Ex-Coach Luke Walton Discussion

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  1. therealdeal

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    For those who can't/wont watch:
    - Ingram is a ball player and is everywhere on the floor.
    - Russell wants to improve and wants to lead. Exciting for a coach.
    - Really wants to see competition, winning is important but have to improve.
    - Guys working hard despite some short comings.
    - Knew Julius was coming to practice, nice to have him here.
    - Encouraging Julius to grab boards, push transition, hit a couple jumpers.
    - Ingram has great feel for the game, how to get open, etc.
    - Had a little rueful smile on his face with the Nick situation.
    - Feels good coaching after a tough season. Having fun.
    - Russell has been vocal, takes responsibility for his mistakes, working on TOs. vocal leader.
    - Larry Nance is better than Luke thought, good instincts, increasing his confidence as a shooter, wants him to push transition too like Julius.
    - Zubac can't practice yet, excited to get started.
    - No new coaches.
    - KD to GS is exciting, interesting, and he wants to win. Seems fun.
    - Exciting to see GS all in their prime.
     
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    LOL I wonder if Luuke has broken out the Dead yet on a big Boom Box for the 18-20 year old crowd? So they are all looking around at time outs thinking, what is this??? I kind of like it. :Kobe Snickering:
     
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    What a breath of fresh air listening to Luke Walton talk to the Media after the crap fest we have had in here the past several years with Mike Brown, Mike D'Antoni and Byron Scott.

    :FistPump:
     
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    That voice...

    I recall the draft night video, where Luke walked into the room and sat next to Jim (or rather Jim sat next to him). Luke just ate some dinner, what
    looked like some rice and veggies, perhaps?

    He was absolutely unfazed by anything there. Like they say - very comfortable in his own skin. That should rub very well on guys like DAR and BI.

    Also, you can see Jessie and Jud going around there with AB and DAR... teaching. Felt... awesome.
     
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    Translation: I rather not have that idiot here...
     
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    It's nice to see our coach not s*** on our young players and rookie for no reason. B0ron's version of this looks like "Ingram is young and raw and has a long way to go to earn his spot". "Russell wants to improve and lead, but the young fella needs to relax and temper expectations because while he's good he's also immature and nothing's gonna be handed to him".
     
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    This definitely stuck out to me. Luke was speaking highly of all our players which is what you'd expect of a f***ing coach. I get tough love, but Byron was just needlessly unappreciative and unsupportive. It was really strange. Hearing Luke glow about our players is so damn refreshing.

    It also stuck out to me how D'Angelo reacted about making mistakes with these coaches. He said they were quick to call you out, but then you learn from it. Gee that sounds a heck of a lot different than Byron doesn't it? Short hook on the court, yell at you in practice, doesn't even tell you what you did or how to improve... D'Angelo must feel like a new man with this coaching staff.
     
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    That was refreshing. Like a nice cold beer on a hot summer day.
     
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    Luke basically said

    Randle with the handle
    Nance with the dance
    Russell with the hustle
    J-C with the 3
    B.I. with the deny
     
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    The with, the what, the huh?
     
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    Pfffft!! I taught them young'uns last year all they needed to know.

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    I don't remember having such an overwhelmingly positive vibe from our coaching staff and players since Rudy T was briefly our coach
     
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    Luke is just so much more poised in terms of putting a positive front forth to the media than Scott. It's immediately apparent. Phil was that way too. I do not see Luke airing team dirty laundry in public like Scott, it's just not Luke's way. Watching this, seeing Scott call out Julius here which was totally unnecessary as the team was even on a rare winning streak of a few games, makes me so glad this negative influence is gone.

     
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    Boron smh
     
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    Really nice post-game interview from coach Jesse tonight too. Super positive about Zubac, very complimentary of Ingram as a teammate and coachable player this week. Spoke about how they're asking a lot of Russ in his role and thought he played well, but could have gotten some better looks than he did, and that Luke really wants the ball to move a lot. Mainly he represented Luke well I thought, very positive yet did point out things to work on. The dark cloud of B0ron is really lifted man.
     
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    ...well the announcers today quipped of how the young core "grew up" under Scott's taskmaster regime. Whatever the hell that meant.
     
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    Just so refreshing not having to hear someone call out his own players for mistakes and telling everyone needs to man up.
     
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