From Andy Kamenetzky, Land O’ Lakers: During his introductory presser, Mike Brown acknowledged European coach Ettore Messina — who most recently coached for Real Madrid and won Euroleague titles with Virtus Bologna and CSKA Moscow — would be among those considered for his coaching staff. Well, according to ESPN The Magazine’s Ric Bucher, Messina has […]
Archives for June 2011
Ettore Messina And The Lakers’ Offense
While the Lakers have not yet confirmed the report, it looks as if the highly regarded Ettore Messina will leave Europe to join Mike Brown’s staff with the Lakers. His role is yet to be fully defined, but initial reports have him as a “behind the bench” assistant coach that will serve in more of […]
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From Brian Kemenetzky, Land O’ Lakers: By a variety of measurements, through the 2010-11 season the Lakers had the least productive point guard tandem in the NBA. Worse than the 19-win Cleveland Cavaliers. Worse even than the 17-win Minnesota Timberwolves, who have turned themselves into a punchline thanks to an amazing ability to draft and […]
Thanks For The Memories, Shaq
With news coming out that the Lakers will retire Shaq’s jersey, the Diesel will live on forever as one of the Laker immortals. He’ll join Magic, Kareem, the Logo, Baylor, Wilt, Worthy, and Goodrich as one of the all-timers that Laker fans have been lucky enough to call their own at some point in their […]
Making The New Offense Work
Yesterday, we took a look at what the Lakers offense may look like next year under Mike Brown, basing our analysis off his three principles on offense. However, when digging deeper into Brown’s philophy there are real questions as to how this offense can work with the personnel the Lakers currently possess. This is especially […]
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From Arash Markazi, ESPNLA: If Mike Brown weren’t a basketball coach, it would be easy to envision him as a successful salesman. Although some basketball coaches look pained, annoyed and altogether bothered talking about their profession and philosophy with anyone outside of the coaching circle, Brown loves talking about basketball with just about anyone willing […]
Our First Clues Into Mike Brown’s Offense
I may not care about winning a press conference, but I must admit that I came away impressed with Mike Brown after his introduction to the media on Tuesday afternoon. The new Laker head coach came off as intelligent and very much in his element when dealing with the press. He deflected the questions he […]
Around the World (Wide Web): Shaq Edition
From Andy Kamenetzky, Land O’ Lakers: Safe to say, only Shaquille O’Neal could announce his retirement with just 29 words, yet create a tizzy equal to a 29,000 press conferences. Twitter was in danger of exploding late Wednesday morning when, via a new real time video messaging service called Tout, Shaq let the world know […]
Say Goodbye To One Of The Greats: Shaq To Retire
In a move that was classicly Shaq, the Big Everything issued a statement via his twitter account that simply said, “I’m retiring” with a link to a video making it official. There will be much more analysis to come and I’m sure many tributes (as well as those that would like to criticize) the big […]