OFFICIAL: Mike D'Antoni will be the next coach of the Lakers.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Jamel Irief

Yeah those 05 lottery lakers were LOADED. They had Kwame Brown, Luke Walton AND Smush Parker starting! The glory was too much for one team!

Oops.

I see that Jamel beat me to it.

Point made.

[Luke]

Yeah there's not a whole lot of vadility to that argument.

[MojoPin]

Originally Posted by XxIrvingxX

God I still can't believe how bad that team was...

...and yet I fully expected them to beat Phoenix both of those years LOL. It truly is difficult to fathom how terrible they were. I remember getting excited when Chris Mihm would score 10 points.

[Dre]

Some of those guys aren't even old and they haven't touched the NBA in a couple years...that's saying something

[roux2dope]

Ok pick out the one team in 20 years that lacked multiple all stars/ hall of famers. I have been put in my place.


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[Dre]

Originally Posted by roux2dope

Ok pick out the one team in 20 years that lacked multiple all stars/ hall of famers. I have been put in my place.


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You just said he never went through any adversity and they pulled your card man

Like what is he suppose to do leave the Bulls/Lakers and coach the Wizards to appease you?

[roux2dope]

No, but succeeding in a bad situation is a quality in coaching i appreciate, and to be honest with you i do wonder if phil jackson could turn around the kind of mess that exists in a washington or Milwaukee.


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[Dre]

Originally Posted by roux2dope

No, but succeeding in a bad situation is a quality in coaching i appreciate, and to be honest with you i do wonder if phil jackson could turn around the kind of mess that exists in a washington or Milwaukee.


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...the mid 00s Lakers weren't a mess? Kobe was ready to get out of there

[Jamel Irief]

Originally Posted by roux2dope

Ok pick out the one team in 20 years that lacked multiple all stars/ hall of famers. I have been put in my place.


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How do you feel about Jerry Sloan? Unlike Phil he's never taken a coaching job that wasnt on a playoff team with multiple hall of famers.

The only active coach who took a lottery team to multiple championships like phil did is poppovich. And everyone knows they were only a lottery team because the admiral only played 6 games they year before and Sean Elliot was hurt too.

[Ron]

Per Twitter:

David Aldridge ‏@daldridgetnt

As just reported on @NBATV, Lakers will also speak with Mike D'Antoni and Mike Dunleavy in coming days after discussing job w/PJax Saturday.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by roux2dope

No, but succeeding in a bad situation is a quality in coaching i appreciate, and to be honest with you i do wonder if phil jackson could turn around the kind of mess that exists in a washington or Milwaukee.


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This is basketball, not baseball. You only have 5 guys on the court at any one time, do you seriously believe anyone is going to pick the Wizards over the Lakers if given the chance? You are not thinking, man.

Ima gonna steal this...this busted me up:

[Ron]

Report: Phil Jackson wants Scottie Pippen, Brian Shaw on staff if he returns to coach Lakers

[Luke]

People act like Phil walked into stable, perfect situations every single time, that's not true, he made stable, perfect situations every single time. The Bulls had literally done nothing before Phil. They made the ECF once in their entire history, and immediately when Phil comes on board they win 6 of 8 and have a chance at 8 in a row if Mike doesn't retire.

Then he comes to L.A., a very talented squad that had never been out of the second round with this group and won three straight championships and four finals appearances in five years. Then he comes back to L.A. to an absolute shit show of a roster and within three years they are a contender, and after five they're two time champions again.

Like, we get it, Phil has had a lot of talent of the years, but pretending like anyone could have managed that talent as well or gotten the most out of his players in laughable.

[XxIrvingxX]

Originally Posted by MojoPin

...and yet I fully expected them to beat Phoenix both of those years LOL. It truly is difficult to fathom how terrible they were. I remember getting excited when Chris Mihm would score 10 points.

I still don't get how the hell they even made it to the playoffs at one point. I mean, my god, Kobe Bryant is amazing but he's not Lebron, he can't make everyone else around him that much better. I don't really remember much about that team because I didn't watch them all that often, but did Kobe really do THAT much of the work?

[Luke]

Yeah, the third best guard of all time at his apex is capable of bringing just about anything to the playoffs when healthy. Put the Lakers in the east in those years and they're pushing 50.