LOS ANGELES– The Lakers really did not simply shed their guy Monday when Dan Hurley rejected their deal to be the group’s head trainer. They additionally appear to have actually shed the string.
That the UConn trainer rejected the Lakers reported six-year, $70 million deal is out its face a shock. Hurley has an opportunity to go after a 3rd straight NCAA champion, a task not completed considering that John Wooden half a century earlier. The Lakers task might additionally have actually been an infected chalice– all the glamour and purple-and-gold allure outside, however something much harder to browse when set in the real task.
And, associated and linked to the following factor, there’s no warranty a hard-charging, no-NBA-experience hire like Hurley would certainly fit well with LeBron James. The King’s demanding requirements, specific sight of just how his groups need to run and choice to be a companion with a head trainer as opposed to a staff would certainly have interested see with Hurley, to state the least.
No, the actual shock right here is that the Lakers do not appear to understand what they’re doing or whom, specifically, they wish to end up being.
Allow’s begin with the humiliation of going after a genuine wager– and Hurley was simply that– prior to being scoffed in such a public, slow-moving way. It makes the Lakers look tiny. It supplies a luster of amateurism. It asks the concern why they would certainly place themselves around like that for an university trainer that really did not desire the task.
Hurley extremely well might have been a big success in Los Angeles. He is, clearly, a tested champion. Precursors and front-office workers that have actually hunted UConn’s draft leads have actually been thrilled with the tactical degree of those groups, especially on the offending end. Perhaps Hurley would certainly have made that perilous jump from the elevations of university basketball to the far more complex surface of NBA head mentoring with unusual acumen.
A couple of have actually done it effectively– Brad Stevens and Billy Donovan are the listing– however the past does not constantly anticipate the future. And the longer listing of fallen short university head instructors at the NBA degree left numerous in Boston at …
