As you’ve likely heard, the Bucks are poised to hire the franchise’s seventeenth head coach with Saturday’s report that they are negotiating with former Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin. Opting for a first-time head coach comes as somewhat of a shocker to many fans and analysts, figuring that Milwaukee would replace Mike Budenholzer with someone who had previous coaching experience. In that situation, we’d have a lot more concrete info to go from.
The nature of assistant coaches in the NBA means that even dedicated observers of the team really don’t have much idea what individual staff members actually.