The horror of exploring the stats between Bonner and Blair over the past 5 games...

[ElNono]

Bonner's stats over the past 5 games:

Rebounds: 3.2
Points: 5.8

Thoughts?

What do you find surprising about that?
These are his career regular season numbers:

Rebounds: 3.5
Points: 6.8

He's definitely in regular season mode... his career playoffs numbers are:

Rebounds: 2.3
Points: 3.6

[SequSpur]

this is a stupid comparison and dumb topic.

the spurs have no other options for starters because mcdice is gone....wtf? do you guys even watch the in Spurs or what?

[SequSpur]

plus it's exploration

[therealtruth]

Most shoot first point guards eventually start playing shooting guard. Blair is excellent as an off the bench energy player. Bonner's slow release makes him useless in the playoffs. You're not getting wide open 3's in the playoffs. And if the defender can force you off the line and you can't make them pay there's no point.

[ElNono]

As far as Blair, he's simply not tall enough

[will_spurs]

Let's compare player #1 and player #2.

Stats per game, 2011-2012 season after 11 games:
size: 6-11 vs 6-10
minutes: 20 vs 17.5
points: 8.3 vs 4.8
FG%: 71.4% vs 39.2%
rbds: 5 vs 2.8
steals: 0.5 vs 0.1
blocks: 0.5 vs 0.2
TO: 1.2 vs 0.2
fouls: 3.5 vs 0.7

Not sure about money but I'd say player #1 makes about 25% of player #2's salary.

Which one would you rather have on the Spurs roster?

[mathbzh]

Let's compare player #1 and player #2.

Stats per game, 2011-2012 season after 11 games:
size: 6-11 vs 6-10
minutes: 20 vs 17.5
points: 8.3 vs 4.8
FG%: 71.4% vs 39.2%
rbds: 5 vs 2.8
steals: 0.5 vs 0.1
blocks: 0.5 vs 0.2
TO: 1.2 vs 0.2
fouls: 3.5 vs 0.7

Not sure about money but I'd say player #1 makes about 25% of player #2's salary.

Which one would you rather have on the Spurs roster?

I might know who is player 1

[Amuseddaysleeper]

What do you find surprising about that?
These are his career regular season numbers:

Rebounds: 3.5
Points: 6.8

He's definitely in regular season mode... his career playoffs numbers are:

Rebounds: 2.3
Points: 3.6

My issue isn't really with Bonner's stats themselves, he's expected to have poor stats since he's a poor player. My issue is how similar Bonner's numbers are to Blair's while averaging less minutes. Considering that Blair is a starter and what our expectations were for him, this is quite a bummer.

And Sequ, if the Spurs have no other options then maybe they should start looking for some sooner than later. Not saying that they aren't, but they need to find a way to get a 5th big some playing time since the stats our current bigs are putting up besides Duncan/Splitter won't be too hard to match.