UNDISPUTED | LeBron is the problem in LA! – Skip Bayless breakdown to Lakers vs. Heat at home

UNDISPUTED | LeBron is the problem in LA! – Skip Bayless breakdown to Lakers vs. Heat at home

Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA’s first ever inseason tournament they celebrated they raised the banner and now they’re 17 and 17 in 10th place in the west the last playin spot as we speak man what a difference a year makes as we enter 2024 kesan Richard grew up in the LA

Area as Laker fans so kesan please you first what do you think is wrong with your team man you really want me to try to answer this skip I don’t know three and eight since winning the End season tournament three and eight 17- 17 overall record as you said so when I

Start to look at it what has changed since winning the n Season tournament effort effort has changed because Anthony Davis is basically doing the same I mean he hasn’t I agree I mean we used to be able to go yeah him him him him him yeah can’t do that right now

Numbers wise he’s he’s putting up the numbers he’s putting up the numbers so is LeBron he’s doing his deal LeBron James is doing his normal deal Austin Reeves is doing his normal deal to the to a degree y so what’s the what is it right so now you start to try to figure

Things out and you hate to start calling names because you like certain people but is Darvin ham really the right guy now is he really the right guy as we sit in a 10th spot in the second year as a coach on a team with LeBron because L if

This was any other coach with a LeBron Le team this question would come up we would have this conversation about well maybe his rotations and maybe he’s not making the right adjustments and they’re not listening to him whatever the case may be so now I’m starting to look at

The coach and starting to say well if we getting the same consistency to a degree out of our star players then what what’s the problem the problem to me is the coach he’s not they’re not it’s not registering to them whatever the information is that they’re getting it’s

They’re not retaining that information y so you start looking at that and in the NBA as as you know it don’t take long for people to start looking at the coaches start say wait a minute man we have too much talent to be 17 to 17 we displayed that although it was an

Inseason tournament we still won it and we showed you we could go 7 and0 in games how come it’s not the case now that’s that’s really the only answer I have Fair points yeah I I I I hate it I hate it skip I hate it key I I it’s

Frustrating because I I told you I caught this before the tournament during the tournament after the tournament I said it’s ridiculous what they can show when when they care when they care cuz CU When during the tournament daring ham wasn’t the problem during the tournament you know when them tournament games

Happen like like he said maybe you need to put Tournament game on on the locker room every freaking season G single game because that’s when they play hard but Darin ham was coaching the same then as he coaching now the thing that’s different is their effort as Keith said

Their effort their approach you see they’re lazy they’re they’re not getting back on defense they’re offensively not effective guys just standing around there’s not a sense of urgency and that’s the frustrating part as a fan is you’re sitting there watching it and you got to watch them

Play in the tournament got to watch them play the same Pelicans team in the semi final and hold them to 80 89 88 points and then you watch them play this and you’re like wait did you guys just it’s like they’re on autopilot yeah and it’s frustrating because of course they’re

Going to blame the the coaches they they blame Mike Brown they blame Luke Walton they blame they blame Darin ham now but at some point you got to start to say hey the players got to give Better Effort consistently and the fact that they played these tournament games and

Showed that’s the that’s the crazy part the the the bad part is when you show what you can do when you show what you’re capable of when you show hey when we’re giv 100% going all out we can beat anybody in the world and then you’re

Like is the tournament over we got paid turn it off turn it off they don’t they don’t need to see it anymore it’s like my goodness what are we going to when are they’re going to take it serious when are they you know when is

It not going to be darham when is it not going to be the injuries because these same guys were just playing better basketball a few weeks ago skip so I can’t sit there and say hey man we just don’t have the team to do it because we

Do clearly well I I you know Skip Richard say the coach the coach the coach I could and we’ve seen this movie before people are going to start to look at the coach because he’s the easier one to part ways with not dudes that got $200 million contracts so they’re going

To start looking just like you mentioned Mike Brown and and and Luke Walton and whoever else that hell they looked at Frank vogle after winning the championship whether it’s the bubble or not they parted ways with him so at some point if this continues and you’re

Sitting in a t SE eventually that 10 goes to 11 11 goes to 12 12 goes to 13 then you’ll be scratching your head for real okay I want to make the point about Darin ham and I think you concur kesan I like him a lot I’ve got a little

I think he’s a really good guy I think he’s a good basketball coach is the team now responding to him they are not lately not since that tournament this team does not shoot the ball very well it’s now 21st as we speak in three-point shooting which is

Probably not good enough to be a championship Contender can that change if they ever get Gabe Vincent healthy he hasn’t been healthy all year long and I don’t know why he went ahead and had some scope on his knee he can flat out shoot it and he

Can clutch shoot it and I thought he was going to be a valuable member of the rotation and he’s been no member of the rotation now ruie is banged up and Jared Vanderbilt’s been banged up and cam reddish has been banged up they’ve had some injury issues and I’m going to give

Them that as a legit but small excuse okay now what do we know there are two lights at the end of the tunnel that we have seen we saw the NC tournament they’re Gang Busters man on defense against Indiana that night they destroyed them defensively because they

Cared they showed up that the the intensity the urgency that we haven’t seen since then was on full display in the quote unquote championship game a December game against Indiana and then I got to bring up one other game that you guys have not mentioned on December 23rd it wasn’t that far

Back they went to Oklahoma City and I don’t know if you guys have been watching but Oklahoma City has caught fire because they have grown up right before your very eyes they have won eight of their last nine they had the Celtics down 18 with nine minutes left

Last night and it got a little dicey but they they were clearly the better team albeit in Oklahoma City eight out of nine guess what they lost one game at home to the Lakers so I went back and checked that box score and the Lakers had lost four straight

Coming into this game but all of a sudden LeBron goes for 40 why did he go for 40 he made all five of his three-point shots well how many nights are you going to get five out of five from LeBron from three not many and Anthony was 26 and 11 with seven um

Assists so how many how many games you that was the night that that that night he came back off injury right he had rested up or whatever he did ruy that night was healthy and gave you 21 out on eight of 14 shots and they made 16 of

323 that’s 50% on the road that that’s going to give you a chance to win a lot of road games even at Oklahoma City against the suddenly maturing right before your very eyes Thunder the same Thunder team that proceeded to beat Minnesota the best team in the west

Record-wise by 23 at home the same Thunder team that went went to Denver a couple of nights after that and won by 26 at Denver they are rolling people and they got rolled by the Lakers at home so my point is are those lights at the end

Of the tunnel are they indictments of what this team should be with darham as the head coach that’s the not going to give up on this team I’m not going to write it off because we’ve seen all this happen it they have to flip another switch Yeah but you can’t keep going to

The well though skip over and over and over we’ve seen this happen before we saw it last year they made some some mid-season trade Acquisitions and kind of got found themselves in a western conference F but you can’t live like that every single year yeah you mentioned OKC Memphis is getting I mean

Like you start just looking you start looking skip at the conference okay and the team that’s here with us in LA are they the Clippers so you start looking at the conference and you saying to yourself you’re sitting in the 10th seed like I said you’ll look up and be in the

13th seed in a minute and and and find yourself way behind everybody y good point but again I just I I just don’t get it because guys put on lakor jerseys and they who they are they they all of a sudden can’t shoot they all of a sudden don’t

Play defense they all of a sudden are injured a lot of times it’s and and again we win the title with Frank vogle and what he did with this team and how well he had him playing defensively and then we give up on him and and now we’re

Saying Darin ham and give up on him at the end of the day I don’t know if it matters who’s in the seat if I’m being honest because I mean since Phil Jackson we’ve gone through a gauntlet of coaches we’ve gone through a ton of coaches and the consistent theme is effort it

Doesn’t matter

UNDISPUTED | LeBron is the problem in LA! – Skip Bayless breakdown to Lakers vs. Heat at home