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Originally Posted by Silk D
this thread can go on forever. It boils down to what you think we need more; experience or athleticism/penetration, with defense being pretty equally bad.
I'm not buying that Fish will stunt the growth of our young guys. He won't play more than 25-30 minutes a game, and he can do nothing but help them in practice and in the locker room. If they take the job from him, so be it; who cares? But I'd rather have them take the job from an experienced vet versus letting them learn on the fly and possibly costing us a couple games. They'll be fine, and Fish will help with their development.
N jazzy, com'on man. you one of my favorite posters, but you seriously think our team would be better off w/o Luke and Fish so long as we added some athletes? what do you want? another mo evans that can jump out the gym, put some points on the board, but can't make smart basketball plays to save his life? The dip in the teams chemistry was painfully obvious when luke went to the bench and mo replaced him. Not everything that Luke and Fish will do to help us win games is going to show up on the stat sheet, and no, they're not great (or even good) defenders. But they're smart players, they make the most of what they have, and they'll help us win games, period.
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Let me make clear my postion with Luke and Fisher because it might come off that I'm hating on them.
Luke can play we all know that he has great feel for the game.
He FITS with our offensive design because he can initiate the offense.
But his negatives have been glossed over and they cost us an awful lot.
His nagatives lack of mental toughness, lack of physical toughness, and lack of athleticism.
he couldn't play for us in the dynasty because he was getting smoked defensively now he's our stalwart. Come on.
Every season he seems to go through a stretch for a month or so where he simply can't hit a perimeter shot he did last season right before he sprained the ankle he was playing terrible.
Thats real mental weakness, then he gets the injury bug.
We have a team full of guys like this mentally weak and injury prone physically in kwame, odom, Sasha, Mo Evans, Luke Walton, Bynum, Radman and farmar to a small degree.
Of course I'm not saying just go out and get an athlete with no brains for the game But I want guys who are alitte more mentally sturdy guys who have toughness to get that stop, guys who can get that rebound.
Desmond Mason I think was or is out there to me I wouldn't have minded adding him instead of Luke.
I get why Kobe is so frustrated because he doesn't have teammates with his sorta toughness mentally. He see's us stockpiling the same types of personalities to the mix and its pissing him off.
Now Fisher does give us that I admit he's tough as nails and will help us I just think Critt is gonna be the one who takes us to the next place at pg.
And the idea of adding Mihm back to this mix made me throw up in my mouth alittle to even say this.
He is another in the long line of mentally weak and physically frail.