Everyone hates Coach
NBA locker rooms go off, off the record
“We suck right now,” LeBron James said after falling to Memphis on Friday, we won’t argue. The Lakers salvaged a little defeating the Clippers on Sunday, quashing the losing streak at four, sticking a half-game inside the Western Play-In picture with, shock horror, only 45 Laker games to play.
Los Angeles head coach Darvin Ham doesn’t like talking about games, standings, microaggressions. After Friday’s loss, he wanted us gazing through the miles:
“This is the NBA, man. This is a marathon, and you have to look at the totality of the picture. I’m tired of people living and dying with every single game we play. It’s ludicrous, actually. It’s like, ‘C’mon man, this is a marathon.’ And we hit a tough stretch.”
Wrong team for that, pal. And we can’t cite pages pulled from The Journey until the first or third coaching championship. Until then? One half-game at a time.
Steve Kerr’s Warriors are that half-game below the Lakers, technically in frame, losing on Sunday and relying on a desperate final few Friday flicks from Stephen Curry to deny Detroit the Pistons’ fourth win of the season.
Amid that victory Chris Paul’s hands once again betrayed what his brain already wrapped itself around, Paul fractured his left hand, surgery sits him four-to-six weeks. On Sunday, the road-weary Raptors (seven cities in a dozen days) pummeled Golden State.
