Eric Pincus article / interview with Jim Buss

angrypuppy · Retired Number Joined: 13 Apr 2001 Posts: 32754

You tell 'em Jim!

Accountability is way overrated.

Omar Little · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:16 pm Post subject:

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fiendishoc · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:25 pm Post subject:

If Kobe took on a Parker/Ginobili hybrid role in reduced minutes, he'd probably still be pretty good at it for a couple of years, and no one would consider him a mere role player, especially if it's a good team. And look at Duncan- reduced usage and minutes, but still considered the MAN on that team.

I really don't believe that it needs to be 'high usage shotmaker' or bust...

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greenfrog · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:03 pm Post subject:

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mhan00 · Retired Number Joined: 13 Apr 2001 Posts: 32059

Bottom line, it's do or die time. We've missed the playoffs an unprecedented two times in a row, and most pundits are predicting we will miss our third straight. It is not a good look to say the least, especially since in the public' eyes these possible three straight blanks would correspond exactly with the first three years following Dr. Buss's death and the kids inheriting the team. As has been said many times, we've got the tools now: the young talent and the cap space, execute or be executed.

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greenfrog · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:24 pm Post subject:

fiendishoc · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:20 pm Post subject:

More:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/lakersnow/la-sp-ln-jim-buss-defends-scott-lakers-analytics-20150828-story.html

He's on point mostly, with Kobe, free agency, and the young guys, but the biggest issue I have with this whole interview is with Byron. Yeah, you've been using analytics for a while, particularly with scouting, but how did you miss the entire league going the direction of Spurs? Space and pace, read and react, secondary actions to overcome zone defensive principles.

It's not just a function of the numbers saying we need more threes so lets get more shooters. The entire philosophy needs to change. You have a lot of interviews with coaches these days where they talk about 'back in the day the coach would call a play for this player and then it would go into an isolation but now we're so much more sophisticated'. Well, 'back in the day' is exactly what we have been doing. And it should have been stopped going back to training camp of last year, much less taking an entire season and counting.

It just shows a blind spot in the front office. Maybe its the lack of coaching experience in there, or just pride like 'we're the Lakers, we don't need to learn anything from the Spurs'.

THE_DAGGER · Starting Rotation Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 352

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THE_DAGGER · Starting Rotation Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 352

I have to say hell of an opportunity landing a Jim Buss interview, as well as hell of job on the write up by Emplay.

Having said that, I don't see where some of you are getting validation from this article on the "let the young guys grow front". He still said he's on the two year contender time table, not the AFTER 3-5 years time table many of you are on.

Omar Little · Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:29 pm Post subject:

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fiendishoc · Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 12:05 am Post subject:

^ Speaking of the Spurs and the Triangle, the Spurs actually borrowed heavily from the Triangle in building their motion offense. I would say that they improved on it a lot as well, making it less deliberate, and engineering more efficient shots. That's what successful competitors do- they copy what works from others and put new twists on it. (Analogous to Kobe borrowing parts of the games of other top players to craft his own game.)

They don't just stick with what worked in the past dogmatically, because things change. And that goes for Phil and Dfish, who are now showing signs of departing from their previous 'purist' stance on the triangle, after their debacle of a season.

Fine if you want to go a different direction then everyone else- but you have to innovate- you can't go backwards into time and stick to something that everyone has evolved from.

As for your last line, it's pretty likely that the eye test (including games and workouts) was the biggest factor in selecting Russell. Just look at what Jerry West and Rick Pitino have said about him. Mychal Thompson is as old school as you can get, and after he watched Russell play, he said "That's the guy". Phil Jackson sat down to watch hours of video with Russell, and demonstrated to him how he could take the Kobe role in the triangle. And the analytics also liking him is definitely not a bad thing.

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Why is he wearing a baseball cap In every photo him I have ever seen?
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if the Lakers wants Kobe to take a backseat to the young guys, then it's tank time!
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