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you're a few weeks late.
This team is obviously not a championship team anymore, if I think of them as such watching games is just too frustrating. The mindset that I take now is that this team is more in a class with say the Houston Rockets and hey the Rockets took L.A. to 7 games last season, maybe just maybe we can do that and win that 7th game? It may be a long shot but what's a Spurs fan to do?
Hopefully they turn it around, hopefully the coaching staff and FO see what we really need, but I'm not holding my breath...
you're a few weeks late.
What can I say, I thought they were going to put something together or maybe make a good trade, didn't happen so as far as I'm concerned I'm right on time.
those rockets had a full team who played with heart not just 3-4 players, a team that played asa team, and a good coach, none of which we have currently despite having superior talent.
, we suck.
God, you people are delusional. Ian Mahinmi isn't some great secret weapon waiting to be unleashed. He's a very athletic Frenchman who has very little idea how to play basketball. The absolute arrogance of you people astounds me. Do you REALLY think you know more than professional coaches and talent evaluators? Really?
You don't give Ian nearly enough credit. This guy has been running Spurs sets and mastering our defensive schemes for literally years up in Austin and down here with the big boys in practice.
He deserved nothing less than some fairly consistent burn early in the season, if only for a REAL evaluation. That's discounting the fact we have a glaring hole next to Tim Duncan and Ian possesses all the tools to at least somewhat fill it - and better than anyone else on the roster.
Mahimni has mastered the defensive schemes? If this is true, why isn't he playing then? From what little I've seen of him, he still looks alittle lost out on the court. Other than be a impressive athlete, I don't see the fascination that others on here have with Mahimni.
you seem to forget THE ROCKETS PLAYED TEAM/INDIVIDUAL DEFENSE and the spurs defense is......................
Remember last year when our lesser basketball minds were asking for our professional coach to play Hill in the playoffs but he with his superior wisdom decided to leave him on the bench until he had no other option and was already too late? And that scrub that wasn't good enough to get playoff minutes (according to our coach) ended up beign our third best player that series. Do you remember all of that?
He's definitely spent much more time on them than any Spur bigman not named Tim or Matt (or Mike ..).
Do you really think Matt Bonner spends time on defensive schemes? Bonner spends as much time looking for his man on defense, as he does looking for sandwhiches.
I think Matt Bonner is at worst, our third best big defensively. He's been sucking lately but pre-injury I was very happy with his play on that end.
From what you have seen? You mean all the garbage time minute when the game is allready over with a minute or two left in the game, and when mostly everyone on the court is freestyling?
For example in the last games when he was defending the post he had no weakside help to come over becuase everone else was just ready to hear the Buzzer sound.
I think Ian will prove to be a very good weakside defender, but whatever Pop will make sure we will never know.
I dont think they remember but i sure as do...What's the worst that can happen if Ian plays? Lose? well that's happening already so I would like to see what Ian and Malik can do..
“They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.”
Charles Barkely
Do you REALLY think that all it takes to be an NBA player is the ability to run fast and jump high? That would explain a lot....
Played? Yes. Mastered? I doubt it. The front office and coaching staff has seen him for a full year in Austin, three training camps, two or three summer leagues and innumerable practices. If he were ready, or even NEAR ready he'd be playing.
He doesn't understand the game. , a shrimp bowling ball named DeJuan came in and took his ing candy this year. That's because in spite of the fact that he's 6' 5 1/2" and built like a linebacker, he ing understands how to play the game. He understands how to create space for himself in the paint to get rebounds and score. If Ian understood 50% of what DeJuan does, he'd be rolling into an extension of probably $6-8 mil per year next year instead of not having his option picked up.
The road to the NBA is littered with such players. Why isn't James ing Flight White even on a NBA roster, then? Answer me that one, hotshot.
I have watched every game this year, and probably 95% of them over the Duncan era.
one of the most athletic big men to ever play the game.
But people evaluate talent wrong all the time, which is how you end up with Bogans/Bonner in your starting lineup and drafting Kwame.
Also, just because Ian might not be an NBA player does not mean it does not make sense to play him.
Wow. Just wow. I think we're done. It's like trying to talk English to a Swahili speaker. There's just a fundamental disconnect in what we both think it takes to be an NBA player. I think I understand where a large part of the "hate Pop" crowd is coming from now.
And you know this because...
Now it is probably too late to play Ian though. Spurs still want to make the playoffs and probably can't afford to give him burn. They could have done it at the beginning of the year, but that ship has sailed.
I'd be leery of dumping Mahinmi only to have him explode on another team, Spurs have never had a great ability to develop stars..
Then the professional coaches and talent evaluators are so intelligent to pick Mahinmi in the first round draft and let him go without trying him ?
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