Is LaVar right? Has Luke lost the team?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:52 am    Post subject:

3 game win streak. Looks like not all Lakers have given up. Particularly the ones who matter.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 12:51 pm    Post subject:

Judah wrote:
I feel like it's necessary to repeat yet this again because people still sound a little confused:

The interview that LaVar did with Jeff Goodman, the one that MJST and several others have linked to, is not the source material of LaVar's original statements about Luke. These are the original statements:

"You can see they're not playing for Luke no more," Ball said from a spa resort in Birstonas, where he is staying while his two youngest sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, get ready to make their professional debuts with Lithuanian team Prienu Vytautas. "Luke doesn't have control of the team no more. They don't want to play for him."

"That's a good team," he added of the Lakers, who have lost nine straight games. "Nobody wants to play for him. I can see it. No high-fives when they come out of the game. People don't know why they're in the game. He's too young. He's too young. ... He ain't connecting with them anymore. You can look at every player, he's not connecting with not one player."

"Lonzo looked good, but he also looked disgusted," Ball said. "He was ready to play. Four minutes left in the first quarter, he dunked it, getting in a flow and Coach sits him down. Sat him down. Now game goes from four points to 10 to 15 to 20. I don't know what they're doing. If he's ready to play, let him play. Don't try and monitor no minutes, put on restrictions."

"LeBron's coming to L.A. I know he's coming to L.A.," Ball said. "LeBron is not a fool. What's the only way he can beat Jordan? You can't get more championships. Only one way, to say every team I've gone to I've won a championship. Go to Lakers and win a championship, then you're better than Jordan.

"You can't give my son the best player in the league, and don't expect them not to win. Get rid of everybody. Give him LeBron and Gelo [LiAngelo Ball]. You got a 2 and a 3. And it's a win. It's a wrap. Then all you need are two rebounders -- [Julius] Randle and [Larry] Nance Jr."

"Even if you bring in a LeBron or a [Paul] George, he [Walton] can't coach them guys," he said. "What is he gonna tell them? He's too young. He has no control."


http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21991857/lavar-ball-says-los-angeles-lakers-coach-luke-walton-lost-team

^^None of this was said on camera. It was all said off-camera prior to that video interview. ESPN didn't take anything he said out of context. Nor did they take only a portion of what he said and misrepresent him in order to make him look bad. The above quotes speak for themselves. What he originally said about Luke wasn't limited to mere observation of the players' body language. He tried to spin it that way (and some of you have gullibly fallen for it, unfortunately), but his criticisms of Luke went well beyond that when he said that Luke is too young to be a head coach, has lost control of the team, and even that he doesn't have what it would take to be able to coach LeBron or Paul George. There's no misrepresentation going on here. All of the above quotes came straight from LaVar's big fat mouth.
Fascinating that we are listening to a man who says he can beat Michael Jordan

As stated on Sports Radio, he is a version of Don King and H.B. Barnum. Without spending any money, he has received worldwide press coverage of his "wise" and "insightful" views based on his experience on being a NBA player/coach/agent/management (LMFAO)

Given his sons' performances in Europe, maybe he should focus on why their coaches are not providing him boys the needed PT
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22079782/liangelo-ball-lamelo-ball-fail-score-second-lithuanian-game
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:24 pm    Post subject:

Luke Walton really ran a iso play for julius randle for last position. Very bad move
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:05 pm    Post subject:

Lavar was on SNL tonight. Very funny

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 3:12 am    Post subject:

mookielala wrote:
Lavar was on SNL tonight. Very funny

LaVar is very smart!

By acting like today's version of Don King and with only one son actually making money, he has received constant/consistent/high-profiled international and national media promotion and guest appearances on high-rating shows such as SNl - along with his reality show and shoe company (that is having problems) - for FREE!!!

Will he soon be complaining about the Eastern Erope Basketball League since his sons didn't play much and didn't score?
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