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

[Jordan-esque]

Pau Gasol @ 40 mins
Dwight Howard @ 38 mins
Metta World Peace @ 37 mins
Kobe Bryant @ 35 mins
Steve Nash @ 34 mins

http://www.nba.com/games/20121030/DALLA ... GIboxscore

Those are Playoff numbers, aka our Starting Five basically played "Playoff minutes" during their game opener against a Dirkless Mavs team.

The most any player from the bench only had 15 mins (Antawn Jamison).

Nash averaged 31 minutes last season with the Suns to keep him "fresh"; but now at a year older, looks like he might be playing even more here.

Gasol shouldn't be averaging 40 minutes; first time he played this much, it was the same season he started struggling in the Playoffs.

World Peace played the 3rd highest minutes last night; why who knows, but he was basically playing point-forward in the offense.

[Timo Cruz]

JESUS

[Danny Darko]

and not just long minutes, but late minutes for guys who shouldn't be put at risk.

[Timo Cruz]

It's going to be a long year

[Kalidogg24]

Zero burn for Ebanks as well.

Dude is solid and yet he still gets treated like a rook. Smh

[robert93436]

i know right the bench hardly saw any action too check this line out
steve blake 13:51 min
jodie meeks 13:04 min
awntwan jamison 15:02 min
jordan hill 14:15 min
C. Duhon DNP - COACH'S DECISION
D. Ebanks DNP - COACH'S DECISION
D. Morris DNP - COACH'S DECISION
R. Sacre DNP - COACH'S DECISION

mike brown should take a page from doc rivers and rotate guys in and out more often to keep the starters fresh, a 9 man rotation was horrible for us last night

[leeprettyp]

I just dont get what Ebanks has done wrong to not warrant consistent backup mins behind Metta. Also coach Brown needs to do a better job of managing minutes and lineups

[notinbtnet]

My ideal substitution pattern.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/599015_10100749233891075_2013356700_n.jpg

[Dr Aki]

everyone can see the big 4's minutes are mismanaged. both in terms of having them all on the floor together

eric spoelstra or vinny del negro is an upgrade at this point

[Run-MKE 311]

Spot on, this is going to potentially be a huge problem and is not receiving enough attention.

Mike Brown has to become a better manager of time, otherwise that could really be his ticket out the door, much more so than the offensive system.

Scrathing my head on Ebanks as well, he continues to improve his game, but his minutes sure do not reflect that.

I worry about Nash and his back the most.

[Kobe System]

What do you expect? We have a TERRIBLE COACH!

[endless]

Our starters injury will start to pile up before the playoffs. Why MB doesn't play Ebanks or Sacre??? He's playing regular season game like its the finals. The worse part is we didn't even get a win. WTF!!!

[USA]

After last season did anyone think it was going to be different. Mike Brown is better suited as an assistant coach than a head coach.

[Showtime:Part2]

After last season did anyone think it was going to be different. Mike Brown is better suited as an assistant coach than a head coach.

name one thing he does well enough to even be an assistant coach.

[Lehnny]

So if this keeps up and things keep going along like this what coaches are actually available or are we guaranteed to be stuck with MB the full season even if things are going horribly?

[Imadogg]

Our starters injury will start to pile up before the playoffs. Why MB doesn't play Ebanks or Sacre??? He's playing regular season game like its the finals. The worse part is we didn't even get a win. WTF!!!

Lol.

Hey Ebanks, you've been playing well and showing improvement over last year. I like the aggressiveness.

HERE METTA 40 MINUTES TONIGHT I LIKE HOW YOU DRIBBLE. EBANKS SIT DOWN.

[leeprettyp]

Our starters injury will start to pile up before the playoffs. Why MB doesn't play Ebanks or Sacre??? He's playing regular season game like its the finals. The worse part is we didn't even get a win. WTF!!!

Lol.

Hey Ebanks, you've been playing well and showing improvement over last year. I like the aggressiveness.

HERE METTA 40 MINUTES TONIGHT I LIKE HOW YOU DRIBBLE. EBANKS SIT DOWN.

Didnt pull a stunt similiar to this in Cleveland with J.J. Hickson (whatever his name was). I just remember a young guy on there bench who always brought energy and played well but coach Brown always stuck him at the end of the bench like he's doing Ebanks smh. Why aren't we developing this young asset he can play!!

[Imadogg]

Seriously, I find it stupid. Play him, develop him. If he can't play, then we'll find out.. wtf is the purpose of playing all the starters 40 min even when they can't hold onto a lead and even when we're down 12 with 2min left? At least at that point stick in some of the others to see how they play.

It's not about us thinking Ebanks is a godsend or something.. he's improved and looked good in the preseason. That's a start. Throw him out there and if he can't play, then bench him.

[gotokyo]

I really don't understand why people still try to justify his coaching decisions... not in this thread specifically but in many others about mike brown. This guy is an awful, AWFUL coach.

Not only is his minute managing atrocious but his rotations on which starters play with the bench is ridiculous. Pau? Really?! Your going to run pau gasol of all people with 4 bench players. Dude can't hold onto the ball for s***. Rotate Kobe and Nash so one of them is on the floor at all times how hard is that?!

[DrewBynum77]

Then some guys gotta play the reasonable card.

"oh, mike brown didn't shoot x % from the FT line"

Mike Brown is a moron, he can't do anything well enough to be the head coach of the **** los **** angeles **** lakers.

and btw, dwight will shoot like that from the FT line most of the time so if this dumb coach depend on D12 shooting better from the FT line to beat a dirkless mavs than we're screwed.