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Those dirty assholes! Strong arming the damn media and the media being the typical pussies, being afraid of these bas s. Someone retweet these things all on twitter and repost on the Spurs facebook and news pages.
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K, what could Pop have done differently in 06 to bring a le that year?
Those dirty assholes! Strong arming the damn media and the media being the typical pussies, being afraid of these bas s. Someone retweet these things all on twitter and repost on the Spurs facebook and news pages.
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Who is this chump dumper? Who doesn't know that Pop put us in position to lose by playing small ball against Dallas? It's when this insanity first started.
It would have been a three-peat had he not screwed it up with that stupid crap..
I can't think of anything to refute this. He absolutely holds grudges (refusing to talk to Hank Egan for years because he wanted to help another young coach? good lord). He sure seems like he resents players and will manufacture excuses to be against them (Mahinmi is the poster child for this, and repeatedly claiming that Splitter was a cripple all last year). And of course he sneeringly spat upon the notion that Bowen retired of his own free will and then proceeded to have a 10-day contract scrub wear Bowen's jersey number, something the Spurs-related media shut their pathetic mouths on.
And it doesn't matter if it's the Express News and their drunk patsies, the buffoonish tv sportscasters with their bad tans, plugs, and frog faces, the awful sportstalk radio shows, or sites like 48 Minutes of . They are all too timid, ignorant, or Popwashed to ever objectively examine the Spurs and buck the party line because they risk ending up in line with O'Keefe.
This is possible. I certainly thought last year that Blair off the bench would be a wrecking ball against other back up big men and tired starters, but when McDyess got moved up it was the opposite. He had learned the fine Spurs tradition of quitting and dogging it on the court that had worked so well for Michael Finley, Brent Barry, and Hedo Turkoglu. Those guys should have never started ahead of Manu, ever, but Pop went for it.
Difference is that at least off the bench Manu still played starter's minutes. Splitter is getting damn Danny Ferry minutes.
It's strange. Blair's play turns to garbage late last year, while Splitter shined trying to salvage another Pop postseason debacle.
So how does this year start?
Blair is rewarded with the starting spot, not even an open compe ion. Then Bonner gets to start when Duncan doesn't.
Post of the frickin year so far. This is the frickin truth. Someone mass email this to every news org, I swear.
“He’s a big-time pro,” Popovich said. “He’s a workhorse, and a really fun basketball player to watch. He’s not gifted with a lot of skills, but he plays the game the right way.”
Lol so Splitter isn't skilled enough yet Bonner's t-Rex defense and Blair's hit or miss performances are skilled. Lol Pop treating Splitter like a D-leaguer when Blair and Bonner would be 5th bigs on any other contending team.
Don't do that! They have enough problems driving without checking their phones to read their email.
Keep the roads safe, people.
lol I used to get angry about sports too.
They wouldn't even be on contending teams! And I agree that Pop is just too damn stubborn to realize how stupid he is for not playing Splitter more, obviously he hates Splitter, starting Bonner ahead of Splitter says it all.
The only positive I see in this, is Pop still have time this season to steadily increase Tiago's PT. After all where only 1/4 into the regular season. I'd really freak out if we were in the tail end of the regular season or worst yet the playoffs and Tiago was still getting 20 min of playing time.
If you recal wasn't Dice avg less than 20min early in his first season, but ended up playing over 30 min in the playoffs, so it is still possible
December 7, 2010:
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...-playing-time/FACT: Spurs were destroyed in the paint against Memphis. Pop desperately tried to put Splitter in the rotation in the middle of this series.
December 29, 2011:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...ith-young-trioFACT: Splitter had 2 injuries last year. He missed the training camp and the first 2 games of the season because of a strained plantaris muscle. He missed 8 games, including the games where he got the injury, in February because of a hamstring injury. So, between playoffs and regular season, Splitter was healthy for 78 of the 88 games played.
January 21, 2012:
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...ext-to-duncan/
FACT: Bonner and Blair combined are playing 41:34mpg.
10 of those minutes 5 each from both players should go to Tiago. Period no excuses
this was something I touched a month ago re: Splitter's games last year after strange comments this pre-season from Pop and terrible McDonaldisms from McDonald.
The only issue keeping Splitter from playing the minutes he should is Pop's coaching. Not injuries, not supposed softness, not Bonner, not Blair, just Pop.Splitter was not injured most of the time. Nothing that would have kept him on the bench most of the year. He had a tough year because Pop made it a tough year.
He didn't dress for 9 games if Yahoo's boxes are correct. He played 60 and had another 13 non-appearances credited as DNP-CDs, which rings true to my memory. AND in the playoffs he spent the first 3 games with DNP-CDs on the bench.
RJ had a uva year, Splitter was hurt all season . . . the hits keep coming.
I remember last season when Pop made a similar comment----BEFORE--- Splitter arrived...
I had been watching Tiago play int'l ball and I was baffled to hear pop say this...I also thought it was not a smart thing to say...at least give the guy a chance....
A few popologists here sneered when I said Pop was crazy to be saying that ...cough cough chump,chazley, schtiiikkkk, cough...
These pop riders were arguing that Pop was right ...Splitter will never this...never that...mahinmi sucked...blah- in-blah...
It has been obvious to a few and now Pop is showing his ass....
I said Splitter is better than you think and he could help right away...but no...it was splitter is just a role player...a bench player...maybe 5-10 mins a game....
Where are the popologists and how great is Pop now?
The point hasn't changed. I tried to make it simple. You're the one who got obtuse and needed it explained to you like you're a moron. If there's a third per se, it would probably be 2011 since the Spurs were a number one seed and the Mavericks weren't all that good. A healthy Ginobili and Splitter in the rotation the entire season would have made a huge difference.
I think Splitter was used to a lot of teamwork to make his points, but in NBA that's not always the case. Most teams offense seems to rely on individual skills.
not playin him 30mins or being unfair to the playing group...whatever happen to earning your minutes?? fck pop has been overrated since the takeover...fck the veterans on the team for being chicken s just taking it like a goat and not standing up to the man tellin him whats wrong
So since you whined when I explained this to you, you've now moved on to asking the same question of other people? You don't really need this explained again, you're just mad that someone is bad-mouthing the coach, right?
Jesus, maybe he should request a trade -_-
One of the WTF quotes
If Tiago is not gifted with a lot of skills imagine Bonner and Blair...
Pop must wake up. Give Tiago 30 minutes or more. The less Bonner and Blair the better
Well, I guess Bonner counts as "skilled" because not only can he shoot the three, he also has his running hook-shot that almost never fails him.
Seriously, I have no idea why Pop doesn't see or doesn't want to see the benefits in playing Splitter more.
Yeah, Splitter looked tired at times in a couple of games. But how is he supposed to get used to playing closer to 30 minutes per game if he rarely gets the chance to do so? Sounds like a Catch 22-situation to me ...
Last night, Tiago logged in 32 minutes and looked physically fine to me.
It's a shame the Spurs don't have a hard nosed, NBA playing experienced assistant coach to perhaps try and convince Pop about what he is doing here. I can't imagine Budenholzer or Brown being the type to speak up a whole lot.
I'm trying to think if there has ever been such an injustice in recent NBA history as this? Seriously, there isn't a Spurs fan out there that believes Bonner and Blair deserve more time than Tiago... at the very minimum, he deserves the chance.
Pop don't want to risk an injury, I guess, and wants to keep Splitter motivated with the disparaging comments.
That being said this lost game is on Pop, when he subs uted Splitter with Blair. Not a big deal, as it's a RS game, but still a mistake.
The FO is doing some strange moves. It seems that players like Mahinmi or Scola were scoured by some who isn't liked by Pop and he want to prove them wrong. Or he doesn't like Ivanović from Baskonia and it's a shot at him. It's just ridiculous to hear something like "Splitter isn't skilled", when he dominated last night.
Must have been drunk or something.
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