Tag: Mike D’antoni

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Some Teams Have a Worse Defense

    Los Angeles Lakers – Some Teams Have a Worse Defense

    There’s nothing left for the Los Angeles Lakers to do but wait until summer arrives. Meanwhile, facing a New York Knicks team that wants this season to last but aren’t good enough to make it happen, they get to break some scoring records, win 127-96 and get big nights from Xavier Henry and Nick Young.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Embarrassing, No Matter How You Try to Spin It

    Los Angeles Lakers – Embarrassing, No Matter How You Try to Spin It

    Great teams and franchises can have off years, but the decline of the Los Angeles Lakers and the way they’ve set themselves up to not succeed through a 3-4 year stretch is an excellent example of a once excellently run club that has simply lost its way.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – The Easiest Game Out There

    Los Angeles Lakers – The Easiest Game Out There

    Everyone with some connection to the Los Angeles Lakers always says that this franchise is about winning NBA championships, nothing else. Which probably makes it even harder to see them fail time and time again to put on a complete performance for 48 minutes, resulting in hovering just above the last place in the Western conference.

  • Los Angeles Lakers, Almost the Worst Team in the NBA

    Los Angeles Lakers, Almost the Worst Team in the NBA

    When the Los Angeles Lakers were doing something that remotely looked like building a team to this season, one question kept popping in everyone’s mind: Who is going to play defense for them? It turns out no one will, and the absence of Kobe Bryant, this time, has nothing to do with this colossal failure.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – What Rock Bottom Feels Like

    Los Angeles Lakers – What Rock Bottom Feels Like

    The worst thing about the Los Angeles Lakers losing to the Milwaukee Bucks? Not just their sixth defeat in a row, but part of a three-game series that ended in losses against the three worst teams in the NBA according to their record. If things carry on this way the Lakers are going to replace on of them soon enough.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – More Losing Leads to Pointing Fingers

    Los Angeles Lakers – More Losing Leads to Pointing Fingers

    The Los Angeles Lakers seem to be the only ones who didn’t receive the memo earlier this season about how they’re supposed to be bad. With a five game losing streak threatening to become something of the norm this season, the popular opinion right now among players, Mike D’Antoni and the front office is to blame Pau Gasol for not trying hard enough.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Forcing Mike D’Antoni to Apologize

    Los Angeles Lakers – Forcing Mike D’Antoni to Apologize

    The truth comes out when you don’t have time to think or analyze things. Mike D’Antoni speaking against Los Angeles Lakers fans was what he really felt. However, a franchise with such a huge following can’t have their head coach belittling the support of opinion of fans that way, so they forced him to issue an apology.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Can’t Decide Whether They’re Tanking or Not

    Los Angeles Lakers – Can’t Decide Whether They’re Tanking or Not

    With or without Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers just aren’t looking like a team that’s good enough to rise above mediocrity (at best) and make it into the playoffs through the very difficult and competitive Western Conference. The question that lingers on since the beginning of this season remains – in a culture that’s about winning or title and not caring about anything else, wouldn’t it be wiser to start thinking about folding for the season?

  • Los Angeles Lakers – The Writing Was on the Wall

    Los Angeles Lakers – The Writing Was on the Wall

    Surprised that the Los Angeles Lakers have been looking this bad early this NBA season? Then you haven’t been paying attention to the downward spiral this team has been in for the last three years, making their 23 points home loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves something that was waiting to happen, and not even close to an upset.

  • Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Isn’t Changing Anytime Soon

    Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Isn’t Changing Anytime Soon

    The Los Angeles Lakers like to distinguish themselves from the rest of the NBA, by never thinking about taking a “year-off” in order to better prepare for the future. It’s always about the now, and nothing else. Kobe Bryant is perfect for the team in that respect, but his inability to change might be holding them back.