A coach with no choice but to tolerate …

A coach with no choice but to tolerate the messes made by a roster heavy on youth and thinned by a slew of injuries. “We’ve had anywhere from eight to 10 guys available each night,” Kerr said before a 120-94 loss to the Lakers at Staples Center. “There are nights where I would love to take someone out based on a mistake they made. But I can’t take them out. “We don’t have that hammer, as a coaching staff, to be able to reward guys with playing time or penalize them by taking playing time away.”