{"id":16700,"date":"2011-05-31T17:40:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T00:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=16700"},"modified":"2017-06-10T11:10:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:10:52","slug":"the-peterson-principle-53111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=16700","title":{"rendered":"The Peterson Principle 5\/31\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike Brown will be fine for Lakers <\/p><\/div>\n

Contrary to popular opinion I don\u2019t have a problem with the Lakers hiring Mike Brown. Listening to the reaction this week after the Lakers announced that Brown would be the new coach; you would have thought they hired Bobby Brown.<\/p>\n

“Worst hire ever!\u201d screamed one talk radio caller. \u201cAbsolutely horrible in handling superstars and he constantly gets outcoached in big games,\u201d said another. And on and on it went. In newspapers, on the radio, on television, Brown was ripped\u00a0up one side and down the other after being named Laker Coach.<\/p>\n

Stephen A. Smith, on ESPN radio, cut into Brown for saying he was a family man.<\/p>\n

\u201cLA fans don\u2019t care if you\u2019re a family man. They don\u2019t care if you like to spend time with your wife and kids,\u201d Smith cried. \u201cAll they care about is winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okay, fans want to win. That\u2019s fine. But what\u2019s the problem with him saying he is a family man? I suppose they would like Brown better if he said he hated kids and mistreated women. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever seen such hatred spewed out towards an individual before he ever coached his first game.<\/p>\n

One caller said Brown couldn\u2019t coach the Lakers because he had never won a championship. Then he spent the next several minutes making a case for Rick Adelman who, oh yeah by the way, has never won a championship.<\/p>\n

Before you join the Brown bashing take a look at the alternatives. There\u2019s Adelman who besides being trophy-less is 65 years old. How long is he going to last? Do the Lakers really want a guy who\u2019s going to be here for 2 years? Adelman is just a year younger than Phil Jackson who\u2019s is currently busy looking at retirement plans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Jeff Van Gundy who seems to be content doing color commentary for ABC. Van Gundy has a fiery personality but also a personality that grates on players after a couple of years. The Lakers still have a core group of veteran stars \u2013 Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Pau Gasol, Derek Fisher \u2013 who don\u2019t need to be motivated by rah rah speeches. Oh and Van Gundy never won a championship either.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Byron Scott and yes I agree he would have been good. But the bottom line is he wasn\u2019t available. I was surprised when he signed the deal with Cleveland last year when he knew the Laker job was going to open up in a year. But the fact is he did and he can\u2019t get out of it now. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Some mentioned Kurt Rambis. Well Rambis is locked in at Minnesota and even if he wasn\u2019t we\u2019ve seen him before. He was the head coach of the Lakers in 1999 and he wasn\u2019t retained. He\u2019s won 32 games in two years at Minnesota. Now granted it\u2019s the T-Wolves but some people are good head coaches and some are good assistants. Rambis is a good assistant.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Mike Dunleavy but let\u2019s face it do you really think Laker fans would welcome a guy that was fired by the Clippers?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Brian Shaw who did get an interview. Shaw knows the players and is familiar with the system. But interviews are where jobs are won and lost and Brown won it with his. You can\u2019t blame the Laker brass for picking the guy who impressed them more. And as far as experience Brown does have the edge there.<\/p>\n

The fans only care about winning. Okay well Brown had a .663 winning percentage in five years as head coach of Cleveland. Known as a defensive specialist, Brown led the Cavs to the NBA Finals once and to the playoffs all five years. His focus is on defense and isn’t that the main\u00a0problem with the Lakers right now?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

He couldn\u2019t get along with LeBron? C\u2019mon Jackson ripped Kobe in a book and returned to win two titles. Every coach has had a run in with a player.<\/p>\n

So before you write the guy off let\u2019s wait and see what Brown can do for you.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my principle.<\/p>\n

Tim can be reached at tim@midvalleysports.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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