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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

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Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball

Pete Zayas

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Darvin Ham has reportedly added several assistant coaches to his coaching staff, including Chris Jent, Jordan Ott and Schuyler Rimmer. Pete, Mike, and Darius discuss the hires, what they think the challenges Ham will face as a first time head coach for the Lakers, the importance of retaining Phil Handy, and the general role assistants play on an NBA staff.

Transcript

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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

0:22.4

anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought to by the

0:26.6

Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And there have been several reports

0:32.7

about Lakers assistant coaches. And we're here to talk about them today. I think I'd like to start

0:38.6

just kind of in a general sense, Dee, some of the guys that, according to media reports,

0:42.5

we're talking Chris Gent, got a report about Jordan Ott yesterday, I believe he's named

0:47.8

Skyler Rimmer, and then we've had some off and on reports about, you know, Rashid Wallace.

0:54.0

Based on what we know, Dee, what's your general impression of the coaching staff?

0:57.8

My general impression is I did not know who many of these people were.

1:04.1

That's my general impression.

1:06.4

And we've sort of talked about assistant coaches a fair amount in the run up to the Lakers hiring a former assistant coach as their head coach.

1:17.7

Right.

1:17.9

And so assistant coaches by nature, Mike, I think head coaches prefer that assistant coaches be fairly anonymous.

1:25.3

They don't speak to the media a lot. They certainly don't get a chance

1:29.1

to like speak in terms of like national media presence or things like that, right? They may get

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