Official Goodbye LUKE WALTON Thread (Luke/Lakers Part Ways, p. 792, Signs Deal with Kings p. 809)

[MJST]

[JJin77]

Luke is the New Byron Scott

[LandsbergerRules]

[Megaton]

[MJST]

[hydrohead]

We all new this was going to be a tough job for Luke, but i think the MUD squad has not made it the nightmare we feared. It’s Magic and Lebron’s impatience that is going to challenge Luke, all season.
Naturally, people want to work with others they have a trust relationship with. Not sure Magic or Lebron have it or will establish it.
They won’t win the championship this year. Luke is going to be the scapegoat, deservingly or not. This will be his last year as coach.

[FanOfFour]

I've been fine w/giving Luke time to grow, but his lineup choices have been atrocious. BI is easily the worst part of the starting lineup. He just doesn't fit that group, but he's been given a ridiculously long rope. What's the advantage of starting BI at the 2? There hasn't been any. Hart is a much better fit. But maybe it's a mandate by the FO that BI gets 30 minutes every night regardless of how poorly he's playing. Whereas Lonzo and Hart will sit if they're not playing well. I suppose since BI has an additional year of pro experience, he gets that extra leeway. Oh and the fastest way to blow a lead is to allow Lance to do whatever the heck he wants on O and D and let the team go helter skelter.

[rancar]

Luke is a liability. He's been able to cover up his ineptitude by not being required to win the past couple of seasons. Those times are OVER!

[lakersfan8]

[LandsbergerRules]

[Intlakeshow]

[LongBeachPoly]

[BigGameHames]

I would pay money to talk to Luke about the huge discrepancy between the amount of leash he gives various guys on the team. It’s hurting the team and the individual players development. He allows Ingram to get more and more selfish offensively, doesn’t care if Kuzma plays D, and refuses to let Hart and Zo play consistent minutes together despite the fact they’ve shown to be the best back court pairing on the team and show the most consistent defensive effort. It’s like certain players get pulled for one mistake while others can continually make mistakes without any repercussions. It’s a horrible way to develop a team and he’s lucky he’s got a talented team going through an easy stretch of the schedule right now.

[ringfinger]

Question for you guys. So, the identity of this pace is supposed to be run, run, run, right?

Well, why aren't we running? I mean, fine, on a fast break opportunity we run. But, everyone does that. I don't really see us running at all, actually.

I'm also not seeing that "7 seconds or less" style offense out there. Is it just me?

I'm wondering if a large part of this is because Lonzo isn't running things now.

EDIT: I still see we are up there in pace at 104.4, which is indeed high, but, it just doesn't feel very fast to me so I'm not sure how it is we end up there.

[epak]

3 wins in a row probably means no line up changes

But I've liked what the 2nd unit is doing for the most part.
I liked how Rondo awarded kcp for his hussle the last game.
Kcp hitting shots will be important for the team.
And Luke seems to have a short leash on Lance. Hopefully it's leading to less ISOs.
And Tyson has been a big surprise.
And we know what Hart and Rondo can do.

Ugly win. But a win is a win till the team gels. And they seem to be.
The first unit is coming along. But they'll probably gel slower than the 2nd unit who are made up of role guys.

[The Lebrons]

Lebron coaches the offense. The only two coaches who could maybe get Lebron to play within a system are Pop and Kerr (and call him out on his lazy possessions where he settles for 3s). I keep asking, who do you think is going to come in and make this any better? I was only worried about the defense from day 1, and that is trending the right direction. Unfortunately, Lebron is killing our pace at the same time, which is hurting our offense.

[YSong]

Blew another double digit lead in the second half.

Almost lost again in the final 2 minutes ....

Seriously this is getting ridiculous!

[CervantesRises]

[Nonamehero]

After What Luke pulled yesterday, he needs to go.

It seemed he purposely trying to lose the game when he had the bench playing against Atlanta starter for extended minutes and called no time out.

I don’t know whether he is

1. Doing it on purpose cuz he is paid by altanta
2. Doing it on purpose cuz he is stunted
3. Brain freeze because of all the pressure getting to him.

Any of the above is hopeless, he needs to go.
I mean as a star player Lebron should have no confidence in him after that, Luke have zero sense about momentum, and utilizing players strength, creating a system, and defining players roles.

It seems like he has all his rotation written on a stone before the game and won’t adjust anything before the final 5 minutes.

He is just not fit to be a Basketball coach, let alone an NBA coach, he is only ok at babysitting an all star team like golden state warrior. Even that he failed at it, since he is one of the main reason the warrior team blow all their load in the regular season and almost ran out of steam against Thunder and clearly did against Cavs after game 5. And Kerr made some stunted substitution in game 7 of the finals that cost them the championship, maybe that has something to do with Luke as well, I never seen Steve Kerr made such dumb mistake after that.

[durden-tyler]

[AFireInside619]

On a Mail Bag edition of Locked on Lakers someone suggested Monty Williams because of his connection with AD.

[epak]

[Nonamehero]

[Aike]

[Intlakeshow]