ChuckBuck wrote:I guess a writer in Ramona Shelburne with multiple pro basketball writers associations awards, a Masters from Stanford, and long time columnist for the LA sports scene is to be easily discredited.

She just makes shyt up! Dammit, why I take the bait...

She is smart enough to lure in gullible readers who will run with it. Yes, Chuck, she is a very smart writer with cred. And you fell for it hook, line and sinker!
Whats more important is what did you think about the subject? Did you think it was valid? When PHil proposed it to Buss what was the team like? What was his health like? Was Phil under contract? Was the lakers trying to bring him back at the time? Keep him from leaving? Was this phils response to coming back as a compromise?

Personally I don't think its a good idea, but more important I don't think its really on the table. I think If Rambis stays Phil will be more influential in the coaching process. IM ok with that.
More important to the success of the team is some upgrades at some positions.

If Thibs were to be coach I can see Phil not being so prevalent and perhaps might speak to his departure after next year. Phil would have put the team in good hands and still changed the culture in his three years on the job.

We are in year two.

Nalod wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:I guess a writer in Ramona Shelburne with multiple pro basketball writers associations awards, a Masters from Stanford, and long time columnist for the LA sports scene is to be easily discredited.

She just makes shyt up! Dammit, why I take the bait...

She is smart enough to lure in gullible readers who will run with it. Yes, Chuck, she is a very smart writer with cred. And you fell for it hook, line and sinker!
Whats more important is what did you think about the subject? Did you think it was valid? When PHil proposed it to Buss what was the team like? What was his health like? Was Phil under contract? Was the lakers trying to bring him back at the time? Keep him from leaving? Was this phils response to coming back as a compromise?

Personally I don't think its a good idea, but more important I don't think its really on the table. I think If Rambis stays Phil will be more influential in the coaching process. IM ok with that.
More important to the success of the team is some upgrades at some positions.

If Thibs were to be coach I can see Phil not being so prevalent and perhaps might speak to his departure after next year. Phil would have put the team in good hands and still changed the culture in his three years on the job.

We are in year two.

Depends on if Phil exercises his out clause at the conclusion of 2016-17. Could be only 1 more season of Phil in New York, so he may go out swinging doing what he does best. And if that means taking to the sidelines to salvage his own mess...we'll see, I guess.

Nalod wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:

Nalod wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:I guess a writer in Ramona Shelburne with multiple pro basketball writers associations awards, a Masters from Stanford, and long time columnist for the LA sports scene is to be easily discredited.

She just makes shyt up! Dammit, why I take the bait...

She is smart enough to lure in gullible readers who will run with it. Yes, Chuck, she is a very smart writer with cred. And you fell for it hook, line and sinker!
Whats more important is what did you think about the subject? Did you think it was valid? When PHil proposed it to Buss what was the team like? What was his health like? Was Phil under contract? Was the lakers trying to bring him back at the time? Keep him from leaving? Was this phils response to coming back as a compromise?

Personally I don't think its a good idea, but more important I don't think its really on the table. I think If Rambis stays Phil will be more influential in the coaching process. IM ok with that.
More important to the success of the team is some upgrades at some positions.

If Thibs were to be coach I can see Phil not being so prevalent and perhaps might speak to his departure after next year. Phil would have put the team in good hands and still changed the culture in his three years on the job.

We are in year two.

Depends on if Phil exercises his out clause at the conclusion of 2016-17. Could be only 1 more season of Phil in New York, so he may go out swinging doing what he does best. And if that means taking to the sidelines to salvage his own mess...we'll see, I guess.

So you think there is validity to the story?
And you think Phil created this mess, that it was not there when he got the job?

Nalod, we're 2 years in already, who's mess is it now? Is sure isn't Grunwald's. Afflalo, Calderon, Vujacic, Seraphim, KoQ, Lou is all Phil's guys, who do you want to pass the blame torch to now? Phil is 100000% accountable.

He has 1 bright spot, maybe 1 and half with RoLo decent play. He gets this off season to work a miracle, and if the 2016-17 doesn't pan out favorably, it's not outside the realm of possibility to see Jackson perched on top of Jeannie in Lakerland as an exec.

crzymdups wrote:It's funny to me that a throw away line from one article where the writer claims Phil MAY CONSIDER MAYBE doing something is taken to be what's happening, even when Melo comes out and says "that's not happening."

Exactly