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I saw him try to dunk it once against the blazers. Too bad it didn't work out.
Some of these JA fanboys are so diehard it's funny.
I saw him try to dunk it once against the blazers. Too bad it didn't work out.
guys, can we leave the starting 5 as it is and have the 2nd with neal, manu, jackson, diaw and splitter? any thoughts?
He might have some bench value, but he shouldn't be starting. If he had trouble defending the paint against the hornets, those problems will be
magnified 5-fold against the big western conference contenders come playoff time. Problem is though, he's really most effective in the first 5 minutes of the game (probably as far as his attention span can handle). Going to be interesting to see what Pop does with him.
Hilarious that some JA fanboy would say that. Anderson was denied by... the rim!
That's clutch defense.
Absolutely. This could have been the classic 'trap' game against a bad team. Be thankful we still had enough horses to win this, even without key players and a lack of focus, cause at the end of the season, it's not how you played the game but if you won..
Parker I think was consciously not doing his usual aggressive drives to the hoop. He admitted after the game he did not have his usual explosiveness due to the tightness in his leg. But his series of jumpers in the 2nd half kept the spurs in the game. And he had some marvelous assists.
I wouldn't say he is worthless, I think he is being used improperly as a starting center, but with the lack of bigs, the Spurs have little choice.Because all the Spurs experts on this messageboard say he's worthless so they must be right.....
I have a hard time with the grades for Duncan and Parker. Parker, on a bad hamstring, played 39 minutes to Duncan's 31. In that time, he scored at a higher percentage shooting than did Duncan, had zero turnovers and ten assists.
But he got a lower grade than Duncan.
I agree that it was a terribly ugly game by both teams.
I don't agree that Parker's grade should have been less than Duncan's. If anybody on the team was shooting at anywhere near a normal level ( good grief we only made less than 20% of our three pointers) Parker would have had about 20 assists. As it was, on a gimpy leg, he accounted for about 1/3 of the point total for the spurs combining points and assists...and he played longer than anyone else.
Give the man credit for playing intelligently enough not to make his injury worse during this tough stretch of games.
We absoltely won't see a Tim/Tiago combination until Pop goes into panic mode in the playoffs. Which I'm estimating could be as early as game 3-4 of the 1st round.
It's not like we have Chamberlain to start with Duncan and Kevin freakin' McHale coming off the bench. The team doesn't have very many true bigs. He needs to recognize that we don't have the luxury of treating Tiago like a 3rd or 4th big. My goodness.
I assume that's why they got Diaw. Before Pop could use the tired argument he didn't have any other bigs. But with two rotation worthy bigs in Splitter and Diaw he should try to minimize Bonner and Blair.
If Blair is so bad then and you start Tiago, then that weakens the bench don't you think? Then who do bring in as a big off the bench to spell Timmy, Bonner, Diaw?
Since when is Diaw a big, he is pretty much the same size as SJax and I don't consider him a big either. I consider them versatile wing players SF and PF's.
And if this doesn't happen, will you admit your a dumb ?
Freshman year in college in a university that includes people from all over the state and country is like 0 - 0, first quarter, opening tipoff, a second chance at social life basically. And if you get involved in social gatherings and you've got such potential to be successful as I do with my smarts and guitar playing ability then cool guys and beautiful women will flock to you and check you out and other guys will be left with droppings.
My guess would be since the year he started at center when Amare was hurt.
I know when I want an unbiased opinion on DeJuan Blair I got to the guy with "Blair needs to GTFO" under his username.Horse- . Do you even watch the games anymore?
Needless to say, the Hornets scored the majority of their points in or near the paint with Blair on the floor and in a 4th quarter where Blair barely played we only gave up 15 points the entire period while holding them to <30% shooting.
Noted.I know when I want an unbiased opinion on DeJuan Blair I got to the guy with "Blair needs to GTFO" under his username.
But Blair's deficiencies aren't new to anyone except the most obtuse Dejuan sympathizers.
True. Blair is a bottom 10% defensive player in the NBA ... which made it so surprising that he was the team's best defender last night coming out of the gates. It was a low bar but still notable, IMO.
Not true.
Defense was a lot better when he was out in the 4th quarter.
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