Head Coach Discussion: Canned Ham, Who Is Our New Coach?

From assistant coach days

 

Hoping we get the experienced championship insight we need by putting Kurt Rambis in as an assistant coach. ***crossing fingers***

 

Hoping he's able to poach Lee from the Bucks roster, too

 

man, those 2011-213 lakers teams were absolutely stacked in terms of assistants

ham
clifford
messina
snyder

 

Hawks that following year had them beat


That's a hell of a bench.

 

bud's coaching tree is insanely good and he hasn't even been a NBA coach for a decade yet

 

We shall see shortly on this one.

https://lakersnation.com/lakers-new...f-autonomy-to-pick-coaching-staff/2022/05/28/

 

Consistent defense? For a guy over 35? Even if he guy has little to no injury history? Gary Payton wasn't the same after 2002 and he didn't have history with injuries.

 

I want to see his plan for Westbrook. Or are we still trying to move on from him? The stuff about keeping him may have also been bull, just the FO trying to increase Russ' value. That was my first thought anyway.

But if not, I want to know how Ham plans to use him. It's good Ham used to play with Lebron, that speaks to him although he was not much of a player. 12.4 minutes average played over 9 years and correspondingly low numbers otherwise. His best year averaged 22.6 minutes and 5.1 pts 4.9 reb I assume he was a spot player, defense guy. No scouting reports exist and I really don't remember.

 

No one expects him to be a lockdown defender or even consistently good. I mean that he has to at least give consistently adequate effort.

 

I like this hire.
Thank you FO for being competent and not hiring a retread.
Now, please fix this really bad roster.

 

Good hire...I'm very interested in seeing who will be joining his staff. This is a good first step, but of course the main thing remains the main thing. The health and availability of Lebron and AD, is going to determine how much success we have this upcoming season.

 

No more old farts who concede layups or don't run the court back on defense, Lakers needs some more scrappy players like Reaves who plays with energy, makes the effort to derail a layup and runs back on the court. Lakers need to have a clean house on last year's vet team. It was the worst year ever imo because of the expectation that team had and the lack of effort I saw, to many players worried about touches and scoring points, get mine attitude. I don't blame Vogel, I'm sure he did his best to influence his players to put out more effort, but with some players ball hogging on offense, standing around on offense, they didn't care about doing the dirty work, unlike the hungry kids like Reaves trying to make a name for himself. Give Ham some players who play hard on both sides of the ball, or Ham will be out soon if the front office don't do their job!

 

Lebron is a spot defense player and playoffs. We have seen him do things last season like back to back steals for dunks that younger players only wish they could do. He can apply it when he needs to, certainly not all the time. I am far more worried about Westbrook playing D, who could be a great defender if he put his mind to it, than Lebron.

 

Billups on the hire

Mike Woodson's $.02

What MWP remembers about him as an assistant coach

https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2022-05-28/darvin-ham-new-lakers-coach-lebron-james

 

When the stakes are high and a game is on the line, Lebron is a heckuva defender.

 

yeah, and lebron's poor defense was largely a) energy conservation and b) limited lateral mobility that comes with injury and age. i don't think he can defend guards in space at all anymore, and that's just life. westbrook, on the other hand, looks to be physically able and just opts not to pay attention at all on that end unless someone dares to post him up or something.

i'm not sure what ham, or any coach, can do about those things, but if we don't at least partially solve it, we'll miss the playoffs again.

 

I just don’t want to see Lebron or Westbrook literally standing around doing nothing on defense. Unacceptable