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is true I heard it in the radio that's what bill shoening said manu is a little hurt and tim played too much last night and tony just resting
they are having the night off
is true I heard it in the radio that's what bill shoening said manu is a little hurt and tim played too much last night and tony just resting
Big Three a Big Zero tonight
By Jeff McDonald
No Tim Duncan. No Tony Parker. No Manu Ginobili. That's all that will be missing from the Spurs' lineup tonight at Denver.
A night after the Spurs expended so much energy to get past Golden State in overtime, coach Gregg Popovich just informed the gathered media that he plans to rest each and every member of his Big Three.
The decision on Ginobili comes with a bit of an injury concern. He suffered a left hip contusion taking a fall against the Warriors. With three days off after tonight, Popovich felt it was best to give him the night off.
As for Duncan and Parker, the Spurs' top two scorers? They're just getting the night off "for a variety of reasons," Popovich said.
"Parker makes the All-Star team, becomes hard to deal with, so we're going to sit him and teach him a lesson," Popovich joked. "Duncan says he wants to renegotiate his contract, so I said, 'Sit, I'm not talking to you.' "
Though Popovich wouldn't say so, it's worth wondering if this new and not-so-improved rotation is meant to send a message to the league scheduling wizards, who sent the Spurs to Denver by way of Oakland.
After Monday's overtime win, the Spurs did not lay their heads on their pillows in Denver until close to 4 a.m. Ragged and facing an uphill battle against the Nuggets anyway, Popovich has apparently opted to steal an extra day of rest for his most important players.
jacque vaughn sighting?
as I've said before, Pop has reached a new level when it comes to the regular season..he simply no longer gives a in any way..he's giving a win to the team behind us in the standings, so he can rest our guys..I disagree with it, because we have a lot of rest until Boston..but I don't question his methods..
good for them... hope manu especially can get some rest.
Awesome decision
There was no way the Spurs were going to win the game. The Big Three, especially Manu, looked dead tired after the Warriors win. I was really worried about their health in the game against the Nuggets.
Too short of period of time to rest. In al ude. Against a very good team. All that just adds up to trouble.
I'll just gladly take the L and have the Spurs get a whole bunch of rest before the Boston contest.
LOL *waits for whiny Spurs fans to complain about Pop being a "quitter"*..
What a dumb move. He can run them down into the ground tonight, theres nearly a week till their next game.
I like it. I hope the spurs still win!
Good they need it. yeah that fall that Manu took the other night worried me. I'm surprised he came back and played as well as he did.
I guess something like this really let's you know how good you are; when you are really good you don't even have to play, and when you are really bad you don't even get to play when the three most important players on your team aren't even playing, and if you're ok you get to start, but only because the big 3 are resting...
Pop really has it made, he can pretty much do whatever he wants, there are certainly other coaches that probably wouldn't even be allowed to do something like this, much less even have the balls to try..
put money on nuggets to win?
A positive side effect of this decision is that Hill and Mason can get a lot of run ... and they need it. They need to find their groove and you can't really do that without minutes and touches.
Plus it gives the Spurs a good look at Hairston, if they so choose.
don't they get paid millions of dollars to play basketball just limit there minutes thats all we need to concetrate abot trying to catch the lakers ginobili should just sit and duncan and parker play no more than 30 minutes
Go G Hill!
this is just another of pops jokes.
OK great opportunity for the role players to step up.. no reason to hold back anything and give 100% effort.. plenty of time to rest afterward. please compete and make us proud..
pop knows the players better than you. also, the main guys have played an extra season or two cause of all their playoff success. all those extra and intense games take a toll on the body.
we AREN'T going to catch the Lakers..people need to get off this idea..they're 5 games up on us..they are still an elite team without Bynum..there's no reason to think we'll catch them..everybody should have known that we weren't going to get the #1 seed, right after Manu and Parker got injured..I'm actually kind of surprised that we're 2nd after those injuries..
I guess when you factor everything in, i can see the basis for his decision. I still dont agree with it. A win tonight, as tough as it would have been would have given us a cushion from the chasing pack. We lose tonight, Denver and Portland are both within 1.5 games, heading into 7 more on the road.
Hill
Mason
Finley
Bonner
Thomas
for starting lineup? Unless the Spurs think they can get away with Finley on Kenyon (which they can't) to allow 2 bigs off of the bench. This could get ugly quickly.
nice, i am looking forward to watching Malik, Hill and Mason!!!
any guesses on starting line up?
These old men can't handle a back-to-back before AS break yet they will last the 2nd half of the season and be ready deep in the playoffs?
And waving the white flag on a conference game because one of the lowest teams in the conference took too much out of them. Especially when this game could easily cost them in seedings with any tiebreakers with Denver.
And what's the difference between 4 days off and 5 days off? Is that really going to make a difference vs Boston on Sunday?
Bad sign.
standings are meaningless to us though..sure, it would be nice, but Pop has been experimenting all season long..we clearly show a different effort vs. good teams, compared to the lesser teams we've faced..this team simply could care less about the regular season, and it starts with the coach..
I'm interested in seeing Hill, Mason, Oberto, Udoka, and Hairston tonight..
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