DurzoBlint wrote:Nalod wrote:Got a laker fan in my office and he is miserable. I told him to look at our record for the last 10 years and STFU. He wants to rag on MDA and play the blame game but I tried to explain that we had some good coach's here over the years but the bottom line is how you construct your roster. Have a plan and understand the cost of fulfilment.
Knicks for years reacted than anticipated with Dolan trying to prove himself to Charles and the world. He got rid of Checketts because his star was too big.
Riles saw the hand writing on the wall and got a hell of a deal in Miami. JVG saw the dysfuncition and realized he was never the starphuck coach for Dolan so he went on his own terms. He was smart. The rest we know all too well.
I'd be curious what kupchak does after this season. He can write his own ticket with a handful of teams if he wants to leave, or will Buss be smart and pay him enough to put up with stupidy.
Their problem started when they bought in Nash and paid him for 3 years. It started under Mike Brown and it was not Brown, it was the roster.
Was Phil their man? Did Phil want to show up Jimmy himself either by taking another 12 mil and all the power he could grab? Or go down the aisle with him and then leave him at the alter and embarassing Jimmy? We'll never know.
The perfect scenario is Kupchek leaves with some owenship slice in Seattle and Jimmy hires Isiah.
Problem is if it works the morons will look good.
The only thing about your post I disagree with is the reasoning behind Pat The Rats exodus. I think it was more that the Heat offered him total power and control over all basketball issues. You will never get that working for a corporate owned franchise.
Your right, Aronson gave him a slice and absolute power which Dolan would not give him. I don't blame him a bit for leaving. Checketts too was getting "too big for his britches"!
Regarding the Lakers, their disaster preseason and 0-5 start was indicative to what lied ahead regardless of the coach. They really went all in with Nash and the concept of bringing in MDA was actually a very good idea but it went wrong.
It really was one bad idea after another.
Mistake no. 1: Nash, maybe he is really better than how he is playing but you have to put the ball in his hands. How do you do that with Kobe around? When MDA put the ball into Lins hands look what happened? It was magic. No Amare, no Melo and look what happened. MDA went small with Tyson getting all kinds of looks. MDA needs his players for it to work. Nash can still do it but the rest of the team is not constructed that way. Wrong roster.
Mistake no. 2: trading for him and giving him a 3 year deal for the money they did.
Mistake no. 3: They were not playing defense because they old and slow.
If Mike had a brain he would have not taken the gig but really his first mistake was blowing himself up in PHX and leaving Nash, then not going to Chicago taking Dolans money instead.
The problem is ball movement to which I seriously doubt you get Kobe to pass the ball instinctively. Kobe does not trust his team.
Melo does and he he is learning that he will get the ball back. When the Star stops passing it goes bad on offense. On defense is where the Lakers are having the biggest problem. Dwight is really not all the way healed. We don't know if he comes all the way back. I don't know if he had the same surgery as Larry Johnson. Dwight never had strong offensive fundamentals to compensate for a diminished athletics.
Can he really expect to get a max contract going forward? Can a team like Dallas really make him the cornserstone going forward?
Brooklyn got lucky.
