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

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  1. JSM

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    This post game quotes in back to back losses are killing him. He'd be better off not talking to the press. You know when you listen to a rookie get interviewed, they're more candid than NBA vets. Before they're coached and trained on how to give non-answer answers. That's what this seems like, but Ham isn't new to this. He's been in or around the league for over 20 years. He's given thousands of interviews as a player, assistant coach and head coach. Does our media relations team need to get involved? Cause this isn't good.

    Rant #2 for the morning: is there a worse in game adjustment coach? Seriously by maybe the 15th open 3 try something else. Tyson's saying how every fighter has a plan until they get hit in the face. That's Ham. He'll enter the game with his gamelan, get smacked and then stumble through the rest of the game. Hands in pockets. Clueless


    He's also been here during some other coaching ineptitude during the Brown and MDA years. He knows how the media and fans are during the tough times. Really piss poor job handling this. But watching him on the sidelines, I don't know why I'm surprised.
     
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    He's been trash.
     
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    Rob for all the positives hasnt done well with coach hiring, even tho Vogel won a chip, feels like he wasn't a great coach either....but to hire an asst coach that didnt seem to have much history for a "contending" team was absolutely moronic. Dont recall exact list Rob had interviewed but that list kinda sucked too from what i recall....as for ham hock, its not just at home, players/teams ball out vs them on road too....Dall with career night from Exum n Hardaway werent accidental
     
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    we've been really bad at hiring coaches for a while. wonder if it's something about the job itself. you can see ham cracking under the pressure already.
     
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    It's payback from the basketball gods for jerking around Phil.

    I think one good coach, who was our 3rd choice, fell in our laps since Phil -- Vogel. I know several disagree, we've covered that ground to death. To those: don't bother replying about it...i am not listening. outside of that I'm not sure anyone can list 5 teams who have done worse at hiring coaches in the past 13 years. Since Dr Buss, his kids have failed us with that hiring. For what should be the most prestigious gig in the league, our selections have been embarrassingly pathetic. And the more we cycle through, the worse it's going to get. No one is going to want to take a job when their average lifespan is 2 seasons.
     
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    dOn't bE LiKe tHaT. wE HiReD D'AnToNi, AnD ThE GuY Is uNiVeRsAlLy sEeN As a bAsKeTbAlL LeGeNd.
     
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    I really hope you had your sarcasm font on while typing this.
     
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    Please don’t let us have to endure the rest of the season listening to this fool blather on.
    He’s making Walton look like a respectable coach right now.
    This season is done so just let the freaking water boy coach now for all I care. Start the search for a decent coach now and hire him the first day our season ends.
     
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    Please do it, Clippers


    With the way things have been going against the Clippers lately and how well they've been playing, many are expecting a wild weekend.



    It will be difficult for management to ignore the defeat, accompanied by boos from their own fans,” Irwin wrote.
     
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    Edited for clarification.
     
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    This will be the only time I will be rooting for us to lose to the Flippers.
    It’s for the greater good.
     
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    :LLLLLebronlaughing:
     
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    Hmm, so would that suggest this legitimately WAS more of the player’s fault and not necessarily a flawed scheme from the coaching?
     
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    vogel was far from perfect, but he was the perfect coach for that 19-20 and 20-21 core. at the end of the day, it falls on rob and lebron for blowing up a title winning core to bring in westbrick. they had the right personnel to keep contending for a title and the right coach for that personnel and said nah, let's blow it up

    vogel and byron aside (he was brought in to lead a tank), this franchise just cannot hire a decent coach. brown, MDA, luke, and now ham have all been absolute duds
     
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    OK Cranjis … enough of that happy talk.

    :Laugh:
     
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    Since 2011 we have had Mike Brown, D’antoni, Byron, Luke, Frank, and now Ham.

    That many coaches in a little over a decade is insane.

    I’m not optimistic about another search at all.
     
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    They are not searching.. it is f***ing Doc Rivers
    BTW Why they would not try Fish .It can't be worse than Pimple
     
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    Trevor Lane mentioned a rumor that it would be Rondo
     

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