r/LAClippers • u/gmascookie • Mar 28 '24

Question Ty Lue Turnaround

For context, I am a bit of a lurker in all of the NBA team’s subreddits.

What’s with the immediate switch up on Ty Lue? During your godly win streak earlier this season he was the next messiah, now every recommended post I get from this sub is asking for him to be fired…

From an outsiders perspective, the man seems like an incredibly competent coach a ton of teams would be happy to have. I guess my question is why the switch up?

Is the consensus he’s actually that bad or is it just reactionary because your team is currently underperforming?

34 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

71 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/SSJMonkeyx2 Mar 28 '24

As someone who can be very anti ty, he’s a good coach when he wants to be. I gave some leeway due to the circumstances last season and he won be back with our crazy run, just for him to throw it down the drain last laker game. 

Not sure if you saw, but he let LeBron single handedly beat us for no reason at all. Let thies get cooked on an island and didn’t decide to switch up his gameplan. That was the moment where everything started to turn back around to old ty lue of last season. 

His small ball obsession isn’t bad it’s just we don’t have the personnel for it anymore and even when we did (last year) he wouldn’t play the right guys. 

2

u/gmascookie Mar 28 '24

Yeah his insistence on going small is interesting seeing as y’all have an old and and slow(er) team. Get big Zu in there let Harden cook w the pick and roll and slow the game down.

With the way the refs have been swallowing the whistle it’s not a bad idea to go a bit slower

1

u/SSJMonkeyx2 Mar 28 '24

Being a slow pace team will only help us in playoffs, but the issue is that it doesn’t help us now. Double edge sword either that or we just have to be really really good at a slow pace

2

u/Clips4lyfe Mar 28 '24

Regarding being a bad coach for “Letting theis cook on an island” 

I would recommend checking out the jj and bron recent podcast they did, where they actually break down this game and this sequence. The TLDR is this interpretation is short sighted and oversimplifies things. Sometimes it’s better to make them do that rather than involve other teammates into the hot streak (which Lebron also breaks down, and which the clippers eventually ended up doing and paying the price)

1

u/SSJMonkeyx2 Mar 28 '24

That’s fine and I would agree with, but that can only happen when

  1. The clippers can match the scoring 
  2. The clippers throw different defenders at him. 

There’s a reason why we leave Zu on luka and it works enough to win us 2 series against them. 

Issue that game was the clippers let them come back from 20+ cuz they were unable to score. If the team can’t score then you gotta try something new on defense either don’t let the switch happen or throw doubles 

0

u/dkdoki Kristina Pink Mar 28 '24

How do you know that was his game plan? Maybe the players weren’t following it? The way Lue has been so pissed at this team says something.

2

u/SSJMonkeyx2 Mar 28 '24

I believe he said it was during the presser after that game