Coaching Search, Pt. 1
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
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In the aftermath of the team firing Darvin Ham, Pete, Mike, and Darius continue their discussion about the Lakers search for a new head coach by examining traits they first consider important in a new coach, how much the roster should or should not inform the type of candidate the team looks at, philosophical alignment between the front office and the potential new hire, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. |
| 0:28.4 | And in the last episode, we talked about the Lakers letting go of Dharvanham. And in this episode, |
| 0:33.6 | we're going to talk a little bit about the ensuing coaching search that comes up after that. |
| 0:38.2 | I think that looking for a new coach is actually one of the more challenging things in terms of |
| 0:43.8 | evaluating who's the right person. If it's an assistant coach, somebody that hasn't been a head |
| 0:48.7 | coach before, it's a lot of anecdotes and stories about them. If it's a, obviously guys like Mike Boodenholzer, for example, have coached long enough to where it's a lot of anecdotes and stories about them. If it's a, obviously guys like Mike Boodenholzer, for example, have coached long enough to where it's a lot easier to evaluate what they stand for and what they're about. But assistant coaches and somebody like JJ Reddick, who is not coached at all, is a lot more difficult to evaluate. And so we're going to talk a little bit in this pod about what we're looking for, the attributes, not necessarily the specific person quite yet, but kind of what we think this team needs. |
| 1:16.3 | But Mike, we didn't get your thoughts on the Lakers firing Darban Ham. So let's start there. |
| 1:21.1 | What were your thoughts on the decision? |
| 1:23.5 | I would start with something that's not relevant to it, which is just that I really appreciated |
| 1:28.9 | the time spent for me with Darbenham. Of course, I have to ask a lot of questions to the head |
| 1:33.7 | coach, and he was always, you know, in a really good human to deal with, like, throughout that |
| 1:40.4 | whole process. And I really appreciated the way that he treated me. |
| 1:45.4 | And that was all good. |
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