ING joke. We won't get anywhere with that.
Now that RJ is gone, Bonner is my next target. I'm locking in on Bonner and won't relent. I don't want him playing at all even if he is still on the team.
If Pop is doing it to protect Tiago from injury for the playoffs, then he would have a valid point.
If not, you're right.
I kept wondering to myself what the does Jack think when he's on the floor with a pussy like Bonner while reminiscing back to '03?
Despite the loss, despite the rancid turd towers, we got rid of this piece of trash:
Richard Jefferson, in his first game since coming to the Warriors, played 38 minutes and had nine points on 2-of-14 shooting.
“There were some shots that I could have knocked down, but you win as a team and you lose as a team,” Jefferson said.
You need to write Pop... Manu was fine to play against OKC, AFAIK...
Tiago's points will be there in the playoffs. Bonner's will not. Tiago get easy baskets and draws the other bigs in foul trouble. Bonner does not. Tiago's scoring forces the other team to work harder on defense.
I wish Pop would go back to how he won before Horry. It's not like they never won games without a stretch 4. You can be a championship team without your power forward shooting 3's. Your power forward being able to make 3's is a bonus. You don't play a power forward just because he can shoot 3's.
People need to realize that Blair is a much bigger problem than Bonner. At least Bonner knows his limitations and spaces the floor for people. Blair makes like 15 mistakes a game on both ends and never learns. Blair HAS to play with Duncan because Tim is the only guy who can protect him even a little. Bonner can play with Tiago and they usually do fine. The +/- numbers aren't a fluke. There's a reason the starters get killed and the bench looks great. It's because the starters are stuck with Blair, who was a minus last night against OKC even though he scored 22.
They need to find another big to replace Blair. Bonner can still be the 4th big.
Truth bomb.
IIRC the warriors need to start dropping games in order to save their protected pick. We could very well see Jefferson averaging 40 minutes a game for the rest of the year.
Seems like Blair hasn't been playing as badly as he was earlier this season, like he found some spring to his step. Still just as dumb as a mule, but that'll probably never change.
It doesn't seem to honestly be stupidity TJastal just a total lack of self awareness as to how he can physically into the NBA. If you listen to him in interviews he's not dumb, I'm not saying he's Einstein or Stephen Hawking but he comes across as a person who is well spoken, and able to think analytically. What I don't think he is able to do is have the self awareness to figure out where he personally fits into the world. Honestly about 70% of the people in the world have this problem. Where he falls down a bit is in DeJuan Blairs head he is prime Shaq, Charles Barkley, and Chris Webber roled into one. He also has alot of evidence to support his self image, He's getting paid millions of dollars to start for a winning team in the NBA, through-out his life he's always (until very recently) been right at the top of the heap every time he touched a basketball. Till now he's been told because he was the best on his team to try harder and will himself and his team to winning.
Now he's in a different position, in the NBA the starters are all about equally talented, and he's shorter than most with questionable knees. He can't physically and athletically will his way to the top. How-ever that is exactly what 16 years of basketball training are telling him to do. To make matters worse the coaches need him to be confident, and be emotional and have energy, they just also need him to be thinking in the game and playing to his advantages, strong with good hands, able to take a position for a rebound and ensure its his rebound. Able to get between his man and the basket and be sure he's not going around. People will shoot over him and unfortunately defensive 3 seconds was created specifically to keep people built like him from making the game a jumpshooting contest.
If you ask him what the problem is right now he knows the answer and it comes with-in a split second. pop could ask him during a time out and he can explain. But when the game lights are on the crowd is cheering and the other players are moving at NBA speeds, he tries to go to hard and to fast and it makes him look bad. If he gets the ball in the low post near the exclusion arc with his back to the basket he should be able to back bump them once then take it up strong through them.same with any rebound its yours Dejuan grab it bring it to your chest then go right back up or just grab it and go up. Tipping it in isn't a good idea nor is trying to dunk off the hop. He's about power however whats going on in his head is I have the ball, I need to shoot it or pass it, not just hang onto it.
That's very true. If I had to choose between the two, I would rather have Bonner. There's only one problem though. Bonner still gets way too many minutes despite of how bad he's playing. I don't think Pop is as lenient with Blair when he makes mistakes. Pop doesn't have Blair close games with Timmy like Bonner does. I don't even think Pop looks at Blair as a major piece for the team, but only plays him because we are short on bigs and it will ruin Blair's confidence. Hopefully bringing in Diaw or Turiaf will trim one of these two's minutes. Bonner and Blair are valuable as 4th and 5th bigs.
Blair with a monster game against OKC = Bonner gets as many minutes and closes the game
Tiago with a great game against DAL = Bonner gets the bulk of the minutes, we close the game with small ball
Bonner (901 mins) and Blair (920 mins) are currently disputing who's the 2nd and 3rd big on this team...
+1
I have no idea why ppl are ing about Manu. From what I saw, he was vintage Manu last night, dropping 3 pt bombs and making slick passes.
I just wish Pop would keep him in the 2nd unit permanently as the 6th or 7th man off the bench to help bolster the 2nd unit. For a few reasons. 1. Health issues. 2. Parker is playing at an MVP level, and it is in the better interest of the team to spread both their minutes across the entire game.
Without the Tiago injuries it would be a lot closer to a 3 way split. Still not enough for Tiago but those stats are pretty flawed.
How are they flawed? Even at a 3 way split Bonner would still be well in the run for 2nd big...
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