"Kobe looks at you in the eye and tell you what he wants to say" - I can replay the clip in my head where Kobe was on the bench giving Mike Brown the death stare
Lamar odom is criminally underrated. Those lakers teams dont win without him. 6'10 could score, rebound, play pg-pf with ease. Wasnt a great shooter but could definitely knock them down and defend
@@phamawa his scoring was inconsistent because his alteration on touches. Kobe already didnt pass much. Then with Gasol, Bynum, he was sometimes 4th option. And defensively he was nice, could defend wings and PFs. He literally sacrificed numbers for the team to win. He was easily a 25/10 player had he had his own team
No disrespect to Mike Brown, he really do seem like a great guy and a good coach, but I don't see in him being a championship caliber coach. I see he has that drive, that gear to get there, but something really feels missing for him to motivate his players.
Buss Brothers signed him thinking it would save his job. He legit tanked the team over a family dispute. Casuals will say Kobe was old and wasn't good enough to win another chip. Wrong
Facts , wasted the last years of this chip window, of his career & sadly some of his life. I’ll never forgive the Buss fam & any/all involved in that bull shitb
They were competitive with him it was after him they fell apart. Those last years when Kobe was costing them like over half their cap space and they couldn’t bring up a team around him cause they couldn’t pay anyone. That shit fucked them.
@@MatthewBreckyea they didn’t have that much money but absolutely no one wanted to come to LA. And if Kobe was the issue, which is what haters would say, why couldn’t they find anyone to play with them even after Kobe left? Reality is they still wouldn’t have been able to find anyone if Lebron didn’t come to LA. Lebron attracted people to come to LA, hell he’s changed the entire roster 3 times now. But the point is the lakers lost their glare when Kobe and Pau got off their prime and then when Kobe went down with the Achilles nobody saw the lakers as a fun destination to compete for a championship. But if you’re a great front office you find a way to get players to come to LA and the sad truth is that After Jerry died the organization was a complete disaster
Chris Paul should have been a Laker that year, they did Mike Brown dirty when it was David Stern who vetoed that trade. And Dwight Howard would join a year later. They would have gotten Chris Paul, Kobe, and Howard in the same team
Honestly, the Lakers pissed that series away. They were leading by something like 7-9 points late in games 2 and 4, but it all went to shit really quickly. Artest couldn't bother Durant like he did in their 1st round matchup 2 years prior as he was declining, and Kobe wasn't able to contain that dynamo in Westbrook while putting in work on offense. He was damn near 34 and in year 16 at that point. All the while, our newly acquired point guard in Ramon Sessions proved to be useless on both ends. Lamar's loss was definitely felt that season and may have tipped things in the Lakers favor. It was obvious that the nixed Chris Paul trade really messed up his psyche moving forward, and he was never the same player since 2011. Looking back, that failed Paul trade after 2011, really started a domino effect of shit moves and hires, like signing an expired Steve Nash and hiring Pringles as head coach. What would've been Bryant's last push for a championship or 2, ended with him effectively ending his career carrying injured/sub-championship level rosters during his final 2 MVP caliber years.
@@phill2that’s tru, but he wasn’t going to get it cause he was viewed as a Phil guy & etc. Plus he got that nugget job & shit the bed to say the least so. Scott definitely was the best choice & not either of the Mikes. Both had no business being the lakers HC at the time. This version of Mike who been a good HC for that Lakers team Imo.
Decent point but you gotta start somewhere. Any coach would've had the toughest job trying to coach that team with all the turmoil going on. Kobe was in charge of the team at that point. No one was gonna lead that Laker team better than him.
@@lightskindeebo6849 Kobe told them to appoint Brian Shaw and the idiots didn't which was the beginning of the end. The fact was the lakers ran a system very different to the other teams in the NBA. The only system at the time that didn't require a point to run it. Any coach they thought of was going to need a top level point guard to be successful and those were not many to go around. When they made a deal for one, the league had other ideas.
"Kobe looks at you in the eye and tell you what he wants to say" - I can replay the clip in my head where Kobe was on the bench giving Mike Brown the death stare
Lamar odom is criminally underrated. Those lakers teams dont win without him. 6'10 could score, rebound, play pg-pf with ease. Wasnt a great shooter but could definitely knock them down and defend
Not night in and night out....
No, You need to do more homework on hia consistency.
Loved LO, he was not known for his defense and very inconsistent. But, glad he bought in to 6th man.
@@phamawa his scoring was inconsistent because his alteration on touches. Kobe already didnt pass much. Then with Gasol, Bynum, he was sometimes 4th option. And defensively he was nice, could defend wings and PFs. He literally sacrificed numbers for the team to win. He was easily a 25/10 player had he had his own team
Criminally bruh?
Mike Brown tried to run a hybrid style Princeton offense. Lmaooooo
Offense wasn't there issue, defense was there problem.
LA is a hard market to coach in, the fans are gonna be hard on you if you don't win. I liked Mike Brown when he coached in Cleveland.
No disrespect to Mike Brown, he really do seem like a great guy and a good coach, but I don't see in him being a championship caliber coach. I see he has that drive, that gear to get there, but something really feels missing for him to motivate his players.
He needs to motivate "professionals" 🤔
Good thing he’s already won 4.
I feel like Mike could probably do a mean e40 impression
Wasn't he running the Princeton Offense? Or was that D'antoni?
The next year
Both of the mikes were trash for LAL
Yes that was Mike Brown
Buss Brothers signed him thinking it would save his job. He legit tanked the team over a family dispute. Casuals will say Kobe was old and wasn't good enough to win another chip. Wrong
Facts , wasted the last years of this chip window, of his career & sadly some of his life. I’ll never forgive the Buss fam & any/all involved in that bull shitb
Shit
True story.
They were competitive with him it was after him they fell apart. Those last years when Kobe was costing them like over half their cap space and they couldn’t bring up a team around him cause they couldn’t pay anyone. That shit fucked them.
@@MatthewBreckyea they didn’t have that much money but absolutely no one wanted to come to LA. And if Kobe was the issue, which is what haters would say, why couldn’t they find anyone to play with them even after Kobe left? Reality is they still wouldn’t have been able to find anyone if Lebron didn’t come to LA. Lebron attracted people to come to LA, hell he’s changed the entire roster 3 times now. But the point is the lakers lost their glare when Kobe and Pau got off their prime and then when Kobe went down with the Achilles nobody saw the lakers as a fun destination to compete for a championship. But if you’re a great front office you find a way to get players to come to LA and the sad truth is that After Jerry died the organization was a complete disaster
I remember that season,they got Uncle Mike up out of there quick! Not fair in my opinion 😎🍻🍺
Yeah, not even a full whole season 😒 I believe they started 1-6 can't remember. First year they make the playoffs
He should have never been hired in the first place
Chris Paul should have been a Laker that year, they did Mike Brown dirty when it was David Stern who vetoed that trade. And Dwight Howard would join a year later. They would have gotten Chris Paul, Kobe, and Howard in the same team
And lost in the first round
Should’ve just kept it simple and let the players run basic stuff, no gimmicks
Bro the coaches dun had so many coaches over the past 15 years to the point I forgot he even coached there
Oh boy, no one is mentioning that he tried to prioritize Bynum over Kobe and Pau and make him into a star. . . That was his downfall.
Facts!
I fuck with Mike brown pretty heavy, but they only “took” OKC to 5 games in that years second round, they got pretty thoroughly outplayed
Honestly, the Lakers pissed that series away. They were leading by something like 7-9 points late in games 2 and 4, but it all went to shit really quickly.
Artest couldn't bother Durant like he did in their 1st round matchup 2 years prior as he was declining, and Kobe wasn't able to contain that dynamo in Westbrook while putting in work on offense. He was damn near 34 and in year 16 at that point. All the while, our newly acquired point guard in Ramon Sessions proved to be useless on both ends.
Lamar's loss was definitely felt that season and may have tipped things in the Lakers favor. It was obvious that the nixed Chris Paul trade really messed up his psyche moving forward, and he was never the same player since 2011.
Looking back, that failed Paul trade after 2011, really started a domino effect of shit moves and hires, like signing an expired Steve Nash and hiring Pringles as head coach. What would've been Bryant's last push for a championship or 2, ended with him effectively ending his career carrying injured/sub-championship level rosters during his final 2 MVP caliber years.
Did Ron change his name already.. he didn't know what he was🤣🤣🤣
That Princeton offense just didn't work for LA
any coach he cannot draw offense will always struggle
He did well initially
What’s the point of hiring a new coach if they want him to play like Phil Jackson
Phil wasn't trying to coach past his prime Kobe cause you won't win and it'll be a huge headache.
Damn Jim Buss was really a rich brat who didn’t know anything.
Ain't going to lie I wished that Bron could have joined LA in 2010.
Brown did a good job with the Cavs those 5 years.
And they won nothing in Cleveland during those years.
bro if the nba can veto the CP3 trade, let alone that lmao. If bron and kobe on the same team, another 3peat for sure.
He wasn’t ready for that job, it should’ve went to Byron Scott
Brian Shaw was groomed to takeover after Phil, from what I remember.
@@phill2that’s tru, but he wasn’t going to get it cause he was viewed as a Phil guy & etc. Plus he got that nugget job & shit the bed to say the least so. Scott definitely was the best choice & not either of the Mikes. Both had no business being the lakers HC at the time. This version of Mike who been a good HC for that Lakers team Imo.
Decent point but you gotta start somewhere. Any coach would've had the toughest job trying to coach that team with all the turmoil going on. Kobe was in charge of the team at that point. No one was gonna lead that Laker team better than him.
@@lightskindeebo6849 Kobe told them to appoint Brian Shaw and the idiots didn't which was the beginning of the end. The fact was the lakers ran a system very different to the other teams in the NBA. The only system at the time that didn't require a point to run it. Any coach they thought of was going to need a top level point guard to be successful and those were not many to go around. When they made a deal for one, the league had other ideas.
Mike was not it as the coach! RIP Kobe
I wish he didn’t take the job lol
Wasn’t even his fault, it was David Stern vetoing the Chris Paul trade
He was booboo
Fax! We gotta call it as it was! No sugar coating , he was ASS
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