Will Jim Buss lose fan base?

And the Lakers falling flat next season. True, it isn’t productive and needs to change, but we’re all of two months into the Jim Buss era and basically saying he’s going to be the next James Dolan when he hasn’t bad a bad personnel decision yet beyond firing a bunch of long-tenured staff members, which may or may not be for lockout-related purposes. And no, I’m not denying you the ability to complain. I’m criticizing your premise when it rests on a pretty weak foundation that a losing culture has been created that’s going to be an emblematic part of the Lakers’ future. Of course, it could be true, but there’s a long, long way to go before that’s confirmed, and the arguments the other way frankly hold more weight right now.

And rofl, Byron Scott? First, Scott is a terrible coach whose offense, if one can call it that, is a far cry from anything resembling Showtime. Despite having Chris Paul pre-injury at the height of his prowess, New Orleans was a painfully slow-paced team with an unimaginative offense that worked because of Paul’s brilliance. In New Jersey, he had little to do with the offense given that it was basically run by Jason Kidd and Eddie Jordan. Not to mention that he’s basically had two locker rooms turn on him in both locales, and he’s had a pretty poor track record developing players given that he’s been liable to put productive players he doesn’t like in his doghouse for extended periods. Complain about the merits of Mike Brown against Rick Adelman or Brian Shaw, sure, but Scott is frankly on the same level as Mike Dunleavy.

I know we do not have the personnel to run fastbreaks and all that, however that doesn’t mean we can not play at a faster pace.

True, we should be utilizing more early offense opportunities, which Mike Brown notably said the Lakers would do in his opening presser, and something that I mention in Bynum’s report card. That said, it’s nothing remotely close to Showtime and far more methodical and post-based. Moreover, Brown, with his San Antonio background, is arguably a better person to work this out than Scott, who has had basically no experience with how to integrate a pair of post players like Gasol or Bynum.

This is still Kobe’s team, and even though this offense would run more double post sets doesn’t mean Kobe is going to come down and immediately throw the ball down in the post. I believe alot of sets would be for him to operate down there.

Uh, did you contradict yourself? This is a bit muddled. We’re going to run more post sets and Kobe’s going to throw the ball into the post as part of early offense? Which is true and all and probably a good part of his role, but if you were intending to say that Kobe is going to freelance, that’s also true, but a bit irrelevant given that he would do that regardless of whatever offense was being run. If you meant that Kobe was going to get sets with which to operate in the post, that’s true as well, although he’s likely to see more plays with him coming off screens as versus the triangle, and per the sets Messina will bring it, it will depend a lot on how the defense reacts to Kobe in motion, not who wants the ball in that scenario.

Isn’t the Triangle Offense a Triple Post Offense?

Between the strong side block player, the strong side corner, and extended strong side wing. Not three players in the post if that’s what you were trying to get at. In any case, Phil, who has admitted in the past that he’s not a great Xs and Os guy, has been pretty bad at integrating Bynum’s and Gasol’s talents when they’re on the floor together beyond some rare high-low action, and that’s one reason for the stagnancy when both were on the floor together. Given that Brown is bringing in a system that featured two players with similar skillsets to Bynum and Gasol in Robinson and Duncan, it meshes much better with them in particular, ignoring the fact that we need a real point guard and things like that.