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That about covers it
Here goes mine:
1. Watching the Spurs get abused in the paint/early playoff exit
2. Lack of playing time and development of Tiago Splitter
3. Too much playing time for Blair/Bonner/RJ
4. RJ getting pwned by less talented scrubs
5. Pop's inexplicable rotations
6. Timmy's decline
7. Manu's injury
8. Spurs' late season decline
9. Jason Terry is still playing on into the conference finals and maybe into June
10. Tony Parker's breakup with Eva
Let's hear your top 10?
That about covers it
#9 I think is #1 to me lol, I seriously hate that dude. You covered it though.
1. Pop
2. Bonner
3. RJ
4. Hill
5. Pop
6. Bonner
7. RJ
8. Hill
9. Tony vs Conley
10. Pop
The happiest day was when RJ opted out
The saddest day was when we gave him a 39m/4y contract
Fair weather fans. That's always a disappointment but it's the nature of the business.
Yeah, can't stand the NBA.com headline with Jet in flying mode "Ready to Take Flight".
Yeah Conley v. Parker - forgot that one. Agreed, ugly and sad how Conley schooled him.
Are you re ed?
No one in this thread has given up on this team. The people here are disappointed. You got your post, now stay the out.
It's just dmc, most of the time no one really knows what he's talking about. At least he's not as butthurt as he used to be.
I think alot of posters haven't quite grasped the enormity of the Spurs collapse in '10-'11. I'll put forth 5 reasons.
1) They had the best record in the league from the 2nd week of November until the final day of the regular season.
2) They were on pace to win 70 games as late as after the all-star break, breaking their own franchise records for fast starts all throughout.
3) Not only did they get mauled by the 8th seed in the playoffs, that 8th seed actually tanked games just to get the opportunity to play the mighty Spurs in the 1st round.
4) Dejuan Blair transformed from being a contributing player who started the first 63 games allthewhile compiling a .820 winning percentage in the process, to then inconceivably being regulated to DNP-CD in the final playoff games. (Seriously WTF Coach Pop?!?)
5) Will we ever be allowed to believe the Spurs are legit going forward if (in the unlikely scenario) they have another league leading record run during the regular season?
You know what I take it back, because I doubt very seriously there were more than 10 people on this board who truly felt the Spurs could win the championship at ANY point of this past season. It was a house of cards if there ever was one.
When's the draft?
I agree with pretty much everything here. However, it's not fair to single out Blair alone.
The whole bench got punked, save Neal. Bonner, Blair, and Hill. It only got worse; RJ went back into the closet and Splitter didn't get a chance to play.
I'm gald the Spurs didn't win 70 games and run into an 8th seed tanking to get them. But that tanking 8th seed just forced game 7 vs. OKC and could beat them and Dallas also. Get over it.
1. Bonner's ultimate fail from reg season to playoffs
2. Insertion and continual worthless play from Mcdyess.
3. Inability to score and not setting SPURS up to make up for lack of scoring (keeping Mcdyess in, running shot clock down, trying to command post game)
4. Forgetting what won us 60+ games
5. Pop killing momentum from bench by reinserting starters.. McDyess when we need scoring.
6. Parkers continual struggle with being a PG
7. Needing scoring and watching RJ and Bonner out-minute Gary Neal
8. Needing athleticism and watching Blair get DNPs and Tiago not get any experience
9. Needing excitement and watching Mcdyess shoot 3 elbow j's and being a stander and a worthless picker/cutter
10. Knowing that all of this would happen again in the playoffs, calling out bonner, pop, McDyess the whole season and getting reamed when we were in the single digits in the loss column.
11. Reading posts about how great a player is by using +/-.
12. Reading posts about how great players are since pop plays them
13. Reading posts that instead of responding simply call names and avoid using logic
14. Trying to discuss basketball with people who dont understand how to effectively rate a players performance by watching a game because they have never played at a high level or coached.....
Good list. I agree with it being a collapse to some extent, but where's the smoking gun article on the Grizz tanking?
Tony Parker being thouroughly outplayed by Conley would be pretty high on my list.
That was a good list.
On the subject of tanking, I don't know if there was an article, but I remember watching some highlights of their last two games. Certainly the Grizz featured some very non-traditional lineups. Grizz head coach Lionel Hollins took some media heat because he elected to bench his starters for the Grizz final 2 games of the season. Because the Hornets and Grizz were battling it out over the final 2 spots, at the time, many media members questioned why Hollins wasn't trying to obtain a higher seed? When asked about it, he implied he was preserving the health of his team and bristled at the notion of "tanking". He went so far out of the way to dispell the notion, it certainly would cause one to wonder.
In the end, if the Spurs were really that offended by the apparent notion, they were powerless to do anything about it. If the Grizz did indeed tank those final games, just to draw a favorable matchup with the Spurs, the results of that series certainly proved prophetic on their part.
1 through 10- Nothing changed from previous year.
spurfan loves to wallow.
Guilty much? I didn't make accusations here. No one in this thread is guilty of not playing Splitter either.
I'm not the one here posting about being butt hurt and listing the reasons.
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The large majority of sports writers haven't played or coached. Players are not experts at discussing the game. Post game interviews should be example enough of that. Many can barely walk and talk without falling.
The return of Guiseppe!!!
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