It's not that I WANTED them to be injured, rather it's that they did get injured and instead of panicking, we should be a bit ok with it. I understand the same type of injuries started to pile up and dismantle the Lakers season last year but this year is different, Lakers have players who are more developed and improved with more depth, anytime you can take Smush off of your team, it is a definite ++++++PLUS
Bynum and Ariza were probably out two key players after Kobe, Bynum was a beast inside on offense and was a 2.1 blocks per game defensive anchor. And Ariza was a great man defender and a good cutter on offense providing Lakers with good inside physical play/dunks.
Now I don't believe that Bynum and Ariza won't be in shape when back from injury although it could take some time but will be fine before the playoffs hit and I also believe the Lakers will make the playoffs.
So that aside, why are the injuries good for the Lakers? MORE experience for our other players (The Machine, Farmer, Turiaff). Luke and Lamar have been struggling while our bench has picked up the slack, having these guys struggle now will help us in the long-run (that includes Kwame Freakin' Brown
) When Bynum and Ariza return, our other players will have enough confidence and experience to know what they have to do because they had a much tougher task without Bynum & Ariza. And hopefully Luke and Lamar will come into their own once our key guys are healthy, our line-up will be back to normal and players such as Ronny and Kwame will have more experience from the playing time to better perform and be even more productive when they come off the bench.
The Loss to the Cavs was a tough one because that game was very win-able especially with Big Z not playing well and fouling out and Varejao (Sicho bob) getting injured. But it gave our guys a good lesson, Kobe got benched for a min to help him realize why going 1 on 1 is a bad thing especially when you've gone on a 15-2 run (although I wasn't FOR-IT with benching Kobe in 4th), Luke will understand that he cannot be always a pass-first guy, and Zen-Master will realize that we need better coaching (subbing in the right players at the right time) and better play-diagramming. It didn't help to have a personnel of Lamar/Ronny in at the last 10 seconds of the game when you need a 3. Why not put in Vlad (although he only played 5min) and Sasha instead and have Luke or Kobe inbound the ball, that way you have 4 (Fish,Kobe,Sasha,Vlad) good 3pt shooters when you need a damn 3.
Overall guys this is a really good team as it showed when our line-up was healthy, even when they were injured our last 3 game were very winnable: against Spurs we just didn't execute in the first 5 min of 3rd quarter, against Mavs Farmar made some bone-headed plays down the stretch of 4th quarter, and against Cavs Kobe tried to be a hero while getting caught up in the Lebron Vs. Kobe battle. So lets look at this experience as a positive one because this team will be something to reckon with come playoff time (provided our key players are healthy).
I know a big road trip is coming up and that it would've been great for us to see how a healthy Lakers would've performed the past 4 games and on the big road-trip but lets look at the glass as Half-Full rather than Half-Empty because our players will have more experience come playoff time and the following seasons (PROVIDED they are healthy).
And sorry for the long-reading (if you read that far
) and I'm probably repeating a lot but please don't get mad, I'm just improvising as I go along so try not to be upset over my grammatical errors and rather focus on the Lakers and my point 
ah... Slava where are you now???). Maybe Turiaf if he's extremely open and/or under the basket. Otherwise Kobe goes 1-on-1
