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Nate's team generally win. Portland won 54 with him coaching a healthy team. The Lakers are (on paper) a better team than that 54-win Blazers team.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
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That is fantastic


And good for Nate if gets the job. Could never understand the hate some had for him.
 
This is like Christmas morning. We've got more issues than just the coach, but the biggest issue was the coach. I don't want Brian Shaw, I don't think he commands respect like Phil or Jerry Sloan. D'Antoni being considered...don't like that, either. I want Phil back tbh, but I think realistically it could be Sloan, McMillan, or D'Antoni.
 
If McMillan, it's good news for Przybilla. He'll step on Superman's cape. But seriously, to make Nash a star you need D'Antoni's speed, not Nate's slowness. I'd hire Mike.
 
I think Nate would be a great hire for the Lakers. As much as we hated him here, a lot of that had to do with a few things. In game adjustments but with a veteran team they can do that themselves. Developing Talent, Nate is not a coach who develops talent. How many times did we see young guy pulled for a little mistake time and time again killing their confidence and how many times did he take out a "hot" player because his rotations told him to do so.
As for Nate not letting Nash play... I think Nate would have enough respect to let Nash play however he wanted.
 
Rhal said:
I think Nate would be a great hire for the Lakers. As much as we hated him here, a lot of that had to do with a few things. In game adjustments but with a veteran team they can do that themselves. Developing Talent, Nate is not a coach who develops talent. How many times did we see young guy pulled for a little mistake time and time again killing their confidence and how many times did he take out a "hot" player because his rotations told him to do so.
As for Nate not letting Nash play... I think Nate would have enough respect to let Nash play however he wanted.
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How did Nate not develop Roy and LMA? I'd say both turned out pretty awesome. I don't think you can blame Nate for Roy's knees.
 
Rhal said:
I think Nate would be a great hire for the Lakers. As much as we hated him here, a lot of that had to do with a few things. In game adjustments but with a veteran team they can do that themselves. Developing Talent, Nate is not a coach who develops talent. How many times did we see young guy pulled for a little mistake time and time again killing their confidence and how many times did he take out a "hot" player because his rotations told him to do so.
As for Nate not letting Nash play... I think Nate would have enough respect to let Nash play however he wanted.
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Like he did with Andre Miller? He was terrible with the one veteran team he ever had. That's why he was fired.
 
McMillan is not the same as Brown. The only thing on offense they have in common is that they like to play a slow style. Nate loves his traditional NBA ISO's, low post plays, and pick-and-pops. That is not the Princeton Offense at all.

He'd be a great fit for the Lakers. Nash could thrive in a slower-paced game, provided he had the ball a lot to set up teammates. The problem with what they were doing is that they were running their offense through their fourth best player (Gasol) with something none of these vets had ever played before. Playing Nateball won't be a problem.
 
...some of you hate Bill Simmons, but all of you should appreciate this take:
the immortal Mike Brown, the only person who ever figured out a way to stop LeBron James and someone on whom I was counting to screw up the 2012-13 Lakers season. If you noticed, I rarely if ever made Mike Brown jokes in columns or podcasts or even on TV — I was hoping he'd hang around for years and years and years, almost like the coaching version of an STD. Mike Brown was the kind of guy who shrugged off halftime adjustments and thought it would be smart to have Steve Nash run the Princeton offense — which is something you run when you have future lawyers and doctors running your team, not someone who's one of the smartest offensive point guards of all time. The Mike Brown era was like planting my own personal mole into every Lakers season. As an avowed Laker hater, this is a tough day. I'm not gonna lie.

R.I.P., the Mike Brown Lakers era. May we reach those same beautiful heights again someday soon.
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Rumor: Phil Jackson healthy and interested. Will coach on Sunday
 
Rumors are Dwight Howard wants Phil to come back to coach the Lakers.
 
How did Mike Brown last even this long in the NBA coaching Hall of Famers?

Does he have naughty videos of owners?

Help me out here.
 
I don't want Mike D to go to the Lakers

I still hold out hope he comes to Portland in a few years.

He'd make Lillard a superstar.
 
RoyToy said:
I don't want Mike D to go to the Lakers

I still hold out hope he comes to Portland in a few years.

He'd make Lillard a superstar.
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And win him titles like he did in Phoenix and New York oh wait he didn't win titles.
 
julius said:
And win him titles like he did in Phoenix and New York oh wait he didn't win titles.
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There's only a handful of coaches that meet that criteria

D'Anotni is an offensive genius. His strengths and Lillard's strengths match beautifully.

I still want it to happen.
 
I've heard Mike Dunleavy might be going to LaLa Land.
 
D'Antoni, IMO, was the perfect coach for Lillard and Leonard.
 
Lakers win first game under Bernie Bickerstaff!

When we had him I said he wasn't a bad coach, and that Kaleb Canales replaced McMillan just because of his looks, but would anyone listen to the jlprk? Noooo, you all said Bernie was too old so he had to go. So we lost the next Laker Head Coach!

Next time, listen up!
 
What's also sad in this article is the lack of interest under Phil Jackson's previous assistant coaches that aren't even mentioned.
Lakers owner Jerry Buss wants to bring Jackson back to coach again, and perhaps he's holding onto something that left long ago: the coach's drive and determination to withstand the grind of the job. He'll come back, cash those checks and leave everyone unsure whether he's still hell-bent on molding championship teams. His old assistants – Jim Cleamons and Kurt Rambis – are out of coaching jobs and anxious to come back to the bench with history's greatest coach.

Everyone's going to get paid again, but you wonder: Do they have the stomach to chase championships again?

The old band could get back together, and it is fair to suspect that one of those staggering $10 million-a-season salaries could be the most compelling reason for Jackson to return to the bench in Los Angeles. Jackson has the Lakers right where he wants them: desperate, needy and perhaps willing to pay a steep price to bring him back a third time.

Everyone is so sure that Jackson is the savior here, but they forget how uninspired he had seemed in that final season. They forget that too much of the Lakers' staff had become lethargic, that the arrival of Brown had been uncomfortable for so many so used to leaving early every day. Yet this is a results business, and no one cares how many hours that Brown invested into the job, or how late he made his assistants stay.

This is about public relations now, about feeding that Staples Center and Hollywood monster, and Buss needs a coach with a pedigree. The greatest coach of all, Phil Jackson, could be waiting to come cash Buss' checks again, and motivated and inspired, his hiring would be a bargain at any price. He still needs to decide that he wants to coach again, that he wants the Lakers, but he's forever a sucker for the drama, for riding back to save the franchise. Two years ago, he couldn't wait to get out of the Lakers, get out of the NBA, and you wonder what's changed except for boredom and that lust for the next big score, that next big Hollywood ending.
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Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--p...d-lack-perfect-hollywood-ending-09281209.html

If Phil Jackson is burned out on coaching then he is. He won't take the job again. Leave him be Laker fans. What's sad is that Laker fans suspect to having a winning season every year. Well, its not reality if there isn't the coach, or the players, to have it every year. Get over it.
 
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jlprk said:
Lakers win first game under Bernie Bickerstaff!

When we had him I said he wasn't a bad coach, and that Kaleb Canales replaced McMillan just because of his looks, but would anyone listen to the jlprk? Noooo, you all said Bernie was too old so he had to go. So we lost the next Laker Head Coach!

Next time, listen up!
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Bickerstaff has been quoted as saying he won't be the Lakers Head Coach because thats not what he wants to do and its not why he went to coach in LA.
 
I was just exaggerating that we booted out the next (acting) Laker Head Coach.

Anyway, I don't get why they signed Steve Nash, if they aren't going to institute a Suns-type offense, which makes him look like the best PG in the league. He can accelerate everything, but not in the Triangle.
 
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