Los Angeles Lakers coaching history: From Riley, Zen master to Redick, training superstars is the main theme

Qing Yang said

2024-06-24 22:08Posted in Anhui Sports Creators

The late Lakers legend Jerry West was a staunch opponent of Zen master's move to the Lakers in 1999 because he believed

The Zen master's trickery was disguised by the overpower of Jordan and Pippen, and his desire to control the team was amazing, which was not suitable for the young OK combination at the time.

It is true that the Zen master had a relationship with the owner's daughter Jeanie Buss in the "Lakers Phase I", and also tried to trade Kobe Bryant for Kidd + Marion and Grant Hill.

On top of that, he adopted a laissez-faire and guided strategy for the contradictions between OK, trying to stir up a raging battle between the two stars.

He succeeded, and the Sharks and Kobe Bryant helped him win his third triple championship, but the collapse of '04 eventually burned him away.

The DNA and calling card of the Los Angeles Lakers are superstars, from George McCann to Jerry West, Baylor, Chamberlain, from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic to the Sharks and Kobe, and now Bushy Eyebrows and James.

Half of the NBA's all-time top 10, three of the top five in total scoring, and four of the top five centers all wore purple and gold jerseys.

Contrary to the old rivals Celtics, who have just won 18 championships, the Lakers' purple and gold blood flows with extreme exaggeration and romance.

Not only to win the championship, but also to rely on superstars to win the championship.

While reaching the peak of the collective, there must also be the ultimate superstar individual performance.

The fans and owners are happy to watch, but it's the coach who is embarrassed.

The first successful head coach in the history of the Los Angeles Lakers actually came from the Celtics.

Bill Sharman, the Green Army's 11-time sharpshooter, retired in 1961 with four championship rings and took charge of the Los Angeles Lakers a decade later after winning the ABA title.

Before the 1971-72 season, the team's legendary Baylor had been tormented by injuries and was retired after six games. But Sharman brought a more professional modern basketball management to that Lakers team.

He asked his players to stretch and warm up, to assemble a day before the game, to include Oxlade-Chamberlain, and to stay in perfect shape throughout the season.

He persuaded Chamberlain to maintain his championship aspirations towards the end of his career, allowing West to switch to playmaking and cede the team's top shot to young UCLA scorer Aleksanda Goodrich.

That year, the Lakers played a 33-game winning streak in the regular season that no one has broken so far, West was elected the assist leader, and Chamberlain was old and strong, and finally won his first championship in Los Angeles.

At the time, his leadership philosophy deeply influenced a No. 12 substitute on the team, and no one expected that ten years later he would become the most beloved coach in the history of the Lakers, Pat Riley.

Riley is the coach that old Lakers fans love the most, with his iconic big back, a handsome face like "Godfather" Al Pacino, and more importantly, his shiny exterior is an infinite desire to win.

He played for the Lakers for seven years (1970-76) as a player, and after retiring as an NBA commentator on Los Angeles television, he was the Magician's first game with the Lakers.

Later, he joined the Lakers coaching staff, and in that era when a head coach was only an assistant coach, he accompanied Westhead to win the championship in the 1979-80 season.

And in 1981, when the Magic and the head coach feuded, and finally succeeded in forcing the palace, he was pushed to the head coach position.

At that time, the old Bass insisted that West II would enter the palace to coach, but the equally stubborn old man recommended Riley. In order to protect the face of the owner, West was finally willing to serve as an assistant coach to assist temporarily, which started the Lakers' glorious "Showtime" dynasty in the 80s.

The Lakers' departure was full of fighting, and Riley's departure in 1990 was also a way for players to get tired of his devilish way of training.

The Lakers, who ranked first in the West in the 1989 playoffs, swept the Trail Blazers, SuperSonics, and Suns in succession to advance to the Finals.

But a week before the Finals, Riley pulled the team to a San Diego arena for a devil's drill, injuring the team's starting guard, Byron Scott. To add insult to injury, the Magic was also injured in G2 and was eventually swept away by the young Pistons "Bad Boy Army".

No matter how good the coach and the team are, there is a honeymoon period, but there is a difference between the long and the short.

When the passion is over, there are only two things left to look at and wear.

After Riley, the Lakers also racked their brains for a coach.

Dunleavy (the current general manager of the Warriors, his father) led the team to the Finals, and "Silver Fox" Harris (the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team at the Athens Olympics) won the best coach here, but they are not "star coaches" with their own halos like Riley before and Zen masters afterward.

In the Los Angeles Lakers, the superstar who can be trained must also be a super coach.

So when the Zen master came to Los Angeles, everything seemed to be back on track.

The Lakers, who had previously partnered with all three years of the playoffs, won the championship in the first year and won three consecutive championships in one go, opening the glory of the 21st century.

Because of the successful cooperation of "Erjin Palace", many people have selectively forgotten how unpleasant the Zen master and Kobe Bryant had back then, and even surpassed the contradictions between OK, just like many people only remember the Zen master's autobiography "Eleven Rings", but forgot that the book he published in 04 was almost the theme of "Spray Kobe" "The Last Season".

He described Bryant in the book as "Uncoachble", and he mobilized the fire of Kobe's determination to chase Jordan and replace the Sharks, but in the end, it could not be extinguished, and finally burned him and the entire Lakers efforts in 03-04 for two consecutive years.

Those who really want to be a black Bryant should really study the content of this book, if they can understand it.

The main theme of the Lakers in the 21st century is undoubtedly Kobe Bryant (16 years) and James (5 years).

The Zen master fought with Kobe Bryant artistically for 10 years, teaching in 1999 and leaving in 2011.

He went from Kobe Bryant to testing each other, from being incompatible to shaking hands and appreciating each other, and it took him ten years to win five championships.

still remember what Kobe Bryant said in his blessing vlog before retiring from the war:

"You're no longer the cold, all-devouring black mamba, you're now an ambassador for the game of basketball, and I'm happy to see it."

This is probably the change in the Zen master's attitude towards Kobe, if he and Jordan are brothers who share the same hatred, then he and Kobe Bryant are more like a father and son who are constantly in conflict, but as the years go by, they eventually begin to appreciate each other.

After Zen Master, no one can really control the Lakers and the stars on the court.

The Lakers briefly approached Tom Janovic, Yao Ming's mentor and the Rockets' two-time coach, but he couldn't really guide the team either.

After the Zen master, Mike Brown (one Finals), D'Antoni (best coach, tuned Nash and Harden), and Byron Scott (two Finals), are all head coaches who have had a brilliant career in the NBA, but not only could not conquer the discerning Buss family and Lakers fans.

It is impossible to give Kobe enough guidance and restraint.

Kobe didn't like Mike Brown at all, D'Antoni broke Kobe Bryant's Achilles tendon, and Byron Scott was just a big brother who accompanied him on his last journey.

In contrast to Kobe Bryant's need for a top-tier coach to "suppress" his toxicity, LeBron's problem is that he doesn't need a "real coach" at all.

For the most part of his 21-year career, he has partnered with nanny coaches, or coaches who don't challenge his authority at all.

From Silas and Mike Brown to Tyronn Lue, Vogel, and Hamm at the beginning, Spo was still a sophomore when he coached him, and Blatter, the only "Tsar" who looked like a real head coach, ended up the most embarrassing.

For most of James' career, he doesn't need coaches to interfere with him too much, he is the brain on the court, and the system built by most coaches may not be more effective than James' own.

Therefore, for a team with James, the number one criterion for choosing a coach is to "make James happy and play comfortably".

Vogel's success was that he grabbed James's peak tail and straightened out the tactical connection between him and Bushy Eyebrows, but Wei Shao's sideways bar also made him a poor donkey.

The biggest reason for Hamm's failure is actually that he doesn't have a "James before the age of 35." ”

Lakers fans can calmly think about all the problems that have plagued the Lakers in the past two years, if there are 16 Zhan, 18 Zhan or even 20 Zhan standing on the court, do you still need to worry about whether Russell and Reaves are playing well, and go crazy about whether Ham shouts a timeout or not, and whether he does a challenge?

Now the Lakers have chosen Redick, although Lao Zhan has repeatedly denied it, but outsiders can see that if it weren't for the fact that he collaborated with James on a talk show "Mind the game" (court brain), without any coaching qualifications, Redick, who has been a basketball Internet celebrity after retiring and has only brought his own son to the fourth-grade team at most, would not have entered the eyes of the Lakers at all.

Regardless of whether James knows it or not, the biggest reason why the Lakers chose Redick is himself.

Tomorrow the Lakers will officially announce Redick's official joining,

The bad news is that there isn't any Zen and Riley in him yet, and most Lakers fans aren't interested in him.

The good news is that at least James is happy, and that's enough for the Lakers, who are "No. 1 stars".

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