Re: Is the wrist injury a blessing...

On 1/14/2012 4:47 PM, bishopi2006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Terraholm<laurelt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
He is a shooter, let him shoot. As long as he has a much higher than
career average FGP and a near career high assists and they are winning I
sure would not try to change his game...

I'm also thinking it makes sense for him to try and get a proper feel for
playing with the injury, before we get to the business end of the season -
yes, the bigs could do with more touches, yes, Kobe could do with 5mpg
less, but getting to where he can rely on whatever changes he is having to
make to his shooting action will be essential to the team later on
(besides, if everyone EXPECTS KB to shoot 30 shots a game, the shock factor
of him going into pass-first mode will be more pronounced)

It's not like it's costing us huge numbers of games at this point, anyway.


Skipping last year...2 years ago Kobe was taking 4 less shiots a game, Gasol and Bynum about the same. Kobe's extra shots are not taking away from them, there is no Odom, no Artest like he played then (Think I predicted he was good for one year), no Shannon Brown. Where else is the scoring going to come from?

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