Scott told ESPN.com that under no circumstances would he sit the 37-year-old Bryant, who is shooting a career-worst 31.1 percent from the field and 19.5 percent from 3-point range.
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“He tells me when he is exhausted and he tells me when he’s not exhausted”. You remember Michael [Jordan] playing for the Wizards. You remember me playing for the Rockets my last season.
But pat of the Lakers’ passing issues have nothing to do with a lack of trust among players.
“I try to do some fancy things out there with both hands, making crossover moves and kind of having a certain creativity and flair to my game”. But tonight it was just really pressure. “Oh yeah! This is definitely should be it, to me this is like a farewell tour”, he said.
Scott said he doesn’t believe minutes are taking a toll on Bryant, whose past three seasons have all been cut short by injury.
The Sixers and coach Brett Brown have rookie Jahlil Okafor and, well, a bunch of future first-round picks and other assets that won’t help now while they wait for Joel Embiid to get healthy and for Dario Saric to leave Europe for the National Basketball Association.
An Eastern Conference executive seemed nearly melancholy when discussing the player he followed since Bryant attended Lower Merion (Pa.) High. Maybe it could happen Saturday against the Trail Blazers; he’s averaged 33.1 points in his last seven games in Portland. The closest they came to doing so during the streak was in Game 20, an overtime victory at home over the Suns. His defense is poor, sometimes reduced to clutch-and-grab techniques best demonstrated by his inability to successfully stop the bigger Anthony.
“The plan is to play one of the two”, Scott said after practice Friday. It might take me another week or two. He’s got nothing left. “It’s sad to watch because he used to be so great, and I mean great”. And that’s a hard thing to do when you’re a young team.
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Warriors interim head coach Luke Walton had expressed concern after the Warriors reached 16 wins on Tuesday with a victory against the Lakers that with their place in the record books, the players might have a different intensity level and see their level of play go down.
