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Lakers' assistant coaches do their part to prepare team
Lakers' assistant coaches do their part to prepare team
Each assistant is responsible for scouting several teams, and then making sure the players know what might be coming. > Lakers assistant coach Frank Hamblen stood by his work on the whiteboard in the team's locker room before a recent game against Sacramento, viewing all the lines, numbers and diagrams for that night's game plan.
About Last Night….
forumblueandgold.com — ….Or, alternately titled, Sexual Perversity in Sacramento I don’t think anybody who watched part of all of... the last five Lakers games that would say this team is playing well right now. It’s still winning games because of the talent level, ... (more) About Last Night….
Want to get away? Lakers do - LA Daily News
dailynews.com — Let's face it, things were getting pretty darn stale around here, so the Lakers were only too... happy to jump on a chartered airplane Thursday morning and fly to Miami for the start of a four-game cross-country trip. "It's coming at the right time for ... (more) Want to get away? Lakers do - LA Daily News
The Lakers have been exposed
The Lakers have been exposed
ocregister.com — Ding column: Opponents have figured out how to beat them.... (more) The Lakers have been exposed
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BallerBlogger.com — ... Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times:  “Each season Lakers Coach Phil Jackson passes out scouting assignments for the other 29 NBA teams to his assistants: Hamblen, Kurt Rambis, Jim Cleamons and Brian Shaw. Then it’s their job to scout the teams on their list. ‘We all pride ourselves in having our teams down cold, so all you’ve got to do is take the game plan to the floor and we’re good,’ Cleamons said. ‘But some nights it’s not that way. So you hope on your night, on your scout, these horses are ready to run.’ Usually, the assistants ...

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