Not out of the box. If you are creating a *brand new* BuddyPress site, you don’t need to use the Group Forums at all. I recommend that you:
1) Go to Settings > BuddyPress > components, disable the “Group Forums” component. Save.
2) Go to the Pages menu, and delete the “Forums” page which BuddyPress would have created for you.
3) Go to Settings > bbPress settings, and scroll right down to the bottom. You’ll see a box labelled something like “enable BuddyPress integration”. Tick it, save.
4) That’s all!
