EVAY
10-03-2006, 03:49 PM
Does anyone else share a concern about the Spurs' ability to sustain energy over the course of the season, in back-to-back games, and/or in overtime situations?
This has been bugging me since last season when the team had fewer back-to-back games than a lot of other teams in the league, but had a wretched record in the second games of the back-to-backs because they couldn't seem to play with any energy in the second games. It was like they had just been on a Bataan Death March or something. What are we going to do this year when we likely have even more back-to-backs than we had last year?
Moreover, the Spurs superstars rarely play as many minutes per game as many other teams' superstars do, so that we can "save them" for the playoffs. That is at least the philosophy we have been told. That's just fine, as long as it works. But something seems wrong when our super-super star (Tim) is getting cramps so badly by the end of the second overtime with Dallas that he can hardly move, much less play as well as he would like. I don't understand why the training staff didn't realize how much trouble he was in and give him fluids at halftime or something.
The bottom line seems to me that we are missing some "wins" during the season because we want to "save" people for the playoffs, but when we get to the playoffs, we are still less able to last through the rugged games than other teams' players who haven't had as much "rest" throughout the season. Is Tim gonna have to wear "buttons" on his chest again this year in order to have enough energy to get through the games?
We always hear a lot about how hard the training regimen is for the Spurs. Is it TOO hard? Is it too soft? Are we not paying enough attention to training? What does anyone think?
This has been bugging me since last season when the team had fewer back-to-back games than a lot of other teams in the league, but had a wretched record in the second games of the back-to-backs because they couldn't seem to play with any energy in the second games. It was like they had just been on a Bataan Death March or something. What are we going to do this year when we likely have even more back-to-backs than we had last year?
Moreover, the Spurs superstars rarely play as many minutes per game as many other teams' superstars do, so that we can "save them" for the playoffs. That is at least the philosophy we have been told. That's just fine, as long as it works. But something seems wrong when our super-super star (Tim) is getting cramps so badly by the end of the second overtime with Dallas that he can hardly move, much less play as well as he would like. I don't understand why the training staff didn't realize how much trouble he was in and give him fluids at halftime or something.
The bottom line seems to me that we are missing some "wins" during the season because we want to "save" people for the playoffs, but when we get to the playoffs, we are still less able to last through the rugged games than other teams' players who haven't had as much "rest" throughout the season. Is Tim gonna have to wear "buttons" on his chest again this year in order to have enough energy to get through the games?
We always hear a lot about how hard the training regimen is for the Spurs. Is it TOO hard? Is it too soft? Are we not paying enough attention to training? What does anyone think?