[:: LAKERS 2014 THREAD | POLL: Who Should Coach Next Year? ::]

[CP1708]

Don't bother with em manup. They'll be "giddy" over our 7th pick, and tell tales about our glorious wins in the 2014 season. And when we still stay stalled from winning anything of value, they'll blame luck, coaching, injuries, CP3, Jim, Phil, Michael Cooper, and never grasp how just a single game could have helped.

Then, call US, narrow minded. The ones calling our fortunes 8 months ago.

Let em enjoy as they wish, same as we enjoy as we wish. No harm in it.

 

[CP1708]

Just to add on to CP's odds, here's the breakdown on percentages for the picks

6- 43.6%
7- 30.5%
3- 8.1%
2- 7.1%
1- 6.3%
8- 4%
9- 0.1%

As opposed to being 4th...

5- 35.1%
6- 16%
3- 13.3%
2- 12.6%
1- 11.9%
4- 9.9%
7- 1.2%

God damn......

 

[sea manup]

when you lose that many games all season and it all comes down to one game vs the jazz and all you need to do is sit nick young, you do it. this isnt like flipping a coin for the 10th time and saying "its okay that it landed tails, its already landed heads 6 times". this isnt random, the front office has the power to lose this game if they wanted to and they didnt. 

after all the losses this season all we needed was to lose one more game and it would be worth it, but the idiots up top seem to care more about pride. we were lucky enough to have a bunch of guys hurt all season and some of the worst talent in the league, we lost games because we suck. but boston and utah, who have more talent than we do are going to end up with worse records than us because they actually had a plan to tank.

no such thing as karma, pride is pointless. running a team with a good plan will beat having pride every time

 

[MVP]

Aaron Gordon come on down Kobe needs to do something and get Pelinka to tell Exum to inform teams he only wants to play for us. Only way to salvage this debacle at this point.

 

[essential1]

The Jazz scored 3 points in 7-1/2 minutes.. After we gave up a double digit lead. Even Nick Young sitting the 4th wouldn't have changed that.

 

[licensed to ball]

So...

Mike D'Antoni didn't know how the NBA Lottery system works...

He admitted, in quote, that he thought in tonight's game "didn't matter" if we won or lost, chances would remain the same.

Yet this is the coach some of you dudes choose to defend!? This dude doesn't even know how the draft system works.

Us not knowing is one thing, we're fans. This guy is being paid 5 million dollars to know these sorts of things, is he not?

Or would he have known if he had Rondo and Gortat?

This dudes a joke.

 

[sea manup]

i mean... there is no way any coach other than mike brown doesnt know how the nba lottery works

mda probably knows hes going to be fired soon so he doesnt care anymore 

or nick young has his nudes 

 

[CP1708]

Pretty sure Mike was joking, as Corbin came after and said he did know the odds.

Sounded like they set up witty responses for each case.

If Mike really didn't know, then he can join Mitch and Young on the sidewalk.

 

[MVP]

The Jazz scored 3 points in 7-1/2 minutes.. After we gave up a double digit lead. Even Nick Young sitting the 4th wouldn't have changed that.

Why play him at all? That's the point. MDA had the power to do so. This fool didn't even know what was going on.

 

[licensed to ball]

I think you guys are not realizing that Essential is team tank.

But he's being objective. Like he said, the jazz didn't score for 7.5 minutes.... Even the Wichita St. Basketball team would of won that 4th quarter. I think that's the point he's making. He wanted them to lose just as bad as you guys did. But it just wasn't meant to be.

Not with Nick suited up especially. And I blame that on MDA... Mr. "Oh I didn't know tonight mattered"

If MDA had DNP'd Nick, it would of been fine. But how are you gonna be upset at Nick for playing for a contract? If you give them minutes they're going to play.

It's the coach and managements job to tank, not the players. The players are playing to feed their families.

 

[CP1708]

The Jazz were up on us by double digits too.

Same as Boston.

Same as Toronto.

Same as New York.


Why fight back? No point, just accept the loss(es)

 

[sea manup]

losing is the same as winning, theres no such thing as "wasnt meant to be"

if you want to win you will do things that lead to a win

if you want to lose you will do things that lead to a loss

we did nothing to try and lose this game. this stuff is not random, we just watched boston throw a game earlier today, close game for 3 quarters and the jazz suddenly stop scoring in the 4th? i wonder why 

 

[essential1]

I think you guys are not realizing that Essential is team tank.

But he's being objective. Like he said, the jazz didn't score for 7.5 minutes.... Even the Wichita St. Basketball team would of won that 4th quarter. I think that's the point he's making. He wanted them to lose just as bad as you guys did. But it just wasn't meant to be..

Pretty much.

13-42. I'm not going to say why were you not 5 games worse.

 

[CP1708]

We all sorta knew the Jazz and Celtics would be smarter than us. We all saw this coming.

Just have to hope Jim demands Silver "help us out".

 

[CP1708]

I think you guys are not realizing that Essential is team tank.

But he's being objective. Like he said, the jazz didn't score for 7.5 minutes.... Even the Wichita St. Basketball team would of won that 4th quarter. I think that's the point he's making. He wanted them to lose just as bad as you guys did. But it just wasn't meant to be..

Pretty much.

13-42. I'm not going to say why were you not 5 games worse.

Who needs 5?

We needed one. Just this 1, not 5.

 

[licensed to ball]

so seaman you're saying the Utah PLAYERS purposely chose to tank for 7.5 minutes?
They were told to purposely brick all those shots they tried to obviously make? Put on the acting jobs of their lives, put on Oscar performances.... Try their hardest to score without really scoring?... Boy, Daniel Day Lewis would be proud

I know it's not luck.

I meant that coaches have to pick and choose who to play. But when you put 1 year contract dudes out there... These so called "bums" that you guys say won't be here next year... What the **** do they have to gain by giving up for us?

I'm being objective here. I was hoping for a loss too today guys. I'm not ecstatic. I'm just saying, don't cuss Swaggy out on twitter or go on some rant on players who are out there playin for money.

Cuss out management and coaches who made idiotic decisions who put the team in a position to win.

Nick shouldn't have been playing, period.

You put him in, of course he's gonna try and go off... You would too. Be real. If that LA Spotlight is on you and you can make yourself money, you're not thinking about Jabari and Embiid. You're thinking $$$$ for yourself and your family.

Blame the staff.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

65% odds of picking 6th or better

And we are crying over the .1% chance of picking 9th

"Goodnight. I'm out"

 

[CP1708]

Uh.......I been blaming the staff, and not the players tho.....?

 

[essential1]

I think you guys are not realizing that Essential is team tank.

But he's being objective. Like he said, the jazz didn't score for 7.5 minutes.... Even the Wichita St. Basketball team would of won that 4th quarter. I think that's the point he's making. He wanted them to lose just as bad as you guys did. But it just wasn't meant to be..

Pretty much.

13-42. I'm not going to say why were you not 5 games worse.

Who needs 5?

We needed one. Just this 1, not 5.

As you said every game mattered. We can both point at 5 games that would have put us at # 3 worst record and 5 games that would have put us 9th. Pendulum swings both ways

 

[licensed to ball]

Uh.......I been blaming the staff, and not the players tho.....?

As surprising as it may sound, that post didn't apply to you at all

 

[sea manup]

everyone in here is blaming the staff, dantoni should have known not to play people, the front office should have talked to him at half time. nick young knows if we get jabari or wiggins hes going to be at the back of the bench, why put the win in his hands

or any of these guys hands

its not that the utah players just figured they would stop scoring for 7.5 minutes, its that nothing was done about it while it was happening

 

[MVP]

Hey the game was tied at 86. Even them scoring 3 points

65% odds of picking 6th or better

And we are crying over the .1% chance of picking 9th

"Goodnight. I'm out"

I don't think you know how odds work

 

[CP1708]

Man, who cares? We screwed around for 80 games. They dumb. Big deal.

Game 81 was SIMPLE. Lose. On the road. Back to back. Sit any-everyone.

Young hot? Bench.

Farmar tired, 40+ minutes.

Lose. Tonight only.

Other 80 no longer matter.

And they can't even get that right.

 

[MVP]

The disintegration of our brain trust is increasing at an alarming rate. I'm literally dreading July 1st. Only right they'll sign Melo.

 

[CP1708]

Uh.......I been blaming the staff, and not the players tho.....?

As surprising as it may sound, that post didn't apply to you at all

For real? Well damn. Have a rep then.