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You'll get that if SA drops both games against LA/Mem... , maybe even if they just drop the LA game.
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You'll get that if SA drops both games against LA/Mem... , maybe even if they just drop the LA game.
Tony plays tonight and the Spurs win but whatever. I guess even he needs rest also.
We should've played them, not a load of min just enough to get the W....Think had they have played just enough to get our bench out of bad situations this could've been an easy Win?...Plus we don't play again til Wed that is a good enough rest for anyone...Pop needs to realize OKC has a way easier Schedule then us and if we wanna get Home Court Advantage you will have to do these kind of things, even one of our BIG 3 would've been better than none?...
Terrible move . . . and I'd have said so before the game, had I been on. Everyone single player has had their minutes managed recently, almost all of them have sat out games in recent weeks, the Jazz are equally as fatigued and they get a day off tomorrow, yet they needed this one off, why?
When will this paranoid goof accept that, no matter how hard he tries to manage minutes, once the playoffs start, they're still going to be worn down throughout a series? There's irrefutable evidence of this from the previous few post seasons. The big three did not go up a level come the playoffs, despite manically having their minutes managed.
I can understand one of the back-to-back-to-backs and the last game or two, if they're locked into their position, but that's it. Why throw away home court, when you don't need to? They could probably win it while playing only Parker in excess of 30 mpg from here on out, but instead their coach would rather throw it away, to do something that's not going to help them come playoff time. I don't get it. Yet the masses will rush to his defense, because they've been brainwashed.
I was buying the hype that the second team could be as good as some first teams, but DIAW and JACKSON do not have it mentally to be starters. This was a horrible move by POP. The team was closing in on the BULLS for 1st place overall. And WTH, let your Princesses play. No one in the rest of the league is doing this. There is a reason Stephen Jackson gets traded every year, and there is a reason Paul Silas did not want Fat ass Diaw. He does not run the floor. Maybe Chip England can teach these guys how to shoot layups. layup drills and suicides for everyone, until they prove they want it.
WHAT DID I SAY IN THE 1ST COMMENT? Look at people's opinion now
We play with Parker this game and we win easily. The Jazz is pathetic. They had to get 33 FTs to beat our scrubs.
Have to admit to being a bit frustrated about this. I would have preferred we sat Tony yesterday and Tim and Manu today. The team is deep enough to get by with a split like that and Tony is still young enough that the one day off after playing one game would be enough rest before the Lakers game.
Instead we just threw this game away. Props to the rest of the team for keeping it close though even though they kind of fell apart at the end.
It's 1 game against the Jazz on a b2b on the road.WHAT DID I SAY IN THE 1ST COMMENT? Look at people's opinion now
We play with Parker this game and we win easily. The Jazz is pathetic. They had to get 33 FTs to beat our scrubs.
My opinion = stay healthy going into the playoffs.
I don't give a about anything else. Burning the guys out going for a 1 seed that they might not get is ing re ed.
Could Tony have handled it? I don't know and don't really care tbh.
The problem is we didn't have to burn Tony out. The simple solution was to rest Tony yesterday and let him play today.
The schedule only gets tougher as we go forward. There was no need to sit all three at once this early. Maybe in a B2B2B. But not like this against a team that is also coming off a B2B.
spurstalk shut down i heard,
There's a million ways to handle it and everyone will have an opinion on what the right way is. Thing is only 1 thing really matters these last 11 games and it's not winning out, getting the 1 seed, or beating the Lakers. It's staying healthy. Do Spurs fans have to be reminded about what happened to Manu after our 61 wins last year?
Could Pop handle it a different way and rest people different nights etc... Yes of course he can but at least he still has 1 goal in mind (which should be every Spurs fans goal right now) and that's to keep the guys healthy. If it costs us meaningless regular season games then so be it.
Jazz announcers said spurs should be fined.
I'm ok with this one. The scheduling is stupid. Spurs need a top 2 seed. They should get that with 11 games left and a 5.5 game lead.
Always support rest.
Sitting Parker, then making him travel those many hours, then play him 35 mins tonight would've been one of the stupidest things Pops ever done and that's saying a lot.
Well, in that case I guess we might as well sit the big three until the playoffs start. Don't want to risk them getting hurt.
On most the b2bs I would. At least Manu and Tim. As long as we are in no danger of falling past 2.
I would agree with you if all the other NBA teams sat their best healthy players for several games each season, but they don't. There's a HUGE difference between being concerned about health and obsessing over health. Pop obsesses. Too smart for his own good?
When arguably our best player has been hurt for 4 straight years in the playoffs I don't blame him.
I'd be fine with it if in the previous few playoffs it paid dividends; but it didn't. We all got our hopes up the previous two season's when we saw Duncan's minutes down at 31, then 28. Then the playoffs came and he didn't go up a level. In fact, last season, he went down a level. Blame some of that on his ankle not being 100%, but I don't think it greatly impacted him. Parker had his minutes at 32-33 and also went down a level, despite having no known ailments.
The point is, not having to play the big three 35-38 mpg to secure one of the top records is nice, but once you start getting down in the low 30's, I don't think it matters whether they average 28, 30, 32, or get a game or two off three weeks or five weeks before the playoffs. They're not suddenly going to have significantly more energy than their opponent(s) come the playoffs. All this micromanaging is not going to make a difference once again.
^That's your opinion and there is no way to justify it as fact.
One could say if you watched Manus minutes more last season (not played him against phx) he would have not broken his arm.
Kobe missin multiple games...
Waitin on that response...
All I know is that if Duncan,Manu or Tony go down then the season is over. Everything is done with so why push the envelope there?
Playing them less minutes reduces the chances of them getting hurt = fact.
I have a love/hate thing with Pops, like everyone else here, obviously, lol. I was in The Air Force, myself at one time like he was, and he micromanages the outta' every damn thing! Any one else who was in the military who has ever had a "Commander" like him... just....
How much more should they manage aka baby him? He's at minimum a top 20 player, who plays far less minutes than any other player even close to the top 50, other than Duncan.
That just proved, unequivocally, that if someone is injury prone, then there's nothing you can do to prevent it. You can take drastic measures and every type of precaution imaginable and it's still going to happen. So you're better off accepting it and not trying to manage it. I'm not saying play him 35 mpg, but this never playing him even 30 in a game and sitting him every few weeks, when he's already missed a ton of games, is nonsense.
He's injured. Derek Rose missed several games ... He was injured. D Wade missed games ... He was injured. Notice a trend?
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