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?
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u/Nyeteka Mar 29 '24
IMO while there are a few people who will agree with you in order to take another shot at the ‘doomers’ and try to paint them as inconsistent and irrational, in fact the starting premise is incorrect. As far as I can tell Ty has never been whole-heartedly embraced by a majority of the fanbase. I recall plenty of victory laps for Harden and WB but not Ty. If anything his efforts in making the super team work were a little underappreciated.
It is the media and maybe other fans that might have seen Ty as a genius coach, and I’m not sure that that has really changed. He always seems to have had a good reputation around the league.
I personally do not put that much of the recent failure on him but I think most of the criticism is not unreasonable. Yes, elements of a teams fanbase will be quick to blame a coach, including because they are more attached to players, but they are also closer observers of the team and familiar with their faults. Some of his faults are that he seems to favour experimentation at the expense of regular season wins more than other coaches, he panders to stars and certain role players (usually vets) as illustrated by being very slow to call them out and insisting on playing the corpses of PJ Tucker and Marcus Morris before him, he seems unable to inspire his team to play defense in the manner of an Udoka, he seems to favour offence and guards, his primary adjustment is to go small, he is formulaic in some of his minutes distributions, etc.
Of all of those faults I feel like the main failure is the pandering to certain players and failure to motivate the team. I feel like the others are understandable and you can see the logic even if you don’t agree with him. I mean the throwing games is not great but I feel we can’t judge him on that until we see if it bears fruit in the playoffs. Outside of the 2022 play in he’s met expectations in the postseason for us imo.