Lakers Fire Mike Brown.

Padrino said:
interesting. the lakers just fired mike brown. perhaps the kings can put one over the lesser LA team on sunday (isn't it fun to think of the lakers as the lesser LA team?!) while their state of disarray continues...
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Unless they have a new coach already waiting in the wings -- teams with new coaches often get an artififical impress the new guy/celebrate our freedome from the old guy boost. Hopefully they'll just turn it over to Eddie Jordan for the weekend and Kobe can stare him down too.
 
Bricklayer said:
Unless they have a new coach already waiting in the wings -- teams with new coaches often get an artififical impress the new guy/celebrate our freedome from the old guy boost. Hopefully they'll just turn it over to Eddie Jordan for the weekend and Kobe can stare him down too.
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that's what i figured they'd do. i don't expect old lizard eyes to have any greater success than mike brown, but the lakers still clearly outpace the kings at the level of talent, so they'll be out for blood. i'm just hoping that LA's bench continues to be the most anemic in the league, and that the kings bring their defensive intensity. in the meantime, san antonio's gonna be out for blood tonight, as well, having just received a beatdown on the road from the superior LA team on wednesday...
 
so, Nate, right? maybe they can actually get Phil back, but that's doubtful. who else is there? Sloan? D'Antoni? SvG and it turns out all the drama was just a way for Dwight and he to get out of Orlando?
 
Maybe they should just put an end to the "drama" and give Kobe the job so he can take 50 shots a night.
 
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...les-lakers-fired-coach-mike-brown-source-says

Assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff will coach the Lakers Friday night at home against the Warriors, a source tells ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard.

Earlier Friday, sources had told ESPN.com's Marc Stein that the team was using its upcoming six-game homestand to evaluate Brown, but after numerous discussions over the past 48 hours, Lakers management came to a unanimous decision that the team clearly wasn't heading in the right direction and it was best to fire him now.
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Things are getting messed up in Laker land. I'm loving this.


I just wish I still lived down in SoCal so that I could talk mad **** in the bars, sad Lakers fans make me happy.
 
I am pretty neutral in my thoughts about Mike Brown, but they definitely should have fired Eddie Jordan. Will the Lakers explore a permanent head coach (maybe Sloan?) or stick with Bickerstaff?
 
chief bromden said:
I am pretty neutral in my thoughts about Mike Brown, but they definitely should have fired Eddie Jordan. Will the Lakers explore a permanent head coach (maybe Sloan?) or stick with Bickerstaff?
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The stories say that the Lakers are calling up McMillan, Sloan, Phil Jackson and others.

Nice to see the Lakers are in such dissaray.:D
 
I would have preferred they kept mike brown. Now they have an opportunity to land some of the best coaches available. Either way, i still hate them every bit as much as i did 10 years ago.
 
If the Lakers hire Jerry Sloan, I'm going to f-ing scream.

I seriously don't know to what lengths I would yell at the Maloofs if the Lakers hire Sloan after the Maloofs have had such an opportunity during the offseason to get him.
 
IfAt1st said:
If the Lakers hire Jerry Sloan, I'm going to f-ing scream.

I seriously don't know to what lengths I would yell at the Maloofs if the Lakers hire Sloan after the Maloofs have had such an opportunity during the offseason to get him.
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Let me correct you there, my friend. We think the MaGoofballs had such an opportunity to get Sloan. Unfortunately, for us, the MaGoofballs did not think the same thing. They was thinking about something else.
 
IfAt1st said:
If the Lakers hire Jerry Sloan, I'm going to f-ing scream.

I seriously don't know to what lengths I would yell at the Maloofs if the Lakers hire Sloan after the Maloofs have had such an opportunity during the offseason to get him.
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Doubt Sloan would have accepted a salary of iPhone cases and Maloof brand vodka.
 
Chupacabra said:
I would have preferred they kept mike brown. Now they have an opportunity to land some of the best coaches available. Either way, i still hate them every bit as much as i did 10 years ago.
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there really aren't that many coaches available though. you have the retired ones that are unlikely to step up like Jackson or Sloan (and maybe Nellie, it's just doubtful he'd be wanted in the first place). you have the van Gundy bros, who both aren't going to take the job because of Dwight. and then you have McMillan and D'Antoni, with D'Antoni being unlikely because he can't coach the end they actually need help in.
 
Padrino said:
perhaps the kings can put one over the lesser LA team on sunday (isn't it fun to think of the lakers as the lesser LA team?!)
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ya sadly thats just not true. both teams have the same record (2-4) and beat the same exact teams (GS,DET) and the lakers beat them more convincingly. also at least the lakers had a coach that knew what lineup to put on the floor
 
Reke 13 Havoc said:
ya sadly thats just not true. both teams have the same record (2-4) and beat the same exact teams (GS,DET) and the lakers beat them more convincingly. also at least the lakers had a coach that knew what lineup to put on the floor
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read what he said again. he's talking about the Clippers being better, which is true.
 
i find the lakers' pursuit of phil jackson to be hilarious, personally. people forget that he wasn't terribly effective during his final season. despite his ring count, he's not the inspiring, zen-infused force that he's been in the past. his health is declining, and i'm fairly certain that his fire for the game has gone. he must be laughing his *** off right now. dude's gonna take the enormous payday the lakers are prepared to throw at him in absolute desperation, and while i certainly expect them to play better under jackson than under mike brown, it reads like a hail mary to me, and they're only six games into the season...
 
hm. dunno how d'antoni is gonna install an uptempo offense with a team that already looks so terribly old and slow. i also don't know why they revved up talks with jax just to go a completely different direction with d'antoni. now, if d'antoni fails (and it is pretty likely that he could, given his inability to motivate a similarly-constructed knicks team), the fans are gonna turn on the organization for passing on the zen master. i hope it all implodes, because kobe will be there waiting with his death stare. dude certainly would have rather been reunited with phil jackson...
 
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