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I guess but that backfires at times, when it comes to overplaying Bonner and we are horrible on interior D and he misses wide open threes late in the year, he hurts more than helps then. Pop is mostly right, but not always there.
No matter how much you haters rag on Bonner, Pop sees something in him that is still helping the team to win. Pop and his coaching staff is smarter than all of us when it comes to his team.
I guess but that backfires at times, when it comes to overplaying Bonner and we are horrible on interior D and he misses wide open threes late in the year, he hurts more than helps then. Pop is mostly right, but not always there.
Insert tiago
I know something bad is bound to happen when he made that crazy kick out pass to Anderson....
Fail. It wasn't helping the team to win when Bonner was starting 70 games at center.
Last season, Bonner injured his hand against the Pacers. Bonner's most feared opponent, Pacers.
when spurs play pacers again?
I can hear Mike Taylor saying "tank the season, Bonner is out..."
Awesome, new contract, new ankle injury...
Couldnt have seen it coming, just sucks.
Good to hear that it isn't too serious. The silver lining is that Tiago will get more minutes to be back in shape and to learn the NBA.
This could seriously compromise his 6MOTY chances.
With Tiago getting healthy this should not effect the rotation too much. I would much rather have bonner than simmons though due to simmons looking completely clueless out there.
Why would you want him to miss the season?? I agree he needs a limit to his minutes, but the guy adds DEPTH. I mean theres nights when he stinks it up, but theres also the nights where he's hitting his "sky hook" and grabbing boards, hitting 3's, and hustling. What happens if we lose another big man? We don't exactly know when Splitter is gonna play. Use your brain guy.
well the difference in the game really was when McDyess came in for BLAIR. then Hibbert was subbed out. And Timmy Duncan came back in.
Blair was stinking it up last nite
Tiago's return should negate Bonner's absence - to a degree. Also, his injury will likely give more court time to Simmons. Perhaps we'll see a better showing from him.
I felt terrible to see him go down like that
I'd feel terrible too if Pop went out with some injury/illness that forced him to miss the year. Him, Bonner and golly gosh even Bobby Simmons out. That would really hurt our playoff chances.
I think Bonner's value this year actually goes up if the Spurs continue to push the pace like they did last night. He is a great spot-up 3-point shooter in transition and if the opposing C/PF has to chase him off the 3-point line that will open up the lane for TP/Manu/RJ/Hill to attack the rim.
Playing at a frenetic pace and focusing more on scoring rather than defense may suit Bonner's strengths as a player and may work against alot of teams, but it almost always backfires against the elite. We've seen this happen year after year.
Bonner isn't Michael Jordan compared to even Vern Troyer.
i have a bonner
When Tiago and Bonner are back and in midseason form "fear the Spur's deer" I say; we could potentially have a top 3 bigman rotation IMO. B/W our 5 bigs there are just a ton different froncourt looks we can give people.
Suddenly our 3 specialist bigs become a lot more dangerous when we can throw the twin towers out there for a spell to stop layup drills.
Jan 7th
If Bonner is back by then lets hope he plays alot of minutes.
Grade 2 sprain out 10-14 days. Simmons and mcdyess will see their minutes go up at least until splitter finally plays.
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