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Originally Posted by CDRacingZX6R
You amuse me. I was being sarcastic, but oh well. I guess I wasn't using enough smiley faces and rolling laughing icons for it to be apparent. My only reason for bring that up is because you didn't ask me why didn't the Lakers just play Sasha (who I think you originally mistook for Slava, which would explain why you should so out there), Wafer, etc.. Or one of the other SF's that might be able to run the floor, you keep talking about Slava. Why don't we just put Slava at the 3? Because Slava is a center genius. For the same reason you wouldn't run Foyle at the 3.
The sad thing is, if the game was important for GS, perhaps they should have put Davis in the fourth or something? They didn't because the warriors coaching staff knows it's a preseason game and didn't care rather they won or lost, they were there to see who goes where, who starts and who doesn't, and why gets the axe. That's what preseason has been and always will be.
Odom is the second most important part of the Lakers. Love him or hate him, Phil Jackson has said probably a thousands times this off-season that Odom will make the difference between making the playoffs, or finishing with 34 again. I know this is just logic speaking, which doesn't seem to flow well with your posts, but perhaps Phil wanted to see if Lamar could run the offense without Kobe in the game? Or.. Perhaps he wanted to get Odom out there practicing with the bench, since that doesn't happen much in camp.
But the truth is if Phil was so concerned with winning the preseason game that you hold so dear to your heart, he simply would have had kobe go in. Because running the offense or not, Kobe was 10-18, with 28 points in 27 minutes. Was hot when he went to the bench and would have easily wiped the floor with your bench scrubs. He went with Odom, because Odom is our starting 3, because Odom needs the practice, Because Odom has a lot more to gain than just a preseason win here. You'd think the way you talk, it was game seven of the finals. It was the first PRESEASON GAME OF THE YEAR. Maybe it's because your not used to having a good team.. Lord knows the Warriors history shows that, but I just wish you spent more time figuring out what the preseason really is about. It doesn't matter if a win in preseason is important to you, because the Warriors team itself couldn't careless.
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Hmmm... you mentioned Slava first.
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Yeah, what was Phil thinking.. Not putting our backup Center slava, a 250 pound retard at the 3 to run the offense... That would have been a hoot!
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And why do you keep insisting that if Slava goes in he needs to run the offense? He can go in without running the offense you know. Or maybe you think that if you take out a player then his replacement always has to assume the duties of the person he replaces. Newsflash: players can slide positions. If i put Foyle in to replace a PG, that doesn't mean that he'll play PG.
Geez how dense can you be? You need to learn the game more. Do you even understand how substitution works? You're stuck in a mindset that if someone else were out there other than Odom then that person is gonna run the offense. Oh my God. Is that what you thought i meant? Put in Slava to play the point or run the team at the 3!?!?! Holy moly.
And dont smoke screen me again by saying "why not Kobe"? Odom was just enough to acheive the end that he wanted... after all we already emptied our bench. It's pre-season dude. It really shouldnt be that important, so why was Phil still going for the W? You say it's important to me but i'm arguing that Phil didn't wanna lose. Please post on the Warriors board more often. You really are good for laughs.