Ex-Coach Luke Walton Discussion

I think it's 5 / 25. Which is perfect, IMO. High end salary, but for a franchise printing cash and trying to get back on top, it's right in line where it should be. The # years is perfect too. If it was 3 and we were horrible this year, he goes into next season with an enormous amount of pressure to win. Year 3 he's a lame duck. They knocked this hire and contract out of the park.

 

What a gigantic difference a good coach makes, its crazy. We went from the worst coach of all time to the one of the best up and coming coaches.

 

And Jeannie always gets a pass.

 

It is WAY early in the season, and the Suns are a team we should beat, but still, my goodness this team is night and day 7 games in. It took us TWENTY FIVE games for us to reach 4 wins last season, and we won 3 games in a row ONCE. I don't see playoffs for us, we are young and will have growing pains, and ups and downs, and the best teams will beat us down time to time, but we are racking up crazy point totals.

Luke is playing lineups I have almost no issues with, he's putting guys in the roles they are meant to be in, and our ball movement and offensive flow is crazy in contrast to last season. Last season we looked lost constantly, this season the ball is moving all over the place, almost everyone is in sync, we look like a TEAM.

Everyone seems to have their role and when some guys are off, others pick up the slack. I mean freakin Nick Young is ballin, Lou Williams is dynamite off the bench, Black and Nance are bringing the energy, Ingram is so long and disruptive on defense. Russ has been up and down, as has JC, but the effort is there, and Randle looks like a different player than preseason. And Mozgov, dude is working his behind off, we may have more dunks already than all of last season from our unselfish team play.

Luke is a good coach, plain and simple, B0ron would still be screwing this up somehow, but Luke knows how to use his players. We aren't a playoff team yet and won't sustain this IMO, but still, Luke was the right hire and he's taking us in the right direction, team ball, which we need to play as we have no true star. Thoroughly enjoying watching this team play so far, they remind me of the early 90's Lakers with Van Exel, Jones, Vlade and those dudes before we got Shaq and Kobe. We weren't gonna win with them, but they were fun to watch.

 

Jim has been a good owner for the Lakers. Sadly ESPN and particularly Steven A. have been on his nuts for years now.

Jim is terribly flawed by his coaching choices...sadly. But the deals he did with Chris Paul, Nash, Howard etc...he just didn't have the luck that was necessary.

If Nash wasn't disabled and Howard wasn't a prima donna and Kobe would have been healthy, who knows if we had another ring or not.

But in terms of drafting and trading, everything they have done has made sense.

They sucked in free agency but thats due to low leverage and no assets, so its hard to judge because they have a legit excuse.