I thought the term was “crap shoe” as in the situation is so bad that you have crap in your shoe. Not until now, when I typed it, my browser autocorrected it to crapshoot. which made me realize it’s crapshoot. as in roll so bad that you 7 out and lose everything.
Griffin had a good record, but he was a trainwreck. There was an open revolt in the locker room.
There’s a reason he’s not even an assistant right now
Only bucks fans that watched those 30 games know this
Exactly, they see the record and think we were doing good but there was constant issues of players going to Griffin and saying “you’re doing this wrong” like Brook being forced to defend the perimeter leading to a wide open paint 90% of the game until he complained to Griffin.
We were supposed to have Terry Stotts on the staff until Griffin had an argument with him five days before the season started. He was even being advised by Doc Rivers the whole time.
IIRC there was even moments in game where certain players just took over instead of following game plans near the end of games because they didn’t believe in his plays.
The fact that Terry Stotts walked away when he did genuinely blows my mind. Griffin had to be an absolute nightmare for that to happen.
the article that came out after the giannis trade made griffin sound way worse than doc. the players were basically coaching themselves
Crapshoot doesn’t even mean it’s a bad situation lol. It means the situation is a complete gamble/random odds.
Never realized that. “Crap shoe” is a great malapropism for crapshoot
r/boneappleteeth
I think it’s an eggcorn more so than a malapropisms due to the reasoning
New word unlocked: eggcorn
Crap shoot means it’s just a random chance, not a bad situation
Bro crapshoe has me cackling. Not making fun of you because I do the same thing, but I just can’t get over how funny it is
I figured there would be few of us who would find this funny.
It reminded me of the “pre Madonna” scene from Ted Lasso.
https://youtu.be/SDTP6AQZcPs?is=gNIFrONs74jFKSM2
Firing that guy was not the issue
You’re mind is gonna be double blown when you find out what the phrase “total crapshoot” actually means!
My mind is blown imagining a “total crapshoe”!
Giannis bumblefucked the Bucks more than anyone else. IYKYK
Deserves hate for what?
Did he destroy somebody’s life?
They should’ve kept Budenholzer. Mane brother had just died. They had an excuse to not fire him. 💀
All time example of someone failing upwards
What hate does he “definitely deserve”?
Doc was a consequence and probably the straw that broke the camels back but he is not really at fault for the Bucks falling apart. Since the chip and up to them firing Bud and not really having a stable well liked coach, a mix of injured Giannis, unlucky injured Dame. Offseason after offseason after round 1-2 playoff exit we get Giannis trade rumors, and hes giving press conferences about losing his love and frustration. Dont think Doc could have been the guy to glue that back together.
Hey now Doc came out and said he didn’t understand why he was hired WAY BEFORE he was fired
Can’t blame him for taking the paycheck 😭
Hey now, he is an alleged liar and known basketball terrorist
Spo out here looking LOCKED-IN, I’m confident he will bring out the best in the Greek Freak next season.
Yea people are sleeping on them. He’s gonna turn a couple scrubs into 3&D guys and tear up the league.
They have Bam and Giannis for defense already, just competent shooters is enough.
Wiggins and Mitchell are also pretty good on defense
Crazy how much Spo has grown as a coach over time. If LeBron came back to Miami, he wouldn’t dare pull the shit he did with him back in the Heatles era lol
He’s the only coach who’s stuck around after LeBron so far, he definitely showed he could take it even then.
Giannis will listen to the coach, but the problem we had at the Bucks was that most of them had no f’ing clue what they were doing.
So, in the worst cases, he started doing everything that made any remote sense since the coach was objectively terrible (Potatohead, Prunty, Griffin, Glen).
He followed Bud’s instructions like gospel, even after those failed miserably in the playoffs multiple times.
So, if the coach is remotely competent, Giannis will go to war for them. Thankfully, Spo is the best, so if Spo tells him to jump the only reply would be “How high?”
Exactly
If he’s late for the plane he for sure is getting fined. Body fat not under control, fined. Don’t let LeBron be on this team and he makes it to the plane before you do.
I think giannis will be just fine in Miami. Caron was his OH so he has people inside that can hold him accountable.
“Your siblings aren’t coachable because they lack talent and therefore, we will make no attempts to sign, trade or coach them” - coach spo
“Fine…You’re a cancer to society by promoting Kalshi”
How else are his brothers going to make money?
Giannis told me that we ALL on Kalshi, but I’m still waiting on my stock dividends
It seems I am doing good because I don’t know wtf Kalshi is
Gambling/“prediction market” company. He did ads for them. Which is lame but I don’t understand how Giannis is the only guy tunneled in on for this sort of thing.
Doesn’t he own a significant stake in the company? Active players owning stakes in gambling companies sounds like an awful idea no matter who the player is
yes, he did more than just ads lol
but of course the minimum wage redditor is the big bad for pointing out that the generational millionaire basketball player is shilling for one of the companies that is destroying society
it’s one thing for joe schmo to work for a less than savory company because he has to pay the bills. it’s another for giannis whose career earnings could probably buy him a country
Every player wants to be coached hard, until they are coached hard.
Reminds me of the Jack Handy quote:
“Sometimes I think I’d be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you. ”
I was thinking of ryan from the office “manage me… in the way i want to be managed”
Giannis sounds like people on dating sites that say they hate drama and co-workers that say they want accountability.
Giannis is that guy though
“No, your brothers have no business being on a nba roster taking up salary”
Thanasis was in the league before him and he’s earned a place as a decent end of bench energy guy
Seems Thananis did have his own thing going on in G League and the Knicks before Giannis started hard carrying his career. But technically Giannis entered the league before him
Says on Wikipedia that both brothers declared for the 2013 draft (June 2013), but Thananis withdrew and was later drafted to Deleware 87ers on November 1, 2013.
Thanasis was not in the league before Giannis. Giannis debut was October 30th 2013 and thanasis’ was January 29th 2015. Not the same league, but even his g league debut was after Giannis played his first nba game on November 23rd 2013
Thanasis was not in the league before him.
Who is upvoting this?
All of my alt accounts
Is he going to arrive on time
He’ll only do that for teams with competent coaching and front office.
Doubtful
Bud was almost gonna get fired if not for that ring. Spo is a mainstay of the Heat org
And Giannis is not used to a cowch like Spo, he’s actually going to have to show up on time for once
Also tho: China #1
Giannis arrives when he arrives. Like Miami Heat fans. They might not be there at the start of the game, but by the third quarter the stadium will be full.
it’s Miami. No one arrives on time.
Heat culture baby
island time has been around a little longer.
“Tell me the truth.”
“You definitely go over 10 seconds every time.”
That’s what your mom tells me every night.
He ain’t gotta worry about that. Because Spo will tell him.
Spo lookin’ like he already has a whole lot to tell him lol
lmfao sure diva
Y’all could’ve had him and instead y’all got Paul George lol
They got Hugo 😤
Stay salty
You guys handed out a contract so bad the league has to investigate it not sure you should be throwing stones
You guys gave away a finals mvp for 36 year old Paul George
We are still decades closer to contending than you guys are
Exactly my first thoughts lmao
what are the comments in here? is there a sentiment that Giannis isn’t a hard worker or something?
Because he wanted bud out for that reason and wanted more of a players coach
Not sure but thought I had seen similar reason why he didn’t want Nick Nurse too
Tbf he could want to be coached hard without wanting to get run into the dirt playing 40+ minutes a game
Bud managed his minutes like Pop managed Duncan’s. It’s why his per 36 numbers are even better than his season averages.
He also loved Kidd, who managed to be such a hardass dickhead that he pushed Larry Sanders into retirement. There was a lot more to Bud’s firing than “Not a players coach” - namely consistent playoff underperformance built on obviously terrible coaching decisions.
Kidd literally gave him the pass to go point forward/center. He aint gonna be mad at a guy keeping you in the game and letting you handle the ball most of the time….
He pushed for Griff over noted hard asses Nurse and Atkinson
Because his friends who had already been coached by Nurse told him to steer clear. Being coached hard and being coached by a known asshole aren’t the same thing.
Granted, that doesn’t explain his fondness for known asshole Jason Kidd, but he didn’t pass on Nurse because he coaches too hard.
How is Nurse an ass?
Bud was also a dumbass so there’s that too
It seems like Giannis wanted a player’s coach, picked the guy, and had buyer’s remorse
In his defence, our front office picked the finalists and asked for his, Middleton’s and Jrue’s input as the main guys.
How the hell Griffin made it to the final round I still don’t know.
The latest Jim O article makes it seem like Giannis essentially chose Griffin rather than what was reported initially.
Nuh, it’s just the wording. From the article:
Bucks stars Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday also met with them (coaches)
His system got them a title lmao. the hatred of Bud has become so overblown. Giannis deserves credit for showing up big time in the RS and playoffs but without the rest of the team reaching another level on Bud’s arrival they wouldn’t have been championship contenders
True. But his lack of adjustments probably cost them another finals trip or two. For sure in 2019.
After the last 2 years, yes I’d say that sentiment exists.
Don’t really believe he wants to be coached hard at all. He wants things his way and his brothers on the team it seems.
If he didn’t want to be coached hard and wants his brothers on a team, why did he leave to go to a team where he will be coached hard and his brothers won’t be on the team?
I dont know man, why did he insist his brothers have roster spots for years on the team he was on if it wasn’t something he wanted?
Why aren’t they in Miami too?
To play devil’s advocate, they are people out there who will say and do a little bit, but then bitch the moment they have to work for it or someone doesn’t automatically say yes to your demands.
Is Giannis that guy? Maybe parts of him are. I think Milwaukee def turned into that. Miami is going to expect a lot of him. He got what he wanted so now it’s on him to walk the walk once again
100%. He handpicked Griffin and Doc over Nurse, Stotts and Atkinson who our GM wanted. Looking forward to him giving up in MIA in 1.5 seasons.
I want somebody to lead me…. when I’m in the mood to be led
Giannis be yappin and I don’t believe shit he says
Mostly has to do with him quitting on the Bucks and being late to practice, trainings, and film sessions.
Hard worker, yes. It would be hard to be an elite athlete unless you worked hard.
But hard truth accepter, probably not considering the nepotism program he ran and revolving door policy for coaches.
I mean, he wanted Bud out and wanted a players coach didn’t he? That’s why Doc was there.
Of course he works hard but the sentiment has soured over time considering the number of times he’s tried to leak that he wants to be traded.
Giannis, to me, always seemed like the guy who says the right things but also sounds like he’s just reading off a list of “ right things” to say…
Is that true? I’ve gotten zero clue it’s just a vibe… and yeah every player plays that game to an extent so it’s not a big fault in my mind but it comes up when he throws out quotes like that one.
Giannis is such a phony.
Absolutely, it’s sickening, lol
People will clown him for this. But he has actually always wanted to be coached hard and Spo is the perfect person to do it
Didn’t he refuse Nick Nurse lol and fired Griffin when they were winning
Apparently Giannis consulted OG and Siakam and they both advised him to steer clear from Nick Nurse due to several incidents.
Griffin was just a train wreck all around. No one liked him and he rubbed almost all our players the wrong way. How the hell did our front office actually got him to the 3 final candidates is fucking crazy.
They were your 2 winningest choices, and Giannis chose Doc. I just don’t think Giannis actually wants to be “coached hard”.
Doc was an ownership hire. Not a giannis hire. And the most success he had was with Bud who coached him incredibly hard
He did not choose Doc though? Our front office wanted Doc and asked Giannis if he was ok with it and he said sure. Some people think Giannis was straight up GMing out here.
Also, Rivers just lost the locker room completely, was ineffectual and a people person more than a coach. A thing most of us were screaming about, but the owners group apparently wanted a “safe” choice.
Bud had to go and I stand by that. Our front office just botched every coach hire since then, while better coaches were available.
Griffin did not coach him hard. Neither did Doc. He loved Bud and just a few months back talked about how he liked how hard Bud coached him
Griffin was trash but refusing Atkinson and Nurse is very questionable
Spo looks so locked in here lmao
the intense ass cut to spo not even blinking is nuts
Good to know, Giannis, your outside shot is dookie.
“don’t be fucking late for the plane.”
This guys the biggest phony in sports today
Used to like him because of his background story and how humble he was
Within the last few years, dudes done a complete 180 and become egotistical and a phony
If what he said is true, Adrian Griffin wouldn’t be fired
Tell me a lie in a beautiful way,
I believe in answers just not today
Oh Giannis always saying the right thing but we all know it’s BS. If anyone tells him what to do he gets their ass fired.
That can’t happen in Miami and he knows that.
LeBron’s not coming.
This has as much smartest guy in the room energy as any Jaylen quote.
You’re telling me the only guy in the world with a PhD in basketball, Dr. Glenn Rivers, didn’t tell Giannis the truth?
🤣😆🙃😂 I’m really looking forward to Giannis giving up on Miami. I give it 1.5 seasons, he’s NEVER wanted to be coached. He literally handpicked coaches that were known “player coaches” and he said no to actual coaches (Nurse & Atkinson)
…Didn’t he want Bud out BECAUSE of being ‘coached hard’ and wanted a ‘player’s coach’ instead?
Also hard truths, ‘no brothers to occupy the bench and you suck for being tied to Kalshi/Gambling ‘
Yeah but you know Giannis is going to get salty as soon as he actually hears the truth.
Giannis has a future in politics for sure
So we just lying huh lol
“Also tell me that beforehand so I can bet on it on Kalshi.”
Tell that to Adrian Griffin
Adrian Griffin had Brook Lopez switching onto guards 30 ft out it wasn’t about how he treated players it was a coaching on court issue with him
Giannis is so full of shit. The second spo gets on his ass giannis will throw a tantrum anf start hinting at wanting to be traded
Corny ass
Giannis you are late again and can’t shoot free throws
Adrian Griffin would beg to differ kalshi boy.
“Giannis! Please give the ball to Dame and set that screen. We’re gonna lose!”
“I don’t like that ugly truth. Give me the ball.”
cant wait to see giannis in this heat system. no doubt in my mind , he’ll be healthy next season playoffs and back in mvp conversations
Didn’t Mike Bud coach him hard and then Giannis got him fired
Truth is your brothers suck, Kalshi.
Huh, not quite the approach Giannis was taking last season.
Heat culture gonna have to put in some work. It’ll probably work out though, they ain’t gonna put up with any crap.
You know he heard that somewhere and was like “oh that’s poetic shit, I need to use that line”
Giannis is the most full of shit player in the nba.
Honeymoon phase hitting like…
“You travel a lot. Like a lot. I’m okay with it because in today’s game you can get away with it, but I’m just saying, if you played in the 80s you’d get about as much court time as Thanasis.” - Spo’s hard truth
Isn’t that a Beyonce and Shakira song
This the same guy who wouldn’t run pick & rolls with Damian Lillard?
I wanna be *****ed hard
“You can’t shoot to save your life. So don’t” - Spo
Giannis reciting the quote on my 1997 No Fear shirt
I thought the clip was frozen on Spo until the guy’s arm in the back moved
lmao Spo looks constipated
Get ready Giannis. A Filipino dad will give it to you plain and simple!
corny shit lol
Spo gonna make him run to the arena like he used to in the past.
He almost let out a laugh there lol
he’s lying
Beautiful lie
If that ain’t the perfect shot at doc rivers coaching style of just kissing the stars asses
“What are you dooooing step coach? Coach me harder”
Loser energy