Manu_Forever would disagree.
I wonder if some of the fatigue is in the mind as much as it is in the body. For so many of the players to be gassed makes me think they think they are tired therefore they are. This is a place where Pop could make a difference by just referring to this point. Duncan almost looked like he needed to be in a wheelchair let alone on the basketball court.
Spurs need a low seed or to miss the playoffs entirely. Next year's draft is too good and we need a young superstar. Once Manu and Duncan retire, our next generation will perpetuate our mediocrity. And this squad doesn't have enough to win the le.
Thanks for the grades, Blair definitely held his own.
On my grading scale, I gave everyone F-- 'cept Splitter & Blair.
I just can not buy the back-to-back excuse on this one. The game the night before was a 25-point win and the big 3 only played 26 minutes each. Their travel was from SA to Houston. If they can not handle this, then how are they going to handle the season going forward?
Plain and simple: TD does not play anymore on B2Bs ... he should not even travel with the team if its only a 1 game road trip.
Except that leaves a total of two players taller than 6'7, and one of them is Matt Bonner.
The problem is we have no big men to play. Same problem goes for those wishing Bonner to be dropped / get injured. Cui bono?
Can you shut the up, please? As long as Duncan and Manu are on this team with Pop coaching, SA shoots for the finals. The West is wide open, and there's no reason to think we can't make serious noise. Arthur injured, no Chandler or JJ, loss of Odom, and Westbrick give us a good chance.
Players are just not in top condition yet with the limited preseason. It will be a big advantage at least early on for the teams that are resting a couple of days playing a team on a back to back.
So, after sleeping on it for a night....
Yeah, that game still sucked.
Scola
Bonner
The Rockets just couldn't miss last night while we couldn't buy a bucket. It happens.
I was surprised at how Dalembert had that much of an impact in the paint. Been a long time since we had that.
boston is letting their team try to dig them out of 17 and 18 defeifts
at the end of the season we can see if rivers or pop is the smarter coach
by the way boston lost both of their games they were down big
duncan got blocked alot last night
I think the team mailed it in. duncan is the leader
i always thought duncan wasn't being criticized enough last year because the team was winning so much so one cared. but this year, duncan's inadequacies will be largely magnified if the spurs don't win enough games.
Everyone deserved an F except Blair and Splitter tbh
Timmy's problem wasn't tiredness, couldn't have been.. which makes me wonder.
48MoH had an article about Tim going away from his bank shot. Since he's done that, he's been in a sort of limbo, looking for something. I don't know why he went away from that shot.
Bending the knees for the bank shot might be hurting his knees too much. I'm thinking something along these lines : (.
That stretch in the 2nd quarter when manu and duncan comes back to the game. It was brutal
The rockets couldnt miss, and they kept going to duncan and it took forever to setup, which resulted in TOs and baskets the other way. They ran that play at least three times in a row, and the lead ballooned for the rockets
Also, except for the first game where blair was in foul trouble, it doesnt seem like we're gonna see much of duncan/splitter frontline
The idea behind the banker was that he could drive and finish as well as swish the banker, so he put them into the torture chamber. When you have trouble beating your opponent off the dribble even when he plays you close, you lose the ability to put them into that torture chamber anymore.
Tim hasn't gone away from the banker.. it just isn't as viable as it used to be.
I wish pop would stop trying to reinvent the game of basketball with his big that can shoot the three. Get a 4th big already pop - if only to reduce the wear and tear in the early part of the season. Heck, maybe he'll be impressed with the play of this scrappy player.
The TV analysts on TNT were Barkley, Shaq and Kenny Smith. They were joking about how Duncan was going to be invited to a lot of block parties this year.
Looks like the retired players don't have much respect for Duncan's play this year.
Simple question:
If you replaced Bonner on this roster with Luis Scola, do we win the championship? How far do we get (difficulty: baseline is no playoffs)?
TD uses his bank shot as much as ever. On a per-shot basis, he uses it more than ever.
It's Duncan's lack of post-up game that drags down his scoring. I'm not sure he has scored so far this season off of 4-down.
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