Stephen A. is 'a bit salty' about Darvin Ham getting fired by the Lakers | NBA Countdown
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2024
- Stephen A. Smith, Michael Wilbon, Bob Myers and Malika Andrews discuss the breaking news the the Los Angeles Lakers have parted ways with head coach Darvin Ham.
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These clowns didn't have the same energy when Vogel got fired, and he actually won them a championship.
He probably about to get fired again!!!
Well J Kidd and a friendly layoff to let "Bron and AD rest up for the playoffs won LA a chip
@@tyronebrown2246HE IS, or HE’S… not HE PROBABLY. Stop being so ignorant and uneducated. AI will replace the ignorant and uneducated, regardless of your feelings. It’s not cool. RECOGNIZE TRUTH- ANYONE CODDLING OR IGNORING THIS, WANTS YOU TO FAIL. WAKE THE F UP! Then challenge yourself, educate yourself. No excuses. You and everyone in your urban or youth culture who speaks like you are all remedial -and early elementary failures. BE BETTER!
Because Ham is a brother 😂😂😂
Because SAS is bias against white people.
So we're just going to pretend that Stephen A wasn't criticizing Ham at the all star break for his rotations and substitution patterns?
What is your point? That it's Stephen Smith's opinion at that time.
@smoothgent1011 So then he shouldn't be salty. His criticism of Ham as a coach is the reason given by the Lakers that Ham got fired. So if he was calling it back then he has no reason to be salty about the Lakers calling it today.
Yes
Don’t matter. He’s not going to agree with everything ham does. Overall he feels like he should be the coach
Does Anyone in here know if Phil Handy was let go too? I just got the news.
Darvin Hams rotations were horrific. Just because you know him personally doesn’t mean he didn’t suck.
Facts
maybe the players don't follow the gameplan at all during timeouts. So I wonder who the ones that suck.
Another coach fired. The roster they had since the beginning of the season its not made for success in the first place
@@wittypokerplus their best player publicly shows his lack respect for said coach.
It's what we call "Bias". He is letting is emotions take over and rant on national TV. Pathetic old bald man.
Did yall not seee him just stand there while Denver went on 15-0 scoring runs multiple times ????
Why don’t you lakers fans ever get mad at the actual players out there giving up the 15-0 run & not scoring?
@@kingrambo519Do you believe coaches are just spectators or that they actually have to form winning game plans to excel despite having an athletic team ?
@@kingrambo519 you should probably stop talking basketball no offense. You don't seem to know what a coach's job is
@@TheForkOnTheLeftistI thought LeBron was the coach aka LeCoach we saw with Tyron Lue in Cavs and Frank Vogel earlier in Lakers. I know it’s a joke but still LeBron has so much power on the team
So its the coach fault if players cant make open shots 😅 LeBron fans are funny
Tell me u didn’t watch the games without tell me you didn’t watch game 😂
Lol
💯
He only sees color
Rs 😂 atp I’m convinced people are just upset they can’t out scheme the Lakers no more, only reason every coach/player who’s wasn’t apart of the Lakers wanted him to keep his job prolly.
You clearly didnt watch it
Bruh shut up everyone knows darvin’s rotations are terrible
EXACTLY. Only Lakers haters or LeBron hater hate that Ham was fired. They wanna see the Lakers down. 😂😂
Bro why don’t y’all lakers fanboys keep the same energy for Rob pelinka😂 pelinka rotation of trades have been terrible
You just can’t accept the fact that your trash Lakers blew leads 😢
HOw is it Darvin's fault if the players always shoot bricks? why arent the players also held accountable? no matter what kinda rotation it is if they always lay bricks then its impossible to win.
@@ronelz999that’s not his fault and nobody said it was. Once again, you only watch primetime games. So you don’t understand
While I agree with Wilbon that star players refuse to be held accountable but this stat is 100% a fireable offense: Lakers had the lead for 150 minutes and still lost the series. That's not just the players fault. It's definitely a coaching problem as well.
mic drop . realest comment in the thread , and the WHY coach marvin ham was retired from duties as head coach of THE L.A.
Couldn't agree more with this! 💯
How about the Lakers are not that good. Why is there always a finger to point at. People say this guy is the best ever so one would imagine he would close the deal. The difference between Lakers and nuggets was the nuggets had the better closer in Murray.
Bruh AD had almost 30 points per game shooting over 60% from the field in the playoffs, in addition to over 15 rebounds per game. If that’s not good enough then I don’t know what is.
These playoff games come down to the 4th quarter. Who's going to close out the game during crunch time. Brunson showed that last night. Lakers needed that and IMO lost the series because of it
Why is Rob Pelinka never held accountable for these trash rosters.
I guess cause he was able to get AD
If the next coach doesn't work out, Rob is next to go
Lakers fanboys don’t wanna talk about this… you don’t see lakers nation with the same energy for Rob as they have for darvin
because its not the roster, its the coach and lebum
@@Desnond yeah you're not familiar with Laker fans. They were on Rob's head because he failed to trade for Kyrie last season.
These analysts are insane lol
these mfs ignoring the fact that prince started the most games in his career 💀 never tried starting wood and ad together, never hayes and ad together
@@CriusXIyou could go on and on. He would bench players after THEY gave us a lead. They go to the bench and we lose it. I could go on and on lol
@@CriusXI im a mavs fan. trust me, you wouldnt want wood to be a starter. the guy is lazy on defense and very uncoachable. jkidd didn't like him and looked like darvin didn't either.
"analysts" ,none of these bums are qualified. Just talking heads, industry plants if you may.
Yup they talk crazy about you , then be on your side , then down play you then be on your side then feel bad lmao
Crazy how he thinks vogul should be fired after a year but think ham shouldn't have smh the man showed u multiple times this year he don't be knowing what he doing as a HEAD COACH
it’s because ham is black. there’s been so many times he brings up race for no reason
Vogel was not fired after 1 season.
@@I.am_Groothe is talking about phoenix
@@KanadaKosmo Yeah I got that after my brain was in Lakers mode
That's good ol' Racist A. Smith for ya
I agreed with Mike, pointing finger's at the whole staff was not a good look.....
Comparing mark jackson to darvin ham lol
Giving LeCoach as much leverage as they give him is an issue. He gets the coach he wants, doesn’t work out. He gets the roster he wants and still doesn’t work out. Bron is also a problem in LA.
He's a problem everywhere he goes. Lebron is a cancer to sports.
Lwt your tean hire davin ham if hes so good them
28/7/8 was what LeBron averaged, but he's the problem right?
@R3tr0Burd he is if he has a say on who is and isn’t on the roster
@MichaelPalmieri-pk6tq That doesn't make sense. He couldn't even get the coaching staff to challenge a call. What makes you think he has COMPLETE CONTROL over the roster? Ya'll are just haters
Props to Bob for stating that MARK JACKSON DESERVES A COACHING JOB
Imagine next season Mark Jackson x Lebron x AD!
It's not HAm's fault. LeBron and AD can never take the blame.
It's also his fault.
Lebron and AD put up the best numbers of any duo in the league. I don't get why nba "fans" blame players who play amazing in a TEAM loss.
these trash analysts continue to expose how they don’t watch games😂😂 what coach puts out a starting lineup w 3 of their 5 best players coming off the bench? let’s teams go on 10-0 + runs w no timeout? his rotations were bad, couldn’t run plays consistently & HE MADE NO ADJUSTMENTS
Well clearly SAS has not watched many Laker games
FACTS Lakers won despite him.
SAS is salty because a black head coach got fired. Plain and simple.
@@Victordamus98 🎯
Lakers are garbage lebron is garbage simple as that he don’t play defense
Coach Lebron didn't want Darvin on his coaching staff is all.
AD FAULT
Lebron should be player/coach
Sounds good to me
"Great players cant be accountable anymore" Shout out to Wilbon!!!!!
So should they get rid of AD?
@@HIDAN228 you do realize Wilbon was talking about LeBron and not AD right? AD balled out but when it came to the 4th LeBron decided to run point and do things his way. He has this huge IQ. Well if you have a huge IQ you should know to keep feeding AD in the 4th.
Why she didn’t even mention MARK JACKSON by name ?!?!!
Is all the blame on Darvin? No, but it’s not even about the playoff loss. Allllll season the coaching has been questionable if you were watching the games
This team will never build any chemistry, its either the coach getting fired or letting go half of the team every year.
The best teams are teams that have been together for 4 plus years. No one is good enough for Lakers always a blame game and scapegoat.
Exactly.
Getting rid of Bron would be the best thing for Lakers
@@srdjankovicyou ain’t lying.
For the Denver Series Offensive Rebounds: Aaron Gordon 18, Lebron James 4
Just another lebron team everything you said is what he's done everywhere but miami
SAS was talking about his reservations to coach Tibs the other day because he actually watches more than just primetime NYK games. Media talking about this firing like they’ve watched EVERY game from start to finish from October to season end. Real fans know the deal. It took him more than half the season to get the right starters in and reduce the time of others who were contributing minimally. That’s just one knock on him. Yeah the players could’ve played better but Ham was not good.
SAS don’t watch games until the playoffs bc he thought the Knicks still had Grimes
no the players were not that good
@@unplugdsessions8684part of it. But I’d argue they actually were. You win or you lose, but how you win or lose matters. The Lakers were beating the Nuggets 75% of the played. All other teams have swept or won 4-1. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen Ham take LBJ or AD once we cut a lead only for it to balloon back up once they sit. Or how many times he’s allowed an opponent to cut our lead without calling a timeout. He holds onto them like they rollover them next game. Games 2 and 4 vs Nuggets are prime examples. Let the Nugs go on a massive run and by time a timeout is called, lead is gone or all momentum is their way.
SAS is a pretend NYK fan. The guy knows nothing about the team.
@@feliciawalker517 I 💯 % agree. But he had to go
Mailaka loves throwing shade. The mark jackson comment to Bob Myers wasn’t necessary
That was Awkward, to say the least...
People really expected this team to compete for a championship with AD having to play center. Fire the GM that put this mess together.
Ham is a legit a bad coach his timeout management is awful
Darvin ham was a bad coach.
I’m a lebron fan but this is jsut what happens when you’re a coach for a guy of this caliber. Expectations and pressure is set upon them immediately even when it’s not fair or your fault at times. Darvin wasn’t completely at fault but he was apart of the reason. His rotations and lineups were confusing at times but the Role players continued to not show up during the big games as well
I’m really curious do any of them watch the laker games?
nobody on espn or tnt watch games all they do is look at stats, watch highlights & read the script off the teleprompter
Nah. Scripts are handed to them and they just need to mention Lakers and Lebron for the views coz nobody watching that show if they only talk about cavs and magic.
NOPE. SAS is a complete fake pretending to know basketball. He's just loud and opinionated.
Have they seen the video of davin ham trying to draw up a play looking confused no idea what hes doing
Getting fired for losing to Denver is kinda crazy
Nobody respects a franchise like the Denver Nuggets, 1 championship isn't gonna change that.
These media folks will never gaslight me into feeling bad for Darvin Scam. I was there for every game witnessing his atrocious rotations and his Taurean Prince bias early in the season.
The coach did not lose the game. The players did...
Pelikan NEEDS TO BE FIRED
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Thats like 3 coaches in the past 7 years! And now Lebron preppin JJ Reddick to be the head coach and run plays for the Bronny. I feel sorry for the young man.....................the criticism he's about to take is going be outtta this world. He has to remember: His daddy did this to him!
Lakers just have to accept that they don't have kobe no more
Stan Van Gundy is the voice the Lakers' locker room truly needs.
He wouldn't want that. NOBODY WANTS THAT JOB.
Everybody who wants ham to have a job is not a fan of the lakers😂😂 him n the front office is the blame for all this
When will lequeen james be held accountable ?
Never has never will
Wilbon is spittin FAX!!
Ham did a good job against Denver. Maybe LeBron wants a coach that he can control
these people blaming darvin ham knowing its all lebrons fault is crazy lebron is ruining that franchise
Ruin didn’t he win y’all a chip
You dumb,haters always quick to blame Lebron.What did he do but be consistent with his play,him and Davis.If you saw the games you will clearly see how the coach was costing them games period had nothing to do with Lebron
@@nbagang4life337Ledisney
since he’s “running the franchise” why isn’t tye lue the coach? why didn’t caruso get resigned? why didn’t they trade for kyrie last year at the deadline? that’s what he wanted 🤔
@zyxtrr how do you know that? LeBron mastered the art of looking good in people's eyes lmao. He didn't want to play with kyrie his ego got hurt but he'll make sure to tell everyone that.
It's an interesting move by LeBron. I wonder if he gave Ham the heads up or just had Pelinka make the phone call ?
Bro it’s not lebron y’all be tweaking . It’s Rob pelinka my guy 😂😂 Rob let go the coaches to put the blame on them for him not being able to build a roster
@@donekoburnside1546 you say that like lebron not about to become a free agent in order to leverage the lakers into changing the team…
@@DesnondI guess Ham missed that wide open 3 😂😂
Bron groupies coming with excuses 😂😂
@@donekoburnside1546I guarantee you that LeBron signed off on if not all then majority of those players on that roster lmao just like now Ham is not getting fired if Lebron says “I want to play for Darvin Ham”
Only 2 seasons? Brother this is the Lakers. You don't get time here
Darvin Ham will get $10 Mill for the final 2 years of his contract. 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑Unless he takes a lower buyout my man will be on another coaching staff next season.
He good.
Did Kobe trade every player on his team or the coach or the coach staff when he lost or was injured
Yes mf lmfao 🤣 He literally called them bums!!!
He demanded a trade at one point 2004-2007.
hahahaha last week wilbon and stephen a. were practically throwing ham and vogel under the bus, then all a sudden after charles barkley called out "other" analysts about being cowards and protecting the star players they start saying "we don't like it ...", "are players no longer accountable ..." etc., what an utter lack of credibility and integrity.
Facts just like stephen A keep pushing who will be face of the league he keeps insisting players who havent even won any chip 😂😂😂
10 coaches in 20 seasons…that’s his true goat status 😂
Jaxson hayes legit balled in the regular season why did he not play more against the nuggets
Great question!
Some how Leflop is not blaming on himself for darvin ham getting fired 😂😂😂😂😂
Poor coach Ham, he is just another of the "scapegoats" for every Lakers loss, same with coach Vogel, once you become a Lakers coach, expect that:
"When team losses, It's always the Coach and other's fault, BUT everytime team wins Some "very self-absorbed untouchable" always takes ALL Credit."🤦♂
*It's hard to find decent people to work in the NBA, ....just high character, Good people, and Ham is one of them. CHARACTER matters in anything* 👏- Bob Myers
Very well said Bob, but I wonder if it's an indirect hit to someone, because We observant basketball fans know Ham is not the reason why Laker's got eliminated, but some NOT very good people WITHOUT CHARACTER who are STILL playing in the NBA.
Instead of firing Ham, why not have a team check and not just blame the coach and players but also held some "untouchable" accountable? There's an individual which I will not name, but everyone knows this hard core narcissist who happens to also be:
1. Chronic flopper.
2. Chronic whiner and complainer (jumps up and down like a kid when not getting the calls he wanted)
3. Blames others for every failure. (even the officials that favor him, are blamed)
4. Takes all credit for success, but shuns accountability when loosing ("It's just basketball, right?")
5. Takes PED's. (Balco in particular) - but are not getting checked. He's untouchable.
6. Locker room cancer.
7. Scared to play defense. (using his full energy only in offense, let teammates do the "dirty work" (i.e defense")
8. Stat padder. (shooting even at garbage time for the sake of chasing the "scoring" records).
9. Has the ball 97% of the time and demands "plays" revolve around him, thus killing sound ball movement and efficiency.
10. Guilty of un-sportsmanship (always exiting to the dugout, without shaking hands when getting blown out).
11. Chokes and collapse mentally on pressure packed situation, can't handle adversity.
12. Acts as GM and coach, decides on who to fire, decides on who's on the roster, and if It does not work out - Blame and fire them All, except me (the acting GM). or else I leave the team!
13. Had some narcissistic or megalomania tendencies, always referring to himself as King and self proclaiming himself as "the GOAT", "the Chosen1" and "the best player in the world" on numerous occasions.
And many other not so pleasant acts, attitudes and proclivities. Characteristics that many just blindly dismissed for the sake of narratives just to protect this "untouchable", who is the REAL cause of the Lakers downfall, removing toxicity and drama is the key to Lakers success.🤔
(hope this honest to goodness commentary shows up.) Cheers. ✌💯
Deym, very much agreed!👏He's the real reason cause and culprit of every Laker's loss, trades, firing of coaches. It's Everybody's Fault, but not the "Chosen" he's chosen according to himself.😂😆🤣
Ok, we will send Lebron back to Cleveland 🍷👀
Tell the truth Wilbon! Speaking facts! You cannot blame coach ham for the this team not being good enough! I’ll say it once and say it again. Bron and AD showed up. Who else on the team did consistently? 💯
I'm pissed! The man lost to ONE TEAM and competed every game! He mase it to the conference finals last year! STOP BLAMING THE COACH AND BLAME THE PLAYERS
The Lakers were leading in all games and still lose , thats not all on Darvin Ham
Nah. That was definitely him. I can confidently say that if the nuggets and lakers swapped coaches at that game, lakers would've won that game.
He's clueless. They really play as if there is no coaching at all and they still are a threat.
Big Perk "maybe LeBron should retire and be the head coach" 😂
What these “analysts” and journalists won’t tell you is that when the Lakers ran and organized offense they were almost unbeatable. The problem is that they did it at 50% or less in a lot of games and for when it counted in the playoffs. That is absolutely on the coaching staff.
Lol and people tried to say Jason kidd was a coach killer no lebum is lecoach killer
I hope the Lakers have a really hard time finding a replacement because they don't deserve a quality coach.
Everybody wasn’t saying the Lakers would beat anybody else except Denver only Steven A and his ESPN phonies were saying that. The Lakers were a mediocre team, they went on 3 game losing streaks all season and the media either scapegoated people or ignored the losing streaks. They Lakers were a number 7 seed for a reason, they weren’t that good, but that’s not the narrative sports media wants to push
Exactly same thing I said! ESPN love to talk up and advertise this mediocre lakers play in team. They are play in team for a reason. They just are not a good team.
I like that Bob gave Mark Jackson some respect.
Any coach that steps into a Lakers locker room they better know that's going to be your last paycheck.
This is standard operating procedure when it comes to whatever team Lebron is on he needs a new coach every 2.5 yrs .
Why is Malika Andrews still there?
ESPN still wants to talk about the lakers😂😂😂
I have mixed emotions about Ham and his staff getting fired. The GM is also part of the problem.
You mean LeBron? There is zero chance that a vast majority of roster moves and who gets minutes isn't filtered through LeBron for approval. J Buss got some heat coming as well
90-74 winning season coach Blame Rob for that weak roster not Ham
Current team withOUT LeChoke and AD beat a fully loaded Celtics this year. This team had loads of talent.
Ham is a motivational coach, not a play coach
@@GDTBATHcletics are trash
The elephant in the room that everyone is pretending they don't see is Lebron is amd always been the coach, i do watch the games where Lemanbaby ignored him in every timeout.
Frank Vogel was not the problem. Lakers management gave him a garbage roster (Old man crew) after stripping him of his ENTIRE Championship core. This is scapegoating. Easier to get rid of a coach than to rto admit you made a mistake and rebuild your roster.
It is always the coach being blame and thrown under the bus. This is an entire team accountable. Bron and AD will always be the main pieces but other needs to step up. For example DLO 0 points in a pivotal game 3 that is unacceptable.
Ham needed one more season. LeCoachKiller up to his ol' antics.
Lebron is the easiest person to coach.
😂😂😂😂
jordan retired when phil wasn’t gonna coach the team🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@godbodydmn Correction: MJ retired when GM Krause decided to blow up the team including not re-signing Jackson.
The lakers suck. If they played another the results would be the same.
How can they fire an in-season tournament championship coach like that? Lol
lmao
This is so wild to me. All year long people been complaining about his rotations and decisions and now that he's fired they are outraged and blaming it on Lebron. Weird
LeBron has gotten so many coaches fired and players traded, it’s absolutely ridiculous.
Lol at people immediately thinking of lebron
#rentfree
So let your team hire davin ham the very good coach
Erik Spolstra is the only coach Lebron couldn't get fired lol
It's obvious that it's Ham or Lebron. The Lakers chose with the latter. Coach's dont bring people to the seats. It's a financial decision as well.
Cap u obviousoy didnt watch lakers played 😂😂😂😂
This is laughable. Anyone who watched more than 2 full Lakers games could’ve seen that Darvin H was questionable at best.
Rotations, game plan, adjustments.. He didn’t have any of them. Nearly everyone on the team confirmed that to be true. AD just said it out loud.
Time for JJ Redick to show what he can do
Nothing with that roaster
How many coaches does lebron need to get fired ?
Been saying that ROB PELINKA NEEDS TO BE FIRED. thank I Stephen A.
I’m confused by this narrative of great players not being accountable in this day in age when a coach is fired. Didn’t Magic have something to do with a coach firing what about Jordan or any of the other greats . Stan was fired for Dwight if I’m not mistaken. Long-standing coaches are few and far between you can probably name them on one hand. Phil, Sloan, Pop, Spolstra, Red, Riley(maybe). Who am I missing here. Media try’s to make it seem like coaches losing their jobs due to clashes with star players is new and that’s furthest from the truth as you can get
the fans throwing darvin under the bus is the most funny thing out of all of this lmao poor coach
LeFlop James gets another coach fired. Didnt Darvin get them to the Conference Finals last year? I guess he just forgot how to coach during the offseason? What a joke.
Looking at there record, it seems he did forget how to coach. And if he actually was smart the Lakers would have thrown the Pelicans game.
Well, he also have helped three coaches win their first championships so I guess that kinda evens itself out...
@@gutenbirdIt's not on him. That will immediately get him fired so many reasons. It is up to the owner and execs to decide that strat and clearly they didn't do it. Perhaps to protect Lebron's and the franchise's image of losing advertently just to avoid Denver. It will just delay the inevitable. Denver is better than the Lakers, 100%. Apparently, Lebron and AD can't get past them. 2 top 75 against a slow unathletic big in Jokic and oft injured Jamal Murray.
Lakers are trash
D. Ham had no clue how to rotate the players. Was out coached many times.
D. Ham has about 30% of the blame. 50% goes to the GM. 20% goes to the players.
Darwin Ham rushed to be the head coach of a most championship winning team in the NBA. It used to be where one needed seven years of assistant experience to get hired for a big time program.
ESPN obviously isn't tapped into L.A. basketball. They failed in the final 2:00 min. of games , repeatedly , and looked bad doing it .
It became CLEARLY apparent that Coach Darvin Ham was being overmatched when it came to COACHING into the playoffs . CS .
NOT the midseason tournament , the real NBA Playoffs . Coach Darvin Ham coached up to his ability, and now time turns it over .
They need to quit hiring explayers, and hire a Real Coach. A coach that knows how to be a Boss!
I can’t believe an in-season tournament winning coach got fired the same year! He gave you a banner! 😂
Bring back the sports center back in the day we don’t want people arguing about stuff
If you even paid a little attention to the lakers, you’d know this ain’t nothing new. The last coach to keep their job for more then 3 season was phill Jackson. Since 2012, every coach has been fired after 2-3 seasons
Get JJ. He and lebron can sit down at a table with a quick wine each timeout and write up a play.
Rob Pelinka tore their championship team, right after they won.
It's the same formula that Denver & Minnesota currently use btw.
But part of the coaching job is accountability whether it's fair or not. They're the ones who goes out first.
David Blatt, LeBron is unhappy, gets fired, and we never seen him agian. Adrian Griffin, Giannis is unhappy, and gets fired. Now Darvin Ham and I bet the same with the first guy. We will never see these coaches again.
Once again, we're going to gloss over the fact, he doesn't call timeouts(management of time, score, or strategy) Rotations were horrible, ruin the early season by not playing your best players and has favorites, i mean just say "I don't watch Lakers game" Cause anyone who did knows Ham did a horrible job this season and this season alone is enough to be fired
Who are these 'best players' the Lakers didn't play enough? By my count they only have 3 ballers, a workable PG and a bunch of junk
ESPN producers are full of it trying to belittle the man bc of his playoff record but in the first year he was in WCF. This team is the epitome of mentally soft leaders
I wonder how much malika Andrew’s gets paid bcos she’s lowkey the new “golden child” of ESPN no wonder Rachel Nichols was upset it’s all about money 😂
ESPN was trashing Darvin Ham all the way up to the playoffs and now they're acting like he was totally innocent 😂
I don’t get how a team can understand a game plan for 90% of the game and just forget in the fourth quarter!
Cool, you can criticize Darvin’s rotations all you want but you work with what you got. Vanderbilt, Reddish and Vincent were all out throughout most of season and when they did play what did they contribute? I’m a Lakers fan but at least I can be truthful, this team dropped the ball religiously. Blown leads, turnovers, missed shots, etc. This year’s team played itself
Did you notice how Stephen A. and Michael Wilbon fail to mention legitimate reasons which led to Darvin Ham being let go such as:
1) Never having the right rotation between the starters and the bench
2) Never making in-game adjustments
3) Never drawing up designed plays
4) Never knowing when to call timeouts
5) Never having proper use of challenges
6) Taking more than half the season to realize he was using the wrong starting 5 together
7) Having a tendency to give too many minutes to players that used to be on his previous teams such as Taurean Prince and Cam Reddish
The list goes on and on...
This is not a Rob Palinka issue. It's a effort to entitlement issue of the players that needs to be fixed.