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That is scary. Blair was beasting in his first year. Hopefully he is just having mental or weight issues. He is such a fun player I'd hate to see a shortened career for him due to injuries.
I would't be surprised if his lack of dunking is to put in relationship with some medical advise...after all, with his knees situation, the high Jumping and coming down are the thinghs that can really hurt, in the long run, his knees.
That and probably :
1) Pop asking to put more attention on defense (that I see improved this year since last one);
2) Blair understanding that dunking is not the favourite move by Pop
can explain the total "change" in De Juan approach to the game.
That said, I still can't understand what we're waiting for signing some other bigs (actually we lack two) considering :
1) Tim's age;
2) Splitter supposed fragility;
3) Blair knees and not so wonderful offensive year;
4) Bonner impossibility to play in the paint...
no one that could really help and just waiting the trade deadline? However, I think that could be too late for anyone to adjust to our system ...
That is scary. Blair was beasting in his first year. Hopefully he is just having mental or weight issues. He is such a fun player I'd hate to see a shortened career for him due to injuries.
Theres really not alot of bigs out there. I'm hoping the Spurs make a trade, or maybe pick up a big another team waives. But its starting to look like the Spurs will roll with what they have now.
Wow, crazy stat. Nice find.
Surprisingly, his FG% at the rim is better than in the two previous years:
http://www.hoopdata.com/player.aspx?name=DeJuan%20Blair
Another really bad stat about Blair is when he is playing PF, the opposite PF scores 20.6 points per 48 minutes with a .516 eFG%. Blair is clearly outmatched by most of the NBA starting PFs. It will tremendously hurt Spurs in the playoffs and the front office better do something about it if they want to make something relevant this year.
It is a typical Pop move!
We all know, if Pop hates two things, its behind the back passes and dunks.
Blair is just rying to keep his job!
Blair is the primary component holding Spurs le hopes down IMHO. I am no expert on FO stuff but if we can trade him, let's do it already.
I think that the FO staff are looking for many options.
Blair is valuable when aggressive and hits the board like machine and finishes close to the rim. If this aspect of the game is down this season his value goes down to the point that the spurs produce a big hole that the opponents can expose and take advantage of
He seems to have made a decision to do as many quick release shots & reverse layups as possible.
@ Solid D's sig.
It would make sense to start playing him a decent amount, get his trade value up and then let him go. Not only is he one of the best bargains in the league, but he's not going to resign here; he hates Popo .
First dunk tonight.
I don't think there's much to say other than he's clearly lost some athleticism.
But he played decent offensively tonight.
And another knee scare
he's just learning Pop's system
His body weight is around 275 right now. It's hard to get up 6'7" 275 in the air to dunk.
I think it's a save the body move. Like what they tried to do to Manu but then Manu reverted back to his,"this is how I play" maneuver.
just threw down a scary dunk tonight
As embarassing as it was to have Sean going on about DeJuan's completely stock standard 2-hand dunk, DeJuan just had another dunk.
Feels like all of a sudden he is getting a dunk every game. I would say he has had 6-8 in the last 2/3 weeks.
He's had at least one dunk a game since the OKC game.
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