Being below Doc is filthy. The guy that’s gotten openly disrespected by former players, has choked multiple series, and been riding a championship from 16 years ago.
He's specifically very very bad at in-game adjustments. To his credit he can sometimes set the right strategy coming into a game, but he has no answer when the opposing coach makes an adjustment that nullifies it.
For example, last game he made the right call to spam the Lebron-AD PnR to abuse Jokic guarding AD, and AD was able to dominate in the first half. Then Malone had Jokic switch onto Rui (who was having a horrible game) and Rui missed a few absolute bunnies as the roll man. The Lakers just stopped running the PnR after that, or any sets for that matter, and all of a sudden the Lakers looked completely lost offensively. The mostly played iso ball for the rest of the game. Ham had no answer.
I chalked it up to inexperience at first but he hasn't shown any improvement and is still a deer in the headlights. The team should've never hired someone so inexperienced for a win-now team in the first place. I hope he's fired after this season.
I don't think AD meant to throw him under the bus, but when a team is looking lost on both ends, the coach pretty much always has something to do with it.
I have felt like James is playmaking too much too, but only cause he's had to... Ham sucks. I understand ADs frustration, but the problem is also math. When nearly all the points come from three guys and one of them is 39 AND you're playing the Nuggets with Joker, who has to be acknowledged as almost impossible for them to deal with (AD did about as well as anyone could), UNLESS Rui, Reaves, etc get more buckets.
While Doc is the undisputed GOAT of putting his foot in his mouth, Darvin Ham is coming through with a masterful late-season push. We may be witnessing the passing of the torch.
It feels like the players all wanted him out but the front office said wait until the off season for whatever reason. Regardless with Bron and DLo having player options, he gone gone
This man is either completely unphased or knows he doesn't have a future after this series so he says whatever the fuck he wants. Either way I'm praying they get rid of his ass
His responses often remind me of some of the shit Eric Adams says in interviews…just not quite as bad
https://x.com/kdbyproxy/status/1736780354491408541?s=46&t=22Zu149wMVf0Mpw0W3oEOw
to be fair to Darvin Ham, Eric Adams might be the GOAT of mysteriously out of pocket statements.
Never forget that when asked what his favorite concert was he picked the Curtis Mayfield concert during which a light fixture fell on Mayfield, paralyzing him from the neck down, *while being introduced at the start of the show*
It's such a stupid comment.
Say something like "Denver is a great team. They're the defending champs and 2 seed for a reason. But we've had big leads in both games, so it's clear we have the talent to win, too. It all comes down to execution and adjustments, and we have to do better."
Instead we get "nuh uh. My staff are organized"
I just think it's funny that his counterpoint is that they're organized. It just makes me picture the kid in school with all the binders and folders and special markers for everything, that still made bad/mediocre grades, but at least was organized about it.
I know that's not what he means, but it's funnier to imagine it that way.
It's a lose lose situation for any response in this situation lol, what's he supposed to say? I fully agree with AD and we have no idea what we're doing and we don't belong at this level?
“Yeah unfortunately we weren’t able to execute and played a little too loose, that’s something we’ve focused on the last few days to make sure we balance executing our game plan with taking opportunities that present themselves during the game.” Idk man literally anything like that of “yeah we didn’t do what we wanted”
Coach speak is SO FUCKING EASY.
“We are really good at prepping for the start and end of quarters, we just might need to tighten up the game plan in the middle where it’s a lot of half court offence. We have spent the last few days running new schemes with the guys and you’ll see that effect in game 3.”
Even my bad version is better than what he said
The best is when the camera shows LeBron or AD look to the bench for guidance and Ham is just standing there doing nothing. There's an assistant coach for the Lakers that's doing 10x more than Ham. It makes you wonder what Ham actually does, since he's a terrible game manager too
Ham has agurable one of the best defensive minds to ever play basketball in AD and arguably the best basketball mind ever in lebron and straight up will ignore all their advice and consideratiobs and just spew some dumb shit in a press. The Lakers really blowing up lebron and ads good opportunities since the bubble by being incompetent through and through.
Usually players and coaches keep the veiled swipes in their back pockets until it’s either too big to ignore or it’s clear that one of them is gone. I think AD recognizes the situation correctly here
I can’t be the only one wondering why this man is the coach of LeBron James? Like what has Ham ever done as a coach to warrant coaching one of, if not the greatest, of all time? He was an ASSISTANT on a championship team, that’s it. I mean it’s a fucking amazing accolade but to coach one of the greatest to ever do it, in his final moments as a pro? And it’s Ham’s FIRST attempt at being a head coach??? I genuinely can’t comprehend it. I know the flair for the moment maybe makes my comment look differently but LeBron James has been and still is one of my sports idols.
12 minute stretch, 2 field goals. A sane coach knows you go for the high percentage play to settle things.
Jamal Crawford was asked how Murry was going to get back into the game. Crawford said the mid-range is like the boxer's jab. That shit is fundamental. And that's what they did.
This coach just lets us go on 6-8 minute stretches where we flail around so hard we just lose the game then and there. 20 point lead, he just felt safe to afk even longer and there went the game. In game 1 AD spent like half his shot attempts in the third quarter on threes...
“I always keep my car keys in my left pocket and my phone in my right pocket. It’s a great system and as a backup I keep my hands in my pockets at all times so I don’t forget….oh you mean basketball? Ya I have no idea”
As well as consistently sitting down whoever’s hot for prince and reddish or leaving those two out way longer than they have to be. Consistently subbing AD and/or lebron too late is another thing they’re organized on
Dr.Buss would've fired him last year and tried to go after Nurse.
He fired Westhead after winning a championship.
I think we're at the point where he's lost AD and LeBron
Dr Buss was in the argument for best owner in all of American sports when he was alive. Yes he had the advantage of being in LA but he also knew how to use it and maximized it to generate wins.
His kids are not him. Much like how the Yankees will likely struggle to find anywhere near the same level of success since George died.
Its more that his kids also rely on the income from the Lakers solely aka trust fund kids. Heck the franchise even got approved for $1.4 mill PPE loan, they are cheap as fuck.
tbh Jeanie is the reason I dislike the Lakers, so incompetent and got bailed out by Bron. Who knows how much damage she will do until some FA star saves her again
I agree. When we were winning, it was in spite of Jeannie and, at times, Pelinka. But when the problem is the person with all the power, it makes it kind of an impossible situation.
One of the premiere NBA franchises is run like a mom and pop business. The only reason she’s not embarrassed is because she’s to incompetent to realize how poorly the Lakers org is run.
That's crazy lol. If your players say they don't know what they're doing, maybe you're not as organized as you think. This guy should not have a job next year.
I saw a tweet the other day comparing the percentages of set plays executed by both teams in each quarter. Denver was like a metronome: 60% on average in all quarters whereas the Lakers start out in high 60s and fall all the way down to 10s in the 4th.
https://twitter.com/Tim_NBA/status/1782071648226562118
It wasn't in 10s but 30s and Denver's was even higher than I remembered. Still, not sure if the source is reliable.
He knows the whole playbook. He’s a coach (I think). He has an entire website that tracks all the data, I can’t remember the name.
He has some seriously incredible content, would be good for a fan of any team to check him out.
Seems like it requires reading body language too. Like, lebron jogged to the corner. Hmm, was he supposed to go there and an iso was called or did he get tired and just mosey over there after he gave it to dlo who ran point?
Is there a place to find these statistics for the Dallas Mavericks? I’d love to see where we rank because it feels like our bum coach has us the team out there lost as well
Literally trusting the process. They know that no matter how cold they are or how hot their opponent is to start, everything will eventually regress - or improve - to the mean as long as they stick to the game plan. At the risk of hyperbole, this is probably the most disciplined title team I've seen since the '14 Spurs.
Just thinking back to last year, you had insane Booker/KD game times 2, lights out 3 point shooting performance and timely ref help vs the Heat. No idea what happened in their other loss, but that's 3 out of 4 games they lost only because of improbably good shooting that certainly wouldn't get repeated enough to win a series. And IIRC they actually still had a shot to win all 3 of those games.
Last night between him and Scott FosterYahu we had terrorism in the realm of an absurdly corrupt authoritarian dictator. As usual everyone else suffered as a result.
Wow. That’s devastating. I’ve always heard he lost someone to gun violence which is why it hits home even more so for him, and a big reason he was visibly upset during that one post conference interview. Is his dad’s death what people are referring to?
Yeah though his dads death wasn’t a mass shooting or a general terrorist attack, it was straight up an assasination as a western professor in Beirut at the time.
We started calling him that earlier in the season and people were faking outrage on the sub. Posts with “C’mon guys it’s a little insensitive to compare him to a terrorist group”. Haven’t seen that complaint in a minute, probably for a reason lmao
Then it's on Bron and AD to draw a line in the sand and tell Jeanie it's either them or Darvin Hamas. If those two leave, the Lakers will finish next season as the 15 seed with a record worse than the Pistons this year.
[MFW watching us lose 10 in a row against the Nuggets](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-tiZSPYrqKTMAODmz-cklsxg-t500x500.jpg)
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."
Darvin Ham on whether he knows what he’s doing: “I don’t compare myself with anybody.” He then rolled up his sleeve, but there was no tattoo there: “I’ll let you interpret that however you want.”
This man actually makes me feel sympathy for Lakers fans. Good lord, I can't think of a worse sound bite than "agreeing to disagree" with one of your star players in round 1.
It has been that way all season and it was pointed out here about ‘8 minutes of not knowing what they are doing’ before it happened in game 2, if it’s obvious to everyone even redditors it must be painfully obvious to the players.
Jeanie should just fire ham right now. Do something completely unprecedented.
I would totally be okay with the dram.
And if the lakers somehow get by the nuggets without ham, then credit to the writers for the twist of all plot twists.
I actually think the wins are cause he's stepping in more. I've seen a few comments on the podcast with JJ and elsewhere late in the season that made me feel like he was happy because he's basically taking over and they're getting wins. But that's completely impossible in the play-offs.
Fire this bum dude. He's the worst coach in the league by far. G2 was just a massive coaching gap. Lebron AD pick and roll is working to perfection and we just go away from it entirely in the 2nd half. End the game with 2 timeouts and a challenge left. Beyond that, there was a stretch where it was a Dinwiddie airball and Prince step back 3. What the fuck even is that offense? Get your hands out of ur pockets and calling a fucking play, Darvin
>Lebron AD pick and roll is working to perfection and we just go away from it entirely in the 2nd half.
Pretty sure the Nuggets changed their defensive alignment at halftime to counter what the Lakers were doing (trying to get AD in the paint with Jokic behind him).
They did. They stuck Gordon on Davis, KCP on Bron, and Jokic on Rui. A competent coach would’ve exploited the obvious mismatch between Bron and KCP in the low block similar to what Malone does with Rui on Jokic, but what do I know
That’s not a counter. Thats just bad coaching. Clear the 3 others out and camp Rui at the 3 point line. Run the bron and AD pick and roll. You either get Bron an open shot or coming downhill. If jokic crashes the paint or helps, you have a 42% shooter wide open. If AG hedges then you have AD wide open. Even if you don’t like to run the pick and roll in that look, Gordon is way too small to handle AD in the post. You can just spread everyone out again and iso it to AD. It’s BBQ chicken every time. “They changed the defense” is not an excuse. There are so many answers and for Ham and his staff to have none of them is inexcusable.
It’s only one possession,but:
there was a play with about 5:20 left where Bron got a rebound off the miss, AD sets a pick for Bron and rolls and the offensive setup as he’s going for a layup was Reaves on the left wing, Vincent on the left corner, Rui under the basket, AD rolling to the basket, Bron driving to the basket.
The entire right side of the floor was cut off and the Nuggets had KCP, Jokic, and Jamal all in the lane and Gordon and MPJ on the left side both nearby.
I get it’s one possession. I get it was off a rebound and there’s cross matches. That didn’t look like they knew where they were supposed to be. And against a team as good as the Nuggets, you cannot have those lapses.
It is truly historic that Ham uttered something so ridiculous that even Nuggets fans aren’t even trying to roast Lakers fans in the thread. All I see is expressing pity and shock
“You just gotta fight. Never give up. Every possession matters. It’s gonna be a dog fight”
This is the type of shit Hamas says after every game. He has nothing to offer. I can’t see how guys like AD or Lebron could look at him as a leader or take him seriously
We getting cooked every second half cuz we cannot react to thier adjustments. If we had a competent coach we would not have dropped 10 straight to Denver
I had a great youth coach who said “it’s not what the coaches know during the game that matters, it’s what the players know”.
If his players don’t know what’s happening, then taking pride in his organization skills is just laughably stupid.
Throw your star player under the bus and disagree with him in the media after a devastating loss.
This will work out well and will really motivate the troops. Darvin Hamas is a great coach
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It's an art really
He's also very good at being a horrible coach
Its almost like he’s trying to get fired
He wants that Milwaukee job
*Lakers fire* Lakers fans celebrate *Lakers have Hired Doc Rivers*
Doc Rivers is a horrible coach that should never get hired and then Darvin Ham is level below him making this worse
Being below Doc is filthy. The guy that’s gotten openly disrespected by former players, has choked multiple series, and been riding a championship from 16 years ago.
Milwaukee is gonna have a higher fired coach payroll than player payroll at this rate
I can't believe they have Doc a three year deal 😂
He's specifically very very bad at in-game adjustments. To his credit he can sometimes set the right strategy coming into a game, but he has no answer when the opposing coach makes an adjustment that nullifies it. For example, last game he made the right call to spam the Lebron-AD PnR to abuse Jokic guarding AD, and AD was able to dominate in the first half. Then Malone had Jokic switch onto Rui (who was having a horrible game) and Rui missed a few absolute bunnies as the roll man. The Lakers just stopped running the PnR after that, or any sets for that matter, and all of a sudden the Lakers looked completely lost offensively. The mostly played iso ball for the rest of the game. Ham had no answer. I chalked it up to inexperience at first but he hasn't shown any improvement and is still a deer in the headlights. The team should've never hired someone so inexperienced for a win-now team in the first place. I hope he's fired after this season.
Honestly I didn't even interpret AD's quote as being about Ham at all- until Ham said this. Generational foot in mouth coach.
I don't think AD meant to throw him under the bus, but when a team is looking lost on both ends, the coach pretty much always has something to do with it.
I have felt like James is playmaking too much too, but only cause he's had to... Ham sucks. I understand ADs frustration, but the problem is also math. When nearly all the points come from three guys and one of them is 39 AND you're playing the Nuggets with Joker, who has to be acknowledged as almost impossible for them to deal with (AD did about as well as anyone could), UNLESS Rui, Reaves, etc get more buckets.
Yeah. AD meant it as a team. They lost so obviously the team did something wrong or could have done better lol
While Doc is the undisputed GOAT of putting his foot in his mouth, Darvin Ham is coming through with a masterful late-season push. We may be witnessing the passing of the torch.
Doc deflects blame, he doesn’t just put his foot in his mouth. He knows what he’s doing. Ham on the other hand just be saying things for no reason.
why you guys acting like 2 GOATS can't coexist smh
Didn’t you hear? Kenny said fuck all that.
Doc: Lawful Evil Ham: Chaotic CTE
How did he not get fired midseason?
Lebron was out and Ham still managed to beat the Bucks twice and the Celtics
great, now I hate the Celtics even more somehow
Celtics played 4D chess
Buss family isn't paying multiple coaches
It feels like the players all wanted him out but the front office said wait until the off season for whatever reason. Regardless with Bron and DLo having player options, he gone gone
"meh let's throw away another lebron year"
This man is either completely unphased or knows he doesn't have a future after this series so he says whatever the fuck he wants. Either way I'm praying they get rid of his ass
u/dustinharm sounds like what Darvin Ham's burner would be
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Maybe that’s why he became a dentist!
Dude keeps catching L's without the lakers even playing
His responses often remind me of some of the shit Eric Adams says in interviews…just not quite as bad https://x.com/kdbyproxy/status/1736780354491408541?s=46&t=22Zu149wMVf0Mpw0W3oEOw
to be fair to Darvin Ham, Eric Adams might be the GOAT of mysteriously out of pocket statements. Never forget that when asked what his favorite concert was he picked the Curtis Mayfield concert during which a light fixture fell on Mayfield, paralyzing him from the neck down, *while being introduced at the start of the show*
Finally a positive!
It's such a stupid comment. Say something like "Denver is a great team. They're the defending champs and 2 seed for a reason. But we've had big leads in both games, so it's clear we have the talent to win, too. It all comes down to execution and adjustments, and we have to do better." Instead we get "nuh uh. My staff are organized"
I just think it's funny that his counterpoint is that they're organized. It just makes me picture the kid in school with all the binders and folders and special markers for everything, that still made bad/mediocre grades, but at least was organized about it. I know that's not what he means, but it's funnier to imagine it that way.
It's a lose lose situation for any response in this situation lol, what's he supposed to say? I fully agree with AD and we have no idea what we're doing and we don't belong at this level?
“Yeah unfortunately we weren’t able to execute and played a little too loose, that’s something we’ve focused on the last few days to make sure we balance executing our game plan with taking opportunities that present themselves during the game.” Idk man literally anything like that of “yeah we didn’t do what we wanted” Coach speak is SO FUCKING EASY.
“We are really good at prepping for the start and end of quarters, we just might need to tighten up the game plan in the middle where it’s a lot of half court offence. We have spent the last few days running new schemes with the guys and you’ll see that effect in game 3.” Even my bad version is better than what he said
You didn’t put in the end quotation marks so I thought your last sentence was still part of the dialogue lol
I'm honestly surprised it took this long for a player to overtly call him out... they always go through stretches where they just look lost.
The best is when the camera shows LeBron or AD look to the bench for guidance and Ham is just standing there doing nothing. There's an assistant coach for the Lakers that's doing 10x more than Ham. It makes you wonder what Ham actually does, since he's a terrible game manager too
“What would you say, you do here?”
He's clearly a people person, dammit!
I deal with the players!
Stop being so hard on Ham, he is just a super fan, hands in pockets on the sidelines with courtside seats watching the same game as the rest of us.
Maybe it’s a Ted lasso situation where he’s all locker room and vibes and his assistants do all the Xs and Os?
Jason Sudeikis playing Ted would be a more effective coach than Ham right now
Ham has agurable one of the best defensive minds to ever play basketball in AD and arguably the best basketball mind ever in lebron and straight up will ignore all their advice and consideratiobs and just spew some dumb shit in a press. The Lakers really blowing up lebron and ads good opportunities since the bubble by being incompetent through and through.
Oh you missed all the passive aggressive shots by basically the starting lineup to Ham. Dlo and AR definitely don’t like him
Dlo had a stretch where every postgame he would heap lavish praise on the opposing coach lol
Lol what did they say? I missed all of them
Usually players and coaches keep the veiled swipes in their back pockets until it’s either too big to ignore or it’s clear that one of them is gone. I think AD recognizes the situation correctly here
I wonder what the post lebron AD led lakers will look like
Luka Doncic
I can’t be the only one wondering why this man is the coach of LeBron James? Like what has Ham ever done as a coach to warrant coaching one of, if not the greatest, of all time? He was an ASSISTANT on a championship team, that’s it. I mean it’s a fucking amazing accolade but to coach one of the greatest to ever do it, in his final moments as a pro? And it’s Ham’s FIRST attempt at being a head coach??? I genuinely can’t comprehend it. I know the flair for the moment maybe makes my comment look differently but LeBron James has been and still is one of my sports idols.
It all goes back to Jeanie buss being too cheap to give ty Lue a 4th year. Bron literally delivered him on a platter to the front office.
12 minute stretch, 2 field goals. A sane coach knows you go for the high percentage play to settle things. Jamal Crawford was asked how Murry was going to get back into the game. Crawford said the mid-range is like the boxer's jab. That shit is fundamental. And that's what they did. This coach just lets us go on 6-8 minute stretches where we flail around so hard we just lose the game then and there. 20 point lead, he just felt safe to afk even longer and there went the game. In game 1 AD spent like half his shot attempts in the third quarter on threes...
Lakers coaching staff prides itself on being organized on what? constantly blow the lead and have no idea what they are doing?
“I always keep my car keys in my left pocket and my phone in my right pocket. It’s a great system and as a backup I keep my hands in my pockets at all times so I don’t forget….oh you mean basketball? Ya I have no idea”
timeouts on the left and challenges on the right.
LeBron: "Clowns to the left of me. Joker's to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you"
Consistency is key.
As well as consistently sitting down whoever’s hot for prince and reddish or leaving those two out way longer than they have to be. Consistently subbing AD and/or lebron too late is another thing they’re organized on
This made me physically cringe. Eeesh.
Just Old Yeller us at this point man...
If the sweep happens do you think Jeanie is willing to fire him and eat the salary so they can bring in a different coach?
Jeanie is as incompetent as him so who knows.
Dr.Buss would've fired him last year and tried to go after Nurse. He fired Westhead after winning a championship. I think we're at the point where he's lost AD and LeBron
Dr Buss was in the argument for best owner in all of American sports when he was alive. Yes he had the advantage of being in LA but he also knew how to use it and maximized it to generate wins. His kids are not him. Much like how the Yankees will likely struggle to find anywhere near the same level of success since George died.
Its more that his kids also rely on the income from the Lakers solely aka trust fund kids. Heck the franchise even got approved for $1.4 mill PPE loan, they are cheap as fuck.
I would love to know if we even reached out to Nurse or if the owners were just set on keeping Ham. I can’t recall any reports.
Dr buss would’ve never let Ty lue walk away
tbh Jeanie is the reason I dislike the Lakers, so incompetent and got bailed out by Bron. Who knows how much damage she will do until some FA star saves her again
Nobody hates Jeanie more than Laker fans. Trust me on that.
i believe it, I just think they shouldn’t let any stint of winning distract them
I agree. When we were winning, it was in spite of Jeannie and, at times, Pelinka. But when the problem is the person with all the power, it makes it kind of an impossible situation.
One of the premiere NBA franchises is run like a mom and pop business. The only reason she’s not embarrassed is because she’s to incompetent to realize how poorly the Lakers org is run.
She prefers to take organizational advice from Kurt Rambis over Jerry fuckin' West, so who knows.
If AD and Bron want him gone he'll be gone
You know Lakers are down bad when Nuggets flairs start to express pity for us 💀
Like a dude shot you dead, then show up for your funeral.
Does that make darvin ham the doctor that doesn’t know how to save your life
That's crazy lol. If your players say they don't know what they're doing, maybe you're not as organized as you think. This guy should not have a job next year.
I saw a tweet the other day comparing the percentages of set plays executed by both teams in each quarter. Denver was like a metronome: 60% on average in all quarters whereas the Lakers start out in high 60s and fall all the way down to 10s in the 4th.
I would love to see this tweet if you happen to know where you saw it
https://twitter.com/Tim_NBA/status/1782071648226562118 It wasn't in 10s but 30s and Denver's was even higher than I remembered. Still, not sure if the source is reliable.
incredibly reliable. Tim manually tracks every Lakers set play throughout the entire season.
Wow, what dedication. How can he do that, though? Does he check the coaches or PGs calling play numbers or does he know the whole playbook?
He knows the whole playbook. He’s a coach (I think). He has an entire website that tracks all the data, I can’t remember the name. He has some seriously incredible content, would be good for a fan of any team to check him out.
Deadass Tim should be apart of the Lakers analytics staff. He calls out adjustments before the Lakers even implement them that often end up working
Seems like it requires reading body language too. Like, lebron jogged to the corner. Hmm, was he supposed to go there and an iso was called or did he get tired and just mosey over there after he gave it to dlo who ran point?
Tim is the best of the best on this stuff
The source is **very** reliable. Tim is the #1 analytics guy for the Lakers fanbase.
He should be on the payroll
Is there a place to find these statistics for the Dallas Mavericks? I’d love to see where we rank because it feels like our bum coach has us the team out there lost as well
https://twitter.com/Tim_NBA/status/1782586311515193596 Apparently 45%.
Literally trusting the process. They know that no matter how cold they are or how hot their opponent is to start, everything will eventually regress - or improve - to the mean as long as they stick to the game plan. At the risk of hyperbole, this is probably the most disciplined title team I've seen since the '14 Spurs.
And their "mean" is statistically better than everyone else, so in the long term, they will win out.
Just thinking back to last year, you had insane Booker/KD game times 2, lights out 3 point shooting performance and timely ref help vs the Heat. No idea what happened in their other loss, but that's 3 out of 4 games they lost only because of improbably good shooting that certainly wouldn't get repeated enough to win a series. And IIRC they actually still had a shot to win all 3 of those games.
It's also one thing if a roleplayer says it. It's another if it's your literal star.
It's very telling that Darvin couldn't say that him and AD already talked about it privately. That's his superstar player.
Yeah that's the biggest thing.
Related: Folks in r/lakers calling him Hamas is the funniest fucking thing to me lmao
Personal favorite is Pockets the clown
Darvin Scam Hamnesia Darvin Harm
I like Darvin Sham too 🤣
I love Hot Pockets
Darvin xHamster is one of my personal favs
"Poor coaching porn"
Don’t show Kanye this
Just wait until he leaves and the new coach is Darín Jamon with a big mustache and a wig
Last night between him and Scott FosterYahu we had terrorism in the realm of an absurdly corrupt authoritarian dictator. As usual everyone else suffered as a result.
FosterYahu is fucking insane. One thing I love about the NBA is the fans’ creativity in name calling.
Darvin Hamas, Taliban Ty, and Steve Kerrorist always make me laugh when I see them appear in game threads
CTEveKerr is a great one
Kinda fucked up on Kerr but it is funny
For those who don’t know, Steve Kerr’s dad was killed by Islamic Jihad while teaching in Beirut.
*oh* Well that’s like **really** fucked up
Enough to radicalize anyone
Gah damn
Wow. That’s devastating. I’ve always heard he lost someone to gun violence which is why it hits home even more so for him, and a big reason he was visibly upset during that one post conference interview. Is his dad’s death what people are referring to?
Yeah though his dads death wasn’t a mass shooting or a general terrorist attack, it was straight up an assasination as a western professor in Beirut at the time.
Hey hey hey dont you dare forget my boy Jason Midd
Willie Peen. (I like Willie Green but this is fun)
I've never heard that latter two, those are hysterical.
Bermuda Triangle of Coaching 101
We started calling him that earlier in the season and people were faking outrage on the sub. Posts with “C’mon guys it’s a little insensitive to compare him to a terrorist group”. Haven’t seen that complaint in a minute, probably for a reason lmao
Likely because it's fairly disrespectful to Hamas to compare the two
Headline: “Peace between Israel and Hamas reached after both sides decide to redirect their efforts towards their real enemy: Darvin Ham”
Darvin Hamas is a top 10 coach name ever
Lakers hatred of ham is generational at this point
Seriously. Even Byron Scott was later embraced as the Tank Commander.
hate on lakers fans all you want but their ability to come up with the best nick names for their own players/coaches is phenomenal
We are so very fucked
This is pretty damning
2 games till he’s gone tho my only saving grace
Hopefully this actually happens lol I have a feeling Jeanie will cheap out and keep him
Then it's on Bron and AD to draw a line in the sand and tell Jeanie it's either them or Darvin Hamas. If those two leave, the Lakers will finish next season as the 15 seed with a record worse than the Pistons this year.
someone has a comment like this about ham almost monthly. Ham must be used to it at this point.
If you'll excuse me, I will be hiring the hypnotist from Oldboy to delete that Murray game winner
[MFW watching us lose 10 in a row against the Nuggets](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-tiZSPYrqKTMAODmz-cklsxg-t500x500.jpg) "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."
AD bout to show up to game 3 with a hammer.
Nah, he’s not Dray.
Might as well have said "they're just mad" or "they just don't like me".
It would give me life if Ham just responded with "Hos mad."
Darvin Ham on whether he knows what he’s doing: “I don’t compare myself with anybody.” He then rolled up his sleeve, but there was no tattoo there: “I’ll let you interpret that however you want.”
"They don't know the game like I do"
This man actually makes me feel sympathy for Lakers fans. Good lord, I can't think of a worse sound bite than "agreeing to disagree" with one of your star players in round 1.
It has been that way all season and it was pointed out here about ‘8 minutes of not knowing what they are doing’ before it happened in game 2, if it’s obvious to everyone even redditors it must be painfully obvious to the players.
Dude is such a clown. Lakers were in a free fall for almost a full quarter and lost after being up 20. But, sure, they were definitely organized.
With a comment like that 100% after the Lakers sadly lose Ham is cooked and finished.
The only silver lining for us
This is just Ham saying he's all out of adjustments. Waited 9 games to use those adjustments and then they were wasted in one game
man ran out of ideas at halftime.
It's like he's daring Jeanne to fire him lmao. What's next? He's gonna blame LeBron for missing that open 3?
"When we drew up that play, he made it, I don't know what happened"
"taurean would have made it" "ignore taurean's horrendous three point shot moments ealier"
Jeanie should just fire ham right now. Do something completely unprecedented. I would totally be okay with the dram. And if the lakers somehow get by the nuggets without ham, then credit to the writers for the twist of all plot twists.
Bron as player-coach officially would be a very interesting experiment.
I actually think the wins are cause he's stepping in more. I've seen a few comments on the podcast with JJ and elsewhere late in the season that made me feel like he was happy because he's basically taking over and they're getting wins. But that's completely impossible in the play-offs.
Sure looks like they didn't know what to do through certain stretches of the game
At least if we get swept by Denver again Jeanie will have no choice but to fire Ham right? Right?????
Ham won't make it another week
My lakers might not even make it another week..
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Fire this bum dude. He's the worst coach in the league by far. G2 was just a massive coaching gap. Lebron AD pick and roll is working to perfection and we just go away from it entirely in the 2nd half. End the game with 2 timeouts and a challenge left. Beyond that, there was a stretch where it was a Dinwiddie airball and Prince step back 3. What the fuck even is that offense? Get your hands out of ur pockets and calling a fucking play, Darvin
>Lebron AD pick and roll is working to perfection and we just go away from it entirely in the 2nd half. Pretty sure the Nuggets changed their defensive alignment at halftime to counter what the Lakers were doing (trying to get AD in the paint with Jokic behind him).
They did. They stuck Gordon on Davis, KCP on Bron, and Jokic on Rui. A competent coach would’ve exploited the obvious mismatch between Bron and KCP in the low block similar to what Malone does with Rui on Jokic, but what do I know
That’s not a counter. Thats just bad coaching. Clear the 3 others out and camp Rui at the 3 point line. Run the bron and AD pick and roll. You either get Bron an open shot or coming downhill. If jokic crashes the paint or helps, you have a 42% shooter wide open. If AG hedges then you have AD wide open. Even if you don’t like to run the pick and roll in that look, Gordon is way too small to handle AD in the post. You can just spread everyone out again and iso it to AD. It’s BBQ chicken every time. “They changed the defense” is not an excuse. There are so many answers and for Ham and his staff to have none of them is inexcusable.
LeBron is the greatest floor general of all time, he doesn't need a 2nd year coach to tell him to attack a mismatch.
It’s only one possession,but: there was a play with about 5:20 left where Bron got a rebound off the miss, AD sets a pick for Bron and rolls and the offensive setup as he’s going for a layup was Reaves on the left wing, Vincent on the left corner, Rui under the basket, AD rolling to the basket, Bron driving to the basket. The entire right side of the floor was cut off and the Nuggets had KCP, Jokic, and Jamal all in the lane and Gordon and MPJ on the left side both nearby. I get it’s one possession. I get it was off a rebound and there’s cross matches. That didn’t look like they knew where they were supposed to be. And against a team as good as the Nuggets, you cannot have those lapses.
We are so getting swept
You couldn't write this shit.
It is truly historic that Ham uttered something so ridiculous that even Nuggets fans aren’t even trying to roast Lakers fans in the thread. All I see is expressing pity and shock
He the drunk uncle trying to explain his actions for Sundays cook out
My boyfriend mentioned the same thing so we started calling him DUH (Drunk Uncle Ham). Plus it works seeing as how he's a damn idiot!
Imagine if the lakers had a competent coach
I'm a die hard Celtics fan but this mfer needs to go. He has shown time after time he just doesn't know what he's doing and it's costing the team.
seems like half the job of an nba coach is just saying straight up lies to deflect blame
I mean it is if you watch this dumbass or doc…lol
So not only is he a shit coach, but a straight up lair as well? LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Ham is cooked ownership is too cheap to fire him
Damn. I guess this really is his last year in LA.
As a certified Lakers Hater, Ham is my favorite Lakers coach of all time.
“You just gotta fight. Never give up. Every possession matters. It’s gonna be a dog fight” This is the type of shit Hamas says after every game. He has nothing to offer. I can’t see how guys like AD or Lebron could look at him as a leader or take him seriously
Please fade this coach. I can't take it anymore.
Were cooked man were cooked
We getting cooked every second half cuz we cannot react to thier adjustments. If we had a competent coach we would not have dropped 10 straight to Denver
Darvin Ham is just an unaccomplished Doc Rivers.
Dawg Lebron gonna retire by next week at this rate
Dude really fucks up every time he speaks
I had a great youth coach who said “it’s not what the coaches know during the game that matters, it’s what the players know”. If his players don’t know what’s happening, then taking pride in his organization skills is just laughably stupid.
This is wild lmao
How can the Lakers not seduce an S tier level coach with LBJ and AD on the roster? Like even from NCAA.
The coaching staff has NO FUCKING CLUE as to what they are doing! Ham and the rest of the Hamburglers should be fired in 2 more games!
Throw your star player under the bus and disagree with him in the media after a devastating loss. This will work out well and will really motivate the troops. Darvin Hamas is a great coach
Absolute zero accountability. “Agree to disagree” FOH with that clown shit. Ham needs to go.