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I hope Hill's improvement is actually maintained into the regular season. He potentially fills such a big need for the Spurs that it is imperative Hill's game is elevated.
Don't cry for Hill, cry for Ian. How ty must he look now, with him knowing the system from the few NBA minutes he's had, as well as DL minutes, SL minutes, preseason minutes, and then Blair comes from the 37th pick and dominates every other second he is on the court.
I hope Hill's improvement is actually maintained into the regular season. He potentially fills such a big need for the Spurs that it is imperative Hill's game is elevated.
Hill, Manu, and Blair will be the 2nd unit. Who will play center and small forward i'm not sure. I would say Jefferson will play part of his minutes with the 2nd unit along with Finley. Who plays center though? Ian? Ratliff?
PG,SG, and PF seem to have a solid 1st and 2nd unit. Jefferson will get the majority of the minutes at SF sharing with Finley. And Center will be by committee.
That's my guess atleast. Sorry if it sounded like I repeated myself lol.
lol trailblazers training staff
Hill is easily one of the most improved from last year's '08 rookie crop. We're seeing the results of all the hard work he put in over the offseason. Can't wait to view the results during the regular season.
Hill had no problem scoring 20pts on some nights when he had starters minutes, remember last seaosn when parker was out injured, thats what ghill was posting and then it went downhill with his minutes declining and gino also returning, not enough touches to go around....
GHILL is too good to be playin off the bench....spurs better locked up his ass on a cheap contract like blair whose on the nba minimum for the next 4yrs hahahaha whiles horse lottery rookies he has outplay so far in the pres season are earning 3-4x his salary...go out and prove them wrong blair
He's getting some press too.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137019NBA’s Sop re Slumps and Surprises
Biggest Improvement: George Hill
Hill steadily improved over his rookie campaign and played well for the Spurs when Tony Parker went down mid-season to injury spurts. Four games into the preseason and Hill is averaging a hair over 14 points with two assists per game. Look for him to make a push for more minutes and more productivity this year.
In light of the we give the Lakers about Bynum, I will wait until Hill AND Blai can make it to mid-season before I crown them...
Hill proved himself last season in our loss to the Mav's. Pop totally ed up not playing him sooner in that series. Not that we would have won either way, but he did damn well as a rookie in that series.
haha..
Hill has so much potential!!!
Big fan coz of his effort on defence.
I was thinking about that today. Realistically your top 4 bigs are Duncan, McDyess, Blair and Bonner. So you would think that Duncan/McDyess play together and Blair/Bonner player together. However, that gives us two weak defenders in the second unit. I think McDyess will instead log a decent amount of his time with the 2nd team and Bonner will log a decent amount of minutes with Duncan still up with the first team. Thats not to say that a Duncan/Blair pairing can't happen either. But I think you just try and separate Blair and Bonner if at all possible.
Depending on how many minutes Ratliff gives he could possibly mix and match with any of those four players also.
Heres what I see as the primary rotation:
First team - Parker, Mason, Jefferson, Duncan, McDyess or Bonner or Ratliff
Second Team - Hill, Ginobili, Jefferson or Finley, Blair, McDyess or Duncan or Ratliff
Rotations continue to get muddied if and when Hill plays off the ball. But those are the two major rotations I think are possible and realistic.
Blair is Beast.
Hill is Animal.
Blair -
Hill??? -
lol Bayless - summer league mvp
lol Miller not fitting in
lol Blake as your best point guard
I know Blazers fans that want Hill on their team.
Loser.
bayless looks like a busts
Let that shark in your sig eat you please..... Now move on.
Every time Parker went down, George Hill played well. So obviously he's a reliable back-up PG. This season Hill will get more mins as Pop intend to have him play 2 with Tony on court. Because of his wingspan, he's legit to defense most SG in NBA.
There's never been anything wrong with George Hill. Pop is the one who screwed him over last year by sitting him and playing Mason at the point. That was genius. He was successful in screwing up both Hill and Mason for the playoffs.
But at least Pop knows he blew that one, so this year he's proclaiming George as his favorite player.
The good thing about George is that he is excelling despite Pop and his ridiculous head games and failed experiments.
Go Spurs.
, Hill succeeding despite Pop? So Hill just freelances out on the court, never listens to the plays Pop calls out huh? Well , why don't George become a player/coach. Why would he need to listen to a coach whose won 4 NBA Championships? Yes the expierment of Mason playing the point last year failed, but I don't think there is a coach out there who never makes a mistake. Pop will be a hall of famer when his coaching days are behind him.
All of which makes Pop's decision to inexplicably bench Hill in favor of Mason, as backup PG, all the more a head-scratcher - especially for a coach of his brilliance. The fact that Mason sucked, in that role, made that decision one of the dumbest moves Pop has made in many years - if ever. Pop simply overthought that decision.
It was obvious to all last year, and it's even more obvious this year, that Hill is a player. The kid can play and play really well.
Hill is awesome. If he is consistent, it will be a of a 1-2 punch with Parker/Hill at the PG position.
Actually I heard he was an overweight loser in his mid 40s.Child Please
its the same he pulled with beno when it was only one series against the defensive pistons that he couldnt bring the ball up halfcourt in the finals, so what pop did was allow barry or gino bring the ball up and the following season bring in more stupid over the hill veterans while putting beno in the doghouse for 2 season.
Hill made very big improvment over the summer, it's show that he's a hard worke, props to him
Damn, his 3 point shooting is awesome.
He also a beast? So it's time for him to have a cage.
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