Vlade to stay with Lakers? (merged)

[loopymitch]

Training camp only. Working with Lamar.

Lamar gets Pippen as his personal coach?? Wow!

 

[HndsmCelt]

Lamar gets Pippen as his personal coach?? Wow!

Maybe there really is something to the rumors about Scottie's sexual prefrences.

 

[Gargamel]

wow... they're getting serious in lakerland.... who's training their point guard? who is there point guard?

They have Craig Hodges working with some of the guards. Kareem on Bynum and Mihm. Pippen on Odom. Phil doesn't like to teach.

They don't have a traditional point guard in the traingle, big guards / SFs initiate the offensive sets once the ball gets past half court. The guy slated to start at 1 (technically) is McKie. Moot though, whoever they start or sub at 1 will get ripped.

 

[Gargamel]

Lamar gets Pippen as his personal coach?? Wow!

I doubt it's going to do any good. Odom's problem isn't lack of skill, it's no fire in the belly.

 

[Diabeticwonder]

I doubt it's going to do any good. Odom's problem isn't lack of skill, it's no fire in the belly.

However, if Odom can learn any defense from Pippen watch out. Pippen was one of the best defenders the league has seen over the past 20 years. Pippen was an amazing player and all too often his legacy is clouded because of his last few years in Houston, Portland and then Chicago again.

 

[Gargamel]

However, if Odom can learn any defense from Pippen watch out. Pippen was one of the best defenders the league has seen over the past 20 years. Pippen was an amazing player and all too often his legacy is clouded because of his last few years in Houston, Portland and then Chicago again.

I think he's there to teach him fundamentals of the tri because it's pretty critical for Odom at the very least to be well-versed in the system. He may be doing some point forward once the ball is in the front court. Jackson was bemoaning the lack of training time that teams are allowed nowadays. There's a limit to the number of 2-a-days they can have during camp. Hence, he's gotten a number of vets to do spotwork. I read Worthy was even showing spinmoves to Kobe, etc on an unpaid basis. I've yet to hear what the plans are for Vlade once his contract issues are ironed out. This is a weird year, Phil probably knows that this roster hasn't a good enough margin of error to learn so many things during the first couple of months.

 

[Gargamel]

However, if Odom can learn any defense from Pippen watch out. Pippen was one of the best defenders the league has seen over the past 20 years. Pippen was an amazing player and all too often his legacy is clouded because of his last few years in Houston, Portland and then Chicago again.

He's one of those players who got a pass for his behaviors. His most pissy year was 1994 (his statistical best). Threw a chair on court, flipped off own fans, pouted about Kukoc's contract, cried about not being given the chance to renegotiate his own, 1.8 secs vs NY in playoffs. Hardly any of that stuff was mentioned during the rest of his career.

As far as his defense, he was a better overall defender than Jordan (length, balance, quickness, hops). I think a lot of non-Bulls fans would agree with that assessment and not feel scared of slighting the all-omnipotent and godly MJ.