I have never ed about Matt Bonner and Pop(sometimes). I don't know why pop thinks bonner can guard griffin and why he keeps him in the game if he missed every damn 3 he throws up."Well he helps spread the floor", who gives a if he can't make 3's, he's useless. Horrible play from the spurs they looked tired.
Yeah, but this was a game the Spurs should have still won easily. The shots were just plain not falling. That's FATIGUE, nothing more. Remember, this is a team that came back from a 17-point halftime deficit against the Hornets..IN NEW ORLEANS.
You can't shoot 35.6% against any team and expect to win, ever. The Clippers turned the ball over 19 times, but the Spurs couldn't do with those turnovers. They were ing sleepwalking out there.
Yeah, but we took 15 more attempts than they did - a margin of 8 or 9 is usually enough to win a game, unless the other team has a LOT of free throws. The Clips had 20 turnovers FFS. They played their usual crappy game. It's not that this wasn't the Spurs night. It should have been their night. The Spurs just REALLY stunk up the joint.
Possession 1: Griffin draws foul on Splitter..nothing Splitter can really do here, amazing dunk attempt from Griffin..good foul though, since Griffin would have had to make a spectacular play to get the and-1..Griffin misses both FTs..
Possession 2: Manu drives, out of control, Splitter with the putback finish..
Possession 3: Splitter sets screen for Neal..receives the ball, clears out for Neal with a good pivot move, and passes it to him for an open 3, Neal makes it..
Possession 4: Splitter misses an ugly hook shot when the offense broke down..
Possession 5: Griffin drives on Splitter, gets late foul call, questionable call..
Possession 6: Splitter makes good cut to the basket on the p&r, fouled by Baron Davis, makes 1 of 2 FTs..
Possession 7: Rasual Butler drives in the lane from the wing, Splitter draws offensive foul..
Possession 8: Splitter makes good cut off of a Hill miss to get in box out possession, gets fouled by Gomes before he can make the tip-in..makes 1 of 2 free throws..
Possession 9: Splitter stupidly helps Hill on a Baron Davis drive, leaving Griffin open for a dunk..
Possession 10: Splitter throws up a horrible hook shot, misses everything..
Possession 11: Splitter and Hill have miscommunication, where Hill allows Bledsoe to blow by him, assuming Splitter is helping..Tiago gets there late, Bledsoe draws a nice and-1, bouncing off Splitter's body..
Possession 12: Splitter nearly blocks Bledsoe's layup, even though he has to follow him from the 3-point lane, altering his shot..none of the other Spurs bigs could make that play..
He made his share of mistakes, which is to be expected from inexperienced players that don't see the floor, but he played relatively well, all things considered..he certainly played better than Bonner..
Manny is saying Bonner/Tiago discussion is moot because the big 3 played like and that was the bigger piece of the problem.
I happen to think tiago would have been a great fresh set of productive legs to use in this ty game that would have given us a better chance to win.
Right now he's a clone of Amare Stoudemire from 2004-2005.Fun watching Griffin....he desperately needs a jumper to take his game to the next level
Someone pointed out that the Spurs went on a run with Splitter in the game and went stagnant when Bonner came back in, and you responded by saying that Splitter didn't do anything.
The number of really ing stupid people here went from zero to one when you started posting up.
that happened?
how the do you lose to the worst in team?
The Spurs likely took more 3s because of the fatigue. Tired teams tend to go to the hole less. Not to mention that the Clippers decided to simply pack in the lane and give the Spurs the 3 in the 2nd half.
A few were forced but the vast majority were wide open. Even closer shots were pretty bad from Duncan and I saw Antonio miss wide right on a wide open 20 footer that he usually kills.
Manny is making up comparing Tiago's game to Bonner's tonight, when Tiago clearly outplayed him.
The Big 3 are going to struggle from time to time, that doesn't mean you should lose to the Clippers. That is when the coach needs to put the right role players in.
Pop sucked a huge one tonight and so did Bonner.
This loss stings because you know it was a winnable game. Especially on a night when the Lakers lost and we could have had some extra cushion to rest our guys later in the season. I'm certainly not going to complain about our record, and shooting slumps like this happen. But in every loss there's something to learn. Hopefully they'll rewatch this game and see if the can improve the rotations when doubling. Dirk killed us with it, and Griffin did too today.
Disappointing, but still only counts as 1 out of 82. I'll get really worried if TP doesn't pick up the intensity in the next few games.
Oh he did quite a few things. He gave up an open dunk - got owned by griffin just as bad as bonner had, and threw up some ugly ing hooks on offense. He drew the 2 fouls but made only half the free throws.
I said he wasn't the reason the run started. If you wanted to point at one player that caused that run it was Neal. Tiago was lucky to be on the court when Neal hit a few shots. Congrats.
If you're trolling me well done.
This till the playoffs bro. Genius!
Go read Harlem's last post please.
Before tonight, he was 12-20 at home and 11-21 on the road.
And both Manu and Timmy put up some airballs - and how often does that happen? A lot of those 3's were wide open shots - so you'd expect them to take them. They just weren't falling tonight. I didn't watch the game, but I listened to WOAI - and many, many times I heard Bill Schoening say the ball went in and out - so they must not have been really bad shots.
lmao comparing tiago to bonner after bonners worse game of the year. slick.
Bonner was absolutely horrible tonight, much worse tonight than he has been all season thus far.
Splitter had positives and negatives tonight but definitely deserves more minutes.
Manny, you are matching Pop for worst performance of the night right now.
I'm pretty sure DPG is trolling me since I've already told him that I wasn't comparing Tiago and Bonner but the rest of you need to learn to read.
And you need to clean your glasses.
WTF Manny, why are you even trying to compare Tiago and Bonner?
Yep, splitter had mistakes but he did more good then he did bad. He played very well for a player that has not had time to gel and get into a rhythm from lack of minutes. He just looks rusty but still pretty good.
I just don't get how Manny can even start to compare Tiago and Bonner tonight. Just another Pop apologist.
Blows the mind, this does.
You've come a long way DPG. It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Pretty much the same feeling I get when Pop puts Bonner in to play some clutch D.
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