Lakers VS Slippers Discussion

Live look at Russ "leading" them next year

 

…. mean mugging and primal screaming all the way down.

 

this is why neither one of those guys wanted to be a Laker. Too much accountability for being an actual leader if you are paid like one. Look at how AD gets torched. Imagine the field day we'd have with both of those part timers.

They ain't built to handle that.

San Antonio
Canada
Toilet Streetlights over Spotlights
Indianapolis

it is what it is.

 

Lue is clearly miserable there, I would be too if I had all these plans and X's and O's I wanted to implement but the team just never played together.

 

he's mad because had he just swallowed his pride and accepted our contract terms, he'd have a ring here and would have signed a lucrative extension. he knows he screwed up and chose the wrong la.

also funny because vogel won the ring, got fired, and then got a big paycheck in a better situation than lue's. double lol.

 

Went a lookin' on Giphy to see what they had for the highlighted words above just for bleeps and giggles. Not really that but how "Clippers" appropriate:

 

i can see why he turned the lakers job down though, considering it was basically "we want you as coach for as long as lebron is here and then you're free to go." can't blame him for not wanting to just be known as lebron's hand picked coach

worked out great in the end though. vogel was the perfect coach for that title team

 

eh, i think he wasn't thinking straight. if he was worried about coattailing lebron, he should have not interviewed at all, imo. once he got the offer, holding out for more when an equally qualified candidate was waiting in the wings was stupid. he had to assist/usurp for a year in hell before taking over the jv, only to be generally foiled.

he wanted to get special treatment when he didn't deserve it. so we took the guy who was willing to prove himself.

irony in all of it is the guy i wanted of the three was monty williams, who i would still take. he's gotten a raw deal twice, imo.

 

Monty gave himself a raw deal. He decided to not come to LA.

 

In fairness, phx moved quickly. Lue walked out of negotiations with us.

 

My interpretation of the whole Lue thing was that the main issue was more guaranteed money and years than riding Lebron. We offered 3 years, he wanted 5. We were a mess at that time with Luke leaving, the whole Magic resignation and throwing Pelinka under the bus (thank god Magic is gone), and he thought he could take advantage.

The good old days:

 

yeah, i thought it was about money/years. he wanted that 5/30 coaching money but hadn't done anything to warrant it. the proof was in the pudding, as we hired our third choice and won a ring anyway. now that guy has the 5/30 with phx even after being fired here.

my point is that lue would be better off right now if he had swallowed his pride and taken the deal. he'd have joined the very small ranks of multi-ringed coaches and end up making around the same total money, plus have even greater clout for his future contracts.

all that said, his pr team is great, so maybe it's no difference. he seems to still have john wooden status despite being pretty meh aside from riding prime lebron and kyrie to a ring.

 

IF true (?) …. there was that thing about him never winning a game over the course of 3 seasons when LeBron didn’t play in Cleveland.

 

That's gold.

And likely more true than that franchise wishes it was.

 

one could also argue that leadership is...kind of the coach's primary job...

 

All team sports need on the field/court leaders

they may be an extension of the coach, the coach alone can’t play that leadership role. Not at this level.

 

Yeah. You need guys on the court and in the locker room who are leaders. Doesn’t necessarily have to be the star player either (although I think that can help).

 

Cry me a river and GTFO of Crypto the sooner the better. We’re about spotlights and rings …. not dingy yellow streetlights and participation banners. Can’t wait until LA Live’s bright LEDs are no longer blasting these fools on them.