Lakers dropped the ball this off-season because...

[TimeisIllmatic]

because... the Lakers seem to have fell victim of the Miami Heat curse...

First Kendrick Nunn, now Gabe Vincent....

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Go back and check it, I got into a 4 page argument with hoosierdaddy bc I said ham needed to be fired and we focused on the wrong thing (pg instead of defensive big man for jokic). The guy and 75% of this board were so busy slobbering all over Murray they forgot who the number 1 guy in Denver is. Ham was biggest point of contention for me tho. I laid out specific targets for bigs in that thread: Reid, hartenstein, gafford. I was also absolutely irate when I saw what kp got traded for bc we could had those same assets to trade for him. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to run an nba franchise, just have to be better than daddy’s little girl who runs the team for fun.

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Ham should’ve been replaced. Becky Hammon, Jerry Stackhouse, Juwan Howard, Kevin Ollie.

Dude not even, nick nurse was available this last summer lmao. And we stood pat. Rmr when u and i argued w that donkey hoosierdaddy for the entire summer about how coaching does matter and how ham is bad at it? Tbh, it sucks that we have been vindicated. Don’t understand how lakers fo and some fans were so blinded to it just bc we made wcf

[danfantastk32]

Tbh, it sucks that we have been vindicated. Don’t understand how lakers fo and some fans were so blinded to it just bc we made wcf

I'm glad you feel vindicated in all this...lol. Not sure anyone thinks Ham is a great coach. But coaching isn't our issue. Our team isn't good enough. No coach is gonna fix that. Go look at Popp's record with Duncan...and his record since he left. You telling me Popp bonked his head, and forgot how to coach, and scheme?? Maybe he had one of the greatest players (and almost more importantly...a pillar in Popp's ability to enact his system and culture for over a decade) to win with? I think that prob had a little to do with it.

Ham can go for all I care. I didn't want Vogel to go. I knew it wouldnt matter. The issue was brick-boy, and the cancer his attitude brought to the squad. Ham replaced Vogel...and no difference. Brick left......won 21 of 23 (whatever it was) to make the postseason. Ham sure seemed to be fine then, no??

BTW...I don't think Vogel is an amazing coach either. But a change in coach is pretty meaningless with this squad. You can go get the best coach out there. Maybe we're 5 wins better. 5th-6th seed. Prob win a series or two. But we're still getting crushed by the better teams. And the downhill just gets lower and lower each year, with Lebron and AD racking up mileage and age.

You'll get no argument from me that there are better coaches out there. But if you think some great coach is somehow coaching this squad to a title, your totally wrong. I'd worry about other things before I got to the coach, personally. Like a new GM, a completely new squad, a major trade with AD for 1st round picks, our drafting of said picks, and moving everyone we can for whatever assets we can get. I'd like to put new owner in there...but that's not happening. After all that...let's look at replacing our coach.

Go get a new GM who's gonna competently bargain our assets, and bring in good daft picks for our future..,.should be #1 priority come Tuesday morning.

[stan francisco]

Ham should’ve been replaced. Becky Hammon, Jerry Stackhouse, Juwan Howard, Kevin Ollie.

Dude not even, nick nurse was available this last summer lmao. And we stood pat. Rmr when u and i argued w that donkey hoosierdaddy for the entire summer about how coaching does matter and how ham is bad at it? Tbh, it sucks that we have been vindicated. Don’t understand how lakers fo and some fans were so blinded to it just bc we made wcf

I’m pretty sure he was on both our lists. Edit: point being we had many better choices than Ham.

Mistake number two: D Lo. I wonder what Christie would be right now with those minutes. Or JHS.

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Tbh, it sucks that we have been vindicated. Don’t understand how lakers fo and some fans were so blinded to it just bc we made wcf

I'm glad you feel vindicated in all this...lol. Not sure anyone thinks Ham is a great coach. But coaching isn't our issue. Our team isn't good enough. No coach is gonna fix that. Go look at Popp's record with Duncan...and his record since he left. You telling me Popp bonked his head, and forgot how to coach, and scheme?? Maybe he had one of the greatest players (and almost more importantly...a pillar in Popp's ability to enact his system and culture for over a decade) to win with? I think that prob had a little to do with it.

Ham can go for all I care. I didn't want Vogel to go. I knew it wouldnt matter. The issue was brick-boy, and the cancer his attitude brought to the squad. Ham replaced Vogel...and no difference. Brick left......won 21 of 23 (whatever it was) to make the postseason. Ham sure seemed to be fine then, no??

BTW...I don't think Vogel is an amazing coach either. But a change in coach is pretty meaningless with this squad. You can go get the best coach out there. Maybe we're 5 wins better. 5th-6th seed. Prob win a series or two. But we're still getting crushed by the better teams. And the downhill just gets lower and lower each year, with Lebron and AD racking up mileage and age.

You'll get no argument from me that there are better coaches out there. But if you think some great coach is somehow coaching this squad to a title, your totally wrong. I'd worry about other things before I got to the coach, personally. Like a new GM, a completely new squad, a major trade with AD for 1st round picks, our drafting of said picks, and moving everyone we can for whatever assets we can get. I'd like to put new owner in there...but that's not happening. After all that...let's look at replacing our coach.

Go get a new GM who's gonna competently bargain our assets, and bring in good daft picks for our future..,.should be #1 priority come Tuesday morning.

We have led for 73% of the minutes in this series and you think coaching doesn’t matter lol. The nba playoffs is a game of the thinnest of margins. You can’t have an @ssclown for a coach and expect to win. The roster isn’t perfect but ad and lebron can win it all with a good coach on this roster. They sure as sht wouldn’t have lost game 2 and this would be a very different conversation. Like how do you come away from game 2 thinking coaching didn’t matter when we don’t challenge that stupid Murray drive with a minute to go that got them 2 fts?

[danfantastk32]

We have led for 73% of the minutes in this series and you think coaching doesn’t matter lol. The nba playoffs is a game of the thinnest of margins. You can’t have an @ssclown for a coach and expect to win. The roster isn’t perfect but ad and lebron can win it all with a good coach on this roster. They sure as sht wouldn’t have lost game 2 and this would be a very different conversation. Like how do you come away from game 2 thinking coaching didn’t matter when we don’t challenge that stupid Murray drive with a minute to go that got them 2 fts?

Because dude....if I got a blowjob everytime this chat board decided our coach was to blame, I'd be a pornstar.

And quite frankly...I don't think 80% of the people on this board would know a good coach if they saw it. Remember Luke Walton??? Everyone here "KNEW" that he was the answer. After all...the guy went 42-3 or whatever with the Warriors. You can check it...I voiced my doubts. I kept bringing up that the Warriors were an all-time squad. But NOOOOO....nobody wanted to hear it. They all knew that Walton was the next wonder coach. Well 2 years later he was the reason for everything wrong with this team. Funny how he was such a good coach with the Warriors, but decided to be a crappy coach here. Interesting that.

So then came Vogel. Our next savior. He certainly seemed to bring some defense, which was nice. Pairing AD and Lebron when there was still gas left in the tank certainly seemed to help his cause. Brought a title, and everyone was happy. FF a couple years, and we get brick the dick. Suddenly our team sucks.....and what do I hear?? I hear everyone blaming Vogel! Crazy! But thats what the vast majority of the fans here did. So we get Ham. "Thank god!" I hear everyone saying. And yet nothing changed. Then we get rid of brick...and go on a wild streak. Im hearing all sorts of great things about Ham then.

But now Ham is the reason for all our ills. Forgive me...but I've heard this song and dance before. And I dont think you know what your talking about. Little "factoids" about time in the lead are hand-picked nuggets (parden the pun) that I'd bet you never used before, but are throwing around THIS TIME...cause it seems to make a puzzle piece fit for you. I certainly don't remember anyone bringing it up last year. Last year it was "Yes, but even though we got swept, our margin of loss was the closest of any team" <----- all bunk, and lame excuses for the fact that we got swept. We got swept because they are a much better team. Just like when Dallas swept us with Phil, it wasn't because Phil forgot what he was doing, and didn't make adjustments.

Personally I dont think Ham is a good coach. I liked Vogel much more. So we can get rid of him for all I care. But if anyone thinks for one second that replacing the coach means we're good to roll this heap on back.......F that. This team doesn't have the goods. One star is old, and getting further from his prime. The other is one bad jump from sitting the entire season out. And there is nobody else on this squad who would touch the floor on one of our truly good Laker teams.

That's my point. Can the coach...I dont give a sh**. But don't try and argue that we were gonna win this thing, but for Ham. We weren't gonna come close. And I'm not gonna settle for this overplayed "it's the coach" routine. And nobody else should either.

[loveshaq007]

trade ham and Rui for portis and andre

[GopherIt!]

But ownership and guys getting paid NOT to buy the hype shoulda focused more on the reality. This team was a huge rung lower than the Nuggets. And none of our momentum or good vibes could even eek out ONE victory. And when you answer this question honestly: Did we just lose to an all-time juggernaut, or did we just beat 2 paper tigers?

Our brain trust shoulda known better. Maybe they did, and decided to enjoy the gravy-train till it derailed? Either way...here we are

without naming names, isn’t that an oxymoron?

[LAKESHOW]

We 1st of all placed too much reliance on DLo. Only to once again return to the same place as last year.
We made critical error on guard acquisition and guard evaluation. We could have fixed that.
We also made critical error by publicly announcing, that we are going to stand pat with Dlo, Rui, etc....and pretty much leave team as is. Well, the results are in, by leaving team as is from last year, we practically got the same result as is from last year. These idiots couldn't figure that 1 out. Same team expect same result. Duh.
Lastly, we need a twin towers. We should have found a way to go all in with porzingis or a giant free agent available. Leaving team as is and we got worse

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We have led for 73% of the minutes in this series and you think coaching doesn’t matter lol. The nba playoffs is a game of the thinnest of margins. You can’t have an @ssclown for a coach and expect to win. The roster isn’t perfect but ad and lebron can win it all with a good coach on this roster. They sure as sht wouldn’t have lost game 2 and this would be a very different conversation. Like how do you come away from game 2 thinking coaching didn’t matter when we don’t challenge that stupid Murray drive with a minute to go that got them 2 fts?

Because dude....if I got a blowjob everytime this chat board decided our coach was to blame, I'd be a pornstar.

And quite frankly...I don't think 80% of the people on this board would know a good coach if they saw it. Remember Luke Walton??? Everyone here "KNEW" that he was the answer. After all...the guy went 42-3 or whatever with the Warriors. You can check it...I voiced my doubts. I kept bringing up that the Warriors were an all-time squad. But NOOOOO....nobody wanted to hear it. They all knew that Walton was the next wonder coach. Well 2 years later he was the reason for everything wrong with this team. Funny how he was such a good coach with the Warriors, but decided to be a crappy coach here. Interesting that.

So then came Vogel. Our next savior. He certainly seemed to bring some defense, which was nice. Pairing AD and Lebron when there was still gas left in the tank certainly seemed to help his cause. Brought a title, and everyone was happy. FF a couple years, and we get brick the dick. Suddenly our team sucks.....and what do I hear?? I hear everyone blaming Vogel! Crazy! But thats what the vast majority of the fans here did. So we get Ham. "Thank god!" I hear everyone saying. And yet nothing changed. Then we get rid of brick...and go on a wild streak. Im hearing all sorts of great things about Ham then.

But now Ham is the reason for all our ills. Forgive me...but I've heard this song and dance before. And I dont think you know what your talking about. Little "factoids" about time in the lead are hand-picked nuggets (parden the pun) that I'd bet you never used before, but are throwing around THIS TIME...cause it seems to make a puzzle piece fit for you. I certainly don't remember anyone bringing it up last year. Last year it was "Yes, but even though we got swept, our margin of loss was the closest of any team" <----- all bunk, and lame excuses for the fact that we got swept. We got swept because they are a much better team. Just like when Dallas swept us with Phil, it wasn't because Phil forgot what he was doing, and didn't make adjustments.

Personally I dont think Ham is a good coach. I liked Vogel much more. So we can get rid of him for all I care. But if anyone thinks for one second that replacing the coach means we're good to roll this heap on back.......F that. This team doesn't have the goods. One star is old, and getting further from his prime. The other is one bad jump from sitting the entire season out. And there is nobody else on this squad who would touch the floor on one of our truly good Laker teams.

That's my point. Can the coach...I dont give a sh**. But don't try and argue that we were gonna win this thing, but for Ham. We weren't gonna come close. And I'm not gonna settle for this overplayed "it's the coach" routine. And nobody else should either.

Tldr/you can believe coaching wouldn’t have changed the outcome of a series we led 76% of the minutes. And I believe otherwise. End of story. Agree to disagree. I dno man it’s not like the warriors went from being losers w mark Jackson to a dynasty w Kerr? The lakers del Harris to Phil Jackson? The raptors from Dwayne Casey to nick nurse? Coaching just doesn’t make a difference yaknow?

I said it one offseason ago, I’ll say it again, a competent coach and a good center are all we need to win it all.