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nope, he is just behind manu, bowen, finley, and barry on the depth chart. hard to get playing time as the 5th swing guy.
I thought he did well in preseason? I don't get it. The guy can play ball. I'm a fan of Ime's and I know he can help the Spurs. Is he injured?
nope, he is just behind manu, bowen, finley, and barry on the depth chart. hard to get playing time as the 5th swing guy.
he has to beat out on of the other 4
can not divide playinging time into 5
hopefully if someone gets hurt he can take advantage
it would be nice to see him get some minutes soon though
Interesting. I think he's better than Barry.
barry was hot in game 1
Barry led the team in +/- last night (not the most reliable stat, just sayin):
+13
I want to see what the guy can do also but..........HUH?!?!?!
Barry will start to suck soon enough.
This is off topic, but when did Tlong get the sheep under his le? That's awesome!
As far as Udoka goes I think Pop's just riding Barry while he's got a hot hand. Pop loves to play Dr. Frankenstein with the rotations this time of year so Ime will get his shot soon enough.
I am not wanting to anyone to get hurt but I think on of them will get hurt in a course of a 82 games
At this point it doesn't matter if he's better than Barry or not. This is how Pop does things, he's making Udoka earn any PT he's going to get, and Udoka is going to have to earn it in practice for the near future. Pop wants to see what he has character-wise and how he handles not being in the rotation right now. Being the type of guy he seems to be, I'm sure he understands and is concentrating on learning the system and busting it in practice to earn minutes.
ok let's call it a 48 hour flu
Spurs are having trouble blowing out teams, Udoka won't get in on close games.
Barry or Finley'll get doghoused at some point...that's when his chance will come.
He hasn't exactly done anything to justify playing ahead of either of them...and Barry had the best training camp of the 3.
In training camp he wasn't....and neither was Finley.
I would imagine he will be worked in slowly throughout the season. They have only played 2 games so far, it's still early.
I am curious has to see if he gets playing time when we face teams with multiple outside scoring threats like a Phoenix with Marion and Nash or Denver with AI and Melo. Let Bowen take one of them and stick Ime on the other. I want to see if we will use a 2 defensive stopper look this season at some point.
He will?
Doghoused maybe isn't the best word for Finley...but if he sucks like he did most of last season he'll lose PT...like he did last season. Won't matter how much Pop likes him personally either.
He sucked most of season but was not doghoused until 3/4ths of the season.
It's all forgiven with that Playoffs performance, but point being while everyone else is dogged for not playing well, Fins gets a pass. Or at least always has so far.
The Spurs are maybe looking at Udoka as more of a factor in 2009 after Barry and/or Finley are gone. But a time may come when the Spurs could really use Udoka's defense. My question is-- If Udoka isn't going to play, is there a chance he goes on the IR so that Vaughn and Washington could both be active?
but but but this guy is our savior.
Ime will get chance eventually to show what he's got. If he goes balls out then he has a chance to get more time. If not, he will ride the bench and be a just in case player.
Maybe the Spurs don't want Udoka and Darius on the floor at the same time. That would be too many players not knowing the system.
Spurs didn't pay him big money to be sidelined in the season and only come out in garbage minutes.
We'll just see.. maybe Pop decides to give Bowen some rest and put Ime for the rest of the game.
I was very surpised not to see Ime is action against his former team...I went to the Spurs-Warriors pre season game and really liked what Ime showed on both sides of the ball. I still feel maybe we should trade Barry...
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