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Branham was awful this game. Cam Payne would’ve been better on this day
Fun game! Sucks to lose. But at least it was fun to watch. I expected a lot of games of THIS caliber this season -- not the constant 3rd quarter meltdowns without any fightback, for instance. This kind of loss, one can deal with.
Anyway
Branham was awful this game. Cam Payne would’ve been better on this day
Probably didn't want to throw Sochan under the bus
Alfredrick Hughes would have been betterBranham was awful this game. Cam Payne would’ve been better on this day
He def turned it on at the end. If he can do it every game, four quarters, he’s gonna carry a lot of scrubs
Champagnie and Sochan in the starting lineup...and Wemby only got 24 minutes.
You don't need to know anything else to know that was going to be a loss.
Start anyone else but Champagnie and give Wemby 30 minutes...this would have been a guaranteed win. It wouldn't have even come down to the last plays.
This ain't hard folks.
UH-OH!!!
This is barely an NBA team once Wemby sits. WTF has Brian Wright been doing the last 5 or so years. There really should be a little more young talent on this team.
Why do people think Wemby has to want to lose in order to not pull a Kawhi? People should want him to be mad at losing a close game even if he understands the bigger picture. That's just being compe ive.
I don't think I blamed anyone but Pop. Yes Wemby probably should have shot it but Jeremy did have an easier shot than Wemby.. of the two options. That JS passed it instead of going up was him thinking like a PG.... making the pass. Dude last year woulda looked forward to stuffing that ball.
He could have also fallen on the sword since the coach is allowed to call a timeout too
Victor should request a G league appointment since all those guys came to take his minutes. Maybe he could get some playing time in Austin.
Playing your young franchise player 24 minutes should be criminal. This isn't a 4 - 5 year project player to develop.
Go Sppppppppppppppurs go
Not sure why everything needs to be Pops fault? Are you gonna give him credit for getting the team to the point where they could steal the game at all, or is it only the players’ actions when the outcome is good and the coach when it’s not good?
Pop can and should be questioned, fine. The gratuitous blame it on Pop thing is getting boring and lazy.
One thing is for certain: Pop is set in his ways and won't be changing anytime soon, if ever. He's going to keep doing the opposite of what everyone wants him to do, even if it means having 4 straight terrible seasons and running Victor off. That's just who he is.
I'm not saying that Victor won't be a Spur for a very long time, just that Pop is gonna keep doing what he does. Everyone wants him to play Victor? You can bet a few dollars that he'll keep playing him under 30 minutes and only playing him over 30 here and there. Hey, hopefully he proves us wrong!
Pop's changed quite a bit over the course of this season. I get being frustrated with him for still not doing some obvious things. I definitely think he messed up not even trying to call timeout in this game and in others when there was still a chance at a comeback. But the team didn't start off playing Wemby 24 minutes a game. That may well be for a poor reason, or maybe if they hadn't started to do that Victor would miss more games. I don't remember if there was a timetable for when the restriction would lift. I can't imagine it's permanent. Even ignoring any long-term consequences of putting too much stress on Wemby's body, I'd much rather the team be overly cautious with his health in a season where they've already lost too many games than him have an injury-plagued year.
I pretty much agree with this. It sucks seeing Wemby get pulled out for minute restrictions. But there is no turning this season around into a winnable season. Why risk this generational players health for what could be only a handful wins with a season that has us 3 or 2nd worse in the entire league.
Tough to watch and I imagine tough to sit through as a young person.
This was a good game to watch though. Tre in the starting lineup and Wesley And Barlow getting some minutes really has changed the make up of the team throughout an entire game. Wesley and Barlow are not blowing up the sheet with stats but they are creating and making plays that really make this team look better.
Annoying it took Branham and Collins getting injured for them to get a look.
On the flipside this is definitely reasonable. Though I do think Pop will overdo it, even probably taking it into next season as well, but it is good to be cautious.
Only way this season volud have been a winning one would gave been if the pg JS experiment was working 100 per cent... Once it's been clear that JS is just a decent point forward and not a natural point guard the only goal has clearly become only developing individual skills and experimenting even more for having a clear wiew about who keep next season plus a good chance on another top 5 draft pick (and maybe another lottery pick). So! Once the most part of us agreed to try the JS experiment (considering the worst outcome would have been developing a bit JS playmaking skills) I don't understand too much criticizing Pop's lack of commitment about winning at all costs... I know it's difficult to accept losing games but it's the only way to be in a position to improve the team by drafting good talents... And Imho the best path for doing it is if you can do playing decent and compe ive games like last two... We need at least o n e or two star players on this team... And maybe just after this season we'll be able to proceed with the foundations of the team (in this I'm curious to see if we'll be able to achieve some more draft capital at tu e deadline or if we'll able to trade for some potential real young talent... My goal would be someone like an underutilized but very talented and very well scouted player like Amen Thompson).
I've gotten the feeling that he relishes that roll so much that he's created this kind of perpetual "growth mode" situation with the team.
If that's the case, I wish he would do it in an advisor/assistant coach capacity and give the game coaching to someone who has a bit more of a sense of urgency.
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