Free Rider wrote:LAL1947 wrote:Free Rider wrote:
Yea, I completely made up the Lakers getting rid of their championship core for an inefficient ball dominant PG and a whole bunch of players who were 5-6 years past their primes.
When not one but both of your
Super-max Superstars ask you to do that, you do it.
If the Lakers had not done this, still done badly with the injuries, and Lebron/AD let it out that they had wanted Westbrook... feels like you'd be finding fault with that too saying, "what an incompetent organization, how could they pass on such a competent choice as Westbrook. He's a walking trip-dub".
What in the historical revisionism is this B.S.? You wanna defend the Westbrook trade go for it, but to do so on the basis that they would have received criticism from fans is absurd.
I'm not defending the Westbrook trade, that was horrible. I'm just saying that some are never happy and can't give credit when competent things are done... therefore, they build up a surplus of incompetent things in their memory.
For example, when the Lakers hired Frank Vogel, that was a very competent choice... did you give them credit for that? The Lakers did their due diligence and interviewed a group of candidates. They then decided that Ty Lue was asking for too much (he wanted $35m/5-years + Lakers to pay what Cleveland still owed him, so $40-45m in total)... and decided that Vogel was the man who gave them what they were looking for at the price they had set ($18m/3-years). A smart decision... yet people here were flaming them for that. They then flamed the Lakers for hiring Jason Kidd as his assistant, and made that out to be incompetent too. No credit to competence was given when they hired Lionel Hollins and Phil Handy to round out the coaching staff either.
Look at the way you have worded your post here, "I'm surprised that an incompetent organization made a competent choice". How do you know if choosing Ham is a more competent choice than Stotts or Atkinson? For that matter, how do you even know if he will be a better coach than them? Are there observable, measurable and communicable results that you are personally privy to?
For both Vogel and Ham, a competent selection process appears to have been followed... that's all we can ask for as fans (especially as Lakers fans), apart from welcoming Darvin and wishing him well.
Yet, even here people are trying to invent incompetent things about this coaching search, lol. The Lakers said they had 6 candidates, narrowed it down to 3 finalists, decided on 1... with no wacko reasons given for the final selection... but people still throwing Doc Rivers and Mike Brown's names in here when the Lakers have not said if those guys were actually approached.
