Quick Grades: Spurs vs. Mavericks - Dec. 23

Well Merry Christmas everyone! Great win. It's always nice to beat Dallas. Whenever I start to think, 'well, i respect Rick Carlisle' or 'now that the biggest dumbass in the history of basketball has gone to the Celtics' or 'Dirk is a decent guy and a hell of a player', I remember Cuban. A colossal, curb stomping, beat down at Christmas time makes me believe there really is a Santa Claus. Thanks for the grades and seriously timvp, all the very best to you and your beautiful family. Watching the second half of the game last night, I kept singing out loud " It's the most wonderful time of the yeeeaaar!"

Timvp??? Did you see Nando De Colo playing last night? INC??????? 2 pts 3 boards 5 assts, and 2 steals? INC??????? He deserves at least a B for his effort.

WOW that left me wondering what you were thinking. De Colo played 13 mins and with Neal showing an injury, he may get a lot more playing time. He could take over as the backup point guard and #3 shooting guard.

Nando "Mini-Manu" DeColo

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Originally Posted by therealtruth

He overreacted to the new CBO.

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tbh that cheddar, bacon, and onion sent a lot of other people to the toilet too

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Originally Posted by wildbill2u

I think the bench deserves better grades than INC> After all, their good and bad points were pointed out. The fact that some of them didn't play a whole lot of minutes shouldn't rob them of a grade. They are bench players so they should be graded as such (fewer minutes to do something) as well as their skill level they bring to the table.

In this particular game I thought all of the bench players played hard in the few minutes they got. I wasn't too happy with Blair's play. It seems he wants to shoot every time he gets the ball. I recognize he's probably playing for a new contract, but not playing "Spurs ball" might be the reason Pop isn't using him as much.

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Originally Posted by maverick1948

Timvp??? Did you see Nando De Colo playing last night? INC??????? 2 pts 3 boards 5 assts, and 2 steals? INC??????? He deserves at least a B for his effort.

WOW that left me wondering what you were thinking. De Colo played 13 mins and with Neal showing an injury, he may get a lot more playing time. He could take over as the backup point guard and #3 shooting guard.

Nando "Mini-Manu" DeColo

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The entire season I haven't given grades to players who only play in garbage time. De Colo, for example, entered the game last night with the Spurs up by 41 points. What a player did/didn't do when the Spurs are up by ~40 points doesn't really mean anything in the big picture, IMO.

Sometimes you have shit nights and sometimes you have... what happened last night.