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Q&A: Lakers coach Mike Brown 

Post#1 » by minifang » Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:17 pm

LO’L: How does the Princeton work with having someone like Nash? As is my understanding, it’s not as much a heavy pick-and-roll offense, but more motion and ball movement.

MB: “The way that we’ll put it together, Steve’s going to have an opportunity -- he’s going to quarterback the team -- and so he’s going to have an opportunity to come down the floor every possession and in early offense play pick-and-roll if he wants to. It’s up to him, based on where he decides to take the ball or a call that he makes or an action that he does, it’s up to him to get us into some of the looks of the Princeton offense.

“So again, with him quarterbacking, or making that decision, he’ll still have a chance to get the ball back after he moves or after bodies move. I don’t want to completely give away what we’re trying to do, but in a nutshell, he will have an opportunity to play pick-and-roll at the beginning of almost every play set coming down the floor in early offense. And if not, he can also choose to get to some of the looks out of the Princeton by making a pass or doing an action or doing a call or whatever.”


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Re: Q&A: Lakers coach Mike Brown 

Post#2 » by Slava » Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:55 pm

Translation:

Eddie Jordan told me something but all I could understand was pick n roll and I hope Nash bails my ass out there.
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Re: Q&A: Lakers coach Mike Brown 

Post#3 » by The Skyhook » Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:10 pm

Mike Brown should just stop agreeing to do interviews. I feel uneasy every time I hear the guy speak.
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Post#4 » by Rox_Nix_Nox » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:04 pm

I can't stand this coaching staff
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Post#5 » by EArl » Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:43 am

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Post#6 » by TruSkool » Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:51 am

a coach who ends an interview with "or whatever" has no clue
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Post#7 » by Dagameplaya PnG » Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:03 am

..........wow. mike brown really needs to go, like now
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Post#8 » by tysonironmike » Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:16 am

He's not the most articulate guy, But I'm just hoping he turns us into a defensive juggernaut by getting guys to buy into his defensive philosophy, While letting Nash take over the offensive duties.
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Post#9 » by endless » Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:13 am

Mike Brown is the Lakers weakest link. All those last min fck ups in the playoff last season. Phil will never allow it to happen.
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Post#10 » by albasuna » Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:17 am

do the lakers even need a coach for offense at this point?
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Post#11 » by Sofa King » Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:49 am

Nash is smart and can run the offense. Mike Brown just needs to manage the team and all the egos. That's what I'm worry about.
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Post#12 » by Dr Aki » Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:37 am

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well id be happy if he left the offense alone and turned the lakers into a top 2 defensive team as he was supposed to when he was hired
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Post#13 » by JustAwesome » Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:47 am

Brown doesn't even have to do much to have a top five defense. Bryant, Artest and Howard should be able to do that for any coach.
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Re: Q&A: Lakers coach Mike Brown 

Post#14 » by tsherkin » Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:33 pm

I don't understand the issue here...

He's saying that Nash is going to have a just to run PnR early in the clock, particularly in what sounds like the secondary break, and then as they move past early offense, they'll move into sets based out of the Princeton offense while looking to feed the post as well.

What's the problem?

Brown isn't a great speaker, but that doesn't strike me as a major issue at all. If L.A. runs a bit, then Nash will do what he's always done, PnR in the first 5-10 seconds of the clock, then switch to offensive principles as discussed. The Princeton O will rely heavily on guys moving around a bunch, but what will inevitably happen is that Artest is a dong-nozzle, so he'll root himself someplace, Dwight won't be moving all that much in and around the post, so it'll be Kobe and Gasol screening and moving and Nash either hitting a cutter or waving off Brown's offense and calling Dwight out for a screen and roll or a post iso.

Which should prove to be a REALLY effective offensive system, as it happens...
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Post#15 » by Dr Aki » Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:59 pm

mike brown is the scapegoat for throwing the triangle and its great offensive efficiency away.

even though mike brown wasn't the reason why we shot so poorly from 3pt land for the entire season. we just werent used to looking like an eastern conference team on offense.

also, WTF was bynum doing at the top of the 3pt line?
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Re: Q&A: Lakers coach Mike Brown 

Post#16 » by Edrees » Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:21 pm

Aki wrote:
even though mike brown wasn't the reason why we shot so poorly from 3pt land for the entire season. we just werent used to looking like an eastern conference team on offense.

Actually he was. Goudlelock had a pretty decent percentage until Mike brown destroyed his confidence by not playing him at all and playing steve blake, one of the worst 3 pt shooting guards in the league.
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Re: Q&A: Lakers coach Mike Brown 

Post#17 » by LAKESHOW » Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:36 pm

above all others, this is the man that is truly on the hotseat this season. Its no longer Do It Mitch, because he did it. Now its, Get It Done Mike. We shall see...
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Re: Q&A: Lakers coach Mike Brown 

Post#18 » by LaLa » Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:43 am

What do you guys want, his full playbook, every single small detail about the offense? Yall are ridiculous with the hate smh
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Re: Q&A: Lakers coach Mike Brown 

Post#19 » by tsherkin » Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:13 pm

Edrees wrote:Actually he was. Goudlelock had a pretty decent percentage until Mike brown destroyed his confidence by not playing him at all and playing steve blake, one of the worst 3 pt shooting guards in the league.


On that note, Blake shot 33.5% from three last year... which is rough, but no where near as bad as you described... and more importantly, it's the first time since 07 that he's shot less than 37.8% from downtown.

From 08 through 11, he's shot 40.6, 42.7, 39.5 and 37.8% from 3.

I think you should cut Steve a little slack given the circumstances, especially minding that the 37.8% was managed on L.A., just under Phil and not in a compressed lockout season that had a near-universal skill-depressing effect on the players of the league...
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Re: Q&A: Lakers coach Mike Brown 

Post#20 » by Stebo_SSK » Sat Aug 25, 2012 12:43 pm

I still find it mind boggling that some LA fans want to blame Mike Brown and talk down on him when in Phil's last year we struggled just as much and got swept by an older team in Dallas. Give the guy a chance. Its not his fault he didnt have the proper personnel to pull out the wins they needed. No bench and no 3pt shooting, a wishy washy Bynum and aging Kobe really isnt a recipe for winning a championship.

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