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Manu's eye was getting swelled in the bottom part when he sat down... hopefully it's just a hit...
Manu Ginobili took a shot to the head late in the fourth. Looks like it was in the eye area. After the game, he went to go see the Kings doctors. No word yet on his status for tomorrow night.
Stephen Jackson missed the game due to illness (stomach flu). Tony Parker and Kawhi Leonard were both sick but played. Matt Bonner was sick but in uniform (he didn't play).
Manu's eye was getting swelled in the bottom part when he sat down... hopefully it's just a hit...
Manu getting swatted in the eye by Cousins was a good excuse to bench him for the rest of the quarter. He was absolutely awful tonight.
when he got hit, he was in front of parker who was on the bench....maybe parker was thinkn, yeh now u know how i feel when i got hit at the club ....
parker had no business playin tonight with the flu, he think he jordan tryin to play a flu game...theres nothing to prove out there...
I was also wondering why he was there even after Patrick Mills turned his inner Dana Barros early on.
Would be nice for Mills' streak to extend tomorrow in Portland.
Parker needed to play because this was a winnable game and odds are Tony is sitting tomorrow
Gutsy road win with everyone being ailed by something. Makes me worried whether they have anything left in the tank for the Portland game...
Damn. I'm hoping for selfish reasons that no one sits tomorrow.
Gonna be in attendance at the Blazers game.
If it means Millsanitty gets to start and rips Lillard...
tlong must be tin himself if mills is going to expose the blazers tomarrow breaking a few legs out there also
we're not winning tomorrow unless we shot lights out from downtown... we're too soft at the moment to compete with a physical team like Portland
they're not winning tommorow cause they will sit duncan, parker, manu, and possibly jackson
Yeah but Portland has no bench. Last season we were able to win games with the big three all sitting out because of the pure offensive energy of Patrick Mills. Hope to see an encore of that.
How is Portland a physical team, tbh?..
They are the 2nd worst team in the NBA in interior scoring and defense, and they don't have any particularly physical players..
Luckily, Portland has the worst bench in the NBA..
We forfeited a 10+ game win streak at an @Portland game last season as well when we sat our big 3 and subsequently lost by 30 IIRC.
I almost feel like we might as well sit Manu until there's about 10 games left in the season. Maybe he wouldn't be injured when the playoffs come around that way.
He's also be utterly useless and out of rhythm, not to mention his teammates wouldn't get a chance to get used to his passing on the offensive end.
(I know you were exaggerating, obviously).
I'm also not entirely convinced of this "preserve the tank for the playoffs" hypothesis where Popovich routinely plays Ginobili in the high 20s/low 30s during the regular season and then suddenly expects him to play 36-39 MPG during the playoffs. Yes - playing Ginobili limited minutes during the regular season certainly mitigates the chance of injury, but it also undermines in-game conditioning/stamina.
How often have we seen Ginobili extended well beyond his regular season MPG routinely shoot 3 point attempts just short because he's winded near the end of games?
I'd like a better balance of limiting the potential for injury but making sure (particularly during the last 15-20 games of the regular season) that Ginobili is given sufficient minutes to develop his conditioning in game.
Not talking inside. I'm talking in the perimeter, where Batum and Matthews like to play physical and intense, especially at home. With Tony ailing and guys like Neal, we don't have much to match up that intensity. Jack would help but he's been sick and Batum is just way too athletic. Like I said, the game is winnable if we shoot lights out from downtown or Portland has his annual knee injury.
c'mon dude, are you afraid of jj hickson and liliard?
read the post right above yours
what's the problem with green and kawhi playin batum and wes? I like those two players a lot, but it is pretty close with our duo, and we have the edge everywhere else so ... I'm not sayin we'll win, but I wouldn't accept giving up from the start even if it was Jordan's bulls.
That they play nearly 40 mpg... and, as I said, they like to tough it up at home. I'm not saying the Spurs should just roll over and die, but I'm being realistic with the expectations, especially on a back to back and playing at their place.
that's why we have the best bench, to be able to play b2b with good enough energy.. they are 2-3 and 1-1 at home, i'm not scared of them even a bit, and i think spurs fan really underrate our role players..
So you're assuming everyone available plays to the best of their capabilities... doesn't seem like a smart bet. It's not a matter of not believing in the team or thinking Portland's players are better than ours; it's a matter of understanding the variables and that everyone won't be up for every single game of the season, and that's fine.
our bench has been ridiculously inconsistent, tbh... even Gino.
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