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Good take.
Anyone really surprised the Spurs are 0-1..losing at home to a team they usually own..I AM NOT! I stated this before and will say again..BOWEN AND FINLEY are liabilities..VAUGHN is worthless..2 man team tonite..PLEASE..bench the old guys..throw the new guys into the fire..NOW!!!
Good take.
By the way..as bad as Portland looked the other night against the Lakers..I see them beating the Spurs by 10+...
A lot of prescient posters out tonight.
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I don't understand the negativity..
we're missing Manu, Hill's injured, Oberto is injured, Mahinmi didn't get a chance to play, Tolliver is away..and we still almost beat a very good Suns team that had ALL of their players..
how can we be so bad, but almost won the game? I don't get it..
The Spurs own the Suns in the playoffs, which is all that matters.
Given the injury situation, a few new insertions and rotations, and the quality of opponent I think the team played pretty well. The defense has to play better down the stretch but that should come as Pop determines the best rotation of players to place on the floor at different intervals. Stability is the breeding ground for consistentcy.
Manu didn't play, and they barely beat us.
Pop tried " things " (the "bonner experiment " )
Don't worry.
Vaughn is worthless?? we did not lose tonight because of Vaughn. Vaughn was perfect as backup PG.
They were kiling us in the paint.
I wouldn't consider bowen a liability. What you guys did having him face guard nash in the playoffs last year worked pretty good. Slow down nash and bowen doesn't need to score to earn his worth. Which is why I hate hime...
I blame the loss on Big Kev.
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Stan "Help 'Em Out!" Kelly
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I totally agree with your post.
I don't get some spoiled Spurs fans. You have people already posting the team is going to suck after the FIRST GAME!!!!!!!!!!!! Unbelievable!!!
That's my problem...some fans don't want to be realistic! It's easy to say your team sucks after one game. Let's have some perspective and give this team a chance.
Wow!!!!!!
A- ing-Men. This new announcer is . Bring Stan back.
That was a joke. I like Kev.
suns>>>>>>>>>>>portland
portland be lucking to make playoffs
portland has hard schedule first 2 weeks and NO oden
I haven't seen alot of "this team sucks" posts but I have seen alot of posts pointing out negatives that don't seem to be easy fixes. The problems this team had tonight (weak frontline depth, scoring lapses, overextending Parker & Duncan, poor interior defense) will continue to be problems for the next month. I don't think it bringing them after seeing them evident in this game is unreasonable at all. There were some positives (Mason & Finley's shooting, Parker and Duncan playing terrific) but this game showed it isn't going to be enough against the good teams in the West...
Mexican Junior,
YES...there was no frontline depth because Oberto and Ian were not playing. I don't care what team you are but if two of your bigs were not playing....you are going to miss them.
But to write this team is going automatically struggle....it's unfair.
It's the FIRST GAME of 82!!!! People have seem to forget that.
Let's reassess after 20 or 30 games into season before we make instant judgements.
This team has earned that credibility!!! Wow!!
What new guys are there to be thrown in the fire?
Hill-injured.
Mahinmi-injured.
Tolliver-Leave of absence.
Punkkboy44-Re .
There is no guarantee Ian will make any significant contributions this year, he hasn't even played a non Summer League game yet. Oberto would have helped with filling minutes but he has always struggled guarding Amare, I don't think he would have done much better than Bonner or KT on the defensive end. I commend you for wanting to give the Spurs so much benefit of the doubt but, as long as Manu is out, I see the writing on the wall. Duncan and Parker played great but, if they are forced to play like this every night to just keep the team compe ive, we will be in trouble...
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losing the opener is imaginable when the spurs have two of their stars out ian and manu.
All said we weren't blown out and we were in the game the whole time .I say if this was a playoff game we would have won.
If they had to play a top-western-conference-team-that-was-eliminated-by-the-Spurs-last-year-featuring-two-of-the-best-bigs-in-the-league-on-national-TV-with-five-guys-missing-from-their-lineup every night, I'd be inclined to agree with you.
Well, I'd be inclined to agree with you if the Spurs had lost by 20. Maybe.
I don't think there is anything to panic about, IT was a really good game where it could have gone either way. Also PHX does seem to usually beat us in the regular season so thats nothing to worry about'
However, of all the missed executions I really feel that our lack of defensive presence in the paint was greatly exposed. We need more intimidation there thats for sure...
usually is the case early in the season. Spurs don't get into a defensive groove until Feb-March.
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