Official NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread

[awwsome]

Laker fans going to be mad when they get a new coach and are still hovering around 500
It's bigger than brown, a team needs chemistry and with all the off season changes and now coaching changes the Lakers will be out of sorts for a while.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

What about kurt rambis? jk....

 

[xxpizzo]

Should the Lakers have fired Mike Brown? 48% Yes 52% No (Total votes: 45,044)  got this from ESPN.

 

[pmatic]

Because he was the one who wasn't boxing out right?
He was the one who let DC and Damien Lillard destroy them right?
All these vets and champs on L.A., and you blame him for not playing Defense?

I put the disclaimer in the initial post.

I'm just saying he was hired because he was supposed to bring championship level defense. The defense has been flammable dating back to about the middle of last season, which is a big part of why the Lakers flamed out in the playoffs, didn't look impressive in pre-season and have struggled thus far in the regular season.

 

[xbiker47]

LeBron took this man to the Finals.............

Lebron carried that team to the Finals

 

[ill 949]

the people in here who keep bringing up "it's only been 5 games and 4 of which are without nash" don't see the big picture at all. EVEN IF LAKERS WON ALL 6 OF THE NEXT HOME GAMES, THE LAKERS WOULD STILL BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT MIKE BROWN. he does try hard, but he wears on his players, under-utilizes his players strengths, and just generally has no clue what he's doing ESP when it comes to minutes/rotation. Yes its only been 5 games, but these 5 games show very clearly that most of Browns mistakes last year which could be blamed on locked-out season and no training camp, etc,- were all being made again if not worse this season. the Lakers front office made a proactive move and i applaud them.

Mike Brown is just not the type of person to demand the respect of people around him. I mean some coaches can be occasionally bad with minutes/rotations but at least theyre good motivational speakers and/or charismatic (Scott Brooks comes to mind). Mike Brown not only sucks at coming up with any form of competent offensive plays/rotations/minutes management, he is an EVEN WORSE motivational speaker and leader. His "who are we? who are we? lets get this win and go home and enjoy this sunday" speech is a JOKE and i would not be able to be in that huddle as a player and listen to that **** and still take him seriously.

 

[shannonscrooks]

5 Steve Blake G 6-3 172 02/26/1980 Maryland/USA 9
6 Earl Clark F 6-10 225 01/17/1988 Louisville/USA 3
21 Chris Duhon G 6-1 190 08/31/1982 Duke/USA 8
3 Devin Ebanks F 6-9 215 10/28/1989 West Virginia/USA 2
27 Jordan Hill C 6-10 235 07/27/1987 Arizona/USA 3
7 Darius Johnson-Odom G 6-2 215 09/28/1989 Marquette/USA R
20 Jodie Meeks G 6-4 208 08/21/1987 Kentucky/USA 3
1 Darius Morris G 6-4 190 01/03/1991 Michigan/USA 1
50 Robert Sacre C 7-0 260 06/06/1989 Gonzaga/Canada R

A rotation with this pile of ****? L-O-L

They went all in and got the bottom of the barrell for a bench. Reap what you sow

 

[shoeking2101]

the people in here who keep bringing up "it's only been 5 games and 4 of which are without nash" don't see the big picture at all. EVEN IF LAKERS WON ALL 6 OF THE NEXT HOME GAMES, THE LAKERS WOULD STILL BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT MIKE BROWN. he does try hard, but he wears on his players, under-utilizes his players strengths, and just generally has no clue what he's doing ESP when it comes to minutes/rotation. Yes its only been 5 games, but these 5 games show very clearly that most of Browns mistakes last year which could be blamed on locked-out season and no training camp, etc,- were all being made again if not worse this season. the Lakers front office made a proactive move and i applaud them.
Mike Brown is just not the type of person to demand the respect of people around him. I mean some coaches can be occasionally bad with minutes/rotations but at least theyre good motivational speakers and/or charismatic (Scott Brooks comes to mind). Mike Brown not only sucks at coming up with any form of competent offensive plays/rotations/minutes management, he is an EVEN WORSE motivational speaker and leader. His "who are we? who are we? lets get this win and go home and enjoy this sunday" speech is a JOKE and i would not be able to be in that huddle as a player and listen to that **** and still take him seriously.

FIVE GAMES WITH A NEW STATRTING FIVE AND YOUR STAR PG ISN'T EVEN ON THE FLOOR FOR MOST OF THOSE GAMES.

That's fact. That's 100% fact.

This is a new team. Either way you slice it, you give a man a new team with all these new pieces, it starts out shaky so you fire him after five games. You just cannot make that assessment of him after 5 games. Way too small a portion size. And as i've stated before, you can't even look at last season because the offensive scheme isn't the same, and most importantly the personnel isn't close to being the same.

With all those changes in place, you don't think he deserved more than a five game trial period?

 

[flyerthandelta]

How long you gonna keep waiting yeah it's only 5gms but they still trying to learn the schemes keep taking Ls before its even capable to overcome .500 ....hell no do it now better to be safe than sorry we last in the Western Conference get it done NOW!

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Mulletboy running the Lakers like a fantasy team... Must be nice to be able to waste $18 mil like that...

 

[Spectacular23]

Lakers To Abandon Princeton Offense
Nov 09, 2012 2:44 PM EST

The Los Angeles Lakers will abandon the Princeton offense, according to a source.

The Lakers may run elements of the offense on Friday, however, as it was what they had been working on daily since training camp.

"This (firing of Mike Brown) was about the offense, more than anything else," said the source.

 

[mjshoefanatic]

What about kurt rambis? jk....

 

[bhzmafia14]

Ya'll are killing me!

 

[shoeking2101]

How long you gonna keep waiting yeah it's only 5gms but they still trying to learn the schemes keep taking Ls before its even capable to overcome .500 ....hell no do it now better to be safe than sorry we last in the Western Conference get it done NOW!

Then fire him before the season starts not now.

That's not fair to him. You give him a new team, with all these new parts, one of which hasn't even really played yet, and you let him go after 5 games?

And to homie that asked on the previous page i'm not at all related to Mike Brown

 

[grandtheftbike]

Lakers To Abandon Princeton Offense
Nov 09, 2012 2:44 PM EST
The Los Angeles Lakers will abandon the Princeton offense, according to a source.
The Lakers may run elements of the offense on Friday, however, as it was what they had been working on daily since training camp.
"This (firing of Mike Brown) was about the offense, more than anything else," said the source.

wasnt the offense kobes idea? defense needs to be fixed before the offense if anything

 

[shannonscrooks]

Steve Nash should help some of the defensive problems when he returns.

 

[ill 949]

FIVE GAMES WITH A NEW STATRTING FIVE AND YOUR STAR PG ISN'T EVEN ON THE FLOOR FOR MOST OF THOSE GAMES.
That's fact. That's 100% fact.
This is a new team. Either way you slice it, you give a man a new team with all these new pieces, it starts out shaky so you fire him after five games. You just cannot make that assessment of him after 5 games. Way too small a portion size. And as i've stated before, you can't even look at last season because the offensive scheme isn't the same, and most importantly the personnel isn't close to being the same.
With all those changes in place, you don't think he deserved more than a five game trial period?

R-O-T-A-T-I-ON-S.

MANAGING. MINUTES.

Im not arguing with you that this is a new team and usually under such circumstances the coach should definitely get more than 5 games to piece all the new parts together.

however MIKE BROWN has FAILED to do the most FUNDAMENTAL part of his job, on top of all the other things all of us laker fans have listed. Which is why most of us like this decision. Seriously, how do you go through an entire preseason yet have no clue on what ur rotation is going to be?! Jodie Meeks gets 0 minutes while you want World Peace to get back up 2 minutes and slide old man Jamison to the 3... WTF is that. I don't care if we were 5-0 right now, just based on his decisions I would want him gone regardless for the long term sake of the team.

 

[coldcity]

Lakers To Abandon Princeton Offense
Nov 09, 2012 2:44 PM EST

The Los Angeles Lakers will abandon the Princeton offense, according to a source.

The Lakers may run elements of the offense on Friday, however, as it was what they had been working on daily since training camp.

"This (firing of Mike Brown) was about the offense, more than anything else," said the source.

long overdue

 

[flyerthandelta]

Steve Nash should help some of the defensive problems when he returns.

Steve Nash is not a good defender

 

[shoeking2101]

R-O-T-A-T-I-ON-S.
MANAGING. MINUTES.
Im not arguing with you that this is a new team and usually under such circumstances the coach should definitely get more than 5 games to piece all the new parts together.
however MIKE BROWN has FAILED to do the most FUNDAMENTAL part of his job, on top of all the other things all of us laker fans have listed. Which is why most of us like this decision. Seriously, how do you go through an entire preseason yet have no clue on what ur rotation is going to be?! Jodie Meeks gets 0 minutes while you want World Peace to get back up 2 minutes and slide old man Jamison to the 3... WTF is that. I don't care if we were 5-0 right now, just based on his decisions I would want him gone regardless for the long term sake of the team.

First of all, injuries have an effect on seeing how you can manage your rotations. I think anyone who's watched or played basketball can agree to that.

Secondly, his rotations look "off" in the beginning because he's trying to figure things out. Can you even say his rotation is messed up after five games? People are injured, people aren't even playing, when that occurs you're going to have some funky rotation lineups.

And when you are trying to win to avoid this, of course your starters are going to play heavy minutes this early into the season. If they didn't, the team would probably lose anyway and you all would be here saying how bad mike brown is as a coach for not playing his starters and letting the team lose.

 

[Bad Religion]

Steve Nash should help some of the defensive problems when he returns.

Steve Nash is not a good defender

I believe he was being mendacious.

 

[dman14]

them guys arent getting any younger. aside from dwight, and maybe ron and kobe(depending on the matchups), nobody else defends on that team.

 

[ill 949]

First of all, injuries have an effect on seeing how you can manage your rotations. I think anyone who's watched or played basketball can agree to that.
Secondly, his rotations look "off" in the beginning because he's trying to figure things out. Can you even say his rotation is messed up after five games? People are injured, people aren't even playing, when that occurs you're going to have some funky rotation lineups.
And when you are trying to win to avoid this, of course your starters are going to play heavy minutes this early into the season. If they didn't, the team would probably lose anyway and you all would be here saying how bad mike brown is as a coach for not playing his starters and letting the team lose.

Lets just agree to disagree, seeing as youre going to stick to ur opinion and ima do me. but let me give this one more try. Of COURSE injuries have an effect on rotations. But injuries dont have an effect on playing STEVE BLAKE as the back-up 2 and watch him get anally torpedo'ed over and over without a change. If you look at this lakers roster, it is CLEAR what the rotations should be.

Nash/Blake/Morris
Kobe/Meeks
MWP/Ebanks
Gasol/Jamison
Howard/Hill

You tweak your minutes/rotations based off of THAT. Not playing ppl out of positions/running key players to the ground already at this juncture of the season. and it's not like he's trying something new and innovative like what don nelson did in his time, he's trying to PLAY METTA AT SHOOTING GUARD AND JAMISON AT 3, that shows you how clueless he is. he was going to lose this team sooner or later and im glad it finally happened now.

 

[Spectacular23]

 

[imajerk]

is there an official OKC season thread?...knicks win tonight