LaVar Ball Had A Terrible Take About Steve Kerr Being The ‘Milli Vanilli Of Coaching’

LaVar Ball is two things, one of which is subjective, the other is kind of universally agreed upon. Subjectively, he is rather entertaining, and is the kind of quote machine who makes it so hoops fans are always on their toes. As for the universally agreed upon thing, the dude is incredible at churning out god awful takes about how coaching the game of basketball works.

Normally, his target is Lakers coach Luke Walton, who Ball has actively tried to get fired throughout Lonzo Ball’s rookie year. Whether it’s discussing the way he handles his young players or by accusing him of losing the team, Ball has gone out of his way to lob bombs in Walton’s direction.

Now, Ball is trying to take down the guy who gave Walton his big break in the coaching world. Ball gave a quote about Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who is openly not a fan of the world’s biggest baller. Ball essentially said that the former NBA Coach of the Year rolls a ball out and gets out of the way of his players, and not in a way that praises Kerr’s ability to manage a team.

There are layers to this being a bad take. Ball’s first point seems to be that if Walton could do something, then it can’t be especially hard, so Kerr winning games with the Warriors is actually an easy thing to do. The way he tied these two concepts together is actually kind of impressive, so I guess kudos to him for that?

This is a cyclical argument that happens whenever a team is good, as people will say the coach coaches the players, but the players play the game, and it turns into this whole mess of a thing that exists more to discredit one side of the coin than praise the other. But still, the stuff about how Kerr doesn’t actually do anything is wrong — he has installed a system in Golden State that has maximized the abilities of everyone on the roster — and Kerr has been open about the fact that Jackson helped played a major role in getting the Warriors to where they are today on the defensive end of the floor.

The moral of this story is that Kerr is, actually, a very good basketball coach, and that Ball is really feeling himself after working his way up the ranks from basketball dad to head coach for the pro team in Lithuania that employs his sons.