Priority #1 : center

Medina: "Philosophically" Trevor: "“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means” 😂

Philosophically I feel like a better person watching this interaction

No Trey Young please!!😢

The Lakers had injuries and never addressed the lack of a true big man.

All set, ready for our coach for the next 2 years.

Need to interview everyone. Both Van Gundys, Bud, Marc Jackson, Phil Jackson 😅

Do not waste time on a Trae Young. Get some Caruso- KCP type guards and a center that works well with AD Star chasing is not the answer.......

This guy is very philosophical 😅

Priorities this offseason: 1- Find the right experienced HC (Atkinson, Lue, not a rookie one like JJ) 2- A big center capable of defending the rim and catching a lot a rebounds. 3- A point guard that impacts our game in both ends of the court. 4- Big 3 & D Wings If Pelinka doesn’t make the right decisions this time, his time in the franchise should be finalized.

That Mark Medina's background is cool ha. lol

What has Reddick done to deserve every coaching vacancy. Send me the video. The stats. The proof. This is typical of that side of media pushing for their friend and likeness.

The Lakers should take notice that the Western Conference teams are getting younger and better talented. Something the Lakers should focus to help improve their rooster.

Trae young switched agency. Went from clutch to caa and is rumored to join spurs now

why is Phil Handy or Rondo not talked about more for the coaching gig?

They can score but inconsistent scoring is a problem streaky shooting and missing wide open shots

Max Christie should be a starter

Idk what it is but for some reason the Lakers don’t seem to understand that we need two big 7-footers (or at least close to 7-footers). We greatly lack size. AD is meant to be a PF. When he plays center, he’s okay, but he’s not physical enough because that’s not his natural position nor body type. Like in 2020 when we won the championship, a Javale/Dwight combo at center would be HUGE for us. Also, I personally think that giving up on DLO would be a bad move. I think he’s super valuable compared to everything else on the free agent market, unless of course, a team really wants him and we can package him in a deal for an all-star.

I can't believe there wasn't a Max Christie question

Great insight from Mark Medina about the coach search topic. Answered it really well with context and professionalism!

Should have got rud of DLO before getting rid of Ham

It's evident that Jeanie Bust, Rambis and Rob Pelinka don't know what the hell they're doing!

Mark Jackson will kick this guys asses

I rather keep the core and fill up the needs for continuity , run it back with a new coach (just add playoff ready big man and defensive guard)

The Lakers need to hire Micah Nori, David Adelman, Kenny Atkinson, Lloyd Pierce, Chris Quinn, or Charles Lee for head coach. JJ Redick & Rajon Rondo would be great assistant coaches.

It’s always easier to say shouldn’t have done this or that. But not running back that championship bubble team and culture was a mistake in my humble opinion. Vogel was solid enough. Our role players on that team made all the difference. Now we are scrambling and changing things too much every year for the last 4 times in a row.

This guy is good he knows basketball

Im glad the roster is still being focused on. Firing Ham doesn't fix this team.

Love your new setup Trev

The Lakers need a good center if they have any plans of competing in the Western Conference.

Season might have been different if Vanderbilt and Christian woods were healthy. Also trying to force Dinwiddie and Gabe Vincent into the lineup hurt things. We did not get the same Gabe Vincent we saw in Miami last year.

My trade targets Jeremi grant Robert williams III Thybulle Caruso Jarret Allen

Who should be the Coach I hope not JJ Reddick he's an NBA analyst not a coach 😊

Mark Medina = Great Guest!

The Lakers need a defensive-minded rebounding center and a couple of 3&D two-way players on the perimeter and in the backcourt with size, toughness, and length. Defense must be prioritized.

DLO MUST GO!!!!

I don't want a point who is a liability defensively. We need to be long and mobile.

Mark Jackson is the man

D.fizdale/mark Jackson /Sam Cassell /Micah noir or Chris Quinn to name a few we should interview

Here is my take. Jeannie will pay Bron the max, get a coach that appeases him and improve the roster as much they possibly can under the cap. At this point, she's buying time because the Lakers will be profitable with Bron on deck BUT the franchise will be in Play-in purgatory. Looking at the 4 teams remaining in the playoffs, they are all YOUNG and extremely talented. Good luck overcoming them with a 40 year Bron.

Lakers need to go back to their original recipe!! They need bigs!! That’s how we’ve always won our championships!!!! This organization hasn’t been right since Phil, Kobe, and Mitch left.

Having a deep roster sounds good in principle but if multiple starters dont show up in the playoffs (DLO and Rui), quality role players like Vando (to a lesser extend CWood) are injured and the coach DECIDES to not play Max Christie for a single minute in the playoffs, theres no point in relying on good rotation pieces over a good 3rd star.

I was listening to some clips discussing how Turkoglu would literally slap Reddick silly in practice with JJ never retaliating This concerns me. Seems like Reddick may be too nice of a guy and too passive to be an NBA head coach. Im afraid the players would walk all over him. A good coach needs to be a leader and a disciplinarian when neccesary

Ivey Stewart and Kuz those are deals you look at

The penguin has some good points

Trev, put your background as staples center 😅

Dnt trade anyone Run it back man!!

Sure a new coach isn’t going to fix all of the problems but it is the first step in the process of improving the Lakers.

Lakers need to find some defensive Dogs that can halfway shoot, and pickup a quality center instead of big game hunting. It seems like they should have learn that by now. This ain't Rocket Science.

Is there any previous Laker team mates that can be considered asa coach? Horry? Scott? Also is Phil Handy unable to be rehired I think he’d be great as a head coach!!!!!

We should get D. Murray from hawks before trae

This Mark Medina is him! lol seriously he is very intelligent and speaks very well

We want Coach Mark Jackson!!! 😎👍

Trevor Lane is this guy would be an excellent team

I think they are making a mistake because they are choosing based on name appeal. Could you hire a coach based on the need? For example, you need a defensive coach. Then get a defensive specialist coach. Don't hire an offense-oriented coach when you need to build defensively. Build your team to be a top defensive team. Hire an offense-oriented coach to be the assistant head coach. Then fill in the rest of your coaching staff with specialists...ie, player development, shooting, etc. I know, people are gonna ask where your scoring will come from. You have TWO superstars and a top 75 all-time list. Then not to mention the obvious...these are NBA professional players. You will have scoring. The Lakers did not lose because they couldn't score. They lost because they couldn't defend. Defense fuels the offense and supports winning. Team build. Well, they already have a template from the Lakers 2020 championship team. That's what a championship team looks like. They have length, Size, Athleticism, IQ, character, heart, and a dog. They have bench guys and locker room guys. They have cheerleaders and motivators on the bench. They have hustle guys and fire starters on the floor.

The whole start of the season we complained about not having a big man to help AD. So at the deadline we focus on a defensive guard strike out and end up with Spencer and no big man.🤷🏻‍♂️

i dunno about a center, but from what i saw, i think what the lakers need is a stretch 4 with actual size and that can rebound, and also a 3&D guard

I highly doubt that Utah would trade Markkanen - he's their best player.

Chapters Please!!!

Please no JJ for coaching job. No big deal if D’Lo goes bye bye. Lakers should focus on trading the Mash Medical Unit. Tired of seeing the players on the bench.

If you go the star route I’d say try to get Lauri from Utah but if you go depth get a legit center and a legit 3-D guard/wing

Philosophically 😂

I think what we need in a coach is someone with experience and is respected by the team. Then there's trust between the team and the coach. Is that Mark Jackson? Budenholzer? Maybe

Lakers gotta get Andre Drummond man. We just need a legit center who can grab rebound and play ok defense to back up for AD. I think having Drummond and Wood as back up centers for AD will be good for us. I keep forgetting Drummond is 6"11. For some reason i always think hes much shorter than that

the number 1 player lakers should add to the squad is deandre hunter from hawks hes the perfect 3&d wing we need , i also wouldnt mind getting kcp back f a 3 star team we need depth

If Jeannie supports Pelinka no matter what then the Lakers fans who wish for changes in the FO will be very disappointed. Change starts at the top.

pls no JJ, he didn't even put AD in his all defensive teams and we want him to coach this team? Beyond that I don't really care about which coach it'll be, I just hope he'll play Max and gives Castleton a chance to playmake next to AD/Lebron when the other is resting.

No to inexperienced coaches for now...and put more money on the table to hire a good coach

I thought that was deadpool on the thumbnail.

What about Sam Cassell as a head coach??? He is new, but not new. He's been in the assistant coaching spot for some time. And beef up the assistant coaching with some other notables..

Go Mark Jackson as coach & Phil Handy as coaching staff.. Get Lauri Markkenen, Jake LaRavia, Alex Len & Dwight Howard..

Trevor is seeing that this man is making a small case in favor of HAM hope Trevor is not denying what is being said

Never good to basically rebuild the core of a team starting w a new coach and then players bc DeLo, Rui, Dinwiddie or Gabe Vincent couldn’t buy a basket for most of the playoffs DeLo so streaky. We would rather have him give us a solid 10-14 points a night instead of 30 one night then 6

0 pts. Game 3 @ home

Coach - Center - Shooting guard demon

Trae would be great!! On the clippers.

Is it possible to trade Dlo, Rui, jhs, 1st rounder for Trae young. Then Gabe, 1st rounder Jaxon Hayes, bunch of 2nd rounders, and like a cam reddish for Alex Caruso and Andre Drummond.

I'm for Lauri because I'd love to play him and AD at the same time... you might not have a true bruiser center but having 2 elite PF/C style players would be great. On offense I imagine LBJ facilitating with Reaves/Dlo, Vanderbilt out there setting screens but mostly there for the defensive side of things, with AD and LM you could punch on people in so many different ways. On the defensive side you have a point of attack defender in JV, AR showed some significant strides on the defensive side of the ball, LBJ is LBJ, and with AD and LM out there how do you really switch hunt? Also you're gonna need someone this season to be redundant at AD's spot due to the Olympics (just sayin)... I just have a feeling he won't play as many games this season although I hope we get another healthy year. Plus it make it so that you could better stagger your AD minutes because you could always have that PF/C style player out there at all times lending to better continuity... the short fall will be at the true facilitating guard position and probably 3 point shooting, but who's that guy that fits that mold right now that is available? Unless, you're saying you want Trae (which I'm against). I think from a coaching perspective you'd need this team to focus on having the team make up for that lack of facilitating guard by everyone baring some of the load and associated accountability for turnovers. Rotation wise you need one of AR or LBJ on the court at all times, LM or AD on the court at all times then mix and match role players around them.

Priority #2: off ball shooter eg buddy heild, bogdan bogdanovic, bojan bogdanovic

Head Coach : Tye Lu / Mark Jackson/ Atkinson Assistant Coach : Reddick / Rondo Development Coach : Phil Handy Center : Hertenstein / Claxton / Poeltl SG : Karuso / KCP SF / SG : Malik Monk / Markkanen If looking for 3rd star then Kyrie / Donovan ( Big no to Trae)

The #1 team in the West has a 1 star roster.

So in orher words "HE SHOULDN'T BEEN FIRED"

Byron Scott suggested lb23, as a player coach. I honestly agree with that.

I thought he had on a face filter 😂

I say Byron Scott. That dude was so good at getting us good ping pong balls.

Dlo don’t help the lakers. Get out of there. Praying for you AR 🙏

the path FORWARD would be Jeannie Buss selling the team she screwed up. Anything else proves that the True Laker fans don't matter.

Think laker nation can use some music on the intro.

1:40 “Darvin ham got better” 🧐

Will our new coach use 4 guards lineup and not let ad play the 4 ?

Who wants to keep a player whos historically trash during play offs 😅😂🤣 Now take off that Lakers jersey Dlo!!!

DLO is the best pg we can get. Name me one pg who we can get that's better. Don't give me Trae he's just a Dlo clone who's 20 million dollars more expensive.

does bro know what a sign and trade means?

Ham got hired for Westbrook.

The rooster is good except a few a coach is what is needed

I really like either David Adelman lead assistant of nuggets or Micah Nori lead assistant coach of timberwolves. I think both would be great options. I like JJ Reddick and i would not be upset if they hired him his basketball IQ is crazy and the respect from Bron is there plus i think he would get in guys faces if they weren't following there role unlike Ham. I think Reddick could be a great head coach i think the biggest question/ downside is the no experience at all not even as an assistant so if you hire him you definitely wanna make sure he's got some former head coaches on that bench to help him such as a Mike Budenholzer

In Mondays podcast, Trevor acknowledged that the Dlo/AR backcourt needs to be split up if both remain Lakers That means that one of them has to come off the bench, right????

It doesn't matter. We're going to be a average at best team for the next 2 years.

Dat I’m could of kept his job if he would ran the Triangle offense

We should let Austin play point and have MAX shooting