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If Pop won't put his best players on the court in crunch time, it doesn't mean the team is mentally weak. Bowen and Gooden should have been in there.
my #1 beef with our team is their constant "put it on the back burner" mentality.
if we could just live up to our potential and develop a "killer instinct" i honestly believe we would be unstoppable.
does anyone else feel like our inefficiency stems from a lack of mental toughness? sometimes we just go with the motions and wait too long to turn it on (thus games like the Raptors, Lakers, tonight).
it angers me when we just have a mental lapse in the middle of a game. anyone else feel like this?
If Pop won't put his best players on the court in crunch time, it doesn't mean the team is mentally weak. Bowen and Gooden should have been in there.
*insert Manu picture*
All is solved.
If only it were that easy.
I don't know if it's mental per se.....it could be many things....fatigue, lack of depth, father time....I do notice that the Spurs tend to go through scoring droughts during games......they build a nice lead then either they can't/don't score and allow the other team to get back in the game.
Yeah, they could have used Manu. I didn't get to watch the game but it seemed that no one stepped up when it mattered most late in the game and parker was pressured by the defense. You'd hope that someone else would step up but apparently no one did.
The Spurs have taken care of business against bad teams this year and have a very good record in close games ... yet they are mentally weak?
You can say they aren't a championship caliber team due to any number of weaknesses but pulling the "mentally weak" card doesn't make much sense to me when the two biggest indicators point otherwise.
i just can't understand how someone who has followed the spurs for many years can ask if the spurs are mentally weak. it's just amazing.
we're sometimes bored in RS since we've been there so many times and we're looking each year for the big stage in the Duncan era.
but when it counts, in the PO, we're the tougher team i ever seen these last years on the long run. indeed, it's one of our best skill. if it was only for pure talent, we wouldn't have more than 1 or 2 rings at very best.
and i never seen the spurs get beaten in PO by an average team. To beat us you've got to be not only very good but mentally strong and poised. we never give it up.
Once again, how can anyone ask about our mental strongness ???
This team is far from it. But I think every NBA team takes things for granted at times and fortunately it has never been a catagion with the Spurs. And no one has ever publicly called SA a "flip the switch" team.
Case in point. The Los Angeles Lakers are one of only three teams in the entire NBA with overall losing records against the Charlotte Bobcats since they entered the league. The other being the Hawks and the T-Pups. It's inexplicable that a Kobe Bryant team holds such a distinction.
As long as Pop, Tim, Tony, and Manu are Spurs., I do not see the same pattern happening on a regular basis against OKC. Pop and Co wouldn't let that happen. He'll pull the bus over quick if it did.
What is it with you noobs??
1 loss and the forum goes ape and question
everything the spurs have done so far..
Ya'll act as if the ing sky is falling...
Go jump a cliff why don't you?
Mentally weak? Shoot... I'd make an argument that we're one of the leagues mentally strongest teams. That's one of the advantages of being so seasoned. You're prepared for everything and you don't fold during crunch time. And I hate to break it to you but one lose to OKC does not equal crunch time. Also doesn't give anyone the right to question Pop.
soft
Uhhh they get easily bored?
the "it's only a regular season game" mentality has been prevailing in this franchise for a number of seasons. we already know the reasoning behind this philosophy and we have accepted it. spurs give up the killer instinct in exchange for health for the playoffs. there are some nights that it sucks. this was one of those nights.
Damn a lot of haters on the NBA youtube video.
the last few games, this team has become mentally weak like odens knees....
they are, except tp
is that language necessary? such insults? cant you just work out or something to get rid of your anger?
Of course they are mentally weak. Mentally fragile at the least. We just lost to one of the worst teams in the NBA in the last third of the season. Injuries are no excuse. Team was weak and Pop fostered it by squandering the leads that Tony worked so hard for with his helter skelter lineups.
The team is not mentally weak. The coach is a proven coach, one of the best. TD is one of the best big man out othere. TP is one of the best PG out there. However, the team is old, the style is slow and predictable. The Spurs have been figured out. Once upon a time, it was like a new car but now, about a decade later, even the best of cars age. The same has happened to the Spurs.
Newsflash: No odd year foolishness this year.
The spurs are not mentally weak. They play up to and beyond their talent level winning most of the close games this year and having a great record against the weaker non playoff teams.
this thread is stupid.
The Spurs' problem is Mental Weakness?
Is this the new diagnosis of Manu's ankle?
Mental STRENGTH is the biggest -perhaps only- plus of this team compared to ALL NBA contenders.
I think that the Spurs are mentally weak.
I also think that the Suns are a slow, plodding team.
I also think the Lakers' biggest downfall is their lack of consistent offense.
I also think the Magic are too soft in the paint.
I also think that what the Cavs need is that one dominant player who can carry them.
I also think that, year in and year out, the Los Angeles Clippers are the NBA's showcase franchise.
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