Michael Lucky wrote:Well doesn't help when your bench players are used wrongly as well and before the last two games Jamison was lucky to get 15 minutes of playing time. Despite that it's hardly as horrible as people think. A lot of it can be attributed to the lack of minutes they get when the Lakers have the best starting lineup out there. It's always easy to look at bench points of opposing teams to ours when they play twice as many minutes. Having said that sure, i'd love for it to be better, but i'm not going to complain with a bench rotation of Jamison, Hill, Meeks, Blake(Morris) come playoff time.
Very well said. People judging our bench off their Mike Brown era performance are really being unfair. Since the coaching change and since D'antoni took to the sideline in particular they have played very well as a unit and have been improving each game.
That's with us being 2 PGs down and playing Duhon major minutes. Chris has had a few good moments and hit some open 3s but he's a huge liability defensively and he can't run a offense. I think if Morris can continue to improve on his decision making he'll lock up the backup PG minutes behind Nash and our bench will continue to improve with a shot creator on the court while Kobe(and Nash) rest. Right now the Duhon and Meeks backcourt is just brutal to watch, neither can create for others off the dribble with any regular success.