It’s fair to say that Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton has been one of the biggest reason’s for the team’s success so far. Before injuries dealt a serious blow to their hopes of playoff contention, Walton had his young Lakers rolling, and when listening to him explain his coaching philosophy, it’s pretty easy to see why he has gotten such buy in from his players across the board.
"I constantly make a point to remind myself to put myself into their shoes. What was I like when I was 19-years old? Could I handle this? What was it like when you're playing four games in five nights and I'm getting all over the guys about ‘we got to have more effort and we got to execute better,’ which is true, but remembering back to how physically and mentally tired I was during those times as a player,” Walton told Adrian Wojnarowski on “The Vertical Podcast with Woj.