Does GSW collapse affect your confidence in Luke?

Lakers2015 · Star Player Joined: 16 Feb 2015 Posts: 2315

No. OKC is simply better.
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Halflife · Franchise Player Joined: 15 Aug 2015 Posts: 16704

If Luke were head coach they would have swept okc

Inspector Gadget · Retired Number Joined: 18 Apr 2016 Posts: 46639

Why?

Luke isn't the one giving intructions to the GS players.

When he did, the Warriors went 39-4 and played a fun free flowing style.

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ZenMaster4President · Starting Rotation Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 966

Right.... cause 17 win team chooses a coach based on his coaching tree ability to win back-to-back titles...

Laker's Fan · Franchise Player Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 12850

Sample size is plenty is plenty big to know the GS system is legit. If anything an earlier exit by GS means Luke joins LA sooner to help build his staff and look after workouts for #32.
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aachan · Star Player Joined: 10 Nov 2010 Posts: 1863

Not at all. It's simple, stars win playoff games. Westbrook and Durant came to play, Curry, Thompson and Green haven't yet so far.

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cathy78 · Star Player Joined: 21 Jan 2013 Posts: 1415

I think it is pretty much the best thing that could have happened. now he can see the flaws and problems as well and has all summer to think about it. What better experience can he get?

Lakers_Jester · Star Player Joined: 17 Sep 2012 Posts: 5366

Slightly. I hope he understands why their style of bball is losing.

KindCrippler2000 · Franchise Player Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 15821

You can argue that Luke coached the team better than Kerr.

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oldschool32 · Franchise Player Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 20032

I'm hoping Luke fits his style to our team's roster. I wasn't planning on him trying to completely mimic the Warriors style. Hopefully in the future the Lakers will be able to go big or small, inside or out, and protect the rim better than the Warriors.
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Laker's Fan · Franchise Player Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 12850

Btw, it's the Clippers who are cursed. LA was the preseason title favorite in 2012-13 and four years later has among the most asset rich developing rosters in the league despite a leaguewide conspiracy (CBA) to hold us down.
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City_Dawg · Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 6:39 am Post subject:

Luke can very well come here and be a disaster. But it will be because of his inexperience, not because of the way he wants the team to play.
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Goldenwest · Star Player Joined: 28 Nov 2009 Posts: 2801

Not much at all. You could even say the coaching of Kerr and Luke has been even more impressive with this flawed and not so physical team.

Don Draper · Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 6:43 am Post subject:

Can't blame Luke for this. Not even he can make Steph and Drayfraud man up and play like actual NBA players.

King Randle · Star Player Joined: 21 Jul 2014 Posts: 7313

I think the good thing is Luke had experience winning championships with bigs, Gasol, Bynum and Odom and currently small ball with GS. In the end, GS really isn't playing and D and OKC is making the case you can beat them with athletic bigs. We need athletic bigs and obviously a defensive mind set. Hopefully he'll hire a good defensive minded assistant.

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

I blame Luke. He still can't hit the 3.

Chronicle · Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 7:16 am Post subject:

I don't understand why people think that just because Luke is the coach we are going to run GS offense. He is going to take some parts of it, some parts of what he learned as a player from Phil, some parts of what he learned in college, some parts he saw in dreams, some parts from other teams.

He's just going to run some offense. We are not going to be clones, or a mirror copy.

If he's a good coach, he'll take the parts that are good, and specifically the ones that fit our players.

Oh and by the way, "GS System" whatever the hell that is, is not necessarily bad. Are they "exposed" because they have trouble when curry cannot create for the rest of the team? Yes maybe the team needs more players that can create for themselves instead of always passing, but then why is the system bad? That would mean it would overcome that problem with different players, no?

Anyway, my point is, stop thinking we are going to be a copy of GS, because we are not. Even if we had the exact same players, the exact same coach, it would still be different.
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PHILosophize · Franchise Player Joined: 05 Nov 2012 Posts: 10758

Actually quite the opposite. I'm quite confident that if Luke was coaching GSW would be up 3-1 right now instead of down 3-1.