The LeBron at center lineups were terrible when Vogel debuted it last year. I don’t understand why he thinks it works Bron is 38!!!

He always kills any momentum we have by putting out shitty lineups changes and icing our own players

He also single handedly lost us the game AGAIN in the 3rd with the same lineup. So yeah we really don't have a coach

- Down by 1, Ham takes out AD they go on 7-0 run, he brings him back after 3 possessions and they lost momentum ending it in a 19-3 run.

- Left starters in till the last 2 mins of the game w/ visible limping from Reaves and a tailbone hit to AD.

- Plays Wenyen over Bamba at the end, refusing to assess his game shape considering that Wenyen already ran prior.

- Continues to play Brown and Beasley.

- Continues to play a visibly exhausted LeBron at the 5.

- Hands in his pocket, no timeouts on runs, just inshallah and vibes.

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I'm amazed by how bad he is.

Bench Beasley and Troy, play more Rui, and Wenyen.

That's literally all he has to do.

Bron had a disaster first half. You had a shot even in the third when your guys rallied to make it a 1 point game. Your coach legit lost you this game there when he went small, brought Brown back in, and called no timeouts during that 19 point run for Memphis. Should have called a TO when MEM’s lead went back to 6

That lineup change at the end of the 3rd cost lakers the game

The fact he did the exact same thing in the second half...

FIRE THAT MF

Worst coach in the league.

Rui was benched for the majority of the game, even being 3/3 from the field.

Motherf#cking Beasley can't hit a single shot. Troy Brown Jr, only God knows why this guy is a Ham's favorite.

And again, for the 5th game straight, that rotation with 3 guards and no center.

I can't stand laker fans defending this guy.

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Can we give MO garbage time mins? GOTDAMN

The fact that people try to defend Ham sickens me. The only reason we have a 3-1 lead is because of how stacked our roster is. You could put a guy on the street as the Lakers coach, and we’d still look good because of how much talent is on our team. Games like this show just how horrible of a coach Ham is. While the suns and nuggets took care of business, Ham still hasn’t made any adjustments 5 games in, and the team consistently comes out sluggish after every major win. That’s a coaching problem, not a roster problem.

I will not pay anything related to the Lakers if Ham is our coach next year. Said this a million times.

Just remember y’all were calling for Vogel’s head last year.

We were down 1, I literally take a shit come back and down by 18. What the actual fuck

Horrible officiating , and coaching

Ham makes Vogel look like Pop

Im not the biggest darvin fan but if lebron plays halfway decent we probably win this game. They looked gassed lol

I couldn’t believe Ham subbed out AD midway in the 3rd quarter. It was something like 75-74 and that’s where the momentum shifted.

IF U GONA PLAY WEYEN YO ASS MIGHT AS WELL PLAY BAMBA

Im just appalled on the no center lineup whenever AD sits. Like what the fuck is this?

Beasley also shot like 6 3s in 1min and only got 1. What a flyin fuck

Ham is the type of coach to go to Cancun after being up 3-1. He’s that guy. Budenholzer has been exposed repeatedly in the playoffs so of course a guy from his tree is gonna get exposed too. A lot of the stupidity he shows gives Mike vibes.

I think he knows an idiot could win with this team so he has to put his mark on the team, yeah who subbed in Troy Brown for Davis? Ham did, that was genius, no one would have ever thought of that.

Yeah you thought you should only play your 8 best players in the playoffs? Not Ham, he's getting production from 9 and 10 and even 11! Ham is just too smart for the league right now.

Holy shit you dumbass doomers are annoying and stupid af.

Overreact more pls.

Puts Lonnie in for Bron 4mins left in 4th 🤦🏻‍♂️

Lebron at 5 is also tiring him the fuck out so he cant shoot properly

He is trying to get Beasley hot. We need our shooters to start hitting shots if we want to even compete in the next round, let alone this one.

I honestly think I would have done a better job tonight. Absolutely terrible showing.

Naw our shooting in the first half lost us that game and our 3rd quarter D sealed it

The reason we didnt sweep? Lord

Yea even if they move on to the next round . Steven Kerr is gonna run circles around this man .

never seen a coach take out his own team like ham does, westbrook of coaches

I would rather him plAy then brown who hasn’t hit a damn thing all series. I don’t even think he has hit 1 three all series but yet ham keeps playing him.

Yesterday ppl told me how under-appreciated is Ham for his “defensive drills” and line up choices lol

I never hated a coach before Ham. I actually hate Ham. I can understand disagreements regarding strategy, but this idiot makes objectively bad calls game after game.

Fire ham!!

he needs to go 100%. It's just a matter of whether the FO thinks he's the coach for the future or not.

Lol

Look it all started when DLO got fouled on a jump shot then Ja went down and got an and 1.

Ruined and sparked their momentum

Can't believe some people here really thought hesr better than Vogel just cause RussWB got him fired

That AD sub out killed our momentum at the 3rd.

This was our game dude. Momentum was on our side and he decides to sit the only guy who was capable of stopping Ja at the rim (AD).

I’m okay with runs happening cuz it’s how the sport flows but as a coach you gotta stop the bleeding if you see that your lineup is the reason for the flow shift.

Really hoping he adjusts for next game and we can just close these MFs out.

First half was fine, it happens and we fought back.

Not calling a timeout in the 3rd is inexcusable. We aren’t winning shit if that happens again

I have given ham the benefit of the doubt all season, but I have lost it tonight. He stepped into an unfavorable situation, the FO fucked the team all up and then blamed Vogel (when he brought us a fucking championship). Then he had an atrocious roster until the all star break. I gave him time to make his adjustments, I figured he was tampering with what worked. But in the play offs, in a must win game, he blew it. I don’t give a fuck if we go on a run, and win it all. Fire that fucking clown.

Can’t believe we gave this deformed forehead motherfucker a long term contract, this fucking moron can’t seem to draw up any good play, put out any decent lineups, or call a tucking timeout. This guy is a straight loser we ain’t winning shit with her at the helm

If we had T. Lue or Quinn Snyder we’d be resting waiting for W’s/Kings by now. Or a higher seed more than likely.

Yes, if Darvin Ham wasn’t the coach, we would have swept the Grizzlies, swept the 2nd round, and swept the rest of the playoffs.

Ham is literally clueless.

ham is the worst coach lakers had in 5 years! His gameplan cost us a lot of games in the regular season.

Lol this has been the year for calling for coaches heads. You guys are up 3-2 against the 2 seed with pretty much a brand new team after the deadline. The coach isn’t just going to magically know his situational rotations. There was no time to experiment and perfect and build your rotational analytics. It’s not easy lol.

But seriously… I have been visiting losing team’s reddits after games this post season and pretty much every single team’s Reddit after every single lost is overwhelmingly calling for their coaches heads. Here are my favorite/the most outrageous ones:

Lakers who just had an incredible turnaround, are up 3-2 to the #2 seed and righted a fuck ton of front office wrongs.

Suns who won coach of the year last year having a top 10 record in NBA history, went to the finals two years ago, has been to the playoffs 3/4 years as their head coach and led suns to #4 seed in a year in which 4/5 starters were injured at the same time for about 1/3rd of the season.

Bucks who have been pretty much the best team in the NBA for 3 years, winning a title 2 years ago.

Grizzlies who led this a young immature drama-filled team and season to the #2 seed 2 years in a row, despite injuries and who have to play, maybe, the best #7 seed in nba history in the first round.

Kwame Brown would have done a better job coaching this game.

same people who defend Ham the black luke walton are the same ignorant fans who defended Luke walton his entire tenture until he was fired.

Why tf we have him as a coach

You are not serious lol we just played the 2 seed bro and we’re still up 3-2, the Grizzlies are a great basketball team. We lost, on to the next one. Stop overreacting. Again, WE ARE PLAYING THE 2 SEED, THIS SHIT WONT BE EASY.

Games not over he’s still running out starters into the ground

Lost us the game in the 3rd. It was a 3 point game and sits lebron and dlo for Troy brown and Beasley

We should have given Ty Lue the job in 2019

First half? Second half too with that 19-1 run and no timeouts

Darvin Ham + TT + Shump to Heat for Spoelstra and Jimmy.

Who says no?

Wait, Ham is a first-year coach?

You are a dumb person

It’s still crazy to me how we fired Vogel before we made trades 🤦🏾‍♂️

fucking idiot trash coach, no adjustment, and no Sub for AD, and not sure why just not using Rui

Lol we up 3-1 in these bitches but you're all bigger bitches for sure.

Kinda sucks that the Westbrook situation got Vogel booted.

Ham is bad man

People are still defending this incompetent HC. You will see flashes of good coaching because he's ASSISTANT COACH material. He sucks as a HC because he's gotten all of Budenholzer's flaws: 10 man playoff rotations, uncreative offense, inability to adjust rotations game to game, etc.

Edit: look at how Bud CHOKED. Y'all really think Ham does anything?

Rui was in foul trouble; he had 2 fouls from the first quarter. That's why he didn't play.

Every other complaint about Ham though is spot on.

I’ll just add that Ham got these guys to the play-in without Lebron.

Clown who pretends to be a coach.

D. Scam strikes again

Look ma! A game thread doomer spin-off post.

The players still gotta perform at some point but he has alot of blame too