If you can substantiate your claim with a link to any of my posts, please do so.
Otherwise it's a Chump fabrication.
List all your stupid nicknames for Spltter so I can put something in the search field.
Better yet, post a link to any basketball take you had regarding Splitter's game.
I will certainly concede that you never had an actual opinion regarding Splitter's game if that is the case -- let me know.
Last edited by ChumpDumper; 10-16-2012 at 01:16 PM.
That literally made me lol.
Splitter is the only player outside Tim that has any sort of defensive presence in the paint. Unless you guys are confident that Curry can protect the basket, prepare to see Tiago in there for about 20-22 minutes a night.
We built him up to be better than Dejuan Blair, Antonio McDyess and Matt Bonner. Last check, he's still better than all three. Pop admitted as much when he suddenly put him into the Memphis series after ignoring him most of the year.
Same with the LAL series - a 30 pt beat down turned around to a 30 pt win. Why Pop is in love with (choking) Bonner and leaves Splitter on the bench is a mystery to me. It's like clock work that Bonner starts missing as soon as April approaches.
Splitter sucks...
lol ignoring. Dude played almost as much as Bonner and Blair. Probably would have had he not been injured.
People still try to say he's got a great post game.
lol defending pop's stupidity for about 68,000 of your 70,000 plus posts
lol too preoccupied with your e-grudge for 100% of your posts to actually understand a simple sentence
People thought that the spurs were getting a player that had the makings of a traditional post presence, with above average mobility for his size and rebounding with adequate defense. He does have the above average mobility, but isn't strong enough to really have much post presence in the NBA. His defense is adequate but he has a tendency to wilt a bit against guys who want to be physical with him and post him up. The beginnings of a post game that we saw on highlights didn't really mature as he went up against physically comparable players though his good hands and mobility for his size make him a pick and roll assassin, (we really wish he would develop a sure 5'8' bunny jumper so that he could pick and pop in with that to really leave the other team guessing). His rebounding suffers because of his dislike of contact, and the fact he can be muscled out of position by most of the guys he faces regularly.
All that added in and you have a guy who is a sub-par starting center or a very good back-up center.
He is only starting his 3rd year in the NBA though and still definitely developing. Its just not at the pace the fans would hope for nor is he what in some ways early signs presented him to be. Part of this is that things he was able to do against 2nd and lower tier euro bigs he can't in the nba, part of it is false hopes on the fans part.
Once you add in the near constant nagging injuries on him that slow his development and make knowing weather or not he will be available at any given time and he does become something of a concern. Another part of this is no-one really knows if he is either fragile, unable to play with a hang-nail or simply unlucky, each of the injuries seems to be fairly legit, and you expect a guy to go down for a game or two a season with a rolled ankle, or a stiff back or neck from taking a hard fall. Each time you see that you go 3 to 5 games, and most players are out 2 and limited the next game; with Splitter its always 5 or he tries to come back in 3 is in effective and then sits 3 more 2 games later. I don't know weather to feel sorry for it, or tell him to suck it up and play when you are feeling 95% because you are rarely going to be at 100%.
3rd best big on the team. He should play 20-25 mpg during regular season.
Tim, Diaw, and Tiago, I presume?
All that fuss about nothing, if we didn't have him we would be wishing we did.
lol injured. lol almost as much. lol strawman. lol chump fail.
Are you saying he wasn't injured last season?
Yes or no.
Please answer.
Has Pop ever been sweet on Tiago? Don't think so.
What's last season have to do with Pop not playing him two years ago when he was completely healthy?
Oh, your last check was 2011? When he played more minutes than Bonner in only one game?
Obstructed indeed.
Tiago is overrated. I did it too. Might as well admit it.
Oh, your last check was 2011? When he played more minutes than Bonner in only one game?
Obstructed indeed.
Tiago is overrated. I did it too. Might as well admit it.
I'm not sure he's so much overrated as over anticipated. People seemed to be expecting a completed borderline allstar bigman, and instead got a rookie with tools to become what he was rumored to be. Now what I find maddening is that his development isn't even close to where I was hoping it would be, and I am starting to become a bit worried that this will be a case of squandered potential.
Pop isn't the right coach to develop a bigman. He can develop guards but what bigman have developed under Pop's watch?
More than likely this is ing true.
There was this rookie I seem to remember coming in right after Pop became head coach, I think he got MVP a couple of times or something like that.....
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