I get where you're comming from but, if you look at Nash's play when he came back, he was FAR from the same all star Nash that averaged 12.5 ppg and 10.7 apg on 53.2% just a few months prior. Youre right, Phil was the better choice but at that point, even in the triangle, Nash would be less servicable than Fisher.
Had he not been injured, who knows? Maybe the Lakers would have won more games early on in the season and Brown wouldn't have been fired. Maybe they would have won the Portland game and begun their momentum to win the ensuing games. Remember Brown was fired because of a 1-4 start. Hypothetically, a 3-2 start looks much better. If im not mistaken, Kobe was playing exceptionally well the first few months that season (47% fg 50% 3pt fg, NBA leading scorer). Accompany that with a healthy Nash and semi healthy Pau and Howard, and bam those games we lost early in the season suddenly seem winnable. The main reason the Lakers were losing so many games (besides defense) was that they had no servicable PGs. Blake got and abdominal injury shortly afterwards, which forces us to use DARIUS MORRIS AND CHRIS DUHON as our starting and backup point guards. Very hard to win like that.
