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There you are, been a while since you said anything re ed.well that's pretty darn obvious, is it even debated?
Pop is gonna coach until he dies or wins another le (which he won’t)
There you are, been a while since you said anything re ed.well that's pretty darn obvious, is it even debated?
so many good hc's squandered
I was at the game and was 4 rows behind courtside. Sucked the Spurs lost but it was a fun game and I was thankful to see Victor play. Fox is clutch and everybody first thought his game winner counted and was shook for a few seconds until they showed the replay. Tough loss but I was impressed by Fox’s compe iveness in this game.
are you really blaming anyone else on that possession? good god, i can't even
Sochan was guarding Bridges well and Castle was guarding LaMelo well.
So big brain Mitch decided to switch it up for the final play
Rockets are elite defensively and are stacked with multiple plus players. Defensively, Wemby is great, Sochan is good, Paul and Fox are OK, Castle is a work in progress, and everyone else is bad. Vassell and Johnson are galactically bad, and set a bad example for everyone else.
FVV may be short but he is still very effective.
Johnson may be in over his head, but no, Udoka couldn’t win with this lineup.
I was the first one to write Castle ed up.are you really blaming anyone else on that possession? good god, i can't even
Castle is the only reason we weren't blown out in that game.
If you want to continue being re ed, feel free to do so, but you can't possibly be that stupid not to realize you're just digging yourself deeper with each passing game.
actually I was wrong Bridges should have been guarded by Vassel. Castle shouldn't have been there either but Devin got caught ball watchingwell that's pretty darn obvious, is it even debated?
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A ton of players: Okogie, Mann, Mark Williams was a big that got traded, Grant Williams tore his knee apart. Richards traded too. Cody Martin. Those guys got replaced by G-Leaguers and they shot 44% from 3.
Having Wemby is worth more than having two elite perimeter defenders.
That's the thing. I know we'll never know, but I'm 100% convinced that Udoka would never start Devin and Keldon wouldn't be getting more than 10mpg.Vassell and Johnson are galactically bad, and set a bad example for everyone else.
We have a functional starting lineup, it's just that Mitch doesn't have the balls/authority to use it.
Fox - score first point guard.
Castle - combo guard and POA defender.
Champ - 3pt shooter with good defense compared to other candidates (Devin and Keldon).
Barnes - reliable veteran, best shooter on the team.
Wemby
But instead old man CP3 has to start and Devin is still PATFO's project.
They're not doing them any favors by putting them in these awful lineups just to not hurt their egos.
The Rockets have Sengun at C and the Spurs have quite possibly the greatest defensive prospect of all time.
Yeah, Udoka would have this squad actually playing defense. Instead of whatever this bull has been.
Ime wasn't going to wait for another 5+ seasons, parked on the end of the Spurs bench until Pop was done stat padding wins. He wanted to coach now.
Hey our best chance at a lottery pick is if the Spurs lose. Atl likely won’t drop much farther than 10 in the East so our only hope is they lose the first play in game.
This is all I’m saying. Castle was awesome. Wemby is getting better and better still plenty of season left. One 6-7 game win streak or winning 7 of 10 and they are in a playoff spot.
Oh I understand. And he should have been hired for the job.
Instead the old man decided to ing hang around because he's got nothing better to do in retirement.
I admit that I think Udoka would have the stroke to bury Johnson and Vassell below the bench instead of this pussy emotional we-are-family crap where they get away with anything.
Hopefully a lesson Castle learns well. He didn't need to leave his man wide open at the 3 pt line.
Don't get too focused on Udoka, my initial point was that good teams have a handful of great coaches on the bench.
Mazzulla was #3, got promoted unexpectedly and won in his first season.
Pop has yes men on the bench.
Someone here posted earlier that the Spurs haven't won 5 games in a row since 2019.
Isn’t that exciting though. I mean Wemby still not NBA strong to post like Timmy did (I dunno if he’ll ever), they need someone who can bully his way when plays slow down
Not landing a backup big worth a damn at the deadline was a tacit admission that they aren't seriously trying to win anything this season. Which is honestly ok, but if thats the case then stop messing around and start Castle going forward. His development should take center stage this next 30 games. A team that won 22 games last year can't find a spot to start the 4th pick in the draft? Crazy.
If they are so scared of *breaking* their promise to start CP3 (which honestly should be null and void once we landed Fox) then send Vassell to the bench. The theory of Vassell being a shooter/microwave scorer is awesome, but that is not what is playing out most nights. Completely unreliable empty calories scorer who can't do anything else on the court besides occasionally knock down some shots. Expecting so many guys that we tanked with to just simply flip a switch and become winning basketball players is asinine.
Do the Spurs have an analytics department? The amount of minutes Castle and Sochan share on the court together is alarming considering what the advanced stats show about them as a pairing. I refuse to even talk about Keldon because he has no place on a team trying to win games, another tacit admission that the Spurs are trying to maximize ping pong balls.
K done ranting for now, pretty pissed off about that loss and some of my takes might be overreactionary.
Tough loss but the Spurs can still make it up with an unexpected win on this road trip against BOS or the Rockets later this month.
We're now 1-3 in February.
We need to come out of this month with 8 games to go. We need to at least go 7-5 in February (but probably 8-4) to stay in contention for the play in. With that said, I'll be happy with just a compe ive push down the stretch to make it like the Rockets had last year. End the season with positive momentum, have a good offseason, and come back next year like the Rockets this year.
Brett Brown is only on the bench so Pop can get drunk with him
No it's not exciting wtf, it'd mean Wemby got nowhere near his ceiling and this franchise is ed
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