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That's three times in about two weeks we've been close or ahead at the break, only for us to fall apart in the third. Twice to the Spurs, and once to Oklahoma, which is ongoing.

Why can't me make proper halftime adjustments? My Lord, is it that difficult?

Too specific.
take out the "out of halftime" part

Edit: Why is Mike Brown ruining the last years of Kobe's prime w/ bad coaching???

Because he is not that good a head coach. Brown would make an excellent assistant coach in charge of the defense. He plays Pau and Kobe over 40 minutes a game and they often do not have their legs in the 2nd half of games. Brown has a weak bench because he made it that way. Ebanks, HIll and G-man can play. He calls out Bynum for shooting 1 measly three instead of speaking with him in private.
Coach Kuester is called upon to draw up offensive plays at the end of games and Brown has even let Kobe and Gasol call plays at the end of games. Brown does not know how to substitute his players properly and fatigue sets in at times. His mentor, Popovich makes sure that he has his older players rested and ready to go for the home stretch. Popovich schooled Brown this week as he made adjustments that Brown never answered to and made sure his team had fresh legs for the 2nd half of games. I hope Brown is not the one that keeps the Lakers from advancing. He is coming off as not having a very high BB IQ.

because he tells his players to keep doing all the things they were successful at doing during the 1st half

little does he know, the opposing HC is trying to limit what the lakers had success with during their team speech

Did anyone tune in to mike browns press conference after that game. i admit, i never really listen to him speak at these, but yesterday i was curious to hear what he had to say about that game. maybe this is a snap judgment, but the few minutes i heard, he sounded like a kid/fan boy trying to suck up to all his players. yes, its nice to see a coach acknowledging what his players do well, but he just seemed so nervous while speaking and didnt seem to have an authoritative feel out there. i know this is pure speculation, but i could only imagine if thats how he talks in practice and team huddles, he definitely isnt head coach material and regardless of how the lakers do in the playoffs, they should be looking for an actual head coach that can run both offense and defense, and not just stick with mike browns inept offensive scheme

Yeeeeeah, I think this need more attention.

Levity wrote:Did anyone tune in to mike browns press conference after that game. i admit, i never really listen to him speak at these, but yesterday i was curious to hear what he had to say about that game. maybe this is a snap judgment, but the few minutes i heard, he sounded like a kid/fan boy trying to suck up to all his players.

I only caught the 30 sec clip on TNT but he pretty much said what I thought he would - the Lakers lost because of poor pnr coverage and the key to winning the series is executing better pnr coverage

Which is pretty much how he responds after every loss - ignores the horrible offense, blames lack of effort on defense.

who ever said he can coach at all?

Why can he coach out of anything at all?

he's not a good coach for this team.

in due respect, under MB the lakers haven't underachieved or overachieved. they've stayed put since last season so its not a knock on him. i just think there are other coaches out there *cough adelman/sloan cough* who can get the best out of this team.

He's a disaster.