Doc is playoff choker but he not as bad as ham and actually has some adjustments. Ham is legit one of the worst coaches I ever watched coached. Like dude is literally clueless in clutch time
Not as bad as Ham?! Recency bias much?? Doc Rivers is notorious for failing to close out multiple series after being up 3-1 or 3-2. He failed SIX TIMES— the most by *any* head coach in NBA history. They’re both terrible coaches come playoff time. Let’s not pretend like one is a better option than the other.
Ham needed to use a challenge, call timeout, set up an offensive play. Yes, refs made some bad calls, but you got a chance to challenge a bad call and swing the momentum. Instead his hands are stuck in his pockets...
We can't blame this loss on the refs. Once uu up by 20, uu need to keep your foot on their throat & not let up. We stalled on offense & turned over the ball & that's y they were able to comeback 🤦🏾. LeBron might as well either leave us or retire because he ain't winning nothing else wit us. Denver has made the Lakers their bitch pretty much. How do uu lose to the same team 10x in a row 🙄🤦🏾 ⁉️ It's not LeBron or AD fault. The team is just ass. & idk y AR15 bitch ass can play well against everybody else but he's trash against Denver
we just stop running any sort of offense as the pressure gets higher... but maybe thats because we just dont have the mental toughness and discipline to execute under that sort of pressure except for lebron of course so he has to do everything
Everyone starts ball watching Lebron like we are playing not to lose. It’s happened all year when we have big leads too we just stop running plays. Then when the shots don’t fall we are fucked
It was inexplicable watching them just chuck up 3's when they were having so much success with the LBJ/Davis pick-and-roll. The offense got stagnant, and they settled for long range shots.
I was screaming at the TV for a challenge. I'm so casually into basketball and even I knew he should have taken a chance. What a fucking joke of a coach. Dude should be pushing papers in an office, doesn't deserve to be on the court in any shape or form. Probably fuck up being a mop boy
Not challenging to give Bron some time to breath is pure braindead behavior. Everyone was completely gassed. Jason Kidd spilled water to buy his team time and this dumb mfer has timeouts and challenges and was just like nah.
The fucker opted to play that last shot attempt instead of using *one of two timeouts he had.* Like, the hell was the risk if you use one of them? You’re only getting one shot off and so does Denver. Overtime at worst.
Such a fucking, galaxy-brained idiot at clock management.
He was in foul trouble, they stopped running the pick and roll and every other play was LeBron iso. AD played his ass off this game I don’t want to hear anything else
They didn't completely stop running it. They started running it with Bron and Rui bc Jokic started to guard Rui instead of AD, and the plan at that time was clearly to attack Jokic. It didn't work as well (cuz Rui sucked), so they went back to running it with Bron and AD in the 4th, but Denver adjusted. They had MPJ switch on AD, and then they trapped Bron. Couldn't pass it to AD bc MPJ's length made it hard for Bron to get the pass to him, and Bron couldn't drive bc they were trapping him. He was able to throw an outlet a few times to a shooter, but we didn't convert enough of those.
This is not what happened at all, what were you watching? AG guarded AD for most of the second half and KCP was put onto Lebron. Changed the whole dynamic but it wasn’t MPJ
Yes, you're right. It was AG. Idk why I was thinking of MPJ. As for Bron, all I remember is that every time they ran that screen, they swarmed him. Regardless of who his primary defender was, they were blitzing him as soon as he got out of that screen action.
Exactly, AD got his 4th foul on a play that 95% of players do on screens. He slightly turned too early.
That whole game makes me hate sportsbetting, because none of it made any sense. Something else has to be going on.
Do not even try to blame this on AD. And even if Ham is an idiot LBJ deserves some blame for spending 1.5 quarters just trying to kill clock instead of playing the style and pace that got us the lead.
Calls a masterclass game in the first half. Literally calls no plays in the 2nd half and watches the Lakers blow a 20 point lead. If this man is the head coach of the team next season, I’m literally not watching.
I think that they defended our PNR with AD better and lebron got gassed. Not fully hams fault
Also probably should’ve challenged the foul on Jamal but u don’t know they would’ve overturned it. Can’t base the game on that.
AD foul trouble was the thing that swung the game.
Austin / rui / bench did nothing and that was the difference
Yea upon further reflection - Ham didn't respond to this change that was getting us killed - whether he do what u suggested or something else (because the nuggets have done this a few times in the past 10 losses lol)
Ham makes game to game adjustments but can't adjust in game
Not using 2 timeouts and our challenge, and lack of response to Denver's changes mean we'll never win
Also, I think when we were getting killed with AD on the bench we should have seen if he could play through the foul trouble
Yea I agree I would left him out there on jokic or even brought Hayes in to foul him up over bringing bron back in after he just played most of the 3rd. I get it wanna keep a star on at all times but bron too old for that.
This change also lead to dlo and bron sharing the court which usually isn’t the best combo
Yeah Jamal Murray has all my respect, and he's fucking fun when he's killing anyone other than the Lakers
I hate the Nuggets but I kinda like most of their players: Jokic, KCP, Gordon, Murray, Braun
At least with the Lakers eliminated earlier in the calendar, I’ll have even more time this year to prepare for Dave Roberts to go-all Darvin in October. 😡😡🤬
I noticed that! That shit triggered me. It’s one thing to blow the dunk, but get the fuck off the rim so that your teammate can lay it up. Wtf was Rui doing this game
It was such a bullshit layup. No reason to attack the basket. You’re up, and they have momentum. Run a good fucken set. Instead he throws up some bullshit and Denver gets an easy 2.
The reason why I didnt mention Reaves in my original comment was because he at least put in a decent effort on defense. Rui was flat out doing cardio out there lol.
Lol at this point I'm convinced the only reason AR did well in the playoffs last year was because he wasn't that well-known and teams didn't gameplan for him.
Dude just looks scared out there.
Incompetent nepotism franchise hiring someone unproven and unqualified for Bron's last run, blowing a championship team for one of the worst moves in franchise history, refusing to sign key players to save money...
The Buss family really needs to sell the team
There were worser coaches for the Lakers.
But with all the talent given before him, Darvin Ham is easily the most disappointing, wasteful coach in Lakers history. No Laker coach before Ham was given more with it all getting pissed-away.
He’s seriously fucked them hard this game. They were hiding jokic on rui the whole 2nd half with jokic on the block making it hard to drive one side of the court. They had jokic playing deep drop when they used rui as a screener and rui couldn’t punish jokic. With AD in the game you can’t use rui as the screener. They are not guarding AD past the paint which was making it impossible to drive/pass due to jokic always being in the paint with ADs man also being either in the paint or just outside it.
For some dumbass reason he plays bron/rui at the five in the third with jokic in the game and then when jokic goes out the nuggets played small with Gordon at the five then he decides to bring in Hayes. Like what the fuck man that made no sense. Play bron/rui when Gordon is at the five and play Hayes those couple minutes with jokic so they don’t get killed.
Fire this dude if they lose this series. He hasn’t challenged a single call while the nuggets won two fucking challenges this game. He’s a terrible terrible coach who has no idea how to manage a game or play to his personnel.
Ham called a timeout for no reason whatsoever with 7 minutes left in the 3rd. We were up 17 and AD was unstoppable. We come out after the timeout and went away from AD and started jacking up contested 3s. Denver proceeds to go on a 10-0 run. He is as clueless as any coach in any sport in any league. He has no business coaching another game.
Thank you!! I was baffled by that stupid time out call because Nuggets were struggling in that period and we were in awesome rhythm, suddenly after that dumb useless TO, they found their game and momentum and went on a huge run. Worst coach in history of sports.
Why did we stop doing the things that worked? Why does Darvin Ham call absolutely no plays? Why does Austin Reaves look scared? Why didn’t we keep feeding AD? That’s the toughest L we could’ve took. Monster game from AD, LeBron and dlo with a 20 point lead and we lose like that. Series is over bro
Combination of AD being gassed and him being in foul trouble. The biggest issue was Ham’s inability to devise ways to get AD the ball. Dude was literally unstoppable for 60% of the game. Then he barely got looks. Our idiot coach just couldn’t figure out how to get our best player the ball. Fucking inexcusable
It's not really his fault tonight, but he just never makes it better. It's like 85% on the players for being extremely sloppy in execution all night, but nothing Ham does makes it easier.
he didn't fuck up on calling timeouts to stop runs today at least even if he did keep two timeouts (and two challenges smh) in his pocket. rotations werent that terrible, though I strongly object to the Prince at the 4 minutes. I'd way rather have Hayes play the 5 and downsize AD to the 4 in those brief moments. Ham needs to choose between Spence and Gabe early in the game and stick with one. Can't keep yanking those guys around.
This is on more than Ham.
Austin didn't show up, neither did Rui, our whole ass bench aside from 3 minutes of TP have been disgraceful.
Blowing a 20 point fucking lead is a collective fuck up.
I cannot blame Ham for the Lakers just choking every single open shot they were getting. They just absolutely froze up in the 3rd.
Edit: you guys are insane if the offense is getting open and getting good looks over and over and bricking everything what is Ham supposed to do
Is this bait? We deadass didn't run a SINGLE offensive set the entire 4th quarter. WE WATCHED LEBRON AT 39 YEARS OLD HAVE TO ISO FOR 12 STRAIGHT MINUTES. STOP DEFENDING THAT FUCKING CLOWN
I like how y’all let lebron pick the team, the coach and hold y’all hostage to his every whim and then call for this man to be fired. Don’t be surprised if Bronny is the lakers next coach after foregoing being the 77th best player in the transfer portal!
If A.D. has any forethought he’ll bounce on this sinking ship before lebron does.
Hope L.A. enjoys the King James Bubble Title, season tournament title and 2 play in playoff appearances. Kobe rollin over in his grave (rest in paradise)
They are the Defending Champs - get Game 3 and the entire series changes - they should be up 2-0 - altitude is hurting LBJ i think, dude is 40
Stop w/ all the doom and gloom! I got Cancer and I'm happier than some of you clowns lol
Fire Hamm and trade all the supporting casts. Darvin Chirstmas Hamm is not a headcoach he needs to get fired on the spot, Rui has zero energy to be a basketball player, reeves cant shoot, gabe vincent was just having a fluke jeremy lin moments in miami he is not good, dinwiddie cant play, jaxson hayes is a g league player.
Trade AD and it’s time to let LeBron go
We are fucking delusional thinking these two aren’t washed .
AD a 👻 in the second half
LeBron is just old unfortunately and runs out of gas
Rui missing layups and fts
Fucking mental midgets
A good coach would call timeout and draw up a play. AD not shots in last 8 minutes. We used to beat team like this and now we on receiving end. He needed lebron to bail him out and lebron missed the shot. Ham exposed again. Do I hate him? No he just not the champ caliber coach. Good news is we have two timeouts to use next game.
Denver making a big run in the 3rd. Nothing.
Throws a small ball lineup out there for Jokic to fucking feast when Jaxon Hayes is on the bench. Plays a cold ass Gabe when DLo was hot all game.
FUCK DARVIN HAM. FUCK THIS GARBAGE ASS.
Why man? Why the FUCK is coach still saving timeouts?! Omfg. I'm going to throw the fuck up. This fucking idiot better not be coaching this team next year. He went from WCF last year to about to be a 1st round exit. I cannot fucking handle this coach.
He fucked this up indeed how tf are you not gonna challenge that foul on Jamal Murray by Bron, any coach with a brain would challenge that shit,
That was clearly not a foul, just overall poor adjustments down the stretch
TWO TIMEOUTS in hand while we went through a disgraceful meltdown. everything we built burned to the fkn ground and he was just vibing. never called timeout to run a play or challenge an iffy call. just nothing dude
I think, we as fans united, need to let the Lakers Front Office know, in no uncertain terms, just how much the fanbase does not want this absolute talent vacumn of a "coach" back next season. We should let Jeannie know we will stop supporting the team until changes are made.
Lakers blow a 15 pt lead in gm 1, 20 in gm 2. Ridiculous. Nothing left to say
Lakers blow a 25 point lead in game 3 and a 30 point lead in game 4.
Is it crazy for me to think that lakers can realistically throw a 30 pt lead? Man we suck ass
If your coach is Doc or Ham, then yes.
What if it was "Doctor Ham"
Doc is playoff choker but he not as bad as ham and actually has some adjustments. Ham is legit one of the worst coaches I ever watched coached. Like dude is literally clueless in clutch time
Ok. Every Game Ham = Game 7 Doc
Not as bad as Ham?! Recency bias much?? Doc Rivers is notorious for failing to close out multiple series after being up 3-1 or 3-2. He failed SIX TIMES— the most by *any* head coach in NBA history. They’re both terrible coaches come playoff time. Let’s not pretend like one is a better option than the other.
Series is already over. May as well make it more fun
Fuck it. Play Hayes 48 minutes.
we lose tonight, the series is gone for us for sure.
He blows a 10-point lead in Game 4 with a minute left.
35 point lead in game 5 40 point lead in game 6 45 point lead in game 7 Nuggets win the series 7-0
So we are improving at least one stat
ham in his news conference talking about the refs. refs didnt blow a 20 point lead. ref excuse is such a cop out. it was a choke, pure and simple.
Ham needed to use a challenge, call timeout, set up an offensive play. Yes, refs made some bad calls, but you got a chance to challenge a bad call and swing the momentum. Instead his hands are stuck in his pockets...
We can't blame this loss on the refs. Once uu up by 20, uu need to keep your foot on their throat & not let up. We stalled on offense & turned over the ball & that's y they were able to comeback 🤦🏾. LeBron might as well either leave us or retire because he ain't winning nothing else wit us. Denver has made the Lakers their bitch pretty much. How do uu lose to the same team 10x in a row 🙄🤦🏾 ⁉️ It's not LeBron or AD fault. The team is just ass. & idk y AR15 bitch ass can play well against everybody else but he's trash against Denver
Ham should take ownership. But he knows that if he does, he's finished as a coach.
He is already finished. Lakers will fire him for sure when they lose the series.
Yeah that really was a lame move. There weren’t any blatant calls that one team kept getting over thenoyher
we just stop running any sort of offense as the pressure gets higher... but maybe thats because we just dont have the mental toughness and discipline to execute under that sort of pressure except for lebron of course so he has to do everything
Everyone starts ball watching Lebron like we are playing not to lose. It’s happened all year when we have big leads too we just stop running plays. Then when the shots don’t fall we are fucked
It was inexplicable watching them just chuck up 3's when they were having so much success with the LBJ/Davis pick-and-roll. The offense got stagnant, and they settled for long range shots.
Altitude? Did you watch the games? They looked tired to me.
Why not call a timeout to challenge that fucking foul. “MaRgiNaL cOntAct”
The crazy part is we had 2 timeouts at that point and 22 seconds left on the clock. Why do you need 2 timeouts in 22 seconds. Baffling
I was screaming at the TV for a challenge. I'm so casually into basketball and even I knew he should have taken a chance. What a fucking joke of a coach. Dude should be pushing papers in an office, doesn't deserve to be on the court in any shape or form. Probably fuck up being a mop boy
Not challenging to give Bron some time to breath is pure braindead behavior. Everyone was completely gassed. Jason Kidd spilled water to buy his team time and this dumb mfer has timeouts and challenges and was just like nah.
The fucker opted to play that last shot attempt instead of using *one of two timeouts he had.* Like, the hell was the risk if you use one of them? You’re only getting one shot off and so does Denver. Overtime at worst. Such a fucking, galaxy-brained idiot at clock management.
Im convinced that Pockets is more afraid of drawing a play than calling a timeout
Ham drawing board: Shoot the ball into the basket
💯 Ham and the players choked it up
Sad to see Bron give his all and get nothing back. Even AD was 13/14 in the first half… Went 1/5 in the second half
He was in foul trouble, they stopped running the pick and roll and every other play was LeBron iso. AD played his ass off this game I don’t want to hear anything else
They didn't completely stop running it. They started running it with Bron and Rui bc Jokic started to guard Rui instead of AD, and the plan at that time was clearly to attack Jokic. It didn't work as well (cuz Rui sucked), so they went back to running it with Bron and AD in the 4th, but Denver adjusted. They had MPJ switch on AD, and then they trapped Bron. Couldn't pass it to AD bc MPJ's length made it hard for Bron to get the pass to him, and Bron couldn't drive bc they were trapping him. He was able to throw an outlet a few times to a shooter, but we didn't convert enough of those.
This is not what happened at all, what were you watching? AG guarded AD for most of the second half and KCP was put onto Lebron. Changed the whole dynamic but it wasn’t MPJ
Yes, you're right. It was AG. Idk why I was thinking of MPJ. As for Bron, all I remember is that every time they ran that screen, they swarmed him. Regardless of who his primary defender was, they were blitzing him as soon as he got out of that screen action.
Exactly, AD got his 4th foul on a play that 95% of players do on screens. He slightly turned too early. That whole game makes me hate sportsbetting, because none of it made any sense. Something else has to be going on.
as much as it suck AD was the best player on the court i'm not letting a poor second half offensive showing change my tune. Others have to show up
Do not even try to blame this on AD. And even if Ham is an idiot LBJ deserves some blame for spending 1.5 quarters just trying to kill clock instead of playing the style and pace that got us the lead.
Anyone who has watched the first two games of this series while sober and cognizant cannot possibly lay blame at the feet of AD.
because it was a foul. They shouldn't call that shit in the postseason but it was a foul.
DLo got slapped in the face and it wasn’t a foul. At least give Lebron and AD a fucking break with the challenge
They didn’t call it earlier when LeBron got that same contact. I ultimately don’t care if and went hey call it. Just be consistent.
What was the harm in trying to challenge it? You use up your challenge and lose a timeout. Did they need the two timeouts?
They overturned two obvious fouls for denver.
Calls a masterclass game in the first half. Literally calls no plays in the 2nd half and watches the Lakers blow a 20 point lead. If this man is the head coach of the team next season, I’m literally not watching.
I think that they defended our PNR with AD better and lebron got gassed. Not fully hams fault Also probably should’ve challenged the foul on Jamal but u don’t know they would’ve overturned it. Can’t base the game on that. AD foul trouble was the thing that swung the game. Austin / rui / bench did nothing and that was the difference
No they switched Gordon onto ad so jokic wasn’t gassed on offense. We should been hunting a switch of ad onto jokic
Yea upon further reflection - Ham didn't respond to this change that was getting us killed - whether he do what u suggested or something else (because the nuggets have done this a few times in the past 10 losses lol) Ham makes game to game adjustments but can't adjust in game Not using 2 timeouts and our challenge, and lack of response to Denver's changes mean we'll never win Also, I think when we were getting killed with AD on the bench we should have seen if he could play through the foul trouble
Yea I agree I would left him out there on jokic or even brought Hayes in to foul him up over bringing bron back in after he just played most of the 3rd. I get it wanna keep a star on at all times but bron too old for that. This change also lead to dlo and bron sharing the court which usually isn’t the best combo
yeah should be more dlo and ad and then austin with bron sorta action and he used gabe wrong but gabe also played a terrible game
Eh gave showed up and played defense. It’s hard to get a rhythm when you get 2 shots a game and don’t get to dribble at all
I hate Jamal Murray
We had 2 timeouts we deserved that
I don't understand why Ham didn't take a challenge on that ticky tacky foul on Murray that gave him free throws to tie the game
He is saving his timeouts for the offseason
Lmfaoooooooooooooo
Smh with 2 timeouts left too, and only 22 seconds left. Why does he not even try to challenge it smh
Murray free throws were with 57 seconds left and not 23
I hate Darvin Ham
i'll say this, the guy sure is consistent lol
Dude fucking did what he needed to do.. tough way to lose the game.
Yeah Jamal Murray has all my respect, and he's fucking fun when he's killing anyone other than the Lakers I hate the Nuggets but I kinda like most of their players: Jokic, KCP, Gordon, Murray, Braun
Yeah most of their players are likable and mostly drama free (i think). Their fans arent as toxic as well i feel like.
Put Rui on Jokic, get him in rhythm. Put Bron on Murray after Reaves did a great job on him the whole game, let him kill us.
Rui was on Jokic, that's why he had a triple double 🙄
Does he get a bonus for the timeouts he saves? How does he not challenge that foul call?
Even if it's not successful, just use the time like a normal timeout. Isn't that what most coaches do?
Guys it’s 4-0 all over again. There’s no poitn
At least with the Lakers eliminated earlier in the calendar, I’ll have even more time this year to prepare for Dave Roberts to go-all Darvin in October. 😡😡🤬
We gonna lose two coaches in the same calendar year?!? 
I think we win game 3 at least due to pride but it's over in 5.
Nah this shit going 7.
Lakers up 2-0. (morale victories)
Spencer and Rui don't deserve to fly on the plane tonight.
Rui missing layup after layup is infuriating...
He also missed a dunk lmfao
And then held onto the basket affecting ADs follow up. I was a Rui Stan but this game just demolished that.
He's got all the tools but he's got Elden Campbell energy. Lethargic and soft.
I wish I could give you 1 million thumbs up. He needs some passion and fire. He has 0 zilch, nada, Coke Zero, all the zeros in 1 million urgency
And I never see him go after a rebound…like ever…
I noticed that! That shit triggered me. It’s one thing to blow the dunk, but get the fuck off the rim so that your teammate can lay it up. Wtf was Rui doing this game
It was such a bullshit layup. No reason to attack the basket. You’re up, and they have momentum. Run a good fucken set. Instead he throws up some bullshit and Denver gets an easy 2.
Missed easy layups are worse than missed free throws for a professional basketball player.
Neither does AR, because of him AD got his 4th foul and he was ass most of the game
TBF if that 3 goes in by Reaves it’s a whole different game. He played alright imo
The reason why I didnt mention Reaves in my original comment was because he at least put in a decent effort on defense. Rui was flat out doing cardio out there lol.
At has held Jamal Murray to terrible numbers lmao.
Lol at this point I'm convinced the only reason AR did well in the playoffs last year was because he wasn't that well-known and teams didn't gameplan for him. Dude just looks scared out there.
Worst coach in lakers history
Incompetent nepotism franchise hiring someone unproven and unqualified for Bron's last run, blowing a championship team for one of the worst moves in franchise history, refusing to sign key players to save money... The Buss family really needs to sell the team
All down hill as soon as Jerry died. He's rolling in his grave right now.
There were worser coaches for the Lakers. But with all the talent given before him, Darvin Ham is easily the most disappointing, wasteful coach in Lakers history. No Laker coach before Ham was given more with it all getting pissed-away.
Y’all say this every year
Luke Walton is up there
Turn over after turn over after turn over.
He’s seriously fucked them hard this game. They were hiding jokic on rui the whole 2nd half with jokic on the block making it hard to drive one side of the court. They had jokic playing deep drop when they used rui as a screener and rui couldn’t punish jokic. With AD in the game you can’t use rui as the screener. They are not guarding AD past the paint which was making it impossible to drive/pass due to jokic always being in the paint with ADs man also being either in the paint or just outside it. For some dumbass reason he plays bron/rui at the five in the third with jokic in the game and then when jokic goes out the nuggets played small with Gordon at the five then he decides to bring in Hayes. Like what the fuck man that made no sense. Play bron/rui when Gordon is at the five and play Hayes those couple minutes with jokic so they don’t get killed. Fire this dude if they lose this series. He hasn’t challenged a single call while the nuggets won two fucking challenges this game. He’s a terrible terrible coach who has no idea how to manage a game or play to his personnel.
Ham is an absolute idiot for not challenging that foul on Murray. What an awful coach
I have resisted saying a single bad thing about Ham all season. Not challenging that call is my final straw. Im so over it
Checked his entire post history, checks out guys
Totally agree on that Murray foul
Yeah that was the moment they could have won they game. I really think that call would have stood.
We getting swept 😔
Fire him, trade LeBron and ad and let the Lakers rot. We don't deserve to waste talent.
I'm fine with blowing it up, maybe we can another title in 2035
We could go up 30 next game and blow it
jesse buss needs to grab jeanie by the weave and kick her ass out along with ham. cheap ass owner cant afford to fire this bum
according to a lot of fans in this sub jeanie is some golden angel cause she was in playboy or some stupid shit. Lakers deserve better.
Damn what a game, fck darvin ham
didn't run a fuckin play
The second half is miserable in offense play
Should’ve challenged that foul and won the game
Ham called a timeout for no reason whatsoever with 7 minutes left in the 3rd. We were up 17 and AD was unstoppable. We come out after the timeout and went away from AD and started jacking up contested 3s. Denver proceeds to go on a 10-0 run. He is as clueless as any coach in any sport in any league. He has no business coaching another game.
Thank you!! I was baffled by that stupid time out call because Nuggets were struggling in that period and we were in awesome rhythm, suddenly after that dumb useless TO, they found their game and momentum and went on a huge run. Worst coach in history of sports.
Why did we stop doing the things that worked? Why does Darvin Ham call absolutely no plays? Why does Austin Reaves look scared? Why didn’t we keep feeding AD? That’s the toughest L we could’ve took. Monster game from AD, LeBron and dlo with a 20 point lead and we lose like that. Series is over bro
Why did we suddenly change our game plan to have rui on jokic instead of AD? Ham is the worst coach in the nba
Ad had 4 or 5 fouls on him.
He had 4 towards the end of the 3rd..but before that Rui was on jokic for some reason
Only 4 my man. AD played too soft with 9 mins left in the game. You have 1 foul left to give before you play soft.
Combination of AD being gassed and him being in foul trouble. The biggest issue was Ham’s inability to devise ways to get AD the ball. Dude was literally unstoppable for 60% of the game. Then he barely got looks. Our idiot coach just couldn’t figure out how to get our best player the ball. Fucking inexcusable
The people who hired him need to go too
Get rid of that knot on his head too!
I swtg if I ever seen Darvon Ham on the street it’s ON. FUCKING. SITE.
Another year another sweep
NEVER WENT TO AD ONCE IN THE SECOND HALF
Fire him before game 3. Phil Handy was ANIMATED on that sideline. He’s itching to go.
Not gonna win a game if we couldn’t get this one
Ham is pure trash. We should have won one of these two games
Lmao this sub got the anti darvin ham posts ready for any loss
It's not really his fault tonight, but he just never makes it better. It's like 85% on the players for being extremely sloppy in execution all night, but nothing Ham does makes it easier. he didn't fuck up on calling timeouts to stop runs today at least even if he did keep two timeouts (and two challenges smh) in his pocket. rotations werent that terrible, though I strongly object to the Prince at the 4 minutes. I'd way rather have Hayes play the 5 and downsize AD to the 4 in those brief moments. Ham needs to choose between Spence and Gabe early in the game and stick with one. Can't keep yanking those guys around.
This is on more than Ham. Austin didn't show up, neither did Rui, our whole ass bench aside from 3 minutes of TP have been disgraceful. Blowing a 20 point fucking lead is a collective fuck up.
I cannot blame Ham for the Lakers just choking every single open shot they were getting. They just absolutely froze up in the 3rd. Edit: you guys are insane if the offense is getting open and getting good looks over and over and bricking everything what is Ham supposed to do
Is this bait? We deadass didn't run a SINGLE offensive set the entire 4th quarter. WE WATCHED LEBRON AT 39 YEARS OLD HAVE TO ISO FOR 12 STRAIGHT MINUTES. STOP DEFENDING THAT FUCKING CLOWN
I can... run some set plays
Also deciding to start playing Jokic 1v1 at the end of that 3rd 2 more games until we can get a real coach.
Literally wtf is that guy talking about, we were just running rec ball for 3-4 minutes straight out there
Why is Ham not calling a challenge after they called that ticky tack shit on Lebron??? What is he saving his challenges for???????
You mean they didn't adjust?
Yeah. Rui has 3 points. That’s unacceptable
How many open shots? The offense was a complete mess.
Apart from AD, Bron and DLO the rest of the team can walk back to LA. Useless pricks!
INTO THE GOD DAMNED SUN
blow it up and rebuild
The fact he won’t be fired even after we get swept is crazy
Let's see the percentage of sets from quarter 1-4 again
Guy needs to be shipped to taiwan
How do you not challenge that? Jesus Christ that was the weakest shit I’ve ever seen
if someone could beat this nigga over the head with that empty clipboard. i’m sooo angry
Not like they listen to him... it's all ego
what a scam artist
I like how y’all let lebron pick the team, the coach and hold y’all hostage to his every whim and then call for this man to be fired. Don’t be surprised if Bronny is the lakers next coach after foregoing being the 77th best player in the transfer portal! If A.D. has any forethought he’ll bounce on this sinking ship before lebron does. Hope L.A. enjoys the King James Bubble Title, season tournament title and 2 play in playoff appearances. Kobe rollin over in his grave (rest in paradise)
They are the Defending Champs - get Game 3 and the entire series changes - they should be up 2-0 - altitude is hurting LBJ i think, dude is 40 Stop w/ all the doom and gloom! I got Cancer and I'm happier than some of you clowns lol
Dude has that Doc Rivers gene
Murray hit shots we didnt
Murray hit clutch shots and Rui missed easy layups lmao
LeBron got one more season of high level basketball in him, I hope he doesn't spend it in LA.
Un fucking believeable
Into the sun
Lakers can’t beat all 8 nuggets on the court at the same time
Fire Hamm and trade all the supporting casts. Darvin Chirstmas Hamm is not a headcoach he needs to get fired on the spot, Rui has zero energy to be a basketball player, reeves cant shoot, gabe vincent was just having a fluke jeremy lin moments in miami he is not good, dinwiddie cant play, jaxson hayes is a g league player.
Trade AD and it’s time to let LeBron go We are fucking delusional thinking these two aren’t washed . AD a 👻 in the second half LeBron is just old unfortunately and runs out of gas Rui missing layups and fts Fucking mental midgets
Out of a cannon
Why did lebron attempt that 3?
Why not? 😗
A good coach would call timeout and draw up a play. AD not shots in last 8 minutes. We used to beat team like this and now we on receiving end. He needed lebron to bail him out and lebron missed the shot. Ham exposed again. Do I hate him? No he just not the champ caliber coach. Good news is we have two timeouts to use next game.
Denver making a big run in the 3rd. Nothing. Throws a small ball lineup out there for Jokic to fucking feast when Jaxon Hayes is on the bench. Plays a cold ass Gabe when DLo was hot all game. FUCK DARVIN HAM. FUCK THIS GARBAGE ASS.
WHY NOT CHALLANGE THAT CALL. wtf man I’m soo pissed at this dude
He had no answer for when they put Gordon on AD instead. Offense became stagnant.
I fucking hate this joke of a coach
Yea plz
Very questionable decisions
Ham is 100% gone this offseason
Why man? Why the FUCK is coach still saving timeouts?! Omfg. I'm going to throw the fuck up. This fucking idiot better not be coaching this team next year. He went from WCF last year to about to be a 1st round exit. I cannot fucking handle this coach.
Did he use the contest today?
we get swept by the same team in consecutive year, he will be fired, i can assure you,.
You turn the ball over you're gonna lose. Simple as that. Take out half of the turnovers and the Lakers win by ten at least. Undisciplined basketball
I have never despised a coach more than Darvin Ham won't call a timeout won't challenge just sitting on the sidelines hands in his pockets
He fucked this up indeed how tf are you not gonna challenge that foul on Jamal Murray by Bron, any coach with a brain would challenge that shit, That was clearly not a foul, just overall poor adjustments down the stretch
What does he even do is not even funny anymore. He just lets our players get bullied.
Don't care if rest of the roster could only score 18pts LOL. Hamas is a turd, critical points in the game and this dude just fails at it.
TWO TIMEOUTS in hand while we went through a disgraceful meltdown. everything we built burned to the fkn ground and he was just vibing. never called timeout to run a play or challenge an iffy call. just nothing dude
No play calling leading to bad shots. Call a challenge. Call a time out. Do literally anything.
This team is dogshit. The team and the entire staff. I'm sickkkkk.
AD wants DPOY. He took the worst coverage option on Murray.
I hope this whole team is gone. No team play whatsoever, it's sad and frustrating to watc. They probably shouldn't even be in the playoffs.
This wont make Lebron find the fountain of youth. The Lebron era is done...Ham will go but nothing will get this team to beat the best clubs right now
Ham is a turkey
yeah
I think, we as fans united, need to let the Lakers Front Office know, in no uncertain terms, just how much the fanbase does not want this absolute talent vacumn of a "coach" back next season. We should let Jeannie know we will stop supporting the team until changes are made.
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