The Los Angeles Clippers are looking to enter their new building with a bang, but that brings a lot of pressure for Tyronn Lue. Peter Klein looks at him and other NBA Coaches who could lose their jobs this year.
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00:00Alright, the NBA season, it's coming up man.
00:11Training camp's getting going, the podcast is starting to load up again, we're getting
00:15real excited about the start of the year.
00:16We even, and this is going to play in here a little bit more, we even have our first
00:19Kawhi injury update of the season.
00:21And again, you can see behind me, with the thing there, I get thrown off, but there,
00:26that guy.
00:27We love Kawhi around these parts.
00:29But also, who didn't see that coming, right?
00:32So, we know the season now is in full gear with that injury issue.
00:36So today, looking at the coaches who are on the hot seat in the NBA.
00:40Coming in at 5, it is Taylor Jenkins, out in Memphis.
00:43Last year was, the last couple of years have been difficult to maneuver out in Memphis.
00:49And now, everything is supposed to be coming together, right?
00:53They traded for Marcus Smart, you have Ja Morant, he is coming back and fully healthy
00:58and ready to go, you draft a very large Canadian, and all of a sudden, this team has the expectation
01:03that they are going to go out and really contend in the West.
01:09And while I do believe that that is a thing that is going to happen, if it doesn't,
01:13probably going to fall on the coach, right?
01:16And so, now this is the year where it has to get going.
01:19And so if they start at like, 22 and 27, or something like that, and it's just not going,
01:26I think there's a very opportunity that's like, alright, well, that guy, you're out of here.
01:30Let's see if we can get a spark, and get this thing rolling.
01:32And so I think the pressure that is on Memphis kind of falls on him.
01:35Same thing for our next one, Willie Green, for the New Orleans Pelicans.
01:39There's obviously some built-in excuses, the Brandon Ingram situation is just awkward,
01:44the Zion Williams situation is ever-fluid, given the injury situation that he constantly
01:49has, but when he is on, still, one of the most dominant pieces in the National Basketball
01:53Association ever.
01:55And so, there is, I think, obviously, cause for concern, and a few outs, but also, a lot
02:03of reason to be optimistic about this team.
02:06And they make a big trade to go out and get Murray, and so when you do that, and you have
02:13a young superstar, it is now time to go.
02:15It is no longer, oh, well, yeah, we battled really hard, and oh, first round of the playoffs,
02:19but we ran into Oklahoma City, what are you going to do?
02:22No more of that.
02:23This team is now a team that needs to really get going here in the West, and if they don't,
02:29I think it probably falls on the coach.
02:31At three, Mike Brown, in Sacramento.
02:34Part of this is, Sacramento is a very poorly run franchise, and while I do think that if
02:40this thing goes sideways this year, blaming the coach, probably wouldn't be accurate,
02:44but I do also think that Sacramento kind of does that.
02:47But again, they have now had the surprise everyone year, they have had the, oh, we kind
02:53of came back down to earth, but we are still a pretty good team, now we sign a superstar
02:58adjacent player, at least in DeMar DeRozan, this is supposed to fix everything.
03:03If this next step isn't one forward, then this is now probably on the coach.
03:09And again, they're another team that if they are around 500 at some point, then it could
03:13just be curtains for Mike Brown.
03:16I'm not saying it should, I just think the situation in Sacramento kind of stacks up
03:20in a way that he may find himself on the hot seat.
03:22At two, it's Tyronn Lue, out with the Los Angeles, uh, I was going to say Chargers.
03:27It's Clippers.
03:28It's basketball.
03:29Um, I, again, I think he's an excellent coach.
03:31I think he's a very, very good basketball coach.
03:35I also think he is in kind of a no-win situation.
03:38The Clippers are going into a brand new building, and boy howdy do they want it to look impressive,
03:43and do they want to be able to go out there and really make some noise.
03:46Which is why it is very strange they let Paul George go in free agency.
03:49But they did.
03:50And now, we are already hearing about some Kawhi Leonard injury issues.
03:56And so, it already feels like too much is going to fall on the shoulders of James Harden
04:00this year.
04:01And that, typically, hasn't gone great for coaches.
04:04And so, with all of the pressure that is on the Clippers this year, and given that they
04:09are locked into Kawhi now for four more years, and kind of locked into this roster, if there
04:16is a reason for panic with the Clippers, it will probably fall on the shoulders of Ty
04:22Luu.
04:23And Ballmer will just step right over him to the next guy.
04:25And at number one, Billy Donovan, out in Chicago.
04:28This was supposed to go better.
04:29They were also supposed to have Ball, who was supposed to help things out a little bit.
04:33But it just, it has been awful for a few years now.
04:36And I do think that there has been a bit of a stay for Billy Donovan based off of the
04:43just horrendous roster construction that this team has had.
04:46But I do think this is going to be a very bad year for this team.
04:50And I do think at some point, major changes are going to happen, and that's probably going
04:53to be in the coaching ranks as well.
04:55I just, I don't see this season going well for this team.
04:59And I do think that they are going to try to reset it.
05:01I think that having Giddey as your primary ball guy just ain't going to work.
05:05I think, like, the league entirely is telling you what they think of Levine.
05:10Vucevic, I think, is intriguing.
05:13But it just, none of the pieces really fit.
05:15And so I do think that before they really, not that, I was going to say before they really
05:19blow it up.
05:20I think they're going to try to.
05:21But I do think that also it is going to be another coach who has to try to put all those
05:25pieces back together in Chicago.