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He looked seriously slow on D too. He did hit one clutch shot but overall, even with the Manu injury I would have liked to see more Hairston in this game.
i did not watch the game coz i was workin ... soon as i logged on ESPN i str8t up checked how many minutes FINLEY played ... then i checked who WON .... what a in surprise the spurs lost !!!
33mins for mr finley crazy !!!
He looked seriously slow on D too. He did hit one clutch shot but overall, even with the Manu injury I would have liked to see more Hairston in this game.
I'd rather see 33 minutes from Finley than Mason
manu was hurt
mason is horrible
i was ok with finley playing 33 mins for this game
Last edited by sonic21; 11-19-2009 at 07:23 AM.
Finley did well against Kidd, and he hit some good shots; and it was better seeing Mason running the point.
Bonner and Finley plays well coming off the bench giving instant offense in limited minutes despite being a liability on defense whereas Mason simply sucks.
My thoughts exactly. Not a big fan of Finley either but I'd rather have him out there than Mason. It's actually disturbing to see Mason degenerate this much in only one year. At this point, his only value to the Spurs is his expiring contract.
the time is now for malik, if he can hit the three ball he might be able to prove himself to Pop if Finley/mason doesn't score more than five points.
IMO he showed a lot tonite on both ends:
- cut/score/move without the ball - check
- D up hard and force a missed shot - check
- hustle rebound said missed shot - check
- travel = whatevz - check
- stroke teh three on kickout - ?
The mins are there if he does these things I think this rookie's got savvy
Last edited by taps; 11-19-2009 at 07:56 AM.
The minutes could have been reduced for Bogans and a little for Hairston. Other than that, Pop could not have done any better.
Finley wasn't the problem last night. He played well.
He hit timely shots but sometimes looked a little tired. Other than that, he was fairly average.
He shot the ball well and played decent D on Kidd. Yeah, he looked tired. But then so did everyone else, as evidenced by Tim shorting a layup and Dyess not being able to keep Dirk in front of him.
You're kidding me, right? I could have guarded Kidd last night.
And why keep a tired Finley out there when you have a young stud in Hairston?
Pop's man love for Finley just has no boundaries.
I like Hairston, but giving Finley's minutes to him last night wasn't going to change anything. It wasn't Finley's guy who was killing the Spurs last night. He did his job.
Finley wasn't that bad yesterday. Sadly enough, his +/- net points pretty much sum up his performance ...
His +/- happens to be a net 0. However, we were -5 on the game which shows Finley has a positive impact on the game, which he did.
We got basically even on the boards, against a team that basically has no bigs.
I mean, Jason Kidd had 11 rebounds... you don't think a more athletic guys would have helped with that?
Now, I'm not bashing Mike. Unlike Mason, I don't think he hurt us. But I thought we could have gotten a little more off those 33 minutes in that position.
I never doubted Jason Kidd's ability to grab rebounds and 11 rebounds is something he does once in a while.
And I know he's capable of doing it, that's exactly why you would actually put a more athletic guy next to him.
I know you are clamouring for Malik Hairston to play, but we needed quick 3 pointers to spark the offense at the moment, you could tell the Spurs could not find any shot. I don't think you can teach someone Kidd's desire to get the ball and push the break, all great point guards have that capability. Kidd was gonna get his tonight. I didn't think even if the Spurs put Hairston on him, it could not be enough. Maybe one or two boards, but that could be all.
I am not sure of Hairston's ability to dribble though. I am sure his 3 pointers are more spotty than Finley's.
If you want to find a problem with the rebounding last night you need not look any further than the 15 offensive rebounds that Gooden, Humphries and Dirk got. But I'm sure there's an explaination coming as to how playing Hairston instead of Finley would have corrected that.
Won't know if you don't try, right? It's not like we don't know what we're going to get out of Finley.
I don't necessarily want Hairston to dribble. But he can jump.
Honestly, it didn't even had to be Hairston. Could have been Bogans too.
At any rate, I'm not upset with Fin or anything. I just think now it's the time to take a look at all these other guys.
It was really mostly Gooden, Dirk and Kidd. Humphries ended up with 5 rebounds total. Dice was actually pretty poor with 4.
I actually had a problem with Blair and Dice. They were not rebounding, which was their job. Blair also got pulled quickly and we never heard from him again. If Duncan, like last season, has to grab all the rebounds, then we are screwed.
Agreed. Blair was a complete non factor in his limited minutes. Dyess had a pretty bad game as well. He did play some good D on Dirk at times, but was bad on the boards and committed some really stupid fouls in OT.
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