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steroids are the answer to this problem.
Pop has successfully turned this guy's strength into a weakness.
steroids are the answer to this problem.
Well mason playing worse of late is a bunch of things.
1. He has never been a quick player-as in he can't drive to the hoop effectively-so he becomes one dimensional because D's can always play his shot
2. Pop has been awful this year finding effective rotations ( You all remember when TP and Gino were out and Hill and Mase got 20-30 minutes each and clearly knew what their roles were-mase starting at 2 and hill starting as 1). When roles are defined night in and out players feel more comfortable and play better. Hill was an early contender for rook of year-he was averaging double dig, getting assists and playing great....and Mason was avg. high teens and draining. Now after pop has tried so many diff positions/lineups/ and minutes for these two guys-they are lost.
3. Confidence is down (see above).
4. He is a good shooter but he's not and never will be an all star caliber player that maybe some of you expected after he played so well early this year. I still strongly believe we should have given up mason and hill (if we needed) to get Vince Carter-but that's past so whatever.
Pop is a serial confidence killer.
Mason is yet another victim.
exposed
He only took two shots. He went 0 for 2. Big deal.
Please don't compare a clutch shooter like Mason to Hedo.
Amazing how he played just fine earlier in the year when he was a PG.
This is a BS excuse.
bull .
He's become passive and scared. Pop didn't tell him to all of a sudden to freaking stop shooting.
He only took two shots. He went 0 for 2. Big deal.
Please don't compare a clutch shooter like Mason to Hedo.
While I agree, his passiveness and reluctance to all of a sudden shoot is maddening.
Yall are crazy..
Good players dont let this stuff get in their head like that..its not a mental thing, its a physical thing. Hes not comfortable playing the PG and its obvious.
he hates Manu
Mason is doing a nice disappearing job.
Useless.
Bankrupt Mason is more like it now.
I havent watched the last couple Spurs games, but it seems as if he is doing bad. Hopefully he can get it together before playoffs start. Go Spurs Go!
Pop screwed with his head and once again another good player will soon find another team like the looooooooooooooooonnnggg string of ex players that now enjoy kicking our ass. Pop is losing it. He ain't what he used to be.
He was playing like crap before the move to PG.
His slump started before the All Star game. I think it could be just the fact that teams have adjusted to him and starting paying more attention to him.
The pressure has gone up too so he may be getting rattled a little bit.
I'm not sure which game you watched but I didn't see Mason pass up many shots. The closest I can remember was when he passed to an even more open Parker in the corner.
Mason just wasn't very involved in this game. The Pacers trapped him a couple times when he was at point guard and they were mostly rotating off of the bigs while he was out there.
I agree with T-Park here.
You keep saying this and I keep pointing out it's not true.
In the seven games before becoming the backup point guard, Mason was averaging 12.7 points per game on 43% shooting. I don't see how that is "playing like crap" or a "slump".
I agree again. I love Stephen Jackson and I like players like Sjax who have confidence in their shot and are fazed by the pressure.
Mason Jr I think is feeling the pressure and it's letting him affect him.
It's money time.
Shouldn't this slump be an excuse to play Bowen?
When did you point out it's not true. If you did say that too me I guess I didn't read your reply to one of my previous posts.
I just remember games like Boston and New York on the RRT that Mason started playing worse at around that point. I know he had the great game against the Wizards, but I don't recall any other good games on the trip. I was starting to get worried about his defense at that point too cause it was really dropping and he was also missing shots. I haven't really been happy with his defense since then either.
Was he playing PG then? I'm pretty sure Hill was the back up PG at that stage.
Also, offensive numbers don't tell the whole story. I think that's when I really started getting on Mason about his defense at that point cause it was worse than earlier in the reason.
Defense is the other half of the game, so yes I can say he was "playing like crap" since then.
When was the game that he moved to back up PG?
He played like out there.. Is he lost or something?
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