Ex-Coach Luke Walton Discussion

Them refs be hatin on Dallas too tho...just not as much as us.

 

Someone check on Zen...I think dude may have just gone on life support.

#HalloweenJustGivesMeAReason
#TheCostumeStaysOn
#TrollLife

 

One crazy mofo.

Zen's attorney: Your honor I object. LT: Hey he opened the door.

 

The minute distribution for that game was ugh...

 

Lebron playing 39 minutes...
KCP playing 21 minutes to Lance’s 10....
Insanity.

 

Rotations are terrible. Let the starters play the first quarter. I don't get this switching everyone out at the 4 min mark of the 1st quarter.

Starters are the only ones that actually do anything consistently. Then rest Lebron first 6 min of the second. If you have a big enough lead going into the 4th, let Lebron watch until you have to put him in if you are saving him. Everyone else needs to play. Not going to learn unless you f***ing play. All are young guys, those guys should be playing 36 min a game.

 

I was shocked to not see Moe or Svi with the big lead

 

they are rookies.

 

There's too many of them, and they play the same positions. And then Luke decides Ball and Rondo need to play at the same time. He's still figuring out rotations.

 

he should try figuring out things when he isn't playing elite teams. he needs to find consistency.

 

rinse n repeat Luke

 

seemed like a good time to play them, but there was never actually officially garbage time, unless you consider the whole game

 

Agree with not playing Rondo and Ball together but they are different animals. The game slows down a lot down the stretch and Lonzo isn't super great in the half court, hes great in the fast break though. I'd rather have the ball in Lebron's hand down the stretch and Ball be the secondary creator. (I'm not sure if that makes sense.)

Our young players need to learn how to play off ball, Lebron will find you. Heck I'd trade for Korver just so he can teach them how to.

 

To my Puke contingent: I'll concede to this...his rotations in the 4th need to improve... Cause it's not how you start, but how you finish that matters.



If you look at 4th quarter lineups that have played 10 or more minutes together this year, LA's Zo, Lance, Hart, Kuz, Bron has played a total of 16 mins over 3 games together and are considered the 7th worst with a net of -22 compared to the rest of the league.

Luke has to find a closing unit cause I'm shocked LA doesn't have a unit that's played more than 10 minutes all year together in the 4th than just that lineup. Next lineup to play significant minutes in the 4th together are 3 units that have played 6 minutes together:

Zo, BI, Bron, Kuz, swagGee -39.5...yikes!

Zo, Hart, Bron, Kuz, swagGee +25

Lance, KCP, Hart, Svi, JWill +25

Note: the suspensions, minutes restrictions to Zo/swaGee have played a part in it tho.

 

@karacha 4th quarter is provided above, so out of those the Zo, Hart, Bron, Kuz, swagGee lineup has a large enough sample size of 6mins played together that makes their +25 stand out.

If you constitute the entire game, Luke does favor that same lineup cause they've played the most together (suspensions withstanding) at 50 minutes of total game time and they've been a +8.

That being said, if you sub out Hart for BI in that lineup, they've played the 2nd most together at 31 total game time minutes and have been a +19.6

I personally would roll with Zo, BI, Bron, Kuz and swagGee too, not only for the lion's share of minutes per game, but also in the 4th quarter to close 1 possession games out.

The playoffs tho are another story and we would need a larger sample to see what works best in May (heck, the team could be different too).

 

I normally don't agree with Darius but he's right about Luke having to create a set rotation sort of speak. You have an idea of which players are playing how many mins and you wiggle around that based on foul troubles, hot hand and rest. Luke still seems like he's trying to figure things out and I get it, it's a huge roster turnover with the guys you kept still being young AND you add someone of Lebron's caliber?

Rotations the way Luke has been doing it has been weird, guys can't get into rhythm. And keeping guys in there way too long where with the style we are playing at will tire them out. The deep roster we were boasting during the offseason might be wishful thinking at this point. Maybe time to tighten down our rotations to 7-8 players. But hey, what do I know?

 

it's early, but there needs to be a pecking order

It's completely unclear right now while Luke searches for combos. This lasted all year with Byron, so I hope this is a short term issue.