The Los Angeles Lakers are going back home for Game 3 with a 1-1 tied series after the Golden State Warriors blew them out 100-127 in Game 2 of the series.
As the team trailed by 26 points at the end of the third quarter, coach Darvin Ham was seen talking to LeBron James and having a massive grin on his face. Naturally, fans weren’t happy about this.
All smiles for Darvin Ham despite the deficit đź‘€ pic.twitter.com/BR7iiukyDA
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) May 5, 2023
Fans compared Ham’s smile to Stephen Silas with the Rockets, who lost his job at the end of the season.
Oh no not the Silas Special…
— Preston (@Dripp_Gawd) May 5, 2023
Another recently fired coach was brought up in Mike Budenholzer, who Ham served as an assistant for until he left for the Lakers.
“I have a job and Coach Bud doesn’t”
— Justin Loncaric (@jb0ne22) May 5, 2023
Fans joked about Ham smiling because he knows LeBron is going to have a terrific game at home in Game 3.
He know Bron gonna go off at the Crypt
— HITMVN✖️ (@HITMVNx) May 5, 2023
Some fans defended Ham by saying he was being positive about future games, given this one was already lost.
I mean you can only be positive sometimes when everything ain’t working sometimes least there always next game
— MatasBurner (Parody)đź’° (@BurnerHinrich) May 5, 2023
Some fans implied they want Ham to be fired by saying coaches aren’t safe anymore.
No coach is safe.
— TheDonDada (@Thebigshort08) May 5, 2023
Some fans joked about Ham following Russell Westbrook’s mantra of ‘win, lose, or draw, just have fun.’
https://twitter.com/nijigasakilove/status/1654325749153669120
Fans continued raging at Ham.
https://twitter.com/hexvvs/status/1654323074219802624
The game was lost at that point, and it’s pointless to expect people to hide their feelings on the court. He was talking to James, so there was definitely conversational context that we are missing. The optics don’t look good, but results are all that matters, and there’s still a lot more basketball to be played in this series.
Was Coach Darvin Ham To Blame For Game 2?
Darvin Ham clearly didn’t set his team up for success tonight, not making any adjustments to the high pick-and-roll the Warriors used to decimate the Lakers’ defense. But when a team has a nearly 30-point loss, it’s usually because multiple things went wrong. Ham didn’t have a good game, but he wasn’t the only factor.
Anthony Davis will take most of the blame for his extremely disappointing and passive performance. Hopefully, he continues his stretch of playing well in alternate games and comes out in Game 3 with a dominant performance.
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