More injuries (Kobe & Nash) 03/28

[Kobe System]

I'm pretty sure Kobe will play tomorrow.

[tugs]

So Blake starting and Kobe still at SF? good thing he'll be against Salmons.

damn. might as well see what Ebanks or Clark can do with extended minutes.

[ROballer]

Kings have been scorching hot on offense lately......with our D(I mean lack of D) I'd be surprised if we keep them under 110


This will be a L,I have no doubt about it

[LukasBMW]

That's what happens when Coach Pringles runs a 7-8 man rotation to the damn ground. All those minutes for these guys and it's done nothing but produce a barely over .500 record. Maybe Pau will be next to get injured or re-injure his previous injury.

Yup.

Saw it firsthand in Phoenix. That and the lack of defense.

When the Lakers fire Dantoni, he won't ever coach again in the NBA.

[leeprettyp]

That's what happens when Coach Pringles runs a 7-8 man rotation to the damn ground. All those minutes for these guys and it's done nothing but produce a barely over .500 record. Maybe Pau will be next to get injured or re-injure his previous injury.

Yup.

Saw it firsthand in Phoenix. That and the lack of defense.

When the Lakers fire Dantoni, he won't ever coach again in the NBA.

Agree

[leolozon]

You could just tell by looking at Kobe that we were driving him into the ground this season. He was more gaunt than I'd ever seen him and he just looked winded out there, especially on back to backs...

I would have never guessed with the upgrades we made this off season, that we would be relying on or playing Kobe nearly as much as we did.

I see it as a combination of a Coaching (all of them) problem, bad luck and poor motivation. For better or worse Kobe has been carrying this all-star team this season. Which is really, really disappointing to me.

I don't get that argument, Kobe played more minutes last year. Kobe played more or the same in 11 other seasons. It would be best if he played 35 minutes, but I"m pretty sure he wants to get back in.

Honestly, the mentality that Kobe has to carry the team is a bad one, him carrying the team makes everyone too dependant and too passive. He chose to do everything by himself. Some could say they we would have won less with him doing less on offense. In fact if we regard our record with Kobe shooting less, we can see it's in fact the opposite. We win more when Kobe shoots less.

So... I'm not sure why we complain now that Kobe is tired from having done too much, while justifying that Kobe had to do too much. Kobe doing too much was always a bad thing. It's tough to argue that it made the team better at any point and it certainly made the team worst right now. So Kobe has to defer more to his teammates : end of the story. Even if him trying to do everything was good in the short term, it would still be bad in the end.

I'm not sure why Kobe is blameless when it comes to his utilisation when we all know he is as close to being his own boss has any player in the league has ever been. So the problem is probably more that Kobe wants to play like that and MDA can't put him on a leash.

[leolozon]

That's what happens when Coach Pringles runs a 7-8 man rotation to the damn ground. All those minutes for these guys and it's done nothing but produce a barely over .500 record. Maybe Pau will be next to get injured or re-injure his previous injury.

Anyways, I'm so over this season, the injuries, the turnovers, the non-defense, the everything. Nothing but one big disappointment.

Kobe
Last year : 38,5
This year : 37,9

Dwight
Last year 38,3
This year : 35.5

Gasol
37.4
32,9

Jamison
33.1
21.7

Blake
23.3
23

Meeks :
24.9
20,1

MWP
26,9
34,6

Nash
31,6
33,2

Earl Clark played more, but no one would say it's a problem.

Only player having a case is Nash and MWP. And keep in mind that last year was a compressed schedule with more back to back. So Nash can play that 33 minutes and not even sure why MWP only played 27 minutes last year.

I'm not sure how they were more run to the ground than last year.