**LA LAKERS THREAD** Sitting on 17! 2023-2024 offseason begins

[sb]

why hasnt ham been escorted to the airport yet.

 

[tupac003]

why hasnt ham been escorted to the airport yet.

Gotta see what playoff coaches get fired.

I'd bet if Ty lue is let go, we would go for him.

 

[Korofi]

Literally build the team around the 2020 formula

 

[lovehateself]

Was that South Bay laker great Alex fudge on the mavs bench ?

 

[CP1708]

Watch the hype tonight over Spo and next week when he's eliminated nobody gonna say jack ****

(Spo, who hasn't won since he had prime Bron/Wade/Bosh, but I digress.)

5 game series.

Game 1, Boston biggest lead 34 points.
Miami never led.

Game 3, Boston biggest lead 29 points.
Miami never led.

Game 4, Boston biggest lead 28 points.
Miami led by 1

Game 5, Boston biggest lead 37 points.
Miami never led.

Best coach in the NBA that folks was praisin for game 2 skipped the other 4 full games. In which he was curb stomped all 4 times. Biggest lead, one single point.

 

[Dhizzle]

I guarantee we would’ve beaten Denver if we had Spo instead of Ham

 

[darthska]

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

Who misses today's press conference

 

[pmatic]

 

[darthska]

You keep calling for Luke's head & Brown's head & Vogel's head & Ham's head & Scott's head.
🗣 Call for Rob's head!!!

 

[Hijo Del Promo]

I want Frank back, trade them D'lo for him.

 

[MVP]

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

To save face, the Lakers PR department will frame the firing like this lol

“The Lakers and Darvin Ham have mutually agreed to part ways.”

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

Here’s the short list:

Budenholzer
Stotts
Lue
Atkinson
Quinn
Redick
Rondo
Handy

Budenholzer has been my pick since the beginning of the season and is who I think is the best candidate for the job and allows Handy to remain as player development coach

I can also see Redick or Rondo being hired on as assistant coach

 

[Hijo Del Promo]

Here’s the short list:

Budenholzer
Stotts
Lue
Atkinson
Quinn
Redick
Rondo
Handy

Budenholzer has been my pick since the beginning of the season and is who I think is the best candidate for the job and allows Handy to remain as player development coach

I can also see Redick or Rondo being hired on as assistant coach

If Lebron and Bronny stay, its Reddick, Lebron is already grooming him to be the coach before our eyes on the podcast

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

If Lebron and Bronny stay, its Reddick, Lebron is already grooming him to be the coach before our eyes on the podcast

True but Pelinka has to stay the course and hire who he thinks is the best fit for the organization. Whether its Redick, Budenholzer, or someone else is anyone's guess.

It's time for Rob to man up and RUN THE TEAM instead of letting Bron influence personnel decisions otherwise Rob midas whale make Bron player-coach a la Bill Russell and Coach Bron can then hire Redick as his assistant

 

[Hijo Del Promo]

True but Pelinka has to stay the course and hire who he thinks is the best fit for the organization. Whether its Redick, Budenholzer, or someone else is anyone's guess.

It's time for Rob to man up and RUN THE TEAM instead of letting Bron influence personnel decisions otherwise Rob midas whale make Bron player-coach a la Bill Russell and Coach Bron can then hire Redick as his assistant

Bron as player coach would be great, no more missed challenges.

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

True but Pelinka has to stay the course and hire who he thinks is the best fit for the organization. Whether its Redick, Budenholzer, or someone else is anyone's guess.

It's time for Rob to man up and RUN THE TEAM instead of letting Bron influence personnel decisions otherwise Rob midas whale make Bron player-coach a la Bill Russell and Coach Bron can then hire Redick as his assistant

Imagine Bron as player-coach to finish the last 2-3 years of his career....with Rondo, Redick, and Handy as the assistants.

I'm ALL IN on this scenario

But somethings been telling me all year that Budenholzer is the right guy for the job.

He's a Popovich disciple whose resume is outstanding and if the Lakers dream of acquiring future hall of famer Wemby, having a Popovich guy at the helm should give LAL added leverage in luring Wembanyama from Popovich when he becomes a free agent.

 

[pmatic]

Stotts and Atkinson were the other finalists for the job in 2022.

 

[pmatic]

 

[grittyman]

So much for continuity

LOL

 

[CP1708]

We're going to trade draft picks into 2030 and 2032 to try and add another "star" to Bron and AD, and those 3 could take up roughly $150-160 million and we'd still need 8-12 other players to go with them, and then have a new coach, and we're going to hear about "it takes time" "need to build cohesiveness" and "it's hard to introduce so many new faces, new schemes" etc etc etc.

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

If I were Pelinka, I'd find a way through hell and back to re-acquire Caruso who, along with Rondo, were their two most valuable guards in 2019-2020

Rob also needs to find a player who can take on the role that Rondo had in 2020 as the team's floor general not named Bron.

Conley should have been that guy but Pelinka wanted a younger "three point shooter" instead so he went after DLo and DLo's team deflating ego lol

Here's hoping The Robfather has FINALLY REALIZED that a three point shooting identity will never be a Bron-AD team's identity.

Lakers need Size, Defense, high IQ two-way players, and more inportantly a 2-Big lineup for 36-40 minutes per game if they want to taste another championship not named IST

 

[essential1]

“Yeah DLo opt into this deal, that you don’t want to opt in to, so we can trade you.”

Might as well cross off path 2. And look at only a modified version of path 1.

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

What's funny is that the two best teams in the West aren't anywhere close to being known as a volume three point shooting team and instead both teams' frontcourts are loaded with Size and Length amd focus on scoring inside the paint.

Hmmm wonder what that means

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