Personal Game thoughts, Spurs @ Raptors.

[TD 21]

the only guys that really disappointed me were Hill and McDyess..they just played very poorly in every way..

I'm becoming exceedingly disappointed in Hill and McDyess; McDyess in particular. Part of it is Pop's refusal to play him more than 18-22 minutes and rarely alongside Duncan, but even in the minutes he does get, he just seems content to be a bystander on offense, he only seems he wants to board in spurts and his defense is inconsistent. I knew he was better suited to being a third big at this stage in his career, but I thought, based on his play last season and his supposed desire to be a Spur, that he'd at least do a reasonable job masquerading as a second big. Pop seems less than enamored with him and at this rate, assuming Blair continues to out produce him and Bonner returns and picks up where he left off, I wouldn't be shocked to see McDyess unofficially relegated to fourth big status. The minutes won't change that much, mostly because he only averages 20 to begin with and because of Pop's insistence on limiting Duncan to 32 minutes per game, but nonetheless it will not be a good thing. Barring a trade, this team isn't competing for a championship unless McDyess pulls a Finley in the '07 playoffs and finds the fountain of youth.

[Chieflion]

If you guys like this, I will try to do this for the Pistons game.

[blkroadrunners]

It was a good read, I agree w/ most of it.

[Höfner]

My thoughts? Spurs couldn't find their offense against one of the tiest defenses I've ever seen.

[all_heart]

Just another bad performance over all. The funny thing is that we got close at the end..

I'm tired of RJ not attacking the basket, we got too many jump shooters on our team. He just needs to go as soon as he gets the ball and avoid the offensive foul.

[ducks]

manu had a head cold
not sure why pop even let him play
he should have benched manu not duncan

[senorglory]

In case you didn't watch the game, Pop's gametime decisions confused everyone in the basketball world by benching Tim Duncan and DeJuan Blair (his entire PF/C frontline) and started Theo, who rarely plays and McDyess.

I didn't have the chance to watch the game, and later that night I found a rather baffling box score, one which made no sense whatsoever.

What a wild season!

[senorglory]

Spurs couldn't find their offense...

A familiar refrain.

[senorglory]

New meeting, new set of refs, new players in raptors rotation (white players Turkoglu and Calderon out, black players Meeks, Deroza and Jack in) and its a totally different scenario.