Pop on Manu's availability: It's more like weeks than days.

[Spurs Brazil]

DAMN


@blanchardJRB
Pop on Manu's availability: It's more like weeks than days. #Spurs #Heat

[Spurs Brazil]

It looks like we'll see Manu only in the 1st round

[Mel_13]

It looks like we'll see Manu only in the 1st round

To be expected. They only get one more chance to use Manu again this season. Take that shot in the playoffs.

[freetiago]

Retire or take on the Kevin Willis role tbh

[shyne]

When do playoffs start?

[Mel_13]

When do playoffs start?

Weekend of April 20/21.

[Spurs Brazil]

To be expected. They only get one more chance to use Manu again this season. Take that shot in the playoffs.

I want him to play 2 or 3 games before the Playoffs start

[timtonymanu]

Sigh................

[shyne]

I pray for the jazz in round one.

[jestersmash]

Pop also followed up with "It's a huge blow for us." This probably isn't a case of Pop simply being conservative with the time table. This is a relatively more serious injury than one might have guessed based on the video.

[timvp]

Looking at the schedule, the absolute earliest I can imagine him back in April 10th @ Denver. The Spurs have five games in the final week so that'd give Ginobili some time to get some sort of rhythm before the playoffs.

Probably more likely is a return on April 10th @ Golden State. He'd have that game and the season finale home against the T'Wolves to knock off the cobwebs.

[Brunodf]

This team isn't going anywhere without Manu...

[Russ]

This team isn't going anywhere without Manu...

:flag:

[Chinook]

This team isn't going anywhere without Manu...

Indeed, and that's something I really hope they correct in the off-season.

[manufan10]

Miles Austin had the same issue. It seemed like every little thing caused him to tweak his hammy.

[Pop]

This team isn't going anywhere without Manu...

Well they will have cap space this summer to do something about that.

[ElNono]

It'll be when it will be... I'm sure if he can go during the playoffs, he'll play...

[DesignatedT]

Time to hang em up tbqh. Hopefully he can give us one final month starting in May.

[HI-FI]

well...least his price tag is plummeting, though I have a feeling we'll overpay for his services. Hopefully we don't.

[Spurs Brazil]

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich puts Manu Ginobili’s timetable to return from a strained right hamstring at weeks rather than days, a significant setback to the team’s pre-playoff preparation.

“It’s a huge blow for us,” he said, “because he’s the guy that allows our second team to do what they’ve been doing all year long.

Keep reading: http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211625&p=6448109#post6448109

[J_Paco]

Looking at the schedule, the absolute earliest I can imagine him back in April 10th @ Denver. The Spurs have five games in the final week so that'd give Ginobili some time to get some sort of rhythm before the playoffs.

Probably more likely is a return on April 10th @ Golden State. He'd have that game and the season finale home against the T'Wolves to knock off the cobwebs.

Let's just pray he doesn't dislocate his elbow in a meaningless game on a steal that he won't likely get. Oh wait......................

All jokes aside, the Spurs are fucked if Ginobili can't bring at least 75-85% of his usual production. They should just play him in a fully-body cast that way all these injuries can be prevented.

[Budkin]

Better than what happened in 2011. We need him for the playoffs. And all of you saying he should retire... fuck off.

[TD 21]

Looking at the schedule, the absolute earliest I can imagine him back in April 10th @ Denver. The Spurs have five games in the final week so that'd give Ginobili some time to get some sort of rhythm before the playoffs.

Probably more likely is a return on April 10th @ Golden State. He'd have that game and the season finale home against the T'Wolves to knock off the cobwebs.

As much as the league loves jam packing their schedule down the stretch annually, somehow I don't think they play in Denver AND Golden State on the same day. I also doubt Pop would even bother playing him in the last couple of games, when he almost certainly won't be playing Duncan, Parker and possibly, Leonard, Splitter and Green, anyway.

Pop better not baby him in the playoffs. I don't care if he will not have played in weeks by then, Horford missed the majority of the season last year, stepped in to a playoff game and played almost the entire game. He's got to be able to give them something approaching 30 mpg immediately, or they open themselves up to the 1st round being prolonged.

[Brazil]

Sucks

[Russ]

@blanchardJRB
Pop on Manu's availability: It's more like weeks than days. #Spurs #Heat

TBH, this may be a preemptive strike by Pop to allow him to rest Manu a few extra games.

[superjames1992]

Tbh, I think CIA Pop just wants to rest Manu as long as possible for the Playoffs. The injury didn't look that bad tbh, so I have a hard time believing it's a several weeks thing. I think it's just CIA Pop wanting to rest Manu some before the Playoffs.

[exstatic]

Tbh, I think CIA Pop just wants to rest Manu as long as possible for the Playoffs. The injury didn't look that bad tbh, so I have a hard time believing it's a several weeks thing. I think it's just CIA Pop wanting to rest Manu some before the Playoffs.

Later on it may be rest, but he got kneed in the thigh, so there's a contusion there, and the hamstring is the OTHER one, so now he's got two of them to baby along.

[TMTTRIO]

not really a big deal. Manu hasn't really been playing very good at all lately.

[benefactor]

Now the question becomes does Manu become a liability when he comes back? Could he cost the Spurs playoff games trying to get back in rhythm and perhaps make a first round match up longer than it should be?

[exstatic]

not really a big deal. Manu hasn't really been playing very good at all lately.

Do you ever want him to? He'll need to actually play to improve.

[Sean Cagney]

not really a big deal. Manu hasn't really been playing very good at all lately.

True, and if it helps him heal then good (If he is really that banged up). He has been some shit lately though.

[dbreiden83080]

This team isn't going anywhere without Manu...

He's had a terrible season. We are still playing him hoping the Manu of 5 years ago is in there..

[exstatic]

He's had a terrible season. We are still playing him hoping the Manu of 5 years ago is in there..

He's had a terrible 6-8 weeks. I'd settle for January 2013 Manu.

[Obstructed_View]

Is this the same hamstring that he had trouble with earlier this season?

[jestersmash]

No. He injured his right hamstring on Fri. He had issues with his left hamstring, prior.

[ElNono]

this team need Suckobili for nights like this, tbh... some players still soft as shit...

[lcroock]

Time to rebuild. Let's hope the front office realizes this in July. We all LOVE MANU but at this point we need to be realists and not optimists. We'll lose in the 1st round or in the conference finals, but this team cannot win a championship, even if you are the ultimate optimist.