THE LAKERS THINK THEY CAN FIND A BETTER COACH! - Woj details Darvin Ham’s firing | NBA Today
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Adrian Wojnarowski joins NBA Today to react to the breaking news that Darvin Ham was fired as the Los Angeles Lakers head coach following their 1st-round playoff elimination. Then, the panel react and discuss who should be the next head coach.
0:00 Why did the Lakers dismiss Darvin Ham
2:00 Perk's take!
4:00 Chiney's take!
6:00 Who should be the next head coach?
10:00 Offseason outlook
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Awkward moment between Perk and Austin, with Perk calling out the firing of Adrian Griffin 😂😂😂
They call the Doc - Austin Rivers 😅
He said they already calling for doc
@@justinepaul5473 Glenn Rivers
austin should get use to it. When the Bucks had Dame and Giannas at the end of the season and still losing games. They NEVER had Austin talk during Bucks segments
DARVIN HAM GOT FIRED BECAUSE HE BENCHED JEANNIE BUSS' "BOY TOY" AUSTIN REAVES
They don’t know what they’re talking about. That starting lineup that Ham finally figured out in February, was an OBVIOUS starting lineup from the beginning
The lineup was the reason they lost back in 2020 when they won the title AD played the 4 and lebron played point and they had a center like Dwight Howard and McGee to help stop Jokic but every coach since then refused to let AD go back to the 4 lakers were better when they had a real center next to AD and lebron to help grab more offensive rebounds more rebounds mean more chances to score and lakers were first in offensive rebounds the year they won
Clearly no one on this panel actually watched Laker games this season. This man started Prince and Reddish for 50 games
😂😂😂 rs
I watch lebron not guarding anybody and missing a wide wide open shot to win the game please comeback to earth people
@@veritofuentes7775 Stop stretching the truth - That he wasn't guarding anybody ahahahaha.
@veritofuentes7775 no one holds lebron james accountable for not playing defense except Ty Lue
Gabe and Vando missed the whole season. What was he supposed to do?
It's crazy that Mark Jackson's name never comes up in these conversations. That's disrespectful. Mark is a great coach.
YAWN. YOU PEOPLE DON'T GIVE UP...
@@petep5207 humans?
@@petep5207 you threatening my life?
They don't want a coach like Mark Jackson because he wants total control when it comes to coaching and the type of players playing for him.
They don’t want Mark Jackson because he’s a pastor and ministers to his team. Trust me these players need it and so do we.
Everyone seen this coming from a mile away. Darvin Ham’s job was gone as soon as Bron screamed at him in game 4. His coaching and timeout management was average as best.
LeBalco has more coaches fired than rings won.
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@@KingSally92i think you should be an analyst
Bro lebron left Miami cuz they said spo ain’t getting fired I think he got a kink with firing hcs
@@KingSally92 Lebalco ye right like dwayne wade and his abnormal jaw line. 💉💉💉💉
Let’s not get it twisted, this isn’t all on Ham, but the fans who don’t JUST watch primetime games, but watch EVERY game from start to finish from October to season end knows Ham had to go. Very questionable decisions for 2 seasons. This years starting lineup change is a perfect example. Took him more than half the year to realize having respectable shooters in the lineup instead of duds would help. And that only happened because Cam and Vando got hurt forcing his hands.
Yeah shut up yall next year are gonna scapegoat the next coach
Exactly. It’s not all on him but he made plenty of mistakes. Biggest one was not starting or playing rui big minutes early in the season. All the advance stats were screaming that rui should get more minutes and by the time he made the change the team was nearly at the bottom of west standings. That stretch of starting prince and cam killed this team. There’s no way this team should’ve be in the play in with Lebron and Ad playing the amount of games they played AND performing.
I am not going to sweet talk about him at all. Darvin Ham is a stubborn knuckle head that makes predictable bad decision all the time. The dude has no vision seeing potentials in players, he has no clue how to match up his players against other teams, and he doesn't have a flexible rotation to take advantage of the momentum in game.
@@sy12 The biggest one for me is watching big leads dwindle. He'd watch a lead of 20 go to a lead of 5 before calling a timeout.
@@sy12 How many mistakes did Phil Jackson, jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson, etc make in their first two seasons? Did they win a championship one season and get fired the next or did they lose to what looks like the repeat champions and get fired?
*1:38** Cap. Nick Nurse and Steve Kerr won chips in their first year as coach. Woj slippin.*
Darvin Ham , Should Be Glad To Get Out Of LA ... PERIOD !!!
Foreal their spoiled fan base & all the troll's these day's. Most coaches should avoid that bussissness.
Lakers issues won’t change until the FO changes. People blame the coach, the players but who is responsible for all of that??? until Jeanie realizes that Rob gotta go the cycle won’t end
Rob got y’all the ring in 2020
@@madewavy he did and then decided to break up that same championship team for no reason
Rob has actually gotten results. Ham hasn't.
Exactly, blame the front office.
We can blame both😂
Never seen a player like Bron that had this many coach changes. He picks the coach and the players and yet everyone is to blame but Bron
Well Bron' is ACTUALLY the Coach/Gm anyway. They keep firing the wrong person.
I think it’s pretty apparent now: LeBron is a cancer.
yall are both dumb bron wanted ty lue and then got vogel
Kobe did it too & Trae Young is starting 2 develop that rep also.
Kevin Durant is far worse. 5 coaches in 5 years? And no response when Nash was slammed by his teammate that a coach isnt needed? Please, KD by a mile
Perk fed up! Those Kultch checks must have stopped!😂🤣🤣🤣
He mad AF JJ Redick replaced him on Klutch’s agenda 😂😂😂😂
@@BabylonGateLA 😂🤣🤣🤣
glad im not the only one who noticed perks 360 attitude. his takes before were fun but now is obviously on pure hatred
It's performance. He's trying to copy Barkley
@joshlittle1579 it's not hatred. It's honesty. You can't have it both ways. You'll Bron fans wild. If Bron loses yall point blame everywhere but to Bron. Not saying that it's entirely Brons faults but it dam sure can't be entirely Davins fault. As we know the firing and hiring has to be discussed with Bron. So he signed off on that. And that is giving him way too much power over the team situation with no accountability when they lose. Aaron Gordon look like a Charles Barkley with all those backdoor cuts and dunks. Bron not playing Defense is a real problem yall need to address.
I Like Bron but I'm getting tired of him. He's always trading good pieces away and getting coaches fired. Bron thinks he knows it all but it doesn't matter who they bring in next as the Lakers aren't good enough. Darvin Ham wasn't getting outcoached in that Denver series. They were all close games and simply Bron and AD failed to close while Jamal Murray did. People can say his rotations questionable but yet players can't be healthy and the team just isn't good outside Bron and AD. The Lakers are let Lebron hijack that franchise. Prob the real reason Magic left because he can't deal with Lebron.
“darvin ham wasn’t getting outcoached” 😂😂😂 so why was he still running 3 guard lineups when it clearly didn’t work last year ? why did he continue to put rui on jokic when he was torching him ? he made NO adjustments
Darvin ham wasn’t getting out coached ? How do u lead for 75% of a series and win one game out of 5 ? How does ur coaching just go non existent in each 3rd quarter ? Yet u sit here and somehow find a way to blame bron
Game 2. Lebron missed a open 3 and Jamal Murray hit the game winner. Game 5. AD and Bron told the coach to challenge that foul call on AD on Jokic which lakers won the challenge but lost the time out when Ham was trying to save his timeout for Later on in the game. AD then reverted back to his old self when he got hurt when Gordan bumped into him so now it’s all on Bron to show up now. Then Bron failed to Box out Gordon a crucial play to help Denver out. Then when you need your star player to close Lebron giving the ball to Austin Reeves when the last few minutes shoulda been Bron taking them shots. Murray closed that game out to send the Lakers home. Bron and AD closed game 4 that’s it. It’s easy to blame the coach but when it’s clutch time and your star players can’t close that’s on the players but the coach is the scapegoat yet again. People favorite excuse for Lebron is that he’s 39 but if age is a factor then he should retire.
Lebron needs 2 improve his game
@@zyxtrr easy to talk when you don't know what's going on behind the curtain. you don't know if a player is tired or not, or did they sustain some minor injury that the coach is trying not to aggravate.
Don’t even get started with jj redick, don't put a first time head coach in that seat, one of the most difficult in the entire league
Lol this is the lakers for you. Making bone headed decisions because they fall for the media drama. I think ham was getting better and better. Nothing beats continuity and time spent together. Getting a brand new head coach will lead to the same problems over again and possibly much worst. I think reddick would be a horrible hire. One thing being a podcast guy vs real time scheming and managing a team
I think JJ’s smart enough not to take that job.
@@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrotherbut the money though lol
If its ok to floppy bron then its a hire, they need a true yes man
Put me in that seat I will hold my king 🤴🏾 accountable I promise
If you actually watched the Lakers all season, ANY other coach is better than Ham. Lakers should've kept Vogel
Vogel definitely should never have been fired; however, Ham had a devastatingly bad roster to fit with Lebron. GM pulls the strings. They never could compete with Denver these past two years, much less in the future. Sheer stupidity to fire him for a completely flawed roster. And Perk actually has the best take this segment.
That locker room literally tuned Vogel out after the championship.
Its partly Hams fault why the teams trash not ALL of it
This what happens when people think the grass is greener. Lakers will do this again and say they shouldn’t have fired Ham
Vogel just got swept with kd,booker and beal
Mark Jackson 🤞🏾
The fact that they keep alluding to the fact that no new decisions can be made without LeBron is depressing and exhausting, I’m still waiting for LeBron to retire so I can be a Laker fan again
That man got free courtside tickets for a couple years he didn’t coach 😂
Mark Jackson or Adrian Griffin should be considered 💯
What do you mean why he got fired? You guys kept blaming Ham for everything rather than holding Lebron and every other player accountable.
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Did you watch the games? Seems like its the other way around. Blame Lebron for everything lol. Lebron didnt put in a 4 guard line up to play 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bron's name shouldn't even be mentioned yes he made errors lots of them but dude's averaging 25 -27, 8 & 7/night please and if not close to it... I can think of sev other names to call out as being weaker players and why they're out... no doubt smh
@@lela658stat nerd🫵🏿😭
With Ham Lakers are a play-in team. We talking "Whew... thank god we made it to the playoffs." With AD playing most of the games and Bron... You should be at least a 5th seed. You should have ducked that fade with the Nuggets with that obvious matchup history, guess who you gonna most likely play if youre a play-in team?
They'll have the same problems next season with the same excuses.
How about mark Jackson as a coach you guys been crying for him to be a coach
To stay relevant during the playoffs and give ESPN a reason to continue to talk about the lakers for the next few weeks.
BINGO
And yet here you are . Y’all get mad when they get covered but when they lose or take a huge L it’s always the loudest in the room.
@@mchav7718 Exactly. Facts!
@@mchav7718 how does this affect lebrons legacy?
Stay mad
How many coaches is LA going to blame before realizing they only have a 1st round playoff roster and NOT a championship roster.
Put Lebron as a coach so that he cannot blame the coach.
He’d blame the water boy.
They always believe they are gonna find a better coach duh 😂😂
Yep they fire every coach after like two year's.
The man took them to the WCF first year. Lost to the champs. Won the inseason tournament this year and steered an unsettled roster. Still got them a solid seed only to lose to the defending champs. I don't see how any other "coach" was going to do better. The players failed to finish 4/5 games vs the defending champs. Maybe it's the players who failed.
He never adjusted in late game situations. He doesn’t have a voice in the locker room. His timeout management was poor. Average coach all around. Only reason they went to the WCF was because the opponents they faced! Same for the in season tournament.
No the team won these despite him 😂 If you watched the games you would see his rotations were garbage, he will be good one day, but the Lakers need a veteran Head Coach
Ppl like u just not watch the games, he isn’t great at adjustments , in game adjustments, roster lineups , and play calling. Along w not using his timeouts during other teams runs. Darvin scam was not a good coach. He was a mediocre coach, that had 2 of the top 10 players in the league . He’s been out coached in the playoffs two years straight.
@@valerievilla5862PREACH! I swear people say nonsense like this just to get early YT comment likes 😂
His coaching style wasn't IT. He preferred to double Joker and leave Porter and KCP open for three point shots. Unacceptable!
I just don’t know what any other coach would have been able to do against the nuggets, they’re a monster team and crazy deep
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." *The first word that comes from the coaches mouth is DIVA, ...you cannot coach them, you cannot hold them accountable* 🔥 - Perkins. Very well said Perk, 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 un-coachable self entitled DIVA who is WITHOUT CHARACTER who is 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 if you don't give what I demand! 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.
For the love of God, no Doc Rivers!!!
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He the goat 🐐
Im sure it will be another Black guy..
@@user-tu8sz9cz5r goat for worst coach of all time, yea.
Doc Rivers is at least the most overrated coach of all time. Seems like every team he goes to gets worse under his leadership.
Honestly I feel Lakers overachieved last year with that run. It was fools gold. They were a play in team last year and this year. Ham wasn’t a great coach but let’s not act like Phil Jackson could take this team to the finals. I remembering seeing lakers miss free throws in the elimination game, a team giving up a 20 point lead.
100% overachieved they had NO business being in the WCF
They just needed a kyrie type of player and thats it. Imagine the wide open oppurtunities of reaves and dlo and rui being converted to points. That would shadow the shitplay and rotations that they were having
So you're good with Ham coaching two back-to-back Play-in Seasons? With AD playing this many games and having Bron, you should be a 5th seed at least. You should have ducked that fade with the nuggets in the first round but you didnt have a choice, you just made it to the playoffs again by the skin of your teeth.
The refs tried to rig another ring for Lebron last year. Some of ya'll must live under a rock.
Anyone saying Ham shouldn't be blamed, for what happened hasn't been playing close attention to the Xs and Os in this series. The team was good enough to have large leads in every game of the Denver series, they got outcoached by Mike Malone. Those leads were lost because Ham let them by not calling timeouts, by not making adjustments at crucial moments to stave off the Denver run. Yes players have to play, and D'lo and others had trash games, but even in those trash games, they had a chance to win but didn't because Ham wouldn't make adjustments.
Perk is a diva. Ham made horrible substitutions, horrible defensive assignments, etc… They changed starting lineups more than almost any other team in the league in the last 2 years…
Ham fooled around with the starting lineup after in the in-season tournament and that’s just one knock on him. Took him most the season to figure out having respectable shooters in the lineup would help the team. 18-6 once Reaves and Rui were in the lineup. Smh. Team shouldn’t have been in the play-in. And that 3rd quarter stretch vs Nuggets game 4 with no timeout is what we’ve been dealing with for 2 seasons. Dude holds on to his timeouts like they rollover next game or something.
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RDC World was right on time with that skit 😂. Ham was packed up an hour later
Yes sir😂
Perk is 💯 right. D Ham didn’t deserve to get fired. It’s all about who James likes and wants to play for. It was James that told Davis to criticize the coach meanwhile James and Redick had already made plans prior 😂
What a joke lol…Lebron going on 40 in the Western Conference is too much for him and the Lakers
No accountability. But what's new?
Please STOP... just jawing making shxx up smh
Im so envious of you you are close with lebron and AD
With Ham Lakers was a Play-in team. We talking "We made it to the playoffs by the skin of our teeth" team. With AD playing this many games and having Bron, you should be a 5th seed. With that matchup history, you should have ducked that fade with the nuggets in the first round. But guess who you're gonna most likely face in the first round if youre a play-in team? Thats right, the nuggets.
When do the lakers finally address the actual root of the problem instead of cutting branches that will eventually grow the same way the following year/years to come ?
I’m sorry but even though Darvin Ham was a problem he wasn’t the main reason this team didn’t succeed. When is the spotlight going to be put on Rob Pelinka man?
He was the reason
Could’ve put Vanderbilt out there for game 4 he a rookie coach
@@andrewcarvajal87 He wasn’t the main reason. And Vanderbilt would not have changed anything in that series by that time. Dude was already going to be rusty. He went with the guys that have been playing.
To a fault. You gotta realize Rob has little to do with x’ & o’s of the game of basketball. He’s not totally absolved from the reason why Lakers weren’t successful however Darvin Ham made no adjustments from the prior season. It Is clear.
@@Scotty2Hotty4 He won more games this season than he did the last you can’t say he didn’t make any adjustments. He was also dealing with injuries all through the season that limited his choices. Could rotations have been better? Absolutely. Could he have coached better yes. But his X’s and O’s gameplan got them to the WCF and had them back in the Playoffs again where they had bad luck in playing the champs again and even still they played every game close. He may put the players on the floor but he’s not responsible for putting the roster together and at some point you have to look at the person who is in charge of that. Especially considering they have had chances to improve the roster with better talent but have not moved on it like when Lebron wanted them to trade for Kyrie or when they made no moves at the deadline to improve. I’m not calling for his job yet but he needs to be looked at in a bigger spotlight rather than firing your coach after every 2 seasons.
Switching coaches isn't going to make Lebron any younger. That's their main issue. Their star player is turning 40 this next season, and they don't have the resources to add players to help him.
Man, DID YOU REALLY WATCH LA's GAMES???? I GET SO FCKNG MAD WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO JUST SPOUTS IGNORANCE. I UNDERSTAND HATING ON BRON BUT FOR FCK SAKE AT LEAST TRY TO MAKE A VALID ARGUMENT. YOU THINK YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THE LAKERS MANAGEMENT? THEN WHY TF ARE YOU HERE ON KZhead INSTEAD OF BEING A MILLIONAIRE? STFU
He's still playing at a super high level at his age dodo. Pay Attention. That last game, he had more points than anybody on his team and the opposing team...so if he can still contribute, it is what it is.
@@jayc5756 Apparently not high enough. Ousted from the playoffs again
@@videogames9829 Its a team effort bruh. He can't do it all himself...especially how good the other teams are in the West...especially the defending Champs, The Nuggets. Cmon now.
No team can shoot 18/27 from the free throw line in a game they lost by 2(!!) points, and blame the coach for the team's playoff futility. Lakers COLLECTIVELY blew Games 2 and 5 in Denver.
Thanks this was overdue .
And what is that supposed to solve?
@@QuanPookie plenty. 1st problem gone.
@@user-lt3th5vd6o What did he do wrong as a coach?
This was overdue. Pink Molly I can barley move.
I thought Jeanie said Ham was safe from getting fired 😂
They lie. They always lie.
Austin Rivers really does look like Andrew Tate with hair, he even has the same demeanor 😅
Caitlyn clark >
Coach Hamburglar
I hope the Lakers don't think just changing coaches is gonna fix them. Let's be honest here, they aren't a championship level team. They need to change playera also.
Agree 💯
Anyone who thinks the Lakers didn't win in spite of Ham didn't watch the actual games. Seriously don't even comment here unless you watched the Lakers regularly because anyone that did watch them regularly knows he was a terrible coach making coaching 101 mistakes
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Most of them didn’t watch laker games ham cost us a lot of games
Ham was a horrible, how do u replace a actual winner with someone who just gets a job because ESPN crying about they have to be black.
@@user-ly8qd1ig7vgtfoh with this racist nonsense, the Suns just got swept.
If that's the case then why isn't Walton or Vogel still there...maybe LeBron is mid in the west...he wouldn't of made 8 straight finals over here...until he realizes that he'll be getting someone else fired in 2 years
LeGM at it again 😂
Thank God 🙏
at 2:01 Perk and 11:10 Chiney are 100% CORRECT!
Why did they fire Frank Vogel in the first place?
LeToxic
Hmmmm...LeBron and JJ Reddick started a podcast not long ago, now he's in talks to be Lakers coach. Hmmmmm....interesting...
Yep
This will be great to watch fail
Thought winning in season tournament was supposed to be a great accomplishment for the Lakers and before the season alot of the talk was the lakers with the coach and roster were built to win now
Darvin doesn't deserve that blame! Lakers making another mistake.
Perk was on point!! These players don’t wanna hear anything! If u coach them hard u lose the locker room! I knew the players was getting soft when Booker got mad he was getting doubled team in a pickup game.. that carried on to the court
Bron had issues with spolestra who is easily the best coach in basketball. No one is gonna please that man lol
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@@kalenmarshall8692 I mean to be fair. That was before the 2012 finals and Spo’s coaching was beyond awful in the 2011 finals. But then again Bron should have been aggressive that entire series and he wasn’t.
Anyone who coach LBJ always gets the blame and fired lol. 😅 That's why MJ and KOBE are in different level of greatness.
spolestra still in miami
I like Kobe but lets not forget he once requested a trade from the lakers before they got pau gasol.
It sucks that Darvin had to be Lakers coach during nuggets era. Nuggets are the problem. Not Darvin.
Wow.
Coach Ham Missed a ton of open shots that he drew up for players...He failed to make defensive rotations and had mental lapses in the playoff that even novice casual viewers saw...
Phil Handy is literally right there. Of course there’s a better choice
Think they got rid of the whole staff
Really!? I’d assume that they want a WORSE coach. What cogent analysis
why even apply for the job? you lose in the playoffs, they fire you. You win a championship, they still fire you.
Kendrick Perkins so unprofessional at times - does he even watch laker games during the season
ESPN had Lakers on all season so probably did watch.
@@MelvinFlannagan but he didnt watch. and if he did, then all his takes right now are pure hate. probably coz he got replaced by jj redick
@@joshlittle1579 JJ coaching at some point. I'm tired of building around a 38 year old and AD.
@@MelvinFlannagan riiiiight coz you knwo how to fckng manage a multi billion business like the lakers. lol oh wait!!!! kobe was so washed but he still remained in the the team. surrounded by, who were those players again? Russlell, ingram, randle, hart, clarkson. fccccck arent these good caliber players? kobe so good they never fckng won. so tired of building around a washed kobe, oh wait they retired him as a laker. fck off lol
lebalco needs a new scapegoat 😂
U must live a sad life huh…
Why do they always blame the coach? Players need to take accountability too. LeBron is a huge influence on the team, I'm sure Darvin Ham did everything to keep him happy and ended up hurting the rest of the team.
Of course we knew this would happen.
Ham was awful during the playoffs. Subbing people off who were hot, not challenging obvious challenges, not taking time outs at key moments. It’s understandable
Perkins on a winning streak lately wow
Laker hater, lay on the ground, you’ve been robbed 😂😂
Real talk. This might be the most intelligent thing i've ever heard come from Perk's mouth.
RDCWORLD was too realistic!! Go watch the video on how the lakers were after the game! 😂😂😂
It’s crazy. LBJ has had every coach that he played for fired. LBJ is like a child. Don’t wanna be held responsible
Except Spoe and that was because Pat Riley don’t play those games
Lebron has had 7 out of 8 head coaches fired. Spo only survived because Pat wouldn't allow LeBron to dictate the team. This is the man's legacy.
Are you dumb? He wanted Ty Lue as coach yet Lakers hired Ham
Hey Austin, you're an amazing player. I don't know how much you make as a journalist, but at this stage, you're much better as a commentator than as a basketball player. Good luck
Why would anyone want that job? No accountability for players or front office. All blame on the coach. I’m a Laker fan but this is ridiculous
Lets be real , LeBlame wants an incompetent coach so when things go bad he can blame them . If LeFraud stayed in a well ran organization like Miami that wouldn't take his bs and with a great coach he'd probably have 6 rings already but he wants to play GM , coach , and player all at once
Doc better be fired next
The Lakers should be interested in hiring these coaches old school coaches like Coach K, Roy Williams, Larry Brown, Jim Boeheim, Jay Wright, Phil Jackson,Mike Budenholzer, Mark Jackson, Adrian Griffin, Dewayne Casey, Sam Mitchell, Terry Porter, Monty Williams, Penny Hardaway......
Is Ham the greatest coach? Not at all. At some point, though, players need to take some accountability for their failures, too.
Give Phil Handy a chance. 3 coaches in 5 years, at this point why not 🤷♂
and on the next episode of LeScapegoat..
You all trying to use Ham for a scapegoat for his “rotations” so who was the man supposed to send on the floor?
If you watched every game this season you would see little things rotations that didn’t make sense bad substitutions darvin stuck with players that were struggling not calling time outs or challenges that being said we should of got another big man and some roster moves weren’t good and we didn’t play good enough.
I love how people defend Ham but dont realize how bad he was. He isnt the scapegoat we knew he was trash since last year. But he was setup for this by Rob with the trash team. Aint no way your biggest offseason move was Gabe Vincent.
Well we’re looking at the Gabe situation in retrospect, he was good that previous season, now he’s not.
@@kite36 Yes and No. He had one good playoff run and that's it. In thinking about it maybe having Cam/Wood/Hayes was worse but my point still stands Ham is trash but Rob didn't help him at all. If anything both should lose their jobs
Anyone else recognize that White Shadow team photo on the wall? Coolidge, Thorpe, Salami? No?
Why is anyone surprised? History has shown that Lebron does not last very long with any of his coaches. Two slight exceptions were Mike Brown and Erik Spoelstra and with Coach Spoelstra, it's public knowledge that Lebron advocated for him to be fired but Pat Riley refused. Lebron has never shown any interest in being coached under an experienced coach. And blaming roster construction? Lebron has always had the loudest, most influential voice on roster compilation in each franchise he's played for. So after so many "failed" coaches and "failed" roster constructions, when do we start evaluating the common denominator in all these situations?
Not only the lineups but the most annoying thing ham did was have a 10-15 point lead then the other team goes on a run and he doesn’t use any timeouts to kill momentum or ANYTHING. This Denver series highlighted that
Three coaches fired in five years. The next one? Whomever it is, it's gonna be quit.
Always the same, keep firing coaches, man, insane
Clippers: we love Ty lue, despite not winning ANYTHING. Lakers: get outta here HAM!, despite WCF last year, and winning in season tournament this year.
Chiney is the only one on this panel who seemed to understand. If it wasn't for his bad rotations and finding the proper starting lineup late, they likely would not have needed the play in. This led to an exhausted team struggling to finish games against the nuggets.
Blaming it all on Ham is just ridiculous! This roster is old, injured and inconsistent. No chemistry!
espn and klutch sports already call fo this since game 1, not surprising
Not one of them acknowledged the fact that Ham played around all year with lineups and finally started winning when he used the lineup that got the to Conference Finals. How you lack the basic mental capacity, to use your best lineup, is beyond me. And his inability to handle Denver adjustment and late game clock/timeout/challenges, with any sense of proficiency, is why he’s gone.
Did he make it to the western conference finals? I couldn't tell
The fact that your coach needs until february to figure out what works is one of the reason he gets axed
Them saying if the lakers never matched with the nuggets would they be having a different conversation, that’s the whole point! This man started bron, Prince reddish vando and AD with DLo and AR off the bench, he had rui playing 10 minutes a game and not once went to the starting lineup we had so much success with last year
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Tye Lue may be available next season. I think he is tired of weak leadership in Kawhi and PG
The writing was on the wall when the Lakers finished as a play-in team. Think back to the off season when they were being praised for re-signing Reaves, Russell & Rui. Then they win the IST, pundits saying they are legit threats to the Nuggets. Ham was going to have to reach the WCF, minimum to keep his job.
I like the criticism toward this situation.. can’t wait for Barkley reaction and hope he call out the front office again 😂
Darvin Ham to the Bucks I’m calling it…
"this is the first time that I actually don't know" 😂
The issue is, the lineup that Ham finally settled on that produced winning results..... WAS THE EXACT SAME LINEUP that got them to the conference finals the year before. It took him the entire season to figure that out.... that's bad coaching