A five-game losing streak, ten games into the season, is not an event that fans see from championship head coaches every season, and the fact that Tyronn Lue is at the center of one for the LA Clippers means his job is at stake. However, Clippers’ executives would also evaluate Lue’s decisions, and by starting John Collins tonight versus his former team, the championship head coach just saved himself from losing his position.
He could have had this decision ready in his agenda long before today, as the Atlanta Hawks once traded Collins, which left something to prove, or the goal may have been to try a different strategy with Bradley Beal and Kawhi Leonard out.