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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – It is easy to paint the firing of Mike Brown just five games into the second season of a four-year, $18 million contract as an overreaction of Steinbrenner-like proportions.
It wasn’t.
The firing of Brown simply was an acknowledgement by Jim Buss -- the son of Lakers owner Jerry Buss -- that he never should have hired Brown in the first place.
Read into the Princeton offense, the hard-driving practices, the absent defensive intensity of the early season all you like, but they were simply symptomatic of a problem that should have been apparent the first time Jim Buss sat down with Brown.
He isn’t a big picture guy. Brown is, as general manager Mitch Kupchak noted in...
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