Then explain this. The night before the firing, no less.
After what is arguably the Lakers ugliest loss of the season in Utah — although it’s really hard to pick just one, they have all been so ugly — the heat from fans and the media is back on coach Mike Brown and his Princeton offense.
But not from Lakers ownership.
Jim Buss preached patience and backed Brown, he gave a vote of confidence to his coach when speaking with Ramona Shelburne of ESPNLA.com.
“I have no problems with Mike Brown at all,” Buss said. “He just works too hard and he’s too knowledgeable for this to be happening.
“So either the system is flawed or something’s going on. Or, like the Triangle, it’s very hard to pick up and understand. I’m not a basketball mind like he is or the players are, and the players are fine with it, so I just have to be patient….
“You have to give it time to understand [what's going on],” Buss said. “I don’t know if there’s an actual game total that would make me impatient. I know if we’re 1-15, I don’t think that would be very good. I’m sure that would be a panic button. But at this time, I’m fine with what’s going on. It’s a learning process for the players. As long as everybody is on the same page, I think we’re fine.
Here is what I think happened:
You blame Kobe!! What a shock!! I'm sure that everyone who read that just passed out from the shock of you blaming Kobe!! Kobe was publicly supportive of Brown right up to the end!! Of course, now you'll say that Kobe was only saying what he HAD to say!!
First off, what does what Jim Buss said just before the firing have to do with whether or not Brown should have scrapped the Princeton offense when the Lakers got Nash and Howard? The bottom line is that the offense he chose to stick with, didn't match the personnel that he now had.
Also, it's not as if Brown was the first coach in the history of sports to get the dreaded "vote of confidence" before he got fired.
As for what YOU think happened:
You really are a one trick pony!!
First off, what does what Jim Buss said just before the firing have to do with whether or not Brown should have scrapped the Princeton offense when the Lakers got Nash and Howard? The bottom line is that the offense he chose to stick with, didn't match the personnel that he now had.
Also, it's not as if Brown was the first coach in the history of sports to get the dreaded "vote of confidence" before he got fired.
As for what YOU think happened:
You really are a one trick pony!!
And please quit playing the lame and incorrect 'he hates Kobe' card, because it isn't the case.
I just call things as I see them. Doesn't mean I'm right or wrong, but at least its coming from what I know is an honest point of view.
Didn't I write this about Kobe, in a repsonse to you on the 'Kobe overrated' thread?
Originally Posted by trojanfan12
When the other Heat fans on this board see this, you are going to be in biiiiiiiig trouble!! You have strayed way off of the Heat reservation with this post!!
They might pull your Heat fan card!!
Seriously though, good post and well stated!! To be fair re: the MJ/Kobe comparisons, Kobe fueled some of it earlier in his career by stating that he wanted to be considered better than MJ and by copying so much of his game and mannerisms!!
As he's gotten older, he's moved away from much of that, but he did "feed the monster" in his younger days!!
"Not all Heat fans.
My opinion on this thread was that Kobe was one of the best, most fun to watch players of all time. "
It's no different then what's going on with Beasley.
As much as I like him, I'm not going to disagree with all of the negative things that are being written about him, because they appear to be true.
I believe Brown had said that he was looking to make adjustments. Every coach does. All season long.
You act like he was defending the losses, the system, and refusing to adjust.
The offense he " stuck with"? It was a handful,of games with basically a new roster.
Didn't the Heat in year 1 start 11-8, or something?
He had the entire off-season and pre-season to make adjustments. He didn't and he got fired. Heck, the highest level of coaching that I reached was high school and I knew the Princeton offense wasn't going to work with that roster. I would think that as an NBA coach, Brown could have figured that out sooner than I did.
The Heat's issues were different. They had the right system from day 1. They just needed the big 3 to figure out their roles.
The only way to find out if something will work or not is to experiment, and that has to happen in regular season games. Preseason is meaningless for so many different reasons.
Pre-season isn't meaningless for a team learning an entirely new system. Pre-season is where you can get an idea of how it's likely to work. Pre-season is meaningless for teams that already have a system in place.
I can't EVER remember a coach getting a vote of confidence like Brown did the night before he got canned. Do you?
Maybe not the night before, but there is a reason that it's called "the dreaded vote of confidence" and that's because it usually comes shortly before the coach gets fired. Coaches who aren't about to be fired don't need a vote of confidence.
Did somebody force Buss to make those comments? Was he just flat out lying for no reason?
Who knows what the hell he was thinking? Was there anything about the way that whole situation was handled that looked right? They fire Brown 5 games into the season, make it look like Phil is going to be the coach and then to everyone's surprise (including D'Antoni's) hire D'Antoni!!
On the other hand, on the same night, the cameras caught Kobe glaring at Brown.
Everyone saw it, Everyone commented on it.
And "everyone" was who exactly? The media who sensationalize anything and everything around the Lakers? Message board pinheads who buy into all of the media hype? There isn't a coach or teammate, opponent, opposing coach or referee in the league in his 17 year career that hasn't been glared at by Kobe. He does that!! I've seen Phil get glared at by Kobe on many occasions. No big deal was ever made of it because it was Phil and not Mike Brown.
Do we know for sure that was the reason for the overnight sudden drastic change of opinion? Nope.
But in the world of common sense, it fits right in.
Maybe in YOUR world of common sense it does. The rest of us all know that, as I mentioned above, every coach, teammate, etc. has been glared at by Kobe at one time or another. Hell, I'm sure Dr. Buss himself has been glared at by Kobe at least a couple of times. The only person in the entire Laker organization that probably hasn't been glared at by him is Jeannie. After all, who the heck would ever want to glare at her?
In this instance, I take Kobe's words with a grain of salt. Didn't he also say everything was peachy keen between he and Howard?
And so did Howard!! In fact, Howard said that Kobe had nothing to do with why he left and he admitted that if Phil were still the coach, he'd likely still be a Laker!! Of course, in the turnup world of common sense, that just means it was Kobe's fault!!
The real one trick pony around here is watching all if you fumble and bumble to try to make a case for each others inaccuracies.
