Terrible management of our Starting Five's minutes...

[lodom7]

I don't understand why people are so quick to hate on Brown. Yesterday we shot 50% and got 31 free throw attempts, Nash has the green light to do anything he wants but he chose not to. The problem yesterday was the free throw shooting and the defense. Both will come in time with extra practice and chemistry. And regarding the minutes, it isn't like they played that many more minutes than needed.

[Asianiac_24]

Jordan Hill should be getting 25 minutes minimum every game. Oh and by the way, these are the minutes for our 3 star players tonight:

Dwight Howard 41:21
Pau Gasol: 39:51
Kobe Bryant: 38:29

Jordan Hill: 8:29

Mike Brown is straight up an idiot

[tysonironmike]

Why doesn't he play Meeks more? He was solid in the pre season, I just don't understand that

[kobeaki]

I've been pissing on brown since the minute shortbuss hired him... This wont end well for potatohead...

[USA]

41 minutes for Dwight last night. 40 for Pau. 38 for Kobe. These guys are going to be done come playoff time if this trend continues and I see nothing to say it won't based off of last season. Dwight is coming off of back surgery and you play him 38 & 41 minutes in back to back games to start the season.

[TyCobb]

They hardly played in the preseason! You guys are tripping. These stars are veterans and they know what they are capable of and how ready they need to be come playoff time.

Everything gets critiqued more harshly during loss.

[Kilroy]

The only thing that is going to get the starting 5 going is minutes...

They need to work this out. Once they do, and we start getting some double-digit leads, they'll sit more.

Until then, they need to play into shape and figure out the offense.

[crazy8ights]

This is expected, we are worst than the Heat their first year together calling for coaches head and such (no I'm not a MB fan) Lakers will get it...our fan base is bigger than the Heat and the complaints are heard faster.

[LateRoundFlyer]

They hardly played in the preseason! You guys are tripping. These stars are veterans and they know what they are capable of and how ready they need to be come playoff time.

Everything gets critiqued more harshly during loss.

Sorry, Ty, but you're building strawmen here. If ever there was a more justified complaint about Brown, win or lose, it's how he manages his rotations and his starters' minutes. Do you need a reminder that this was the guy who played our starters nearly the whole 4th quarter last year in Miami, despite trailing by 21 points?

Said Brown: "I wanted to see if they were going to fight."

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/19 ... t-20120120

See if they were going to fight...I mean, what reasonable defense do you have for that? This is coming from a guy who himself admitted several times last year that Kobe and Pau's minutes were a huge concern. Then he goes and pulls a stunt like this, on the second night of a back-to-back no less, and two of our starters finish by limping off the court?

I think I have shown more patience with Brown here than many other people have, and for the most part, I'm still willing to give him and this team some time to develop. But let's not act like no one can fairly critique him because it's only been two games. That's dishonest. He's had 10 with Nash, 90 with Kobe, Pau, Metta, Blake, etc, and we're led to believe this topic is still off-limits? No.

[Father Time]

What do you guys think of Nate McMillan as a replacement for Brown? I bet he could at least get our guys to play hard.

[Kilroy]

It's easy to play hard if your coach tells you exactly what to do every time down the court...

It's not that they're not playing hard, it's that they're playing tentative... They aren't sure what to do every time down the floor yet. They aren't sure how the other guys want to be fed.

The only thing that is going to fix that is time.

If you honestly think this group of superstars isn't playing hard, Mike Brown is the least of our problems.

[tysonironmike]

What do you guys think of Nate McMillan as a replacement for Brown? I bet he could at least get our guys to play hard.

Only heard bad things about him from Blazers fans, And that he loved Steve Blake, So there's that..