Post#9 » by kblo247 » Sat Nov 3, 2012 12:44 pm
Kinda hard to play D when
- your dumbass coach has Kobe playing 43 minutes (31 straight if you include the second quarter) on a sprained foot and Kobe and Vitti both admit to telling him he needed a break, only to be ignored cause Mike needed a win, so Kobe is in a walking boot now
- your dumbass coach was told to not rush Howard's minutes up initially but he did so anyway, as Dwight wasn't scheduled to return till December, and knowing dwight would've played 40 minutes today seeing as he played 30 with foul trouble
- your gm gets a SG to rest Kobe, a SG that shot 45% in preseason from 3 mind you and had the best turnover rate of all starting sgs in the league last year, yet you give him him a dnp today, don't play him hardly at all the game before, and used him as the first guard off the bench in game one.
- you play Jamison at SF when he has been a PF since 2001, and you poor Ebanks at SG despite him having no handles nor the ability to stay in front of em
- when you use this unit in the second quarter Morris, Blake, MWP, Jamison, and Hill.
- you as the dumbass coach you are asked Nash to play the rest of the preseason after he tweaked his ankle because you wanted him to get the Princeton down, ignoring the fact the guy is 38 and even if he was 28, ankle injuries can lead to an increased chance of leg and back injuries
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Brown was never a defensive guru. He used 4 corners and a snails pace. What makes him an epic fail though is there is no one to have any continuity offensively or defensively from anyone aside from the starters and Blake who mostly played with the starters last year because he has no rotation.
People talked about Phil not liking youth, but damnit Sasha, Jordan, Shannon, Turiaf, Trevor, Luke, Kerr, Kukoc, Fisher, Horry, Fox, and the like all knew damn well when they were coming into the game and going out barring a career night as he had a rotation in place and routine. There was a routine so guys knew how to warm up, stay loosened up, who they would play with, where the guys wanted the ball on O, who cut where, who spotted up where, who was the help defender, who had the glass, and how to fill the lanes.
There is no rotation or reasoning behind his substitutions and guys can build trust or awareness when they don't know who is coming into the game, out of position most likely, and when they may be yanked and replaced.
The only set rotation strategy is if a game is close, Kobe will play the entire second half. If a game is about to get bloody and we look to be blown out, Kobe plays the entire second half to make the margin look nice on paper. That's it, and its sickening because Kobe at 24-27 under Phil got damn rests like clockwork during the season and playoffs
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This game could be the straw that breaks the camels back as a lost to the Pistons means 14 straight with the preseason and last two OKC series games counted,which is just unacceptable in laker land for any coach
