Cant_Be_Faded
03-01-2012, 12:38 AM
Couldn't find a way to shoehorn this thought into any other thread, so I thought I might as well start a thread for it:
Pop is a genius by playing James Anderson the way he did. By playing him early, he was actually able to mask our lack of healthy depth in this game. To compound his gamble, Jefferson basically did jack after he made that first quarter three. Anderson grabbed two third quarter rebounds in traffic in a row when Duncan was heating up, andI don't believe Jefferson would have grabbed those rebounds.
By playing Anderson early, spurs seem deeper when we sub in neal, Bonner, later in the game.
It didn't win us the game but I thought it was an unnoticed aspect of Pop's genius.
Pop is a genius by playing James Anderson the way he did. By playing him early, he was actually able to mask our lack of healthy depth in this game. To compound his gamble, Jefferson basically did jack after he made that first quarter three. Anderson grabbed two third quarter rebounds in traffic in a row when Duncan was heating up, andI don't believe Jefferson would have grabbed those rebounds.
By playing Anderson early, spurs seem deeper when we sub in neal, Bonner, later in the game.
It didn't win us the game but I thought it was an unnoticed aspect of Pop's genius.