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I think it was his junior year so 17 probably.
How old is Blair in your av?The transformation has begun
I think it was his junior year so 17 probably.
Cool, thanks.
So for those who listened, did Ian contest many shots? I hope so, since he didn't block anyone.
Picture from tonight's game:
Rookie DeJuan Blair fights for a rebound - Photo (c) 2009 Yahoo News
And that's only during the pre-season. Wait for the real games to begin.Picture from tonight's game:
Rookie DeJuan Blair fights for a rebound - Photo (c) 2009 Yahoo News
Glad to hear that Blair is ok. He's got a few days to rest up.
Alright, The Btown Spur..
Time to earn your spurs.
Can't wait to see him go against the weak frontline of NO especially if Okafor can't play.
Blair has bruised backside, but mostly OK
Spurs rookie forward DeJuan Blair left tonight's preseason loss to Indiana with a bruised tailbone, but is otherwise fine.
Blair fell hard at some point midway through the fourth quarter. He isn't sure what happened, but he believed Dahntay Jones fell and rolled underneath him during a rebounding scrum.
"I'm going to be fine," Blair said.
Blair finished with nine points and six rebounds in 15:47 minutes.
It was a black-and-blue kind of night for the Spurs' reserve big men. Ian Mahinmi received four s ches over his right eye after the game, after taking an elbow. He, too, expects to be fine.
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...has-bruis.html
Blair was seen limping to the bench what some thought was a knee injury, but luckily it was just his backside
Thanks for posting Ace.
Blair should be Ok for Wednesdays opener. Damn, Mahini with some s ches.
Let the conquest begin.
No pressure right? It was definitely a very entertaining game to watch. It looked like Pop was playing it like a real game. Assembly Hall is a great place to watch a game, it was a pro game with a college atmosphere. I loved that the band showed up and played in timeouts. They even did the flags at the end of the 3rd quarter which has been tradition at IU for who knows how long. The student sections were pretty full while the rest of the Hall was about half full. There was definitely a good showing of silver and black even though pacer fans were clearly in the majority.
As far as the game goes, I liked for the most part what we did on offense. We had some stupid turnovers, but especially in the first half we were making our shots. In the second half although it was mostly our second unit we got cold and i dont think we were driving as much. Tony hit some key long jumpers, but sometimes i thought he was settling for the jumper instead of driving like he did in the past. By the way it was hilarious when Tony took the clipboard from Pop for the last play, but let me just say Tony needs to stick to playing. dont know if he designed it for bogans to take the last shot but maybe thats how they do it in france?
I sort of feel that Jefferson is still trying to feel things out in the offense, he made one really nice drive to the rim got fouled but missed the layup, but other than that he just settled for a couple jumpers. RJ needs to be more aggressive when he has the ball, but hopefully that will come as the season goes.
I really liked what i saw from McDyess, he ran the court pretty well even receiving a baseball pass, and started a fast break. He threw down a pretty sick dunk a few minutes later.
Ginobili also will hopefully be a little more aggressively as the year goes, but I liked what he did. there was a moment in the second quarter where he bumped knees with a pacer player and he went down that scared the out of me, he grabbed his knee for a moment, but then got up.
I saw a tease of Dujaun Blairs potential, he grabbed a couple offensive boards, scored of a put back, and made a couple nice post moves. He got to the line a bunch was terrible from the line. Sometimes he gets himself into a hole, i love his aggressiveness but he needs to learn to dish the ball out to the guards. He looked like he was in pain towards the end, im didnt exactly catch what happened. Im hoping that its nothing big, he was walking on it but grimacing in pain.
Since pop was playing this like a real game, and Hairston played and Marcus williams did not I would say that it looks like Hairston is the one they are going to keep which is good imo. Hairston didnt really do a lot today, and made a bad turnover in the last minute, but i dont really know why he had the ball at that point anyway.
Mahinmi had a couple really nice buckets for the amount of time he was in but i didnt notice him being a presence defensively.
Which leads me to our defense, it looked pretty bad to be quite honest. I kept looking at the scoreboard and being like how are we giving up all these points? 90 after 3? Overall our team defense was just not great, Im hoping this is because our team hasnt played enough together yet, and hopefully it will get better in time. Although i say this and Danny Granger played pretty much the whole game and our big 4 didnt play the last quarter and not much of the second half. but even when they were playing the pacers still were able to score whenever they wanted.
and finally Thank God that the regular officials will be back for the season, these officials made some bad calls on both teams, but i guess that sort of washes out.
Solid game offensively, But our defense needs work, Fun game hopefully they will come back next year! I took some pics but i havent uploaded them yet. Let me know how i did!
Solid write up, thanks man.
What is with Tim getting shredded by Hibbert and schooled by DeAndre Jordan?
Hibbert is going to be a good center for a long time. DeAndre Jordan probably used his athletic ability against Duncan. Plus, it is preseason.
It's a point of concern.
Duncan didn't keep Jordan from getting to the rim last week and it sounded like he had problems with Hibbert tonight.
On the other hand, he was very good against Shaq.
So, what to make of it?
1. Is Tim going to be vulnerable against young bigs?
2. Or, given that these are preseason games, was he only motivated enough to give anything close to full effort against Shaq?
The rest of his game seems to be just fine.
It was a rhetorical question. Still, this highlights Tim's weakness on defense; man-to-man. He is still above average there, but that is his weakness on defense. Tim needs to be a big time defensive presence this year and I hope he continues to be great as the anchor.
I still have serious concerns about the team's defense. I hope it works out.
Ya, the rest of his game looks pretty good right now all things considered.
Oh ya, I drafted Hibbert in the last round of my fantasy league. I think he could be a steal.
Hibbert played well tonight, but Tim didn't exactly get shredded by DeAndre Jordan. He only had one noticable highlight play against Tim.
Yeah Hibbert made some nice moves to get past timmy, but i wouldnt say they dominated. Tim seemed a little slow on the defensive end, but so did the whole team. There wasnt a whole lot of help D when he got beat. Hibbert is very improved from last year from waht i saw tonight, he looked like a very solid big guy.
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Well done and welcome to the board, Btown.
Yeah, I couldn't help but notice the college feel when I heard the playing of 'Smells like team spirit' by the band.
It was nice to hear George play the way he did and I enjoyed Pop screwing with ST members by letting us believe that Bonner would be starting yet again; people here love them some Matty Bonner in their starting lineup.
Yeah i like what george did, he still has a ways to go in terms of running the offense but he knows how to score. It was a very nice homecoming for him, he had his family, and friends at the game, not to mention the entire IUPUI basketball team there to support him.
Maybe its a sign that bonner wont start since Dyess started tonight, one can only hope
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