Blackjack
01-14-2010, 01:09 PM
Oklahoma City 108, San Antonio 109
by Jesse Blanchard
There will be plenty of time to figure out what DeJuan Blair is. Who he will be able to matchup with, how much can be expected of him against elite playoffs teams. Not even Gregg Popovich knows what to expect from him on a night to night, as Buck Harvey noted in his blog (http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/buckharvey/2010/01/popovich-believes-in-blair-and.html):
“I’m going to take what he gave us tonight, and I don’t know how he did it,” Popovich told reporters in Oklahoma City. “I have no clue what his moves are. He’s just a basketball player. He hustles his [tail] off, he’s got a nose for the ball, he’s got great hands and he does what you saw. We didn’t teach him any of it. He brought it all with him.”
For the night, Blair was a beast. And moving forward he is, at the very least, a player who can be counted on to eat minutes and boards. Whether that translates over to a postseason with shortened rotations and higher stakes remains to be seen, but over the course of a long season, with Duncan needing rest on nights like last night, it’s a valuable commodity.
Keep reading → (http://www.48minutesofhell.com/2010/01/14/oklahoma-city-108-san-antonio-109/)
by Jesse Blanchard
There will be plenty of time to figure out what DeJuan Blair is. Who he will be able to matchup with, how much can be expected of him against elite playoffs teams. Not even Gregg Popovich knows what to expect from him on a night to night, as Buck Harvey noted in his blog (http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/buckharvey/2010/01/popovich-believes-in-blair-and.html):
“I’m going to take what he gave us tonight, and I don’t know how he did it,” Popovich told reporters in Oklahoma City. “I have no clue what his moves are. He’s just a basketball player. He hustles his [tail] off, he’s got a nose for the ball, he’s got great hands and he does what you saw. We didn’t teach him any of it. He brought it all with him.”
For the night, Blair was a beast. And moving forward he is, at the very least, a player who can be counted on to eat minutes and boards. Whether that translates over to a postseason with shortened rotations and higher stakes remains to be seen, but over the course of a long season, with Duncan needing rest on nights like last night, it’s a valuable commodity.
Keep reading → (http://www.48minutesofhell.com/2010/01/14/oklahoma-city-108-san-antonio-109/)