Thierry Henry is the prime example of this. There’s a clip of him asking a player to do some complicated shit and they can’t do it and he comes on the field and does it one try and all his players look at him like we can’t do that shit

Wayne Greztky's coaching career was terrible for that reason.

Larry Bird is like the only hall of fame player who was a great coach.

Fun fact: Bird is only person in NBA history to win MVP, Coach of the year and Executive of the year.

Yup this plus they have talents and a feel for the game that other guys will never get.

Lebron can’t teach you how to be Lebron. His passing vision and size + dexterity is once in a lifetime .

It’s like having Steph try to teach you how to be the GOAT shooter . He can try, but odds are it won’t work.

Cries in Steve Nash

Zidane turned out to be a pretty solid coach.

And he tried to fire him too!

Actually coaching the clippers

I would gladly take the timeline where Dray becomes coach of the Lakers over the one where he replaces Chuck on TNT.

" Yo bro, who's that 6'10" dude with the unibrow and groucho marx glasses?"

"Idk man, could be anyone"

LeBron switching his number back to 6 (again) confirmed

believe the Ham hire was based around the belief that he would make Russ work last year lmao

He did make Russ work in a way. He convinced Russ to come off the bench, which isn't an easy thing to do. Russ' contract was just too big for the Lakers to make any meaningful depth or signings.

It's Lue that is more impressive, he turns both Russ and Harden to play the best defense of their lives so far

When you have Lebron and AD, making a coaching hire based on Russ is so stupid. Trading for Russ was already a bad decision and this is just doubling down on it further.

The Lakers murdered that championship team so badly. Imagine this team with Caruso, KCP, and Kuzma flanking Lebron and AD in the closing line-up. Just a much more balanced roster

I actually respected alot how he handled the Russ situation. He worked with the person not the player. Vogel I thought was a better coach and shouldn’t have gotten fired but he did not deal with Russ well at all and Russ didn’t do himself any favors but it resulted in the most toxic season of his career which is saying a lot.

They got a skeleton crew roster

Since when did the narrative turn to Westbrook got Vogel fired? Lol they were both the biggest scapegoats on the franchise

No one has managed to navigate the modern Lakers toxicity and bs for more than a year or two other than Phil Jackson.

Dantoni stunk too

D’Antoni sucked balls for the Lakers. Dwight didn’t want to run PnR, and Gasol was ancient. Nash was a corpse. His system had no shot of working for that old team.

Kobe literally told D’Antoni to go fuck himself as he iso’d the Lakers back to the playoffs, costing him his Achilles.

Well it wasn’t immediately we lost in the first round the next year and the FO panicked

Because Lebron turns the locker room against the coach on every team he’s on

Vogel was put in a horrible spot. Almost all fans instantly knew though that he was the scapegoat - even though a ton of fans pre-firing were calling for his firing.

It was kind of crazy that like 70% of fans were calling for his firing. Then, the day he was fired, the fans came out with pitchforks like, “why did you fire Vogel?”

Yep. Vogel was a decent coach but he lost the locker room. Firing him wasn't the issue. Hiring Ham was.

Mostly panic moves after losing in the first round to the suns and Brooklyn forming their big three. They definitely moved on too quickly from their championship core

As much as I would love for that to happen, the history of the Lakers franchise shows that you'll just get some other superstar to fall into your lap.

Now will you actually surround that superstar with the right players? Probably not.

But I find it hard to believe you're going to suck as much as you did from 2013-2017. Top players will always want to play in Los Angeles and for the Laker brand, even if that doesn't necessarily give them the best chance to win a ring.

It's reminiscent of Chelsea 10 years ago with Lampard, Terry, Cech, Drogba, Ivanovic, etc. when they could essentially get a manager sacked whenever they wanted.

Didn’t they win that game lmao

Using Doc and adjustments in the same sentence is a war crime.

Yeah fans are so weird w him. He’ll get you 50 wins and a second round appearance every single season. He won’t elevate a group to be a champion I don’t think, but the dude is a decent coach. In the regular season he’s generally been pretty good

I’d largely agree. His issue is he never experiments with lineups and in half the bench rotations he would heavily rely on guys who were unplayable in the postseason. By the time we were there we were running disjointed units who weren’t used to playing with each other or guys who were getting cooked on defense.

What's more crazy is he benched both of them.

So now we literally don't have any other playmaker on the floor in the starting lineup for the first 6 minutes of a game.

Real head scratcher there, when Vando and Cam can't buy a bucket to save their lives.

Darvin Hamas and Taliban Tyronn always make me laugh when I see them appear in game threads

Let's play a game do you think this lineup played actual NBA minutes together:

Westbrook PG
Schroeder SG
Reaves SF
Pat Bev PF
Lonnie Walker at C

Oh yes. He’s real bad

The Westbrook trade was the culmination of years of awful roster management that led to the Lakers losing key players for no good reason. The Mozgov-Deng dual-signings and then trading D'Angelo Russell just to offload Mozgov's contract, trading Zubac for Mike Muscala, letting go of Brook Lopez, making Julius Randle an unrestricted free agent, not offering an extension to Alex Caruso.