*In the wake of their 1-4 start, it comes as no surprise that Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike Brown has been designated the scapegoat and fired, according to ESPNLosAngeles.com‘s Ramona Shelburne.
As of this posting, it is not immediately known who will take over for him, but a source indicated that one of assistant coaches Bernie Bickerstaff or Chuck Person will take over on an interim basis.
It was only earlier Friday that “source” said his job would be in jeopardy if the team did not perform well on its upcoming six-game homestand. Apparently someone in the front office decided not to wait.
The Lakers have had a healthy Steve Nash in the lineup for only 1½ of their five games so far thanks to a leg injury, while fellow newcomer Dwight Howard has acknowledged that he’s still recovering from the back surgery that brought a premature end to his 2011-12 campaign and knocked him out of the London Olympics. Kobe Bryant has also been playing through a foot ailment.
The Lakers are off to the worst start in the Western Conference despite carrying the league’s largest payroll at just over $100 million, which would trigger an estimated luxury-tax bill at season’s end of nearly $30 million.
The team has also been trying to institute a form of the Princeton offense, a system that relies on reads and ball sharing in order to take some offensive load off Bryant. The results have been mixed so far.
This is kinda….fkd up!! I mean….not that MB was “the greatest” (not by a loooooong shot!!) but the “prollum” ain’t/wasn’t “MB” it’s (drum roll, please!)…”K” B!!! Kobe has fkd up every fkn thang “right” in that organization!! Well, actually, it’s more like…”they have ALLOWED him to etc…”, ‘on some “we have to” let him have his way, c/z he’s “MJ” like”/a marque player”. GTFOH!!! ‘On Kobe’s BEST day, he doesn’t come CLOSE to “MJ”!!!! So…they can go through “20″ fkn coaches & it won’t change a damn thang, b/c they will still have the same fkn prollum…”Kobe Bryant”. So…changing anything OR one else?, is just a waste if time! Beleeeedat!
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Usually, I’m not one to blame the coach whenever a team is performing poorly, but in this case, it seems the coaching was the primary factor for their lackluster performance. It seems that Mike Brown just could not get the players to adapt to his Princeton offense for prime time. As a coach, it is your responsibility to choose an offensive strategy that’s most suitable to your players. Seems that Kobe was down with it, but it was not ideal for the style of players like Nash and Howard. But why did they adopt such a radical change for a team accustomed to playing the triangular for so long?
As far as coaching, Mike Brown was just not the ideal choice from the start. Not when you had someone like Brian Shaw who knew the Lakers inside out and who had become somewhat of a prodigy of Phil Jackson. Maybe they can finally get it right. Hire Brian Shaw.