So nothing actual or substantial?... Just you making "links"?
It's funny to me that you think that I wouldn't want to bold actions. Why not? Like I'm trying to get over on you or something Danny. I'm not. There really isn't anything substantial there anyway. If Lou wasn't ball'n out of control the game you're talking about, and D'Lo hadn't played poorly 3 games in a row, after a strecth of 3 or 4 games where he played pretty well and Luke was playing him about 33 minutes a game (more than any other rookie), AND every single other player on the team wasn't averaging almost exactly the same minutes (24 - 28) as D'Angelo... Then yeah, I might be inclined to agree with what you're saying. If Nick Young, Luol Deng, and D'Angelo Russell didnt play the exact same amount of minutes a game I could begin to see what your talking about. Heck, Lou Williams plays less minutes than all those guys, and JC. Lou must really be in the dog house.
Is Luke frustrated with D'Lo. Yeah, possibly. I think that's a lot more likley. A lot of people, including fans, are frustrated with D'Lo and the fact that he's been so inconsistent at times. It's because we've seen what he can do and we just want him to get there already. That's not what you're saying though. You're saying he has a bad "attitude", and you got this conclusion from how much Luke plays him, how he talks in interviews, and "sub context and the real world". Except you keep forgetting to actually use "the real world" when coming up with this stuff. Luke doesn't give anyone substantial minutes, and we've all seen him get extremely frustrated with Ingram too. But... D'Lo plays the same amount of minutes as everyone else... And, he talks slow in interviews... So... Natural conclusion... bad attitude.
Look, I know I'm not gonna convince you of anything. Once you've decided the whole "bad attitude" story, it's just way too juicy to give up. This is not a Luke Walton, and Byron Scott thing though. It's just a Bryon Scott thing. Luke has been nothing but complimentary of D'Lo since he got here. Talking about how him and D'Lo are constantly talking about basketball and what each other sees on the court. Does he also get frustrated with D'Lo at times?... Of course. We all do. There's still no "real world" evidence of Luke ever saying or thinking D'Lo has a bad attitude though. It's just people making this stuff up cause they're frustrated too.
I wasn't trying to be a jerk about actions, that was a face value "I'm basing thing on actions" reply.
I do think there is a lot of hard evidence. Regarding the thing that started this convo (interview presence and words) I would say that it's mostly that it links directly to the product we see very well and I do take a lot of stock in those because I have a degree in decoding communication as it relates effective leadership and performance. This is literally not just something I studied for years at a major university, this is something I do at a very high level successfully and professionally. You can literally use math allocations for every phoneme in his speech and come with up with a numeric value that shows he's not a good leader and his tendencies are strongly associated with people who are not effective. (I have not gone that far in fairness because it's huge pain in the ass to do, and once you get good at it, it's much easier to just recognize the pattern).
Also we have direct quotes from Byron calling him entitled and saying he has a poor work ethic.
Laker film room's accurate rant by a guy that has proven to really be able to breakdown players (and he specifically calls out my points in no uncertain terms at 4:45 of the rant here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-456873398Regarding minutes, I agree with you on min/game but I was pointing to who finishes games and there have been several instances where Russell didn't play the 4th at all and others where he gets yanked for the the end in close games:
Russell actually ranks 10th on the Lakers in fourth quarter minutes this year (six per game, and he actually ranks ninth if one excludes Marcelo Huertas, who has only appeared in 20 fourth quarters total).
http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2017/2/15/14621838/la-lakers-luke-walton-dangelo-russell-fourth-quarter-minutes-stats-analysisOf course Luke is being complimentary... he's doing his damndest to get Dlo to be a good player and clearly Byron wasn't seen as a successful mentor in directly calling him out for being lazy and entitled.
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