湖人总教练Byron Scott接受<<橘郡纪事报>>专访时提到Kobe在新赛季的上场时间:
The one thing I want, if this is his last year, I want him to go out
standing. I don't want him to go out hurt. I want to make sure I do
everything in my power to make sure we stick to the game plan, as far as his
minutes and as far as back-to-back games.
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Obviously we want to keep him as efficient as possible, but I know he knows
his body better than anybody. When we start talking about those minutes, I
want to listen to him more than anything. I'm not going to go by what I think
he can play like I did last year, I want to really go by what he thinks he
can play. Then I want to make sure we stick to that.
假如这是Kobe最后一季, 那我有一个要求, 我要让他保持出色. 而且我不想让他受伤,
为确保我们会遵守对上场时间, B2B比赛所做的安排, 我会确保做每件事都尽我的全力.
我们会让Kobe尽可能的保持高效率, 我知道Kobe对自己的身体比任何人都还了解. 所以当
我们开始讨论上场时间时, 我会听Kobe的话胜过于一切. 我不会再像上季一样让自己
决定他怎么打. 现在, 我会真正遵照Kobe的想法. 而我会确保我们遵守这样的安排.
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