[Grades] Grades v. Lakers 11/21/2012

[Bricklayer]

I'm just curious, and I really don't care who plays if we win. And when I last checked, we won the damm game, and we won it fairly convincingly. Now personally, if Tyreke had been on the floor, that would have been fine with me. But I'm not going to ***** because he wasn't on the floor, simply because we won the game. And thats what should matter, and not some ridiculous love affair with any player.

I thought Tyreke had one of his best games in a long time, but I completely understand why Smart didn't sub sooner. The group he had on the floor was playing outstanding basketball, and when your horse is leading, you don't change horses, unless your horse starts to tire. I've heard comments from posters complaininig that Smart took, I assume one of their favorite players, out of the game just when he was on a roll. But now some of those same people are complaining that he didn't take out players on a roll to put their favorite player back in the game.

Its possible that if he had brought back Cousins and Tyreke much earlier, that we might have lost the game. There's no guarantee that the same chemistry that was happening would have continued. Its one thing if were talking about Stockton and Malone, or Shaq and Kobe, but at the moment, Cousins and Tyreke don't quite fall into that catagory. I, like everyone else have my favorite players on the team, but when they're not preforming up to snuff, I'm screaming at my TV to get them out of the game and sit their butts down for a while. I only care about one damm thing, WINNING!

Unfortunately there is often a timetested right way to do things, and merely getting away with doing things wrong one time doesn't suddenly make it right. It just means you got away with doing it wrong, one time.

Watching this coach has increasingly become like watching a child grow up. A rather dim child. All those lessons adults have already learned, he is having to learn the hard way. By smashing his face into the wall again and again. Except its our face, and he's doing it on our dime. And yeah, he managed to get away with putting the sharp object in this mouth this time and came away giggling. But that doesn't mean it was a good idea, or that if he does it again he's not going to hurt himself.

 

[DesertFox]

Unfortunately there is often a timetested right way to do things, and merely getting away with doing things wrong one time doesn't suddenly make it right. It just means you got away with doing it wrong, one time.

Watching this coach has increasingly become like watching a child grow up. A rather dim child. All those lessons adults have already learned, he is having to learn the hard way. By smashing his face into the wall again and again. Except its our face, and he's doing it on our dime. And yeah, he managed to get away with putting the sharp object in this mouth this time and came away giggling. But that doesn't mean it was a good idea, or that if he does it again he's not going to hurt himself.

Yeah, as an isolated incident, keeping Tyreke off the floor because the players were still doing well is not a bad thing.

But Smart has done this many times, regardless of how the players on the floor were playing. He has a pattern of having no pattern, if that makes any sense.