Lou Williams on What He’s HEARD About Why Kings Fired Mike Brown!!
On December 30th, 2024 episode of ‘Run It Back’ on FanDuel TV LIVE co-hosts Michelle Beadle, Chandler Parsons, and Lou Williams talk about the Kings fire head coach Mike Brown in hopes to keep De’Aaron Fox.
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00:00 KINGS FIRE MIKE BROWN
00:30 LOU WILLIAMS HEARS WHY
02:27 CHANDLER’S THOUGHTS
06:04 IS THIS A STEP TO KEEP DE’AARON FOX?
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47 Comments
These players soft, ain’t winning games, blowing leads, and blowing close outs. But can’t take a criticism. Deaaron has only been to the playoffs once. Bro has no leverage but he does. And that’s why the kings are trash. They let boogie run the organization for years and got no where
Fox being a franchise player & a stud- When has he won anything? Yeah, a great player, but come on.
I think demar coming off the bench might’ve happened but Fox has said many times he enjoyed Mikes style and liked being coached hard
The NBA was the players league. Now it's a viewers league. Low viewers means less dollars 💵.
Lou will is great at everything much respect
It's really difficult to build your franchise around a 6'3" player AND have serious championship aspirations. GS appears to have been the outlier. MEM put a lot of size & physicality around Morant. SAC needs an Aaron Gordon type player, along with Keegan Murrary & Sabonis. SAC could/should exploit their Point-Center opportunity much more, but for that to happen there needs to be a more deliberate ball distribution scheme, meaning more possession going through Sabonis, more touches for Keegan Murray, even at the expense of Fox. Why? Because they have the size and the talent. Front court size and talent, along with a talented backcourt should be maximized. But if they are all about selling more De'Aaron Fox merchandise & memorabilia, have at it.
Ur allstar player has issues playing defense and leading his team
Day 1 I had the prediction that when De'Aaron Fox and his agent Rich Paul went into the GM office a little over a week ago they either told Monty McNair either we're going to demand a trade or you need to hire Mike Brown
2-3 days later that's the main narrative I'm hearing now
Fox, was not thrown under the bus. Fox ran in front of the bus with all of us watching, so if the coach can't speak on something that we all saw for ourselves…what are we doing. The NBA that I once loved is becoming harder to watch and even more impossible to follow. The NFL is a King with many mistresses (MLB, NHL, NBA & so on), but no Queen as of resent. If inside the NBA wasn't coming back, neither would I.
Derozan coming off the bench is the best possible scenario for the Kings right now besides obviously picking up new assets. The Kings were a top 5 offense in the league 2 years ago when they went to the playoffs under Mike Brown, they were touching the paint, spraying the ball, and shooting 3s efficiently while playing at an insane pace.
They add Derozan the offense completely slows down switches to high guard screens to space the floor and get Derozan in the post which is great because he hits his shots but if the Kings just go back to their playstyle from 2 years ago let Demar come off the bench and then let him get into his post game it will fix the obvious lack of bench scoring problem for the Kings
So get fired because a man is showing you he is not a starter so you talk to him about coming off the bench? Weak af
If u watch the kings you know derozan isn’t fittin….. he should be coming off the bench..
DDR s/b coming off the bench. Same w/ Monk. Keon Ellis s/b starting
Man ya stfu in these comments! When you're a coach you have to know how to move. You are not who these fans come to see! Publicly calling out your players never works! You're trying to bench derozan and he just got there on a big contract. Mike brown started feeling himself 🤷🏾♂️!
How you tryna bench a star player who just got here in the offseason 20 games into the season?! Huh?! At the point forget about Fox and Derozan the GM is gonna pack you up. You ain't giving it time to materialize what I set up. I think everybody wanted him gone. That's the only way you get fired this fast and just signing a long term deal.
Chef Curry killed them with that 50-ball in Game 7
Brown > Fox
So he kept Fox accountable and as a coach did his job and asked a player who said they’re willing to do anything to win, to come off the bench and he gets fired, I’m confused
Derozan as the 6th man (for any contender/ playoff team) is the perfect place for him to be in this part of his career.
Lou Williams definitely excusing the players from accountability…like HES THE COACH..if he feels certain players need to be called out or benched, his perogative
this Lou Williams bum is an instigator, he never likes Sacramento, he said before like 6 months ago about free agent not wanting to play there…he just repeat the BS story from the media for clout and for views. He's a bench bum then, he's still a bum.
sounds like guys are not coachable
The nba is on the down fall the wnba is on the rise these new nba players ain’t nothing but millions dollars spoiled babies
These today nba players are just looking for the bag if u can’t shoot the 3 u won’t make it
Because they take about between the two teams about over 200 threes a game
Listen 2 foxes interview. He says, coach will B oK his contract is guaranteed. Strikes me as a strange thing 2 say, If U had nothing 2 do with it 🤔
Fox is just not Him, just accept it and let everything through Sabonis and DeRozan and let Fox be the decoy. At this point it's about winning and not who's the best.
Some of these players are in the words of Kobe (RIP) SOFT!
Why put your future in an 8-year vet with 1 allstar and 1 playoff (all under Mike Brown)? Deaaron Fox is an imposter. His numbers say he's a winner but the wins. Trade Fox coach killer.
Trade DeMar DeRozan and Malik Monk for Fred VanVleet and Jock Landale. Problem solved.
This is some lame rationalization from Lou Williams. His take on this is just pure garbage. No players are above getting criticized especially by the coach. Fox shouldn't be considered untouchable. He's not that kind of player. Why can't he be criticized? He's going to leave the Kings anyway and the kings will be stuck with an even worse team and the loss of an excellent coach.
I won’t lie. I agree with what he is saying. not saying Fox is the reason for losing but if the best player can take the talk then the rest of the team should follow. Also I think Derozan should come if the bench
Mike Brown is still owed $$$ sit back collect them checks get another job while still getting paid by the Kings
Come lou you went to magic City
When the you were in bubble my guy
You are a coach killer
Firing someone for doing their job is mad work
At some point players need to be held accountable as well. It's not always the coach's fault. Ultimately, it's the players are the ones playing the games. The Kings have been awful this year despite having pretty much the same roster and adding DeRozan who may have not been a good fit.
Its a players league and that's why they losing ratings and less people watching. no one wants to see cry baby millionaires complain and cry about everything when the league is as soft and boring as its ever been
they should resign Fox, they have no other choice. (they should have Draft Luka in the first place)
Why her mic so sharp? I had to turn my volume down when she talked and up when Lou talk.
NBA is a star driven league. You simply don't put your players ( especially your best player) under the bus 🚌, publicly. Doesn't matter if that , that in this particular case, Coach Brown was right. But the Kings didn't do themselves a favour, bu the dirty way that , they, fired Mike B.
"The obvious move for the 49ers at 6 and 9 (worse than 13 – 18 Kings) is to fire coach Kyle Shanahan." – Kings ownership
Lou giving the players a cop out. Dudes get paid millions to play a game and still want their asses kissed foh
WELL not the first time nor last , players changing teams n coaches get blamed for piss poor PERFORMANCE hmmmmmmmm
While the Kings did Brown dirty how they fired him. All these coaches coming out all crying and disappointed is pretty hilarious. At the end of the day, they still get the bag. Head coaches are are part of the sensitive club. One gets fired and all other coaches start trashing the dudes employer who fired them. It's like clockwork. What they dont say is how they still get paid 30-40 mill whatever it is. Yet theyre still going to cry 🤣 Maybe if you guys didnt suck at coaching you wouldnt. get fired.
Kings basically ruined demarcus cousins career. They got a Great Center and did nothing
Sabonis derozan monk are defensive liabilty. Derozan is slow and lazy on d and Harrison Barnes is hella a better fit.
I haven't watched a full NBA game in about 8 years. This product of the game is too soft, too three point happy and player complaining and getting big money for me.
I just can't! 💯%💩