polandprzem
02-12-2010, 03:34 AM
As this is my very first input on the spurs situation (in my own thread) the title says it all. But not only this. Many spurs fans must take a look and face reality, the new one. Got to suck it up, grow up and live with that.
Let’s get into the spurs situation which is ‘now times’. Which I can tell you about from my perspective. Yes raising the bar also get all the way to Poland, so I needed to step up.
Spurs somehow are facing new situation like many of their fans. They feel like they are not there and must improve. And you wonder if they are ready to grow up and if they really are able to grow up? This virgin kind of situation must be broken.
Spurs in the new reality, also the fans.
I really lack of watching spurs games. Not because I do not want to watch them but because it’s tough. Esp. when you have to work and spurs games are in the middle of a night plus my only source is stream. I saw Portland game, clips game only the third q without any attention. LA game 1st half and nuggets almost all the game.
General opinion I hear is that spurs are too old and burned out. I asked some fans and nobody gives them a chance of making any big impact. They were saying me that before the season and now they are laughing... [rude – but what you gonna do?]
No D plus the spurs team with all their players can’t beat teams which do not have their key guys in the lineup. The LA game is prime example. It was Ultimate Phil Jax against any coach. He likes to beat other teams not having best players. Somehow those bench LA guys stepping up. Jackson also got Pops number again. Pop does not believe it (in having numbers against anybody) but it is not a matter of belief. The thing is spurs are struggling badly and it is hard to find a bright spot when you think about season expectations.
There some areas which I want to point out
1.
Pop. This guy seems to be disappointed in this team. He surely care but he though at this point of a season spurs will be gelled. They are not and you could see his frustration when a corner trey went in for Portland daggered our team in the back. I’m okay with pop right now. He started to press this team earlier then I thought he would. I was thinking he will challenge them after ASB but he started about a month before the event. He is trying not to play small ball much recently.
The minus that was always in spurs team is mental aspect which Pop not always can find a solution for players. We had always players with pressure on them and many collapsed.
Now it’s Pops time on a ASB to sketch the run for five as he always does at this time of a NBA season.
2.
Defense! Most important area for a team to win a championship or have at least a shot. Pops says it was never that tough for his guys to be consistent there. I would say some players are not there. RJ, TP especially. Portland game showed that our transition D is weak as a fly on a hot Texas afternoon. Even when they are back on time on transition spurs are caught off position and cannot gather themselves to keep the opponents from getting bucket. The defense is like a broken glass, it just needs one slasher or two passes to destroy that glass. It got me mad when Pop put a small ball lineup [Portland game] and still transition D was bad. How come small guys cannot position themselves better or be back on time on their halfcourt defending the hole with the net. I kept wondering if spurs are still in illusion that they are good and not giving much of a heck.
In LA game it stunned me that still spurs are letting teams to drive into lane so easily. The championship spurs team would force players to fail on driving which killed concept of the play and was taking some seconds off the shot clock.
LA used advantage on transition, Nuggets couldn’t but I think it was bad game by Denver. I’m not measuring spurs transition D from that game.
3.
RJ – officially this guy sucks when you watch how much hopes we had towards him. Only good thing that I can see in his game is that he is not in shooting slump. He just is on uncomfortable positions ,and mostly he is forcing his action , either shots or drives. Make him forget about playing good and create in his mind one goal. Play tough D or rebound. Do not give a shhh about Offense. Offense happens to come to players just like that, mostly when you not concentrating on it. So maybe still we can keep our hopes? We will need RJ to put us in a position to make a surprise in the playoffs.
Saying he must to break this new situation, his virginity is kinda funny. He must to do it someday. Denver game he was quiet but helpful. His D is not there ahh let’s save some letters from my keyboard.
4.
Mason vs Bogans – well at least after Portland game I thought it’s important to choose one of those guys. Mason is in mental collapse. He must to live in Pops doghouse and he is not feeling comfortable there. He let the ‘doghouse thinking’ get into him rather then just play the minutes he has. I still think he easily wins the battle against Bogans. Bogans is inconsistent on offense and defense. His few minutes can make a disaster. Pop puts him in big roles out there and when he is off it might give opponents the momentum. I’m talking about him covering the perimeter threats and bricking treys. So I think Pop will decide which player to play after the All Stars will compete in the colorful game on Valentines Day. Kiss your partners and give them chocolates! I can kiss myself for that matter.
5.
Bigs – Tell me if that is an important role in spurs system. Bonner needs to get him going from outside. It’s frickin crucial. If teams can close the lane spurs can go fishing now. But more curtail is IMO Dyess defense on picks and interior D as well as playing good with Timmy on offensive side of a basketball court. We saw him getting better in February. And it was also good to hear that he picks it up in the second half of a season better. There was one mistake that opened up Portalnd O and a dagger trey. I think he did not wanted Portland to play p&r instead he let I don’t know who it was to the basket – two passes or whatever and bang Portland killed the spurs.
Next games were positive, which maybe might have forced Pop not to play small ball.
6.
Where is Manu? Manu is playing on your backyard and building a new house from those bricks he is making out there. Good thing that his playmaking is there and he starts to play more aggressively.
7.
Small ball – so many people said so many about that strategy so I’m not going to say much. If the spurs would execute better and play better transition D as well as perimeter D it would give us some advantage here and there. Also we need bigs to play good enough so they can stay on the court.
But I think one guy must leave a perimeter rotation …
8.
Fluid in playing! It says all about team, the gelling process and communication. You see how fluid ball goes and how players can execute and how players are moving and positioning themselves. There would be no way teams could close Manu with double teaming him and
causing turnover. Denver did that few times.
9.
Looking at the stats the spurs on D are not looking good. They are 7th or 8th team right now on defensive end. Still I do not know how much they can pick it up. It depends on them.
Free thoughts:
Playing TP on RRT was a bad idea
How can Blair score in that way? His offensive rebounding instinct is superb by the way
I would splash Bogans and give some time to Ian or Theo
Why Barkley says Pop might be the best coach in NBA?
Teams plays games on Thursday and on Friday is an allstar events :shootme
I should have taken phone number from that girl. I failed miserably. Hopefully spurs won’t.
Ps. Waiting for criticism and some tips. I will try to put up one of those threads once in two weeks or something.
Timvp – could be something like this?
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btw- if you read all this you are the only person
Let’s get into the spurs situation which is ‘now times’. Which I can tell you about from my perspective. Yes raising the bar also get all the way to Poland, so I needed to step up.
Spurs somehow are facing new situation like many of their fans. They feel like they are not there and must improve. And you wonder if they are ready to grow up and if they really are able to grow up? This virgin kind of situation must be broken.
Spurs in the new reality, also the fans.
I really lack of watching spurs games. Not because I do not want to watch them but because it’s tough. Esp. when you have to work and spurs games are in the middle of a night plus my only source is stream. I saw Portland game, clips game only the third q without any attention. LA game 1st half and nuggets almost all the game.
General opinion I hear is that spurs are too old and burned out. I asked some fans and nobody gives them a chance of making any big impact. They were saying me that before the season and now they are laughing... [rude – but what you gonna do?]
No D plus the spurs team with all their players can’t beat teams which do not have their key guys in the lineup. The LA game is prime example. It was Ultimate Phil Jax against any coach. He likes to beat other teams not having best players. Somehow those bench LA guys stepping up. Jackson also got Pops number again. Pop does not believe it (in having numbers against anybody) but it is not a matter of belief. The thing is spurs are struggling badly and it is hard to find a bright spot when you think about season expectations.
There some areas which I want to point out
1.
Pop. This guy seems to be disappointed in this team. He surely care but he though at this point of a season spurs will be gelled. They are not and you could see his frustration when a corner trey went in for Portland daggered our team in the back. I’m okay with pop right now. He started to press this team earlier then I thought he would. I was thinking he will challenge them after ASB but he started about a month before the event. He is trying not to play small ball much recently.
The minus that was always in spurs team is mental aspect which Pop not always can find a solution for players. We had always players with pressure on them and many collapsed.
Now it’s Pops time on a ASB to sketch the run for five as he always does at this time of a NBA season.
2.
Defense! Most important area for a team to win a championship or have at least a shot. Pops says it was never that tough for his guys to be consistent there. I would say some players are not there. RJ, TP especially. Portland game showed that our transition D is weak as a fly on a hot Texas afternoon. Even when they are back on time on transition spurs are caught off position and cannot gather themselves to keep the opponents from getting bucket. The defense is like a broken glass, it just needs one slasher or two passes to destroy that glass. It got me mad when Pop put a small ball lineup [Portland game] and still transition D was bad. How come small guys cannot position themselves better or be back on time on their halfcourt defending the hole with the net. I kept wondering if spurs are still in illusion that they are good and not giving much of a heck.
In LA game it stunned me that still spurs are letting teams to drive into lane so easily. The championship spurs team would force players to fail on driving which killed concept of the play and was taking some seconds off the shot clock.
LA used advantage on transition, Nuggets couldn’t but I think it was bad game by Denver. I’m not measuring spurs transition D from that game.
3.
RJ – officially this guy sucks when you watch how much hopes we had towards him. Only good thing that I can see in his game is that he is not in shooting slump. He just is on uncomfortable positions ,and mostly he is forcing his action , either shots or drives. Make him forget about playing good and create in his mind one goal. Play tough D or rebound. Do not give a shhh about Offense. Offense happens to come to players just like that, mostly when you not concentrating on it. So maybe still we can keep our hopes? We will need RJ to put us in a position to make a surprise in the playoffs.
Saying he must to break this new situation, his virginity is kinda funny. He must to do it someday. Denver game he was quiet but helpful. His D is not there ahh let’s save some letters from my keyboard.
4.
Mason vs Bogans – well at least after Portland game I thought it’s important to choose one of those guys. Mason is in mental collapse. He must to live in Pops doghouse and he is not feeling comfortable there. He let the ‘doghouse thinking’ get into him rather then just play the minutes he has. I still think he easily wins the battle against Bogans. Bogans is inconsistent on offense and defense. His few minutes can make a disaster. Pop puts him in big roles out there and when he is off it might give opponents the momentum. I’m talking about him covering the perimeter threats and bricking treys. So I think Pop will decide which player to play after the All Stars will compete in the colorful game on Valentines Day. Kiss your partners and give them chocolates! I can kiss myself for that matter.
5.
Bigs – Tell me if that is an important role in spurs system. Bonner needs to get him going from outside. It’s frickin crucial. If teams can close the lane spurs can go fishing now. But more curtail is IMO Dyess defense on picks and interior D as well as playing good with Timmy on offensive side of a basketball court. We saw him getting better in February. And it was also good to hear that he picks it up in the second half of a season better. There was one mistake that opened up Portalnd O and a dagger trey. I think he did not wanted Portland to play p&r instead he let I don’t know who it was to the basket – two passes or whatever and bang Portland killed the spurs.
Next games were positive, which maybe might have forced Pop not to play small ball.
6.
Where is Manu? Manu is playing on your backyard and building a new house from those bricks he is making out there. Good thing that his playmaking is there and he starts to play more aggressively.
7.
Small ball – so many people said so many about that strategy so I’m not going to say much. If the spurs would execute better and play better transition D as well as perimeter D it would give us some advantage here and there. Also we need bigs to play good enough so they can stay on the court.
But I think one guy must leave a perimeter rotation …
8.
Fluid in playing! It says all about team, the gelling process and communication. You see how fluid ball goes and how players can execute and how players are moving and positioning themselves. There would be no way teams could close Manu with double teaming him and
causing turnover. Denver did that few times.
9.
Looking at the stats the spurs on D are not looking good. They are 7th or 8th team right now on defensive end. Still I do not know how much they can pick it up. It depends on them.
Free thoughts:
Playing TP on RRT was a bad idea
How can Blair score in that way? His offensive rebounding instinct is superb by the way
I would splash Bogans and give some time to Ian or Theo
Why Barkley says Pop might be the best coach in NBA?
Teams plays games on Thursday and on Friday is an allstar events :shootme
I should have taken phone number from that girl. I failed miserably. Hopefully spurs won’t.
Ps. Waiting for criticism and some tips. I will try to put up one of those threads once in two weeks or something.
Timvp – could be something like this?
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btw- if you read all this you are the only person