It’s okay point remains the same.
If LeBron gets a pass for his choke in 2007 because of his age, then we have to devalue his 2012 ring since both Westbrook and Durant were just as inexperienced as Lebron was during his 2007 choke.
Last season has to be looked at as an outlier for White. Happy for him that he capitalized with a payday, but outside of that I agree he's the best of the 3 guys.
I agree there has always been extra baggage, expectations, and pressures for a Lakers coach.
Plus no matter what you do you will always be in the shadow of Pat Riley and Phil Jackson. Even though if your name is getting kicked around anywhere near one of those guys you would have to be doing pretty well for yourself.
You're joking but the microscope of the Lakers job AND the microscope of a LeBron team is the most heavily scrutinized coach in the world automatically from day 0. Look, he already is.
That's before he has to even attempt to try to do the job, including coaching LeBron. lol.
Lakers have been dysfunctional since Dr Buss died. His kids are incompetent. Lucky for them LeBron decided he wanted to live in LA otherwise they would still be irrelevant.
He makes more than Joe Mazzula who just won a chip. While having 0 experience drafting scouting coaching. He also has 0 staff and no plan. What do lakers expect from him? Honestly :biggums:
NYK can offer Hartenstein 17m per whereas OKC can go to 23m. We'll see what happens. They might draft a center or make a trade during the season. Poetl might be an option for a trade later in the season too.
Interesting, I hadnt heard that about Hartenstein. I dont know either if he'd come off the bench, but he'd still be able to play plenty of minutes if he did, since he CAN share the court with Holmgren in some lineups. It's not like a Gafford-Lively situation where they have to be out there separately. And then you factor in the likelyhood of Chet...
I watched them a lot during the season. Teams just ignored him in the perimeter all year. They had enough talent to get away with it all season, until they met Dallas.
They wasted no time getting rid of him. The finals just ended 3 days ago.
Giddey wasn't their only problem, but he was a big one. They obviously need another big body or two.
I remember when GW was the pub's hero to everything.
Yep - loss of thousands of jobs
Banks closing
401k's etc loss of millions if not billions of retirement money
and oh yea that war where his dear ol' daddy was threatened.
Those were the good ol' days right pub's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seems like he'd respect the players opinions more than Ham did who continually trotted out terrible lineups and left players clueless as to what they were supposed to be doing on the floor. (To the point they were outright mentioning it in media interviews.)
No one thinks Lakers are winning the championship next season anyway, right? He might...
They have cap space and are supposedly favorites to sign Hartenstein. But I'm not sure if he'd start or not. Would Chet play PF? I'm not sure if he wants to go to a team where he comes off the bench. But maybe if the price is right...
Yeah. They will have some pretty suffocating defensive lineups with Caruso, Dort, SGA and Chet out there at the same time.
I guess offensively the idea is SGA and Chet will be a good enough star tandem to play through and just put floor spacers around them. And I do think they have the potential to be an elite tandem depending on how quickly...