Arguments against head coach Darvin Ham will only get worse after the Los Angeles Lakers’ loss to the Atlanta Hawks, despite the fact that his team was missing players due to injuries.
This time, it was Anthony Davis, who missed the match against Atlanta due to a groin injury. However, the manner in which the game ultimately transpired was evocative of numerous other defeats this year.
On January 30, Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer wrote, “It may not matter what acquisitions the Lakers make since Ham has also been one of the NBA’s worst coaches and it appears he has lost the trust of his roster.” “Those in authority share the blame. [General Manager Rob] Pelinka and his team took a chance by hiring an inexperienced head coach.
LeBron James may have an idea for a Ham replacement, according to O’Connor, who also thinks the Lakers need a “better head coach.
“If LeBron had the same level of influence as he did in Cleveland when David Blatt was fired in the middle of the 2015–16 campaign… By now, Ham would also have been fired, most likely in favor of assistant coach Phil Handy, according to O’Connor.
Buss was “too cheap,” according to O’Connor, to bring on Los Angeles Clippers head coach Ty Lue for 2019. One year after Frank Vogel was hired by the Lakers, Lue took Doc Rivers’ place on the Clippers.
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