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Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Sun Sep 1, 2013 2:22 am
by kblo247
[url]Ramona Shelburne of ESPN wrote:[/url]
Antawn Jamison may have moved down the hallway at Staples Center to give himself a better chance to contend for a championship when he signed with the Los Angeles Clippers this week, but he's not ready to write his former team off just yet.
"I would never count Kobe Bryant out of anything," Jamison said Friday in a radio interview on ESPN 710 in Los Angeles. "I've played with some special players. Gilbert Arenas when he was [in Washington D.C], at the top of his game, LeBron James, Shaquille O'Neal [in Cleveland]. I've played with a lot but never played with an individual player who had the type of mindset, the drive that he has. If [Bryant] says he's going to win a sixth ring, believe me, he's going to do everything possible to get that ring.
"Of course, on the outside looking in you could say, well, that might not happen this year or whatever with him coming off the injury and the Lakers trying to get things together. But I mean, that guy, he's going to do everything possible to get that sixth ring."
"Mike was pretty much put in a difficult situation," Jamison said. "There was no training camp where he could get a feel for guys. There was a breakdown of communication when we first got there. And throughout the season it was kind of up and down.
"I don't dislike Mike. I obviously respect him as a coach. In my eyes, one of the best offensive-minded coaches in the league. I just think he was put in a tough situation ... but toward the end of the season you saw him kind of open up, and we started to have a relationship, and I kind of understood where he was coming from."
What Jamison never figured out though, was why the relationship between Bryant and Howard never developed on the court.
"It was difficult," he said. "I really believed before we got started that those two could co-exist. But it just didn't work out that way. Both guys are unbelievable basketball players, the best we have in the game right now. But for whatever reason we just couldn't get that relationship as far as them communicating and them trusting each other the way you needed them to trust each other in order for us to win a championship. It just didn't happen that way."
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/stor ... bryant-out
Pretty good tidbits, took out the clipper parts
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Sun Sep 1, 2013 9:49 am
by EArl
Jamison is a pretty classy dude. Wish him the best. Just dont want the Clippers to win though
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Sun Sep 1, 2013 4:13 pm
by NYKat
He tried to say it nicely, but all that stuff he said about Dantoni not communicating? same stuff he pulled in NY.
Lakers need to dump that dude, ASAP, Im shocked he still has a job
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Sun Sep 1, 2013 8:46 pm
by Michael Lucky
and hire who? There's no one out there that would just take this job and be a huge improvement.
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Mon Sep 2, 2013 6:56 am
by Desiderium
Michael Lucky wrote:and hire who? There's no one out there that would just take this job and be a huge improvement.
I think Rambis would make a fine candidate.
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Mon Sep 2, 2013 2:10 pm
by Durins Baynes
Rambis would be terrible, he did a shocking job in Minny, and is not ready for the pressure. There are however no shortage of better candidates out there.
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Mon Sep 2, 2013 3:22 pm
by One Love
Nate McMillan is the answer...
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Mon Sep 2, 2013 10:34 pm
by Lost Angel
i think the answer is to give D'Antoni a full training camp to figure things out.
we're going to have a much more fluid team on offense. hopefully that means we won't get killed on transition D as much...
looking forward to seeing Nick Young in a Lakers uni, as well as Wes Johnson. at least we have some guys that can run and dunk!
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Mon Sep 2, 2013 10:37 pm
by JustAwesome
Got to give D'Antoni at least five games into the season before firing him.
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Tue Sep 3, 2013 12:58 am
by Durins Baynes
One Love wrote:Nate McMillan is the answer...
Nate McMillan is a better coach than some give him credit for. He did a lot of good things in Portland and Seattle, before eventually the players in Blazerland tuned him out and necessitated a change. However he would be a terrible coach for the team- he's got a lot in common with Mike Brown- heavy defensive focus and not a lot of originality on O, with the difference being that Brown is a "player coach" (code for he'll let stars do what they like on offense), while McMillan is a hardass (which is why his players eventually tuned him out). McMillan would strangle Kobe halfway into the season for slacking on his defensive assignments.
Re: Jamison on Kobe, Dwight, and Dantoni
Posted: Tue Sep 3, 2013 8:01 am
by JustAwesome
With guys like Nash and Bryant, you don't necessarily need to be an offensive wizard, but you need to know enough to utilize Gasol as a threat still.