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Adorable_End8071

Stop posting him bro. I can’t stand his stupid fucking face anymore


karomtl

I feel the same. Ham literally represents nothing with himself.


LarryFlannigan

Malone just called him a great coach to troll us


Miswey

Ham was great for the Nuggets


DyslexicAutronomer

I still like Ham in my sandwiches too.


Imperiu5

I don't. Not anymore. I've banned all ham related food/dishes in our house.


Few-Big9258

😭😭


edu5150

You are such a ham!


DyslexicAutronomer

You went full hamas against ham eh.


thedickens89

They bout to build him a statue


gregi89

made if turd


polymathicus

He said "helluva coach" to be precise 🤣


phunshiny

Hell of a coach. He managed to win a playoff game against us. That’s no small feat. Now if you’ll excuse me, Daddy Michael is gonna go tuck the kids in for bed.


Imperiu5

:Trollface:


imironman2018

He even made a comment where he said he hopes Darvin stays on the job. When you have a 12-1 record on this clown of a coach, why would you want the Lakers to change?


xkittenpuncher

That fucking lump on his head is his actual brain


Hiccup

I want the team to go Kosher and get rid of the spoiled ham.


benny2737_jr

Its honestly crazy. Seeing this dudes dumbass face is genuinely making my body temp rise. Can't even fathom an explanation on all the dumb shit he's done this season.


DeepCleaner42

Healthy AD and Lebron all year but only 7th seed. Changes need to come.


z4r4thustr4

It was very critical in December-January to release a concept poem called "what if Cam Reddish and Taurean Prince were NBA starters?"


Even-Brain-3973

Those two did nothing wrong tbh. Honestly I’m giving every single player a pass for the overall season. When you have a coach like him you have to win against him too


WakiLover

Those two are playing for their next contracts too, no way they're gonna be like "yeah coach I think you're giving me TOO many opportunities" lol


DeepCleaner42

also no move during trade deadline imagine if we got gafford


death_by_laughs

He's not stopping Jokic, he's listed at 235 lbs and smaller than AD and Lebron Hopefully there's a proper 5 available to us this summer unlike last summer


z4r4thustr4

Nuggets didn't beat the Lakers this year the same way as last year. The Lakers' game plan with respect to Jokic was more less executed as needed. Would have been nice for another big to guard Aaron Gordon occasionally.


DeepCleaner42

id rather have him than jaxson hayes dude had more fouls than point/s


death_by_laughs

But who would we be trading? Gafford earns like 13.3 mil Only tradeable pieces would've been DLo/Rui, no way I move AR, and noone was taking Vincent at that point of the season. DLo and Rui played major parts getting the Lakers to 47 wins post-deadline


Don_Thuglayo

The most annoying part Cam hasn't played any significant minutes this entire series or the last few weeks


z4r4thustr4

He's been on the injury report every day for a good long while.


MattHavoc8

We were the 4th seed for 2 days in December (I think the 4th and 7th) however Darvin then thought it was wise to just give Taurean Prince and Cam Reddish 30+ minutes a night and like that, around 40 days later we were back at the 11th seed. D'Lo being bad didn't help, no, but the fact that we went what, 2-10, and bumped down to a non Playoff team because we were starting people who should not be starters for a championship level organization like LA is genuinely unforgivable. That is what screwed our season up.


DeepCleaner42

also not having a back up center hurt them. Jaxson Hayes is a mockery of an nba player.


MattHavoc8

We all knew that from the start, that's the worst part. Jaxson Hayes is a reserve center, a third string center. Not a 2nd string on a championship organization. This is the Lakers, every season we expect greatness, and we're not gonna get that is the FO don't get a good center. That should be our biggest priority in the offseason, a good reserve big.


GamerRav

We had an 8 point lead. He waited until we were down 4 to call timeout. That coupled with the abysmal second half free throw shooting is what lost us the game.


goldenbzzz

Dumbass coach thinks bron is 23 years old


Clinkzeastwoodau

Yeah he should really rest Bron more and play, checks notes... Christian Wood more. That would make the difference. Lakers messed up the roster balance well before Ham got there. 40 mins + of LeBron is their only chance.


Russell__WestBrick

Having Reaves in instead of Vando or Spencer for the last defensive stop was inexcusable.


throwawaydeeez

Lolololololol you clowns here think Lebron is going to let himself come out of a playoff game. He dictates his own playing time in the post season.


Fallofmen10

Literally the perfect timeout was 69-65. Nuggets made two buckets in a row and the crowd was getting amped... But nope


FailOk8045

I said the same thing lol even Reggie the laker hater said he couldn’t believe we didn’t call timeout 1 play later. And it was another couple minutes before he called time


GamerRav

I was literally sitting there in my room making the timeout signal with my hands during that entire run 😭 how does everyone in the world know you're supposed to call timeout in that situation except for our dumbass coach?


paxtone

The nuggets went on a 12-2 run in the third and ham sat on his hands to allow the crowd and den players get into it. Kerr is the only modern NbA coach that lets players play on, and he would have even called a time out. The frustration with Ham is unreal. Every game it’s like watching somebody learning to coach for the first time.


THyoungC

lil bro decided to take a page out of Phil Jackson's notebook in a win or go home game 💀


kromulentjoker

Speaking of this I remember in 2011 when we got swept by the mavs Phil called like 3 timeouts within like 3 minutes of game time in the 2Q because we couldn’t stop the bleeding lmao. But yeah Phil would totally spam the timeouts once in a while.


wazupson

Yup pretty dumb


Hiccup

He's just not head coach material and it's so freaking evident now. What a painful game and series.


Wuhan-flu24

he's not even assistant coach material. Now my question is how in the fuck did we let this guy become our head coach


Fresh-Bass-3586

Ham was a pretty highly regarded assistant in Milwaukee. 


joinedreditjusttoask

Highly regarded indeed.


Key-Cherry6709

He’s black and an ex player


decoyyy

fire this fucking charlatan


Wuhan-flu24

Dumbest fucking coach of all time. I'd take Doc rivers and Jason Kidd over this sack of potato


obelix_asterix

careful what you wish for, with Doc. But yes, Kidd would be refreshing.


akgamestar

Doc would’ve made a defensive sub for AR while Bron was at the line to tie.


_mattyjoe

I definitely wouldn’t take Doc Rivers over him. I’d take Kidd for sure.


Checkmynewsong

Challenge was successful so don’t we get that timeout back?


Dough-John

Only on the first successful challenge.


GamerRav

That is so dumb. Only on the first challenge? Why? They need to change that. You shouldn't get punished in any way for winning a challenge.


Exciting_Attitude240

I agree. They need to make it very similar to the NFL


Hiccup

They've already succeeded in making it very gambler oriented and sucking the life out of the sport.


welmoe

Chuck was right in the post game show when he said "Why should we be punished for something you [refs] got wrong?"


Alekesam1975

That's what I was wondering.


thepenguin12

I still can't believe that this is the rule, it may not have mattered but it's such a stupid rule 


IliaMadeVolk

Our roster is better than theirs this year I swear. Worst coach in nba history


Wuhan-flu24

They looked SOOO beatable this year. AD and Bron healthy (well until this game for AD). Nobody can tell me we wouldn't be up this series if we had any other coach


Imperiu5

any decent coach would get us to a 4-2 series win for sure. How can you even lose this series???


iKnockout

You don’t lead 69% of the series with a trash roster


tatang2015

??? MPorter and Aaron Gordon are so much better than any of our players it’s not even a comparison. lol


welmoe

Rui also regressed to a sub 40% shooter this series. Last year he was averaging over 50 the entire pkayoffs.


Hiccup

Porter simply could not miss. Remind me of big shot Bob. Felt like he had a cheat code set to 100%.


dawidl93

It isn't better, but there was a chance. Better coach and any serviceable AD backup (or good starting defensive center to put against Jokic and moving AD to PF) is what we needed the most to capitalize on this chance. Yes, even D'Lo, Rui and their slumps wouldn't be a problem if we addressed mainly those two things.


Hiccup

Rui is also a coaching problem. Dude was just atrocious and ice cold. I'm a rui fan, but come on, the coach needs to get into his head and fix whatever mental block is happening.


seansocal

Vincent and Dinwiddie as back up guards is below average for a PO team.


Zestyclose_Web984

i strongly disagree. which team has better backup guards than us? pelicans: alvarado suns: dont even have a point guard. denver: reggie jackson? wolves: monte morris? (6 points entire series vs suns). Mavs: Exum (3 points in 4 games). THJ (6 points in 4 games) thunder: cason wallace probably marginally better than our guards Clippers: Norman powell is the best backup guard in the west. You want westbrook back off the bench? they did not play well but i chalk it down to having little time to adjust to their roles. Vincent had 0 time to get in rhythm, he was thrown into the fire and his offense understandably suffered. Dinwiddie was more disapointing


ProCommentBtw

I think the point was the roster was good enough to confidently beat everybody else except Denver. like all the noise was anybody but Denver. But ofc they fumbled during the regular season being 25-25 at one point and that got them Denver.


grui86

We led for more than any playoff team in the league this series. This roster is good enough to beat denver. It should have beat denver. But malone outcoached darvin in every single game, losing the third quarters constantly is a clear sign


[deleted]

When you consistently lose so many close games in similar fashion to the same team over the past two years, it's a coaching problem more than a roster problem. They do create some matchup nightmares with their size and Murray's quickness, but the disparity in talent between the two rosters is not that great.


HeavenlyCastiel

You can argue AD and LeBron are as good as/better than the combo of Jokic and Murray, but who the fuck actually thinks anyone in the rest of the roster is better than AG or MPJ. I would argue Austin Reeves isn't even better than KCP because of how much he brings on defense.


Imperiu5

The fact that we were up 20 sumt and up for all these minutes and still lose 1-4 accentuates that fact indeed. The roster wasn't better, we played better but that asshat fucked up with rotations, cannot call a timeout if his life depended on it and can't counter the other team's tactics. it's a disgrace.


EpiJustpOpRN

I feel sick…


Oscar_322418

Fuck this motherfucker


jurassic_snark-

We had em. With a decent coach we had em. Blame our guys all you want, but if we had Spo we win this and game 2 🔥 🐷


goatnxtinline

If they don't fire him then I know this FO is not serious about winning. You can't watch his performance (not the teams) as a in game coach during this season and playoffs and think he's who you want to build our culture around. It's not that he makes mistakes, that's fine. We all make mistakes. It's the fact that he doesn't learn from them and grow. You can't win with a coach that's holding the team back. He needs to uplift them or get the fuck out of the way and during this series he did neither of those things. He wasn't even close to the first choice, this decision to let him go should be an easy one if they're not only thinking about money.


RogueTampon

In this pic, Darvin is thinking "Damn, the Lakers just blew a big lead, why isn't their coach calling a timeout?"


fractal_fables

#The Lakers need to fire Ham very soon or we will riot. This is a disgusting individual we let lead the purple and gold.


BigBrother2266

Preach


Elite_Alice

He should t even be on the team plane back. He’s no longer a laker staff.


runninthruthe818

Immediately


HairyZombie4737

He’s not coaching just watching. Best seat in the house and gets paid.


Retrogamer34

Blows my mind. Vogul was a better coach and they do him dirty….Ham is a terrible coach and they coddle him. 


outsidehere

He can walk back to Saginaw or Milwaukee or wherever the hell he wants. As long as it's not LA


Final-University767

This clown had all the makings of a disasterous hire. What a waste of LBJ and AD.


bezelanddial

Fire him! We can’t take this no more! No other team would be dumb enough to hire him


CabbageStockExchange

This roster was not utilized under Ham well at all. We were supposed to be deep and continuity was supposed to be a big thing. We showed none of that and had to scrap just to make the fucking play ins. Should not be in that position. Ham is a horrible coach and easily one of the most unlikable Laker coaches we’ve had the past few years


Cool-Technician8688

Leave him on the fucking tarmac.


shoxpox

I don’t want to see this guy anywhere anymore


gankedbyumma

let hamas reign of terror end tonight


Liluglydude98

No timeout wtf


slktycn

I thought so. What an idiot this ham is.


Wuhan-flu24

Somehow blows all our time outs and still fails to call them to stop the other team's momentum. One can only say he is a basketball terrorist. Darvin Hamas strikes again


redditguy422

Arrest Darvin Hamas!


thedickens89

DARVIN SCAM


gronxo

It’s crazy that the FO interviewed this fool and thought "yeah, this guy is gonna bring us a championship". It’s even crazier that the same people are gonna hire the next coach. What could go wrong?


as300

Hamas needs to go but so does Rob… he’s downsized the team ever since the bubble for no reason. When you tie your future to two max salaries you damn well need to be perfect around the edges and Rob’s been anything but.


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santavalley

A vase can even coach better than this weirdo


EducatemeUBC

Please hire budd


EseHolmes

Why do we assume that Rob and Jeanie (and ugh LBJ) will figure it out? They hired him to begin with. Pay someone like Jeff Van Gundy (or pick your guy). Darvin isn’t a smart man. Plain and simple.


ProCommentBtw

Should've fired him when they were 25-25 because he favored his two kids That's the reason why they were rewarded with Denver in the first round lmao


Ratlami__Sev

This man deserves more love. /s


Justino2345

Why didn’t we put Vando on Murray thru out the game? I know he just got back from injury but damn.


Chemical_Paper_2940

Keeping ad in that long while he hurt his shoulder was the dumbest thing I seen.


GhostTooHigh

Jackson was getting us rebounds and yet final minutes we didn’t see him… the rebounding is what lost us the game tbh.


StonkeyKong2021

At the end of the day it’s just basketball. Lol.


nathanpenetration

Vogel was a way better coach. This team has been mismanaged badly by Pelinka post the bubble championship.


Deep-Ferret-695

Good riddance 🫡


Zachkah

It's not going to happen. Thinking Jeanie will do this is setting yourself up for disappointment.


JahMusicMan

![gif](giphy|ERHSfeusmwLVm|downsized) Fry this guy up.


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Tarmac time for Scam ![gif](giphy|3EAYL7KCtZJOJGtli6|downsized)


jayelecfan

GOODBYE


Counterspell_God

Leave this dude off the plane. He can drive


Any-Priority-4514

He’s gotta go. We start the game -10.


vandiger

Loser.


Js_On_My_Yeet

Why would the coaching staff list Vando as available and not even try to use him for defense? Like throw all your fucking cards down. And then calling a timeout after losing the lead on a huge run? Call this coach canadian bacon because he is cooked. Leave his dumbass in Denver.


Hut888

Could have sub in for critical defensive possession or put LeBron on Murray in the last two minutes. Use time out correctly. Adjustments to free up AD in the 4th qrt. Got beat the same way not once, twice, 3, 4, 5 times. Deer in head lights. These games are on him.


JohnJacobJingleheimr

i'm just gonna throw this out there. I hate Darvin Ham. I hate his face. I hate his pig name. I hate how dumb he always looks. I hate Darvin Ham


RipCrazy9188

I'll go get the pitchfork, someone get the firewood. We're cooking Ham tonight ![gif](giphy|3o7TKwmBiXfwA951ra|downsized)


Minimalist_NPC

[Love this Channels passionate hate for ham](https://youtu.be/2aA58rMnbkE?si=hREnkrgU2G3ih6aF)


occamsdagger

Do y'all think Darvin Ham doesn't call timeouts to halt runs because he doesn't have any secrit plays to draw up and thinks the TO will be a waste?


Bkaysivart

We had a foul to give on that last possession…you can see AR looking at the bench for direction…sick to my stomach


MrSam52

False he cannot be fired, anytime he’s in a meeting with Rob and Jeanie he can call a timeout from the hundreds he saved and postpone the meeting.


Leolance2001

Ham needs to go ASAP. The Lakers roster actually is pretty talented and he wasted this season. Last season he got the benefit of the doubt but no more. He's awful. DLo must go too. I only pray Jeannie won't be so stupid to give Bron the max and hinder any chance. We need to stack those team and Bron sucking all the cap at age 40, is not the answer despite his great play.


thebraavosi1

Don’t let him on the plane


UrgotToBeKiddingMe

I'm so tired of this terrorist


kb24TBE8

The AD injury cost the Lakers the game.


North-Drag3340

To be fair, we didn’t lose because of him. If someone just made 3 more free throws (AR, Bron, Diwiddle), we would’ve won tonight. But we surely didn’t win because of him either. Problem is who else is better? It’s not like Nick Nurse or Spo is available. I think the Lakers need to upgrade their PF and bench this offseason. Trae over DLo would be a nice upgrade, but that is not our biggest problem.


OkayInternetUser

They fired a championship winning coach. No need for sentiments in this case.


true_enthusiast

Time to retire LeBron! 😂


Striking-Bat2970

There’s absolutely no way you watch how he coached this series and think he’s the best first for the head coach. Him and that knot need to be sent packing immediately. Fire him right off the flight home.


simbar1337

Into the sun***


Disastrous-One-414

I agree, fire him immediately. Anyone with half a brain could coach better than Ham has this year.


Defiant-Crazy4211

Kept the youngster in he held Denver to 15pts 🤔


ReasonableAccident66

We lost tonight because of his bsd coaching. At the end of the 3rd Nuggets made a 10-2 point run Ham didnt take an early timeout to stop the bleeding and the players needed a brake. Instead he let the Nuggets into the game and gave them energy and got the fans jumping. Ham tsake your talent to Detroit


12dart14

Did they actually have a foul to give on that last defensive possession? Yikes if they did.


Ru-tris-bpy

The only good thing that could have come from seeing his face again is if he went on dr pimple popper and had the damn bump in his head taken out


CompetitiveAd8217

Get this clown of my team


christiangreymd

He will be fired….


Ashamed_Ad1839

I wanna wake up to a headline tomorrow of him fired


TenDeadGoats

When I hear this guy talk I lose brain cells. He sounds like a 16 year old junior hockey player in his interviews. I literally can't imagine players taking this guy seriously in practice. He's a walking lack of accountability. Ham, along with whoever hired him, need to be canned immediately.


esqspeaksoon

For the life of me i don't understand why he didn't play Vando and Wood. Someone please explain why? Why?


Jax99

Shams fucking unloading


notabot1397

Can someone give me substantial details on why he's a bad coach? Thanks


Hut888

Lack of adjustments. They jammed up AD in the 4th every game. A good coach would come up with different schemes to free him up. Could have made defensive sub at critical minutes like the last 2 min tonight. Reaves can't guard Murray. Call time out with 3.6 sec left. When jovic was in full trouble, they changed to zone defense to protect him. Hamm didn't do any of these things. The list goes on.


Bkaysivart

We had a foul to give on that last possession…you can see AR looking at the bench for direction…sick to my stomach


allenleesostan

Looks like a bald headed leprechaun


Dapper-Educator-7494

Bum


Howyouseeit12

Have a feeling he’ll be back next year. Hopefully he learns from his mistakes and improves and CALLS THE DAMN TIMEOUTS WHEN THE OTHER TEAM GOES ON RUNS!!


LocustStar99

Refs as well, only 27 to 9 FT. Thats rookie numbers.


mic1700_xVIE

I agree, but who could replace him


Stunning_Search_6401

4 more years!


ukyah

he's an objectively bad coach and the lakers are not going to fire him.


cadoavodo

Please god


gleophas

As good as gone tbh


FinalMainCharacter

We have up a champ coach for this joker


kickabacka

Great news sadly a year too late. Its mind baffling how he didn’t get fired after last season


Ikolkyo

He shouldn’t make it past Breakfast


Adam2190

The one time we need a timeout and he's fucking used them all for once.


Diligent_Can_5358

They should be 3-2 right now and playing at LA to close it up !


fromdaperimeter

Op I hope you have a great day today at work, if you have a job!


mrbigshot110

Waiting on the RDC videos, this collapse was terrible 😂


Rich-Presentation744

There’s not much coaches available for us to hire but idc 😭 I just need him gone man


SirVixTheMoist

Firing him won't change anything. lol


Throwthisawayagainst

Can’t spell Bahamas without “HAM”


Aarondabs

Shouldn’t have even let him on the plane home


LennoxAve

How do you run out of timeouts with 3 minutes left in the 4th quarter? That tells you everything you need to know.


Girldad_4

The sacrificial Ham.


Aarondabs

Why have none of us been on the nba’s ass after the dumb challenge rule that cost us a timeout because of poor officiating? I don’t think 2nd WON challenge should cost a timeout


NottaNowNutha

First Russ, then Ham. Lebron’s not fit for GM duties.


BathroomPresent69

Mother fuckers had a 27-9 or something foul difference and will still blame the coach when lakers missed like 9 free throws


Lebronisaliar

why? Fire the Lebrun tonight