Roscoe Sheed wrote:Why can't something like that happen for the Clippers just once?
Accountability is one big difference as far as I can tell. The Lakers would never accept what Doc pulled with Austin or Lue pulled with Morris. They change coaches and trade players quickly when things aren't working out. We accept mediocrity because "at least it's not the Sterling years," then wonder why mediocrity is our ceiling. We allowed the same coach who blew the Rockets series to stick around long enough to blow the Nuggets series too. That alone tells you how serious this franchise is about winning.
It's not even just the Lakers, we also don't do what's been proven to work elsewhere in the league. We've done the exact opposite of what the Warriors did to build their dynasty every step of the way.
We're the equivalent of the pre-Mahomes Chiefs, who kept plugging in other teams' backups at QB and running on the treadmill of mediocrity for decades until they got a GM who understood how teams actually win in the NFL. Until someone at Clippers HQ has that same eureka moment about how we've been doing everything wrong, nothing will change.