Somebody help me...........Has anyone ever seen Bonner Post Up? I don't think he realizes he is a big man. PATHETIC!
Yeah, and Bonner has a huge advantage over Laimbeer casue he doesnt even need to "fade to the perimeter". I say that is beeing economical, oh and Bonner is going to get 100 3pt this season alone if he continues with the current pace. He is so good its freaky silly
HaHa! Noone's comparing Bonner to Laimbeer, but I like it so much, I will from now on, objective facts be damned.
-Bonner is the new Laimbeer!-
If Bonner was Laimbeer I think the spurs would be set but unfortunately he is not. If he was Laimbeer he would have gotten Bynum and Gasol tossed out of the game. Bonner does have the confidence or the nastyness to be compared to Laimbeer.
Seriously, noone in this thread is comparing Bonner to Laimbeer, least of all me, and I posted the Laimbeer blurb from wikipedia. I was responding only to the broad assertion that a center shooting threes was categorically wrong, by citing an example of a team that had success with a three point shooting center. Some cretin posted a 'haha spurs suck' type post, and my post was a 'go yourself' type response.
Nevertheless, because it's funny,
-Bonner is the new Laimbeer!-
What's it matter if Bonner plays over Thomas or Oberto? None of them are good enough to help the Spurs win the le at this point of their careers in today's NBA.
The Spurs aren't in the uppermost tier of teams playing any of those guys major minutes, they just aren't talented enough.
The chances of a le became near zero without catastrophic injuries to other contenders once Splitter stabbed them in the back. The only sliver of hope was that Mahinmi would be able to give something next to Duncan but all Mahinmi has done is prove that he's made out of glass. And not even normal glass, but candy glass.
And there's no realistic trades on the horizon that could change anything either. Just the way it is.
you would rather have oberto instead of bonner, is that right?
It's what I call the Horry effect. Pop fell in love with the big who can space the floor, and also guard on the low block. The difference is that Horry still had some gas in the tank the first couple of years he played for us, and he was 10x the defender, and had 10x the basketball IQ Bonner has. What ends up happening is that it doubles the pressure on Duncan both on the offensive and defensive end. In offense, because he's the only low post scorer (even more so when the lane is closed like today) and on defense because Bonner simply gets flat out abused by most of the elite bigs in the league. Now, at this point Bonner is probably the best we have. Thomas can defend better than him in the low post, but offensively he's only have that middle range jumper that's easy to get under control. And Oberto is even worse offense wise, and while he's more of a banger than Matt, he's just too impaired offensively and can't get a rebound to save his life.
Then again, when Bonner's shot is on, we're a tough team to beat. What is unnerving is that a guy like Bonner is the wedge between being very good or just above average.
Re-inserting the "mad tapper" back in the starting lineup will yield no benefits whatsoever.
God are we seeing the real bone head against the elite teams.
We need Oberto in the line up asap. We're lacking size and the frustrating Duncan was really evident today.
I've never seen Duncan so pissed at a player like he was with Bonner today.
Thanks for the laugh ducks.
Bonner single handedly killed any chance the Spurs had today. Four bricks at the end of the second quarter, then he came out and played like ass the first 8 minutes of the third while Pau and Bynum took turns clowning on him.
The Spurs will not win the west, much less an NBA le, with this sorry sack of starting at 'center'.
yeah, but ginobili can still win the game with 3 minutes left. Why didn't Pop put him in?
So true. I guess I hold on to the hope Bonner continues on his three point tear and becomes a cold blooded killer in the 4th quarter. Probably a pipe dream but I would sure love to see it. Still plenty of games left to sharpen up his game.
This morning a brick went down in my backyard, I was wondering if Bonner was in the neigborhood
Against the Lakers, the Spurs should put their biggest lineup in the game. Play them Utah Jazz style and foul the crap outta them. That means putting Oberto at Center, Duncan at PF, and Bonner and Bowen can swap time at Small Forward. You put Ginobili and Parker at the guards and you have a winner. Bonner can go out and stretch the defenses to hit the three pointers if the Lakers try to collapse their defense in the lane. You have got to play the Lakers physical. Their front line is pretty physical too but Gasol doesn't like to take a hit. I think Bynum is pretty much a work in progress so hitting him might rattle him a bit. Kobe, you gotta just give him his points. You want to force Kobe into taking 35 shots as long as they are long jumpers.
Bonner could be to the Spurs what AK-47 is to the Jazz.
Last edited by Indazone; 01-26-2009 at 11:26 AM.
unfortunately we won't be able to use those versions of the spurs this year, just because a player was able to do something at one point in his career doesn't guarantee it in the future. I haven't seen any of our big three play great consistently against the great teams in the league this year.
yep, Manu TP and Duncan can't be blamed, It's up to Bonner to win the tough games. he's our go to guy, our anchor, game-changer, now when does he get his max contract?
The Spurs won't beat LA with the current 3-headed monster we have at center without some divine intervention.
+1
The post you quoted was extremely full of fail. Citing a ten minute period where we went from losing to losing badly is our 6th option's fault?
Trade bonner, udoka, oberto, croshere for Marcus Camby!
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/feature...2~24&te=&cash=
give booner tell the end of this roadtrip...
bonner and mason oone bad game one good game
booner unreal against jazz
Bonner is streaky. When he hits a few he plays with house money and shoots without a care. It's when he misses a few that he plays nervous and becomes useless.
The Jazz respect his shot and he's feeling really good about himself tonight. Phil Jackson treats him like a non factor and Bonner lets that get to his head.
and manu is not?
3 good games scoring 3 bad games
When did I say anything about Manu? Are you high?
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