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Buy Bonner's contract out.
And it looks like teams are attacking Bonner more than ever. And now he often plays with Blair it make things even worse.
Buy Bonner's contract out.
K, thanks.
if they keep playing like that, its a second round exit guarenteed.
focusing on offense is crazy laughable, the defense is the culprit here.
-man to man defense has to improve, with the Spurs constantly helping someone is wide open all the ing time!
-perimeter d is getting shredded
-post defense aka putting your hands up and still getting called on fouls is not working.
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the Spurs don't need much work on their O, the D is horrendous and isn't anywhere it should be for a Championship contender.
Good coaches will force that on you... today Pierce was roaming on defense when he was supposed to be guarding RJ... then Doc was forcing everything to go through Neal...
If you're a coach, you would take Bonner or Neal beating you every time over TD/TP/Manu...
Even though Splitter's offense is inconsistent, I would rather have the Spurs running pick and rolls, as opposed to pick and pops..shooting 45%+ from 3s is nice, but it's meaningless when you give up all the points back on the other end..
bench manu
start splitter
change everything TBFH..this team needs a drill sergeant to run them through the ground with discipline and non-pussification. They are a bunch of lazy, weak, 3 point shooting gots, that HATE playing defense, and head Pop is perfectly OK with the status quo.
Month into season: well, yeah we're playing well now, our offense is looking good, but we gotta improve the defense, we look rusty, but it's early so we have a ton of time
2.5 months into season: At this point, our 3point shooting and offense (Neal and Bonner having breakout years out of nowhere) is really the reason we're getting by, we're just unstoppable on offense. But we really do need a lot of work on defense, still a lok of work to do
4-5 months into season: Again, the defense still needs to improve
Tonight before game interview with Tony Parker: our offense is fine, we just need to play better defense
What, the, ???? Are all of you ers playing some sort of joke?? When the is the ing defense gonna come already???
--> I know the answer: It isn't, period. It hasn't all season, what makes anyone think it every will? These gots are too old, lazy, and too pussified to play consistent, hard nosed defense. They only love things that come beyond the arc.
Oh well, at least we're close to regular season champs!!!!!
Try again with first round exit.
Go back in time and dump 's expiring for Gerald Wallace.
Defense & rebounding. You go with the players who will help in this dept, and that doesn't include Blair/Bonner.
Splitter is the best option. Dice looked OK at times, but he's still too undersized and immobile for extended minutes.
If we're just gonna be shooting 3's, then give Novak a run... couldn't possibly be worse than Matty atm...
Splitter needs to play. Duncan needs to get more looks. The Spurs need to mix it up on O. TP and Manu are asked to run every play when Duncan is still a very capable scorer
Bonner needs to be sent to that great big sandwich shop in the sky, tbh.
lol I love knee jerk fans
Yank the first dude who takes more 3 pointers than 2 pointers and continually yank them until they realize that they first need to run an offense to get good shots. I get that RJ & Matt are open, but if that first 3 doesn't go it, take the ball in closer, get a feel and then go out to the line. The only guy I wanting shooting multiple 3's is Ginobili because you know what, he does so much on both sides of the court, he's earned Carte Blanche. But what have Bonner & RJ done to merit the same amount of shots?
You are not alone with this.
I've said it before. If you haven't seen any moment the spurs played great D all season, you not gonna see it in the playoffs. It's not a switch that you can flip. Because there is nothing to switch on.
Here's one: Bench Jefferson and play D. Green. Jefferson sucks and everyone knows it. The guy can't even dunk anymore without clanking it. It's like he's forgot how to attack the rim.
2nd round?!?!?!
Spurs are in a situation where they have to win all of their remaining games and only have 1 more loss from this point on. The room for error is very small now. Spurs really need to win every game they play between now and the lakers game to ensure they have a cushion in case they lose to the lakers to avoid a tie breaker scenario.
Spurs suck yeah, but I think they can take an inexperienced Portland or Memphis team but it will probably take 7 games. And we will lose to OKC in the 2nd round.
Remember a month ago when Jefferson didn't suck donkey ?
I'm as big of a Popovich fan as anyone, but one thing I would kill to see is I wish he would have a shorter chain on guys when they suck on defense on a given night. I can understand giving guys a longer chain on offense so they're not looking over their shoulder every time they miss a shot. But on defense, when a team is exploiting a single matchup such as when Bonner was being prisonraped repeatedly tonight, get the guy out of there, and get someone in who can move his feet and keep his poise. Same with RJ and boxing out. If you're falling asleep at the wheel on basic boxouts (like he did early and often with Pierce), sit his ass down. Letting the opponent exploit the same weakness to big leads is dumbfounding to me. I'm not sure what the point is.
And yeah, I love to see more minutes for Splitter and Novak over Bonner and RJ. Pull the trigger on that already.....
I still believe but I think the key is the coaching staff reacting quicker to failings on defense and boxouts and holding guys accountable game to game.
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