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

Going to die on this hill

 

...buuut we're not getting stronger. In most areas we're getting weaker, and in a few...at best we're treading water.

Not a good enough walk back or apology, honestly.

 

f*** an apology..win some damn games!!!

 

won in spite of him. how the f*** are you not having them use the last foul with 4 seconds left?

 

Can’t agree with this. Sure ideally you want to use the foul. But it’s all situational, you only burn the foul when you’re not at risk of fouling on a three point shot attempt.

The play started in a way with the Clippers having momentum towards the basket and the Lakers defense being on their heels. It’s too risky to take the foul in that position, the offense has a good chance of immediately rising up as they see the contact coming and head to the free throw line

Overall I liked some of the lineups we saw out there. Like I’m not sure if we’ve seen a lineup of DLo, Christie, Wood, Vando and either Lebron or AD. But I liked it!

In fact my main point of frustration towards Ham was when he pulled Wood and Vando in the fourth. Reddish came back and I felt single-handedly gave momentum back to the Clippers with some fumbled sequences. I’m at least glad Ham pulled Cam back out sooner rather then later

 

Ty Lue saved Ham’s job by benching Kawhi and using his last timeout with 2:47 left.

 

I legitimately couldn’t wrap my head around that decision as anything OTHER than “I’m going to do something very dumb and controversial to direct heat away from Ham”

 

Ham wishing Bron lit up this way when talking about him

Also not so subtle shot about figuring it out quickly

 

Still needs to be fired.

 

I can’t listen to more than ten seconds of his post gamer:”See, as long as our guys play hard, blah, blah, blah….”
Yeah, you big dummy- you almost gave the game away by letting Powell shoot a very good three at the end AND your “offensive system” is as basic as they come.

 

l guess since he scrapped the 4 out offense he no longer has available those 30 or so plays Cranjis was feverishly spotting and reporting on after every game early in the season (last year) and it seemed like Ham was trying to teach too many too quickly to them?

 

Wow, it’s hard for me to read this any other way… he’s legit calling for Darvin Ham’s head. That was already my read based on body language, but this quote confirms it IMO

 

He still needs to be fired. I'll admit that his rotations were better in today's game but it's also maddening that he benched guys like Wood for as long as he did in favor of f***ing Jaxson Hayes....esp with how Wood started out with us.

He still managed to get his lover boy PRINCE out there, and to his credit, Prince nailed a big 3 and hit some big free throws as well. But I thought Wood/Max/DLO all played very well, and deserved to finish the game.

LeBron's post-game comments tell me he still wants Ham gone and I do not blame him one fricking bit. I think we were lucky tonight - the Clippers missed A LOT of wide open 3's that they usually make...

I hope and pray when Rui is back...that Taurean Prince goes to the bench and plays 15-20 mins a game, and Reddish plays minimally going forward and we redistribute those minutes amongst the others.

I also don't wanna know what happens when Gabe Vincent comes back...

 

The shot at Ham couldn't be clearer ..

 

He makes it so hard. Call time out when momentum is gone, good thing the Clips choked lots of possessions and never got the lead late or else this could have gone the other way.

 

He's got Jeanie's support, so he's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Nice to get some info on that team meeting/ film session

 

Yikes

 

Stein on Ham