Hollinger: Spurs among the weaker come playoff time

[Donnie Hathaway]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/column...PERDiem-090318

San Antonio: This one comes with an asterisk, because much of San Antonio's edge in bench points has come from Manu Ginobili, and he's effectively a starter. However, it goes much deeper than that. Manu has been hurt so often that three other Spurs reserves (George Hill, Bruce Bowen and Kurt Thomas) have played more minutes, and San Antonio's plus-267 disparity between starters and subs is the smallest of any Western contender except the Jazz.Of course, the Spurs will have a couple of positives to offset that if everything goes according to plan -- Manu's again-delayed return being most prominent, and a likely No. 2 seed also proving helpful. Nonetheless, a rematch against the Hornets, Rockets or Blazers -- all of whom have outscored the Spurs with their starters on the floor -- could prove problematic based on the data above.

[jag]

This is the same clown that said the Spurs would be lucky to make the playoffs.

For the life of me, i can't figure out how he's still employed.

[koriwhat]

hollinger is a sucker! plain and simple.

[Patrick Davis]

I really love the fact that he found a way to rationalize that the Spurs bench playing well is bad. I can't wait til he writes his ALL BOW DOWN TO LEBRON article.

[AussieFanKurt]

Hollinger can suck my ballsack

[Mark in Austin]

hollinger is a sucker! plain and simple.

He's not a cocsucker, he's a PERsucker. Everything he writes is based on the most recent PER numbers. Then he projects those very same PER numbers out to get how team will finish.

Obviously, this is not very accurate; but that's his gig.

[Spursfan092120]

Hollinger is a bag that has no basketball knowledge whatsover. He's a calculator nerd that will never have any actual intelligence when it comes to this sport.

[Spursmania]

Holinger's article is worthless to the Spurs. Just meaningless drivel.

[senorglory]

He may not be bullish on the Spurs this year, but, Hollinger hasn't been afraid to praise them in the past. His blog entry from 5/20/08 points out that he'd picked the Spurs to win the three years prior.

[Borosai]

Doom.

er.

[Duncan2177]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/column...PERDiem-090318

San Antonio: This one comes with an asterisk, because much of San Antonio's edge in bench points has come from Manu Ginobili, and he's effectively a starter. However, it goes much deeper than that. Manu has been hurt so often that three other Spurs reserves (George Hill, Bruce Bowen and Kurt Thomas) have played more minutes, and San Antonio's plus-267 disparity between starters and subs is the smallest of any Western contender except the Jazz.Of course, the Spurs will have a couple of positives to offset that if everything goes according to plan -- Manu's again-delayed return being most prominent, and a likely No. 2 seed also proving helpful. Nonetheless, a rematch against the Hornets, Rockets or Blazers -- all of whom have outscored the Spurs with their starters on the floor -- could prove problematic based on the data above.

What a asshole

[Texas_Ranger]

who gives a about this mother ing moron...He should just go and kill his ing self. Stupid !

[SenorSpur]

Hollinger is a frustrated math teacher.

[hater]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/column...PERDiem-090318

San Antonio: This one comes with an asterisk, because much of San Antonio's edge in bench points has come from Manu Ginobili, and he's effectively a starter. However, it goes much deeper than that. Manu has been hurt so often that three other Spurs reserves (George Hill, Bruce Bowen and Kurt Thomas) have played more minutes, and San Antonio's plus-267 disparity between starters and subs is the smallest of any Western contender except the Jazz.Of course, the Spurs will have a couple of positives to offset that if everything goes according to plan -- Manu's again-delayed return being most prominent, and a likely No. 2 seed also proving helpful. Nonetheless, a rematch against the Hornets, Rockets or Blazers -- all of whom have outscored the Spurs with their starters on the floor -- could prove problematic based on the data above.

^ Hollinger

[I. Hustle]

[scanry]

Hollinger can suck my sausage & mushroom coated salty balls....

[Ghazi]

This le is misleading.

[wildbill2u]

Hollinger is the ultimate math phreak. He's the one who'll tell you that you can't drown in a lake because the average depth is only 3 inches.

[Mal]

what a clown.

[manufor3]

This is the same clown that said the Spurs would be lucky to make the playoffs.

For the life of me, i can't figure out how he's still employed.

[HarlemHeat37]

I'm one of the few people that doesn't have any dislike for Hollinger..he admits he goes strictly by stats and that his PER stat has some flaws, and I have no problem with that..this article is also correct, because it's basically implying that we need Manu to make up the difference, which is obvious..

however, Hollinger obviously loses a lot of credibility with his statements, particularly earlier in the season when he proclaimed that we wouldn't make the playoffs..

[WildcardManu]

geek stats don't work on sports

[sananspursfan21]

hollinger is ridiculous, he used to always put the spurs ranked like #10 on his power rankings earlier this season. the jazz, rockets, hornets and sixers were better than the spurs by his power rankings.

if you can give a respectable reason any of those teams were better, then fine. but when the rest of his colleagues are putting the spurs in the top 5, it makes him look like a complete idiot

if i had a link to his past pages, i'd put it here, but i don't so take my word

[SouthTexasRancher]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/column...PERDiem-090318

San Antonio: This one comes with an asterisk, because much of San Antonio's edge in bench points has come from Manu Ginobili, and he's effectively a starter. However, it goes much deeper than that. Manu has been hurt so often that three other Spurs reserves (George Hill, Bruce Bowen and Kurt Thomas) have played more minutes, and San Antonio's plus-267 disparity between starters and subs is the smallest of any Western contender except the Jazz.Of course, the Spurs will have a couple of positives to offset that if everything goes according to plan -- Manu's again-delayed return being most prominent, and a likely No. 2 seed also proving helpful. Nonetheless, a rematch against the Hornets, Rockets or Blazers -- all of whom have outscored the Spurs with their starters on the floor -- could prove problematic based on the data above.

Once again Little sucker Hollinger shows his ass. espn should stick to covering little girls having cat fights in the sand box because when it comes to sports the heads @ espn don't know ! Well maybe they know but, they sure as don't know sports. How do these assholes get jobs at espn? Does AIG own espn?

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeshhh, Hollinger go play with yourself you little !

[temujin]

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San Antonio: onetheless, a rematch against the Hornets, Rockets or Blazers -- all of whom have outscored the Spurs with their starters on the floor -- could prove problematic based on the above.

Data, what data.
Data is too serious a word for this guy.

Hollinger predicted the Spurs to MISS the playoffs three months ago.

He also predicted the Suns to be in top 4.

How can this guy make a living out of this crap?