There's a lot of confusion and differing opinions amongst Kings Fans, but I wouldn;t have thought that the obvious coaching (substitution) mistakes would be one of them.
You just cannot go from DNP-CD for multiple games to the starting position without it being an indictment of your coaching.
And what he did to Omri proved his lack of knowledge of the players on this team (DNPs 9 out of the first 15 games, then finally realizing the guy is one of your top 7 players).
Joerger's bullheadedness on starting Afflalo and Kosta is indefensible.
His "reason" not to start his obvious best SG (Temple) is "because he likes/needs the flexibility he brings off the bench.
Let's examine that statement for a second, shall we?
Temple is now an undeniably better 3-pt shooter AND defender than Afflalo (who only scores well in the post, the same place where 2 of the starters work).
And Joerger's justification to not start him is that he needs Temple vs the other team's
backups more than against their starters (who have been lighting us up and costing games with big deficits)....
What coach uses that irrational of reason and gets away with it (to the reporter squad and the fanbase)?
What coach dodges starting lineup questions by blaming the players? (newsflash - the point of lineup questions is that you, the coach, have the wrong players in, so blaming the players is blaming yourself!)
The "reporters" for the Kings are clearly scared of Joerger.
It's not their job to worry about their reputations or how the coach "zings" them when being questioned - it's their job to use their access to ask the questions that their customer base wants answered, and if he dodges the question or answers something unsupportable, it's their job to ask again (either that night or the next) and ask again until he says something reasonable.