I went to the game last night, and these are just some of my thoughts. They aren't too detailed, because I had nose bleed seats behind the backboard where the Spurs bench was. Manu's bald spot is HUGE in person, and I was over a hundred yards away. My girl mentioned rogaine, but I told her that Manu probably tried it, and it didn't do anything.
Dice is a damn pimp.
His fade away jays, as well as his stop n' pop jumpers were all smooth as , and he looked great on D. It's funny I didn't think he looked like a player in the media day pics, but seeing him play in a Spurs jersey was awesome. Him not starting over Bonner, a clearly inferior player, was a travesty.
Theo is awesome on D, but damn the range on his jay is like 4 ft. He weak side blocked the out of Big Z, so it's all good.
Balir was too passive for my tastes to start, but once he got going he looked even more stupid, out of his 4 scoring chances, he took it to the paint twice with success, hit a beautiful jumper, and got fouled. If he is in with the 2nd unit, he should make himself an option in the paint every chance. The Cavs bigs could do nothing to contain him. I could have sworn he had more than 2 boards, but maybe the Cavs were making their shots or there were a lot of long bounces when he was in. , I wish I'd seen that Clipper game instead, he got way more minutes then, so he got more and more confident, and almost put the team on his back like in Miami.
Tim is out of shape, and he actually shot worse at the line than The Big Pretzel. , Shaq scored on him all 3 times, but he couldn't score on Matt.
His jumper was beautiful though. Don't know his jumper percentage, but I know Dice's, cuz Antonio only shot jays.
Parker was perfect in about every respect, there is nothing more I can say.
Bogans is good on D, but nothing else. He was actually solid on Lebron, despite the fact he gives up more inches and pounds to Lebron than anyone Pop has assigned to Lebron since ever.
Hairston is better than Bogans on D, and he is light years ahead of Bogans on O. His one jumper was smooth, and outside of a rushed 3 he looked great, iirc. He almost dunked, but I guess it's good he didn't, since that would have pissed Pop off (who wasn't even there).
Hill was awesome, but the Spurs need to practice lobs, since the 2 he got the chance for he was bailed out by the zebras, the timing was also way off. But otherwise he was solid on both ends, he just needs to learn how to move the ball around more.
Ian still needs to work on fouling, and read the definition of a charge. Running with someone and then falling to the ground won't even work on the ty refs there are now. Otherwise he was solid. He isn't even proving he is worth 7 mpg, imo. The only big playing worse is Haislip, and he doesn't know the system, as well as having played 4 yrs abroad. Ian is whining about playing like 50 minutes overall in this past summers tourney, concerning his horrible screens.
Haislip, Bonner, Mason, Finley, and Williams really didn't show any reason for them to be on the team, outside of experience with the Spurs system. Since MW and Haislip don't have xp with the Spurs plays and such, they looked even worse.
Mason was by far the most disappointing player of the game. His shots were open as usual, he was just stinking it up. And he still is mediocre on D, he got schooled a couple times by a player Ive never heard of. At least I know he is in a slump, with Bogans I am more concerned.
P.S. After reading my post, I realized I should never EVER do game thoughts. I just jump around too much. But I don't care, I'm too excited (at least I didn't write in poem format)!!!! Outside of Bonner playing, RJ and Manu not playing, and Blair and Hairston not really getting involved in the offense, last night was sweet.
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