If lakers want to keep darvin ham as head coach, they need to hire a quality assistant to employ better tragedy down the stretch. If not this will happen over and over again
If LeBron doesn't have and demand the ball at the end of the game…he becomes simply a stat padding accumulator…Westbrick is not the guy…he isn't Steve Kerr or Robert Horry.
These are the type of results you get when the cohesiveness and consistency and continuity isn’t there because of roster turnover and injuries to players. This team is already at a disadvantage due to poor roster structure plus a new head coach as well. Ham is doing good but his inexperience shows. All that combined means the Lakers have very little room for error in games against great teams. Almost winning is still losing in the end. Next season this might not happen if this team could stay together but that’s not happening. The Lakers never considered roster construction and continuity. We need trades for sure, better player, you bet, but the results show the Lakers should have more victories than they have and it comes down to this team can’t stay healthy and these guys and this staff need time together to get in sync for critical moments like this. Jennie and Rob need to place team chemistry and continuity as high as superstars and better role players. Until this team holds on to pieces and builds that then it’s every year a who’s who of lakers trying to build a team on the fly.
How is getting obviously fouled on the last play of the game considered making "a catastrophic mistake"??? This is just really getting clownish at this point.
Lakers are good they just need to be better in the last 30 seconds of the game. Should have fouled Luka and lebron or Schroeder should have had possession. Also don’t play Westbrook in the closing lineup he turns the ball over too much
I think its way past "being unlucky" when players come back and play against the lakers. I think other teams sees the lakers on the schedule and they have to think to themselves "that's a good game for me to knock some rust off and also get the win"
DHam is a “Players Coach” and His Unwavering Trust/Belief in His Players will pay off in a Big Way in Future Years however, it has and will cost US games this Year.
Until DHam can have a Team of Players that He can Grow & Develop to fully embody His principles and thinking, He has to take more control of the Beginning and End of Quarters & Games via Line-Ups, Play Calling, Strategic Time-Outs, etc.
It's amazing how much some Lakers fans curse LeBron when he is the only great player on the team. AD is the biggest problem, because he is actually superstar potential that is always sidelined due to injury. Westbrook is the second biggest problem, because he gets paid $47 million to make boneheaded plays.
I think it should have been a immediate timeout coming down the stretch in the basketball game they should have got it Dennis schroder in the game and let him made the decision making for the Los Angeles Lakers in the final seconds🤔💡🙄✔️
I don't trust Russ to finish that even if he wasn't fouled. And if he was fouled I don't trust him to make free throws. Bottom line is I don't want the ball in his hands. Period at the end of games.
Keep Max Christie. Once that 3 pointer starts falling you can start him. Our new improved version of KCP
Russ isn’t the problem it’s just he’s making so much money that would be spent on better role players to suit lebron James and Anthony Davis
If lakers want to keep darvin ham as head coach, they need to hire a quality assistant to employ better tragedy down the stretch. If not this will happen over and over again
Ham is terrible!
Why doesn't LeBron have the ball??
If LeBron doesn't have and demand the ball at the end of the game…he becomes simply a stat padding accumulator…Westbrick is not the guy…he isn't Steve Kerr or Robert Horry.
These are the type of results you get when the cohesiveness and consistency and continuity isn’t there because of roster turnover and injuries to players. This team is already at a disadvantage due to poor roster structure plus a new head coach as well. Ham is doing good but his inexperience shows. All that combined means the Lakers have very little room for error in games against great teams. Almost winning is still losing in the end. Next season this might not happen if this team could stay together but that’s not happening. The Lakers never considered roster construction and continuity. We need trades for sure, better player, you bet, but the results show the Lakers should have more victories than they have and it comes down to this team can’t stay healthy and these guys and this staff need time together to get in sync for critical moments like this. Jennie and Rob need to place team chemistry and continuity as high as superstars and better role players. Until this team holds on to pieces and builds that then it’s every year a who’s who of lakers trying to build a team on the fly.
How is getting obviously fouled on the last play of the game considered making "a catastrophic mistake"??? This is just really getting clownish at this point.
Lakers are good they just need to be better in the last 30 seconds of the game. Should have fouled Luka and lebron or Schroeder should have had possession. Also don’t play Westbrook in the closing lineup he turns the ball over too much
These close loses are on LeBron in the 4th quarter he needs to command the ball on every possession
Dennis Schroeder should have had the ball. He can shoot and drive to net. He scored vs Sacramento on the last play.
Started off the video with an excuse 😭🤣
I think its way past "being unlucky" when players come back and play against the lakers. I think other teams sees the lakers on the schedule and they have to think to themselves "that's a good game for me to knock some rust off and also get the win"
he shouldn't have to go get the ball russ just gave it to him
It’s also on bron for not demanding the ball. Look at the footage bron looked like he had no interest to attempt to be in a play.
Lebron is not a closer, not hatin on the man. Lakers don't have a closer.
https://youtu.be/QkOtR-Ll8sg
Did anyone see the pic of Embid holding Russ's wrist on the final play when he was going up for the score? Egregious!
Russ hijacked the last possession and you casuals are blaming lebron💀 must be exhausting being a Russ fan
trade AD for reliable wings and a good center and Lakers are winning 10 games in a row straight up.
DHam is a “Players Coach” and His Unwavering Trust/Belief in His Players will pay off in a Big Way in Future Years however, it has and will cost US games this Year.
Until DHam can have a Team of Players that He can Grow & Develop to fully embody His principles and thinking, He has to take more control of the Beginning and End of Quarters & Games via Line-Ups, Play Calling, Strategic Time-Outs, etc.
Russell Westbrook’s last 6 games:
20 PTS – 14 REB – 11 AST
28 PTS – 7 REB – 5 AST
25 PTS – 7 REB – 7 AST
23 PTS – 5 REB – 15 AST
18 PTS – 11 REB – 9 AST
21 PTS – 8 REB – 9 AST
It's amazing how much some Lakers fans curse LeBron when he is the only great player on the team. AD is the biggest problem, because he is actually superstar potential that is always sidelined due to injury. Westbrook is the second biggest problem, because he gets paid $47 million to make boneheaded plays.
bron could've told the front office not to trade for the guy they didn't guard in the bubble
I think it should have been a immediate timeout coming down the stretch in the basketball game they should have got it Dennis schroder in the game and let him made the decision making for the Los Angeles Lakers in the final seconds🤔💡🙄✔️
I don't trust Russ to finish that even if he wasn't fouled. And if he was fouled I don't trust him to make free throws. Bottom line is I don't want the ball in his hands. Period at the end of games.