Jeanie Buss thinks Short Bus is a flat tire

[BOTSLAYER]

I can not wait me some college football!!! Or any sport besides baseball and NBA offseason really.

I doubt I have ever met a gator grad, that would be annoying.

 

[RoboticDreams]

Botslayer is so fuckin full of shit it's not even funny. She merely said that her dad was such a genius that he could have convinced Dwight to say and I agree. The man had a life time of history that inspired others to believe in him. Jim Buss is a good business and is smart, but he appears to be short of his dad's genius because he hasn't been at the controls long enough. You have to give the guy a chance to learn and grow on his own without his dad looking over his shoulders

Jim Buss is an absolute moron and the MAIN reason the Lakers have fallen apart.

Where the hell have you been?

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Jim Buss is an absolute moron and the MAIN reason the Lakers have fallen apart.

Where the hell have you been?

Right there watching when the Lakers won two more championships under Jim Buss - you couldn't possibly think that Dr Jerry Buss was running the show in the last decade could you? Dr Buss may have made a few decisions here and there but Jim and Jeannie were running the company

 

[RoboticDreams]

Right there watching when the Lakers won two more championships under Jim Buss - you couldn't possibly think that Dr Jerry Buss was running the show in the last decade could you? Dr Buss may have made a few decisions here and there but Jim and Jeannie were running the company

Hiring Mike D'Antoni was an epic failure. He hired the one guy who cannot coach the roster at hand. They aren't spring chickens but he hires a coach who wants to run nonstop and doesn't coach his players up on defense.

Jeannie would be a better GM than Jim.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Hiring Mike D'Antoni was an epic failure. He hired the one guy who cannot coach the roster at hand. They aren't spring chickens but he hires a coach who wants to run nonstop and doesn't coach his players up on defense.

Jeannie would be a better GM than Jim.

I wasn't happy about it either, but you have to face the facts and the facts is that Phil Jackson did not want to coach any more and would have come back only because the fans wanted him that much. He lacked the energy to really be the coach he was in prior years and his triangle offense is too slow for the NBA today. I don't like Jim Buss either, but Jeannie Buss, Dr Jerry Buss and Mitch Kupchak has been also part of the decision making process as well.

The real disaster by the way was hiring Mike Brown when they should have given Kurt Rambis or Brian Shaw a chance to begin with

 

[sublime4eva]

Jeanie thinks Dr. Buss would have enticed Dwight to stay.

She also thinks that Jim (short) is a moron.

Lakers VP Jeanie Buss says her dad could have wooed Dwight Howard to stay in L.A. - ESPN Los Angeles

This is obvious...

 

[True Lakers Fan]

I am not even convinced that Howard staying in Los Angeles would have been the best thing for the Lakers under any condition. I don't think Howard is serious enough and motivated enough to make the final push for a championship like it is needed.

We will see, but I see the Rockets being a good team without ever getting to the finals

 

[Heatles84]

I wasn't happy about it either, but you have to face the facts and the facts is that Phil Jackson did not want to coach any more and would have come back only because the fans wanted him that much. He lacked the energy to really be the coach he was in prior years and his triangle offense is too slow for the NBA today. I don't like Jim Buss either, but Jeannie Buss, Dr Jerry Buss and Mitch Kupchak has been also part of the decision making process as well.

The real disaster by the way was hiring Mike Brown when they should have given Kurt Rambis or Brian Shaw a chance to begin with

I'm surprised more Lakers fans don't mention this. I wouldn't be surprised if Brian Shaw is doing big things in Denver. Thank god that guy is out of the East.

 

[Lakers+USC=#1]

I'm surprised more Lakers fans don't mention this. I wouldn't be surprised if Brian Shaw is doing big things in Denver. Thank god that guy is out of the East.

We have mrntioned this plenty of times, its just Mike D is more current

 

[trojanfan12]

Heard an interview with Jeannie Buss on the radio this afternoon!! She said that Dr. Buss set up the organization in a way that he believed would give the Lakers the best chance at continued success!!

She basically said that when he passed, they lost their leader and that what we are seeing is them trying to "find their way" with the leader gone!! She basically said that there's an adjustment period that they are going through and to trust Dr. Buss' vision for the team and how he set things up!!

I'd say that she's probably right!!

 

[Black Adam]

I'm surprised more Lakers fans don't mention this. I wouldn't be surprised if Brian Shaw is doing big things in Denver. Thank god that guy is out of the East.

trust me, i was certainly in that same area of thought when they hired Brown, though others in here swore up and down he was a "good coach"...

 

[Heatles84]

trust me, i was certainly in that same area of thought when they hired Brown, though others in here swore up and down he was a "good coach"...

I remember. I lol'd at that time.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

I remember. I lol'd at that time.

The Lakers have had 3 different coaches during each of the last 3 seasons playoffs and haven't won a 2nd round game with any of them ( and that included PJ).

Seems to me like that is more of a player/talent issue then a sideline issue.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

The Lakers have had 3 different coaches during each of the last 3 seasons playoffs and haven't won a 2nd round game with any of them ( and that included PJ).

Seems to me like that is more of a player/talent issue then a sideline issue.

Mike Brown was really a bad surprise - He did so well in Cleveland, but sometimes people are made for certain little niche's or places and Mike Brown was just simply out of his element in Los Angeles. The jury is still out on Mike D'antoni, but Phil Jackson would have been only a temporary fix for a couple of years and I expect the Lakers were hoping to groom a new coach for the long duration regardless of how Dwight Howard played it out.

It's a shame that the kids lost their dad, but in good health he would have said soak Phil for as many championship titles you can get and put him in there for two more years. With Phil in their I think He could have mad Dwight happy. Dwight wasn't happy playing second fiddle to Kobe, but Dwight was simply not being used to his real potential and neither was Gasol and I don't think any other coach in the NBA other then Phil could have made that combination work

 

[True Lakers Fan]

trust me, i was certainly in that same area of thought when they hired Brown, though others in here swore up and down he was a "good coach"...

Well what can you do, but try to convince yourself of that and hope that wishful thinking produces positive results

If Mike Brown had stuck with the basics, though like he did the year before and not tried that fuckin princeton offense, the Lakers would have been fine

 

[Heatles84]

Well what can you do, but try to convince yourself of that and hope that wishful thinking produces positive results

If Mike Brown had stuck with the basics, though like he did the year before and not tried that fuckin princeton offense, the Lakers would have been fine

That right there convinced me that Mike Brown just wasn't that good of a coach.

 

[trojanfan12]

That right there convinced me that Mike Brown just wasn't that good of a coach.

When Mike Brown first approached Kobe about the Princeton offense and Kobe agreed, it wasn't a bad idea because of the personnel that the Lakers had at the time.

Browns mistake was that when the Lakers brought in Dwight and Nash, he stuck with the Princeton offense even though it no longer fit his personnel.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

When Mike Brown first approached Kobe about the Princeton offense and Kobe agreed, it wasn't a bad idea because of the personnel that the Lakers had at the time.

Browns mistake was that when the Lakers brought in Dwight and Nash, he stuck with the Princeton offense even though it no longer fit his personnel.

He would have made adjustments. It was only 5 games under trying circumstances.
Unless Kobe wanted him out, or Phil was for sure coming back, I don't to this day understand what all the panic was about.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

He would have made adjustments. It was only 5 games under trying circumstances.
Unless Kobe wanted him out, or Phil was for sure coming back, I don't to this day understand what all the panic was about.

Mabe he would have, but using an offense from a college that never won a championship with it even at the collegiate level smelled like an act of desparation from a coach in over his head to me

 

[True Lakers Fan]

He would have made adjustments. It was only 5 games under trying circumstances.
Unless Kobe wanted him out, or Phil was for sure coming back, I don't to this day understand what all the panic was about.

The panic was that the Lakers had lost 4 games in a row in the playoffs, then another 12 games straight in the pre-season and then 5 games straight in the regular season. That is 21 straight games with the same coach and not even close to winning even one game. You don't think that was atleast a red flag?