Initial Reaction: Spurs vs. Thunder Mar. 31

[EVAY]

that's the thing. i see this all the time on the EN comments, any time somebody questions anything about the team or pop the nuts start flipping out that everybody hates the team. that's fine, commenters can do whatever, but the thing that gets to me is that the EN writers are too scared to question things. First they were afraid that Pop would make fun of them. Now that Pop really doesn't have room to call questions about what he's doing stupid, the writers seem afraid to question things because of the negative feedback from the commenters. Pop has been hugely successful in the past, but this season isn't made up of the past. Where is the San Antonio media on this?

As my roomie said this morning over breakfast "With the amount of layoffs going on at the Express-News right now, you don't seriously expect any of the sports writers to take on the strength of the Spurs organization right now, do you? (Especially since the Express-News is a major sponsor of the team).

[de Soto]

The Spurs sucked. After all it was OKC they lost to.

[Manufan909]

I BELIEVE in the actual talent on this team..but I don't believe in the coach right now, and I never thought I would say that..

Bruce Bowen does not belong on the bench while Ime ing Udoka is getting minutes..Finley shouldn't be playing more than 20 MPG..Kurt Thomas should be starting, but he isn't, and he's actually coming into the game in the 4th quarter instead..George Hill shouldn't be on the bench while Jacque "LOL" Vaughn is playing..

I believe in the talent on this team..but what the ?..

I hope Hill, KT, and Bowen can become obvious parts of the rotation by the last 5 or so games, or I won't have any faith in this team. If the rotation in the first round mimics this past week, I'll have no faith at all.

I hope for the love of all that is Spurs that Fin retires after this season is over. I don't see why he would, since Pop will make room no matter what. How a starting lineup of TP, Mason, Bowen, Tim, and Bonner isn't obvious, I have no idea.

Since this has turned into somewhat of a rotation thread, this is mine:

TP/Hill
Mason/Manu
Bowen/Finley
Tim/Gooden
Bonner/KT

If the Spurs ever face LA, and Bowen does not start, I'm going to go ing insane.

[Mavs<Spurs]

I hope Hill, KT, and Bowen can become obvious parts of the rotation by the last 5 or so games, or I won't have any faith in this team. If the rotation in the first round mimics this past week, I'll have no faith at all.

I hope for the love of all that is Spurs that Fin retires after this season is over. I don't see why he would, since Pop will make room no matter what. How a starting lineup of TP, Mason, Bowen, Tim, and Bonner isn't obvious, I have no idea.

Since this has turned into somewhat of a rotation thread, this is mine:

TP/Hill
Mason/Manu
Bowen/Finley
Tim/Gooden
Bonner/KT

If the Spurs ever face LA, and Bowen does not start, I'm going to go ing insane.

I agree with your posts, including about playing Finely instead of Bowen, especially against LA where Bruce can try to make things as difficult as possible for Kobe.


Good points.



Go Spurs !

Go Spurstalk !

[EricB]

As my roomie said this morning over breakfast "With the amount of layoffs going on at the Express-News right now, you don't seriously expect any of the sports writers to take on the strength of the Spurs organization right now, do you? (Especially since the Express-News is a major sponsor of the team).

Tell your roomie to take off his tin foil hat as well.

[Thomas82]

duncan said there are no excuses in his post game interview. He took the blame for not calling a time out, and he included himself when asked about pop saying a "couple of people need to play better."

if duncan can rise i know he will.

I'm cautiously optomistic that he can.

+1

[Yogurt210]

Pop needs to coach better

[quentin_compson]

Not that I've been able to follow a lot of Spurs games this season, but this loss has been the worst while the victory in Boston was the most impressive.
Right now, we look closer to the Kings than we do to the Lakers. Being from Germany, I guess I miss a lot of local stuff and I hope Pop knows what he's doing but it doesn't look pretty at the moment.
I can't think of one thing Ime does better than Bruce - yet Udoka is playing and Bowen is not.
I can't think of one thing Vaughn (not that he is that bad, he really just shouldn't be an option for the playoffs for a team that wants to win it all) does better than Hill - yet Hill is in the doghouse.
Both Mason, Jr. and Hill were doing a decent job as backup-PGs earlier in the season - right now they're sucking worse than Tom Hanks does at pretending to be an actor.

[birdy219]

Here's my initial reaction: and did I mention

and for (where's bowen and hill?)

Stop with the mason experiment

It's time for the team to come together and earn another

Let's