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LeBron is the Lakers coach.

Who's Darvin?

I haven't seen anything egregious from him but I don't watch as many Lakers games as I used to.

I don’t think about the Lakers if I don’t have to, I’ll be honest.

He reminds me of Tommy Lister Jr from Austin Powers

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I do not trust the average fan of any team to know even close to enough about Xs and Os to be able to judge their own coach. I sure as shit don't trust any other team's fans.

The embodiment of the Kevin James meme bc his hands are always in his pockets

I think he pretty much hands the keys over to Bron when Bron is on the floor, and unless you're an elite coach that's not the worst plan in the world. When Bron sits though, it feels like there is no rhythm, and he doesn't know how to compete without an elite playmaker on the floor.

Came to the team last year, started 2-10, had to manage a team full of drama. Team was completely overhauled at trade the deadline. They had the best record in the west after(a lot of those games without Lebron), and went to the WCF. Now he has a full year with his team and trying to see what works and what doesn’t with lineups and fans want him gone already lol. I think it’s too early to definitely say he’s a bad coach.

I think he his good but not great

Loved him in Mil and I think he's doing a good job. It really hurt Bud's coaching when he lost the Ham Slamwich as an assistant.

I like that his last name is Ham. I call him the Ham man. Was that the analysis you were looking for?

Lakers fans just realizing LeBron isn't the coach

I don't think about him at all.

You're fooling yourself if you don't think LeBron is the real coach of that team. Ham is just there to take a tiny bit of credit when the Lakers win and all the blame when they lose lol.

We all know Lebron is the coach.

I love him

I think his biggest issue are his rotations and his willingness to call timeouts. There were countless times when we finished the game losing by 1-2 possessions and still had 1-2 timeouts because he was saving them. Also Hamas tend to kill our own run. When a player is hot and is going on a run, he tend to take em out and kill our own runs. Most evidently against the nuggets last year in the conf finals when we were having a huge run he pulled anthony davis out and nuggets immediately went on a run and he immediately put AD back in again (AD never sat more than a minute). This caused a backlash amongst fans and even our broadcasters were openly calling it out and asking why.

Also, his rotations in last year’s playoffs. I think everyone remembered Lakers went small ball against the warriors in the semis and was pretty successful in doing so. When we matched up against Denver, he went small ball again in game 1 and got thoroughly demolished (everyone knew you gotta size up against jokic and put a body on him).

He’s not ready as a head coach especially when we’re in Bron’s final few years. Every productive year of LeBron is a championship window and our front office should never sign a first year head coach. But that’s more on the front office.

Same way I see all the other people who’ve coached LeBron; they all answer to LeBron.

I honestly don't ever pay attention to coaching because no coach LeBron has had has ever won a title without LeBron, so to me it really doesn't matter.

Yes they are responsible for key adjustments, but LBJ is akin to Peyton Manning where he's another coach and offensive mind as opposed to just being a player.

i’m way too stupid to know which coaches are good or not outside of exceptional ones (pop or scott brooks on either end of the spectrum)

He’s fine, I don’t think any other coach would be doing any better

Their roster is completely dependent on LeBron playing 40 minutes a night, they’re a lottery team without him

Pretty mid, not terrible but nothing great about his tactics neither. Makes for a pretty good assistant to LeBron

Lakers fan here - we’re just entitled and never think anything is good enough, like the Cowboys, Alabama, Yankees. He’s a great coach.

His plan going into game 2 against the Warriors last year was to hedge Curry ball screens.

Anyone who understands basketball strategy to even a modest degree knows why that is reason enough to have zero faith in that coach.

D’lo/Reaves - Prince/Cam - Bron/Rui - Vando/Hayes - AD/Wood is what I’d like to see. I don’t like Bron at the 4, Vando and Hayes can provide AD additional help. On big line ups you could even go Bron-Prince-Rui-Hayes or Wood - AD

LeBron is the Lakers coach.

Who's Darvin?

He’s not bad but he ain’t a great coach either.

He’s not bad but he ain’t a great coach either.

He’s quite good at some things quite poor at others. Scheme is good, rotations aren’t bad. Sometimes the two clash. Likes playing small but the lakers literally have 3 small players in total. When gabe comes back you will see lineups with him Dlo and reavers sharing the court which don’t make any sense for team that plays D and can’t shoot the 3ball. He put out lineups last year with Westbrook at the 4.

I don't think he's trash like they make it out to be. I think their roster needs work and AD needs to actually stay healthy (for real).