From the jump last year we immediately knew Ham was not a good coach from a tactical standpoint. He has no concept of offensive coordination whatsoever, he cannot call plays to save his life, his timeout usage is abysmal, he never adjusts during games, hardly adjusts between games, often comes up with actively detrimental gameplans (hedging Curry screens… are you fucking kidding me?), he consistently plays guys in roles they aren’t suited for even when the personnel is there to play them correctly, it’s been an absolute shitshow from an Xs and Os perspective. There is no denying this in any way.
The one thing keeping him and us afloat during this was his ability to get the team to give full effort. No matter how much we were down, we fought. I mean he managed to convince that worthless egomaniacal diva to come off the bench for us.
He’s not doing that anymore.
Nobody’s giving effort, nobody’s doing the little things, nobody’s making those team plays, nothing. LeBron has openly criticized Ham’s usage of himself and his teammates, and he somewhat fired back at Ham for the “send a message” comment, which in and of itself was a red flag.
I don’t want to jump to conclusions here, but the evidence is becoming tough to argue against: Darvin Ham is losing, or has already lost, the locker room.
If this happens or has already, there’s no more defending him. There’s no more “team continuity/chemistry” discussion with regards to a coaching change, there’s none of that. If a schematically incompetent player’s coach can’t motivate the players, he is nothing but an active detriment to the team and needs to be replaced immediately.
I don’t know if Stotts still wants to coach, I honestly don’t know who is out there period, but nothing, and I mean NOTHING, can be worse than Ham right now.
I really wonder how much of that was ham & how much was westbrick leaving being that addition by subtraction breath of fresh air🤷🏾
Ok… I was kind of mad last night. Let’s wait until December. Everyone needs to chill.
No it was not. He was schematically better than both Kerr and Jenkins in the playoffs. Stop with the overreaction nonsense
He was great in the playoffs IMO. His lineup adjustments against the Warriors were the biggest reason why we won that series
Ham hit his ceiling as a coach. This is the best that it gets. Need a coach that understands x and o and stats to make the game easier for the players. And to understand better rotation and balance. Who’s out there?
Agreed… that was his one redeeming factor. The fact he could be a ra-ra, motivational, locker room guy. Now it’s clearly not there anymore because players aren’t stupid. They know they can’t win w/ this guy.
Do you honestly think Jeanie is going to fire Ham with 3 years left on his contract (that includes this year)? I don’t see it happening unfortunately.
I think you need a clean sweep honestly. I mean Rob has royally fk’d up this roster since Kobe helped assemble it in 2020. Since then it’s been one “clever”, but dumbass move after another. People praise him for the trade deadline last year. But let’s be honest. He swooped up a lot of players that teams didn’t see as winning players. That even includes Rui, whether it’s true or not, but wasn’t seen as a team player that can make winning plays. That’s why he was on the block. Same with Dlo, Vando, etc… All of that said, it was an upgrade over WB. But people saying that was some great trade deadline accusations are fkin delusional in my mind.
Why you writing all that for? I swear y’all some drama queens, we not even 10 games into the season and haven’t even played our full squad. They playing 1/3 the capacity in the middle of a long road trip that had them flying across the country… Of course they playing with low effort, THEY TIRED! you got dudes like AR who have no business playing 40+ minutes, what you think was gonna happen?
Y’all gotta stop being so damn emotional and stop overreacting.
I think the Rockets are just a bad matchup for the Lakers when AD is not playing from an athleticism stand point. The only way to negate that is to have Lebron go 100%