Today's Game Discussion [Halloween Night]

[Jace]

Jesus, can we ban single-game +/- discussion here? So damn flawed. Even if it wasn't, its his first NBA game.

[RollWithEm]

People are always going to overreact to the first game of the season. It's all we have to go buy.

[Jace]

@LakersReporter

Lakers list @SteveNash (lower leg contusion) as "doubtful" for Friday's game vs the Clippers.

Damn, didn't look that bad. Minutes for Duhon!

Not sure if this makes CP3/Bledsoe/Crawford happier or indifferent. Not like Steve was stopping them.

[Jace]

Sorry to keep bumping this, but...

@ramonashelburne

Brown: "We can say Steve, go play pick and roll. He did that in Phx & they won a lot of games, it was fun to watch, but where were they in May?"

Jesus, Mike. I totally forgot those teams had Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol, and Kobe Bryant in tow. Is he really implying you can't win a title while using a lot of pick and roll-based plays? That's ludicrous. Especially when you have Dwight/Pau post play and Kobe isos to fall back on.

[Luke]

Mike Brown is an idiot.

[hobojoe]

That is a pretty stupid thing for Brown to say.

[XxIrvingxX]

Just imagine how different things would've been if Mike Brown wasn't the Cavs coach during the Lebron James era...

[Luke]

Exactly the same? Mike Brown was a fine coach for Cleveland because the players in Cleveland fit well into his system - good defensive role players and one transcendant star to do everything on offense. The problem with Brown in L.A. is we actually have offensive talent so it would be nice to have a coach competent enough for us to have a high calibur offense.

[Hyperion]

Originally Posted by Luke

Exactly the same? Mike Brown was a fine coach for Cleveland because the players in Cleveland fit well into his system - good defensive role players and one transcendant star to do everything on offense. The problem with Brown in L.A. is we actually have offensive talent so it would be nice to have a coach competent enough for us to have a high calibur offense.

D'Antoni!

[Wade County]

Wow at that Brown quote. I hope he's being taken out of context somehow.

[Hyperion]

He's feeling the heat. His job is in jeopardy and rightfully so.

[Diable]

If you have Steve Nash you should let him have the ball, because he's going to hurt you on defense and you need to get some offensive impact out of him. There's not a damned thing wrong with playing P&R unless your players suck at it either. There's a very compelling reason why everyone runs it a substantial part of the time.

[Jace]

Favorite Things is one of my favorite jazz albums. 'Summertime' is top-notch. McCoy Tyner was sick.

Originally Posted by Wade County

Wow at that Brown quote. I hope he's being taken out of context somehow.

More context:

@ramonashelburne

Brown explained need for "system offense" as for seven-game playoff series where, "They'll stop that one thing you're good at."

So...this team isn't good in the post or iso-ing?

He also kind of cites Nash as the reason NOT to use much PnR

@ramonashelburne

Mike Brown said Steve Nash "said he doesn't want to [play pick and roll everytime] anymore because it wears him out."

Brown said Nash "likes the flexibility" of not having to "make a play for everybody every time down the floor."

Told of Brown's comments, Nash said, "It's not that it wears me out just right now ... I'm very reluctant to worry about myself."

Nash said, "I want to learn, I want to build this team up. Then if I need to be more proactive and a bigger part of things, that'll come."

I'm sure we'll see it a lot as the season progresses.