BREAKING: The Los Angeles Lakers dismissed coach Darvin Ham: Candidates Mike Budenholzer, Kenny Atkinson, and JJ Redikk

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That's a faq probably counting the interims that filled in when someone was fired, and also ignoring the Rudy T heath issues. But overall since the good Doctor passed the FO has been rudderless and burning thru coaches

Dell
Phil
Rudy T (Stepped away for health)
Dantoni
B Scott (Who's mission was to guide the tank btw)

Those are Kobe's real coaches

:salute:


yeah i remember B Scott tenure :dead: and also Mike brown


i wasnt sure about the fill in coaches though
 

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Of course not, last coach he listened to was Spo and that because he got checked by the Godfather Riley. Our FO doesn't have that kind of backbone

Fact. Bron actually tried to get Spo fired but Pat was like :camby: , "Nah, he stays"
 

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Hopefully the next coach will be able to unlock Bronny's potential. That has to be the priority for the Lakers :mjgrin:
 

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The point is Lakers would have been a higher seed, management would have invested in a backup big during the trade deadline, and we’d probably still be watching this Lakers team into round 2

Prince was good in LIMITED MINUTES, not playing 30+ minutes a night. There was a stat at 1 point during the season where the Lakers were something ridiculous like 12-1 when Prince played under 24 min a game.. yet Darvin would continue playing him 30+
This is where we act like Rui was consistently performing well. He got benched for a reason. This team was never going to make any additional big trades & mortgage the future.

At this point mgt was hoping AD & an aging Bron would be enough. Add in Reaves/DLO & Rui were supposed to take a huge leap. Nobody exceeded expectations but AD imo. Again Ham has his issues but this is a players game & they simply didn’t perform.

Who are we blaming next season?
 

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This is where we act like Rui was consistently performing well. He got benched for a reason. This team was never going to make any additional big trades & mortgage the future.

At this point mgt was hoping AD & an aging Bron would be enough. Add in Reaves/DLO & Rui were supposed to take a huge leap. Nobody exceeded expectations but AD imo. Again Ham has his issues but this is a players game & they simply didn’t perform.

Who are we blaming next season?
This all goes back to Darvin allow “his guys” to make mistake after mistake and keep getting minutes while everyone else on the roster had an issue with it, and weren’t allowed the same grace


Vando, Rui, Reaves, DLO, Wood all had issues with it
 

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This all goes back to Darvin allow “his guys” to make mistake after mistake and keep getting minutes while everyone else on the roster had an issue with it, and weren’t allowed the same grace


Vando, Rui, Reaves, DLO, Wood all had issues with it
But @Regular_P even stated Ham was holding players accountable which is why Rui/Reaves/DLO & even Prince saw they playing time change. Lol

He couldn’t win with y’all. It’s prob less than 10 post in here giving him props when they won

They lose & it’s his fault. Shyts jokes

Like I said tho someone else turn for the blame next season tho.

Ham/Griffin got fukked over. I don’t want to hear nobody complain about black coaches getting unjustly blamed.
 

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Yup. I think guys like Nash and Kidd had Dantoni and Carlise vouch for them. Plus they were premier floor generals. But who's vouching for JJ? Brett Brown? Doc?

LeBron gonna get who he wants of course tho.
If that was the case they'd have Lue and wouldn't be in this situation.
 

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But @Regular_P even stated Ham was holding players accountable which is why Rui/Reaves/DLO & even Prince saw they playing time change. Lol

He couldn’t win with y’all. It’s prob less than 10 post in here giving him props when they won

They lose & it’s his fault. Shyts jokes

Like I said tho someone else turn for the blame next season tho.

Ham/Griffin got fukked over. I don’t want to hear nobody complain about black coaches getting unjustly blamed.
Breh what??

He was not holding players accountable. He was playing favorites his entire tenure in LA. Prince saw his playing time change because management basically forced him to, it was either lower his minutes or he's getting traded and Ham vocally went out and said he didn't want Prince traded and his minutes went drastically down.

Darvin regressed his entire tenure. He wasn't a good coach last regular season, actually did surprisingly well against the Griz (best he ever coached in his tenure), played the Warriors staff to a stalemate imo, and got out coached against the Nuggets.... then came back the following year and did even worse

What is Darvin good at? He was supposed to be the guy who players rallied around, but split the locker room by his own doing. He can't call timeouts correctly, can't adjust to in game managements, can't put together solid rotations, can't call challenges correctly..... that's the entire point of a coach and he couldn't do any of them right
 

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Same line up is what we lost in the playoffs with. What are you even saying

Also there was a tweet showing a lineup with Prince was very productive. Posters were complaining why Ham didn’t play it more

Y’all just need someone to put all the blame when it needs to be multiple people.

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Prince's ratings during the regular season were terrible.
 

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Breh what??

He was not holding players accountable. He was playing favorites his entire tenure in LA. Prince saw his playing time change because management basically forced him to, it was either lower his minutes or he's getting traded and Ham vocally went out and said he didn't want Prince traded and his minutes went drastically down.

Darvin regressed his entire tenure. He wasn't a good coach last regular season, actually did surprisingly well against the Griz (best he ever coached in his tenure), played the Warriors staff to a stalemate imo, and got out coached against the Nuggets.... then came back the following year and did even worse

What is Darvin good at? He was supposed to be the guy who players rallied around, but split the locker room by his own doing. He can't call timeouts correctly, can't adjust to in game managements, can't put together solid rotations, can't call challenges correctly..... that's the entire point of a coach and he couldn't do any of them right
What do you expect from the team next season
 

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Jeanie is a ditzy moron to let Klutch take over her organization :francis:

Don’t forget Jay Mohr

At this point Jeanie is a better functioning Britney Spears — but at least Britney got hers out the mud and grinded. All of Jeanie’s siblings are eating off of Dr Buss to this day. And there’s a reason why he loved Magic more than all of them combined

Dr Buss probably looked at his kids like Logan Roy looked at his and was :snoop: even tho he gave all of them a shot to prove their worth.

He was literally like “do well and you can chill with me”.
 
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