The Lakers have no choice in making this huge choice.
There are several candidates but there is no choice.
It has not been announced yet, but it was decided almost a year ago.
In a perfect world, Tyrone Lou is not the next Lakers coach.
But the Lakers are not living in a perfect world, they are living in a LeBron-James world, so the inevitable reunion should be complete at any time now.
Lue is expected to be appointed as the new Lakers bench owner, re-joining his coaching players and winning the NBA championship in Cleveland.
If it scares you to hear this, you will definitely see it coming.
While Lu may not be the best answer for the Lakers, he is the only one now.
From the moment the Lakers signed LeBron last summer, they agreed to rule by his philosophy, his strategy, his desires, his needs.
Isn't it that they have to ask him to pick the coach at this point?
Whether you like it or not, the only way the Lakers can survive immediately in LeBron's career nightmare is to put it in.
LeBron will still be here for at least a few more seasons, so they have to eat with a big mouth, appease themselves and hope for the best.
The Lakers not only gave LeBron a coach, but also a bone.
Lou is LeBron's talker.
He's the opposite of Walton, not just because LeBron really likes him.
Lu can stand up and face the king, stare at the King, and even sit in front of the King, because they are the kings of the NBA for a short time together.
Lu may not be the greatest coach, but he will be a useful coach.
For a LeBron team who has been in full crisis in his career, Lu may be the only coach.
With Lue, the LeBron-Lakers have at least a chance to thrive relatively calmly over the next three years.
They should survive the internal bumps.
They can handle LeBron's madness better.
The working environment should be stable even if things get bad, which means there won't be a certain amount of No.
The whispers about firing him.
One thing went wrong with the other coaches and everything was a mess because LeBron wouldn't do anything to stop it.
The Lakers are defending by hiring Lou, but that's what they need now.
They need to defend the decision to sign James.
They need to defend their intention to build a team around him.
They need to protect rim from his daily headlines and long-brewing controversy.
If they commit a crime and bring in an outsider without James's approval, they 'd better trade him now, though one day it might be an option, but we're not here to slow you down.
Speculation here is that the Lakers will try to sell part of the reason they hired Lue because of his relationship with the Lakers.
This is the complete balderdash.
He has played 61 games in three seasons. although he is part of two NBA championship teams, he only played nine minutes in the playoffs.
His highlight in the Lakers was in the first game of the 2001 NBA Finals, when Philadelphia's Allen Iverson stood unrespectfully after playing a game.
His jump shot.
Lu had five steals in that game, but anyone could only remember Iverson's step.
So, no, Lue was not hired because he spent more time with the Lakers than he had been hired for his short job as a Clippers assistant.
Lue was hired for five months with LeBron, and in 2016, when he was a substitute for LeBron
Blatter was sacked in January as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. 22.
He began coaching the Cavaliers this spring to win their first NBA championship. games-to-
The final defeat against the Golden State Warriors.
For the next two seasons, he cleverly directed them back to the finals, and each time they were played very loudly by the Warriors.
He did particularly well in the playoffs and even beat Boston's bench genius Brad Stevens in a row of Eastern finals.
Last fall, after LeBron left the Lakers, his Cavaliers did not win in six games that were fired.
So without LeBron, Lu has never managed.
LeBron has had the greatest moments of his career.
Bring a title to his hometownwith Lue.
So here we are, they are together again.
Is he a better choice than the Lakers candidate, Philadelphia assistant Monty Williams?
For this team, right now, yes.
Of all the other coaching possibilities that the Lakers refuse to accept, is he the best option? This is probably the narrowest giant coach search in NBA history. Of course not.
The big question is, can he save the rest of the LeBron era in Los Angeles?
This is an unknown problem, not just his whiteboard graffiti.
Lou can certainly coach LeBron, but the team will need it even more.
The question is whether the appearance of Lue will help them attract a top free player they desperately need this summer.
Now they are in the campaign for top players and there is no indication that Lou can change that, but you never know.
Maybe he can convince the elite of the league that with him, LeBron will be interested in the team and put in the team again.
Maybe he can sell the champion partner and the Lakers can be a team again.
Or maybe new members now think that the Lakers have gone too far in the LeBron rabbit hole, and they have no hope.
Maybe anyone who ever wanted to go to the Los Angeles Lakers would be angry at the idea of playing for the LeBron Lakers, and don't make a mistake, they are.
Of course, it doesn't matter who is the coach of the Lakers;
If the lads don't want to play with LeBron, they won't come, so maybe Lu's influence in this area is insignificant.
No matter what happens, the Tyronn Lue era will not start with the answer, but with another question that sadly represents a coach search that no one searches for, and the Lakers ask the king himself.
What else do you need?