The Lakers offered him $70 million for the Euro ball offense concepts, or some think so, in addition to the NC’s. What we are being reminded of early this year, despite the 40 point cupcake blowouts, is that intense defense, rebounding, pushing the ball and being able to score with contact are important ingredients too. Hurley always preached these things but do we do them from the start of the game or after 5-6 poor minutes?
I always say it with love and sometimes with humor.
I always cringe a little when I hear the media brag about our depth. Often too much depth creates as many problems as it solves. Too many guys, if roughly equivalent ability, battling for minutes, which there isn’t enough of. Geno believes in maybe a 8 player rotation but sometimes that means a couple of injuries ruin his season.
Mahaney also doesn’t have Donovan behind him to make getting beat off the dribble irrelevant. Cam looked bad on that end until Donovan came back. Then he looked average when he didn’t have to worry about getting beat.
I'm sure he was just being sensible. Trying to beat the traffic.