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

[essential1]

Taurean Prince has killed the offense with how many wide open 3s he gets and his shooting percentage.
Almost 2/3 of his 3s are considered wide open. No defender within 5 feet. 31% by the way. 29% overall.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Taurean Prince

After shooting 37,38,41% the last 3 years. 37% for his career.

Dudes forget how to shoot in a Lakers jersey

 

[grittyman]

Taurean Prince has killed the offense with how many wide open 3s he gets and his shooting percentage.
Almost 2/3 of his 3s are considered wide open. No defender within 5 feet. 31% by the way. 29% overall.

Ham should coach him on how to be a better shooter.
Or maybe he should sub one of our snipers in off the bench #rotations

 

[MVP]

Almost a quarter of the way thru the season and we still really don't have a quality won unless you count the Magic.

 

[darthska]

come on doggie

youre a year older now,

They say you get wiser with age.

'They' lied.

 

[darthska]

Budenholzer is waiting and ready and mark my words, he will go 2-BIG 24-7-365 if hired by LAL

Huh? Ain't he got 2 years left with MIL?

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

Huh? Ain't he got 2 years left with MIL?

Nah bro, Milwaukee fired Budenholzer in May.

He is a freeeeee agent my friend and would be the best fit for the Lakers right now.

Ham's days are numbered imho

 

[pmatic]

Almost a quarter of the way thru the season and we still really don't have a quality won unless you count the Magic.

The Cavs win was pretty good. They were missing Garland after the first half, but they're a good team.

 

[essential1]

If AD can’t make a shot outside the paint. Doesn’t matter if he’s PF or Center.

 

[pmatic]

Ham should coach him on how to be a better shooter.
Or maybe he should sub one of our snipers in off the bench #rotations

Shooting was garbo, but can we talk about the nonsensical approach on defense? Or letting a 20-2 run occur before calling a timeout?

 

[lovehateself]

Nah bro, Milwaukee fired Budenholzer in May.

He is a freeeeee agent my friend and would be the best fit for the Lakers right now.

Ham's days are numbered imho

Jeanie might bring him in as an associate coach like the clips did Lue under glen.

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

If AD can't make shots outside the paint, it means Ham needs to come up with an offensive scheme that takes advantage of AD's strengths inside the paint so he does nothing but score from 15 feet in.

But Ham doesn't think like that so guess what, Lakers are screwed

 

[darthska]

Ham's days are numbered imho

His days were numbered the day we hired him. Pretty sure that was one of C CP1708 's predictions that he threw to the wall and it actually stuck.

 

[akajae]

Almost a quarter of the way thru the season and we still really don't have a quality won unless you count the Magic.

In Season Tournament Championship soon come

 

[grittyman]

Shooting was garbo, but can we talk about the nonsensical approach on defense? Or letting a 20-2 run occur before calling a timeout?

Sure… we can talk about schemes, timeouts, rotations, etc until we’re blue in the face but if the players don’t play better none of that really matters.

Philly called a timeout with around 7 remaining in the 1st, while the score was 16-13 Sixers leading. 3 minutes later the score is 26-15 Phi… Should there be another timeout called you just had a chance to huddle with the players? Yes or no, doesn’t matter to me. But was does matter more is that Lebron only took 2 shots, and made 1…or that with the active roster available the Lakers don’t have the offensive firepower to keep up with high scoring teams.

It is what it is.

 

[Lizakers]

Can’t keep doing the coaching carousel. Need some stability

But ham’s pretty clueless. WCF bought him some time. I think he’s safe

 

[noblekane]

what yall think about tj warren? saw that on my news feed

 

[grittyman]

Results were bad here, but even if Austin were to have scored is this a good possession? Or an example of us making excuses for AD not bringing it?

Maybe a timeout and stern talking to would have gotten AR to pass the rock…

 

[pmatic]

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Results were bad here, but even if Austin were to have scored is this a good possession? Or an example of us making excuses for AD not bringing it?

Maybe a timeout and stern talking to would have gotten AR to pass the rock…

I wouldn't read too much into that. Austin been a great decision maker. He wanted to cook Bev, I'll give him a pass.

 

[pmatic]

 

[Brosizzlew30.23]

Results were bad here, but even if Austin were to have scored is this a good possession? Or an example of us making excuses for AD not bringing it?

Maybe a timeout and stern talking to would have gotten AR to pass the rock…

A young guy like Reaves definitely needed some guidance and some coaching had HAM Sandwich called a timeout and coached his young pup after that blown play. AR definitely lacked situational awareness there by not getting AD the rock in the post

You ever been a coach or a manager/VP with 15-20 people or more reporting to you?

Rhetorical question

#coachingmattersEVERYWHERE

I don't care what industry, sport, or life one is in, effective coaching and trusted leadership are KEY to sustained team/individual success. Heck even children need solid coaching from their parents or peers to do better in life. That's how valuable and important effective coaching is. And Ham clearly hasn't been effective enough in 2023 to warrant any confidence among fans that this Lakers team is "championship caliber" minor injuries notwithstanding.

I don't care if Rui, Gabe, and Vando are out. You got your 4 main guys on the floor, ain't no gotdamm reason to be getting embarrassed and blown out by 40 coming off a W.

Ham is losing trust from his players by the day.

#NoReplyNeeded

 

[lovehateself]

just wait til Vando gets back

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[grittyman]

You ever been a coach or a manager/VP with 15-20 people or more reporting to you?

Rhetorical question

#coachingmattersEVERYWHERE

Rhetorical question…You mean you don’t want the answer?

It’s not hard to tell by the way people post if you’ve been a coach, played the game or just a random guy talking out the side of their neck.

 

[essential1]

I wouldn't read too much into that. Austin been a great decision maker. He wanted to cook Bev, I'll give him a pass.

Neither guard is really that selfish at all.

Both play the same amount of minutes. Both make the same number of passes in a game. Both in top 10% of passes.

DLo and now AR is starting to get the same treatment that DLo always gets. Want them to be involved. Score points, but don’t shoot too much. Pass, but be aggressive. No win situation.
DLo and AR are honestly both a lot better offensively than people give them credit for.