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

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  1. FrontOfJersey22

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    PHX will have at least one of their big three go out due to injury and will drop.
    I see us making the play-in and losing in the second round.
    No matter what happens, rotten Ham needs to be taken out with the trash.
     
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    if we make the second round, no way ham's fired, imo.
     
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    Yeah, no way they fire him if we get to the second round.
     
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    Austin wants nothing to do with the man
     
  6. FrontOfJersey22

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    Whelp- that seals it for me. The Lakers aren’t trading one of their most valuable pieces so Ham has to be shown the door this summer.
     
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    Ouch man.
     
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    Yeah I’ll be pissed too if someone keeps sabotaging the team with insane non-competitive NBA line ups putting my dream job in jeopardy
     
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    Yeah, Ham has work to do to win back the locker room

     
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    SMH..talking about making stuff up, I'm still trying to figure out, exactly what Austin Reaves, is supposed to be upset about?
     
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    He is upset by being benched, by D'Angelo (who he has good chemistry with) being benched and the endless experimentation with lineups. At some point the team started to struggle with identity and that obviously frustrated him. At least that's how I see it.
     
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    Id be more convinced of a rift if the team wasn’t playing hard.

    I think players were frustrated about their minutes and rightfully so. I’m not sold he’s lost the locker room though. At least not yet.

    Again, just play your best guys Ham.
     
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    He's played more minutes now, than he's had in his short career. His performance improved once he went to the bench, and whatever is going on with D'Angelo, is not his problem. It's reaching, just like declaring that AD had beef with Lebron, because he was still sitting on the bench, after Bron broke Cap's scoring record.

    We create this type of stuff by reading whatever we want to, into some short video clip.
     
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    D'Angelo has to be the only person frustrated with his playing time, he earned his seat on the bench too IMO. If he had been playing like he has lately, he would have never been benched in the first place.
     
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    I actually agree with you on that to an extent. I didn’t think we should’ve benched him and Austin.

    I think DLOs frustration was also from watching Cam and Prince get to play through mistakes while he had a short leash.

    just think Hsm could’ve managed all that better.

    Hopefully with everyone getting back to being healthy at least some of those rotation issues will be behind us.
     
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    Admittedly, this time of year I don't get to see entire games and when I do it is usually after the fact. But I see the locker room this way. The players are playing hard for each other. IST came along. Money involved. For some a lot of money, they played for each other. We play up for some pride games. Then all these trade talks came along, this is a close team. They are digging in saying we can do this as is. IMO we have the talent to win it all and I would keep the team intact. If we could possibly get rid of Ham, I would but that isn't happening till the end of season and maybe not then. The guys want to play for each other and win some games. Maybe even a championship. Ham will benefit from that even though he is clearly the biggest obstacle we have to overcome. Our record won't let him win MVP but AD is the best player in the league this season and we all know what play-off Lebron looks like. Austin and DLO having fun again. We got this Ham or no Ham. No trades please, maybe just fine tune at the buyout sale. If you can stand to, listen to Ham's interviews. He is absolutely clueless.
     
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    Nah..we got swept in the Conference Finals, that is NOT some kind of rousing success. I don't care if they love each other or not, they have to perform in the playoffs, we aren't here for the feel good stories, we are here for the chip period.

    The same coach took this team from the 7th seed, to the Conference Finals. He obviously has a clue, we had a less than 100 percent Lebron and if a certain player didn’t totally disappear in the Conference Finals, we would have another Championship banner hanging right now IMO. The coach's job is to put the team in position to win games, the players have to execute. We can point fingers in a few directions here, they all shouldn't be pointed in Ham's direction either.
     
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    bingo.
     

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