Hello, Lakers Nation. Welcome in Trevor Lane here for Lakers Nation.com. Big offseason ahead for the Lakers. We've got a ton of things still up in the air for L.A. Their head coach, who is it going to be? What are they even looking for in a head coach? What are they going to do with some of the players that we still don't know? Are they picking up their player options? Are they not? LeBron James, DeAngelo, Russell, two of the big ones.

How do they build out the next iteration of the team? We're going to talk about all that and more with our guest today, which is Mark Medina does a phenomenal job covering the NBA for sports Kita. You've also seen him on CBS. you can hear him on fox sports radio mark thank you so much

for coming on hey trevor thanks for having me it's always been a treat anytime i get to talk

lakers with you well i always appreciate it when you come on the show uh we've got a big summer ahead

here for the lakers and i guess where we could start it's with i think the first on the to do list for the Lakers. And I guess where we could start, it's with, I think,

the first on the to-do list for the Lakers. It's the head coaching front. I guess first,

give me your thoughts. Did the Lakers make the right decision in moving on from Dharvan Ham?

Well, I think technically it made sense because of the fact that when you look at the roster, it underachieved.

And, you know, there were adjustments that he could have made when it comes to rotations and, you know, in game play calling, all those things.

But I don't think it addresses the majority of the problems.

You know, Darvin Ham was attractive enough as a candidate to hire him two years ago.

And it didn't get significantly worse since then.

If anything, he's actually gotten better.

So I think the problem with this head coach is I know a lot of people talk about ever since

Phil Jackson retired, there hasn't been stability.

But I think the context of that is a little bit different.

So let's really narrow in on the context of since Rob Polinka has been overseeing the front

office.

There's been, you know, Luke Walton, Frank Vogel, Darvinham,

and now whoever their next future coach has been since 2019.

And so I think that the problem is if they're going to choose a certain coach

and value certain qualities, they got to go all in on that.

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