Multiple Sauces: Lakers + Mike Brown in SERIOUS talks!

The fans of the team arent the ones making the decisions.... and im sure those same fans that think hiring mike brown for the lakers is dumb think that hiring mchale for the rockets is dumb. The two really have nothing to do with each other.

I do think this is a bad hire personally... I would think there are much better options out there for this team to win while kobe is still a good player. I think next season is the last real good chance for the lakers to win it all and I think they blew it with this hire. He could prove me wrong, but until then, i believe its not gonna work out very well.

 

So why dont we go after Brian Shaw then?

 

HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHA. Gotta love how ESPN is protecting their employees.

 

So does JVG get the same slack? Lets not forget the Cavs job was his first head coaching job, I think many people forget that.

JVG did the same crap with the lame offense yet people hail him as one of the best coaches in the NBA.

Besides the only people who think Mike Brown is a bad coach seems to be the fans and not the people who study these coaches and get paid to make these decisions.

At the end of the day he's a winning head coach who was Popovic's protege. If Pop thought highly of him that says A TON.

 

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this is not a good hire. Only to a Laker fan he is. Everyone with sound NBA knowledge would say you hire the guy who ran the system like Phil Jackson did to keep the Lakers Championship continuity flowing offensivley and defensively like the teams that won that championships under that same scheme. Mike Brown will be a total departure in an entire new direction than Phil Jackson.

 

^ This team just got swept in the conference SF while fully healthy. Not sure I would care about keeping any of that supposed continuity.

 

You bring up good points. The resume is impressive. Multiple 60-win seasons, a finals appearance, a COY, team constantly one of the best defensively in the league, assistant under Gregg Poppovich and Rick Carlilse.

But I feel that alot of the fans remember those Cavs postseason choke jobs (specifically the ones against Boston and Orlando the past 2 years) and put alot of the blame on him (which is rightfully so, he called alot of questionable plays near the end of games on both offense and defense). And can you really blame them?

Personally I am just surprised by how different a direction they have decided to go post-Phil. The Lakers are still a stacked team and probably have a good 1-3 years left of being serious competitors, a change like this is really risky. Somebody like Shaw who could keep the system in place, or Adelman who could bring a similar (tho somewhat different) offensive system just seems like it would have made more sense (then again, I am just hoping Rick wins a championship and gets into the HOF, do not really care who he coaches).

We will see how it works out. It is just a very surprising decision to me.

 

They did win 2 championships the 2 years prior to that happening. Don't know if you remember that.

 

Kobe or Fisher talked over 50% of the time when PJ called a timeout, which he barely did anyway. Lakers will be fine.

 

You're right. I completely forgot about that. Repped.

 

It would be absolutely impossible for mike brown to coach a team to a ring...

Remember in the orlando cleveland series when his strategy was to give lebron the ball at the nail every position for the whole 4th quarter.......worst coaching ever

 

If MB is hired, you can scratch off the Lakers as championship contenders for the forseeable future.

That is unless they somehow land Dwight.

 

Damn lol

 

Mike Brown actually got hired.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/mike-brown-lakers-coach_n_866900.html

Mike Brown and the Los Angeles Lakers have agreed to a four-year deal worth $18.25 million, according to ESPN's Chris Broussard.

Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday night that the Lakers had made an offer to the former Cleveland Cavaliers coach.

Lakers executive vice president Jim Buss was said to have been impressed with Brown's defensive style.

Broussard tweeted that Lakers star Kobe Bryant is "on board" with the hiring and has "great respect for him."

Brown was named Coach of the Year after the 2008-2009 season. He went 211-117 as the Cavs head coach and was the fourth youngest coach in NBA history to win 60 games.

The Lakers are expected to make the announcement later this afternoon.

Story developing..

 

LOL. :grin:

 

I guess the Lakers wanted another coach that rides the coattails of a great player.

 

lakers entering a new era

 

LOL ... Lakers, basically decided to make Kobe head coach, and hired Brown to masquerade the whole thing.