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Bonner/Blair/Pop grades are too high.
Agree with everything else
Tony Parker A
Started slowly but turned it on and was hyper-aggressive in the comeback bid. Came up short but great effort.
Kawhi Leonard A-
Tenacious on D. Rebounded well. Made things happen on O. A bit erratic with decisions but played hard.
Danny Green B-
He’s still on fire on threes. Good D in transition. Terribad defensively in the halfcourt. Couldn’t handle screens.
Tiago Splitter C
Wasn’t physical enough in the paint. Poor on the defensive glass. Played well at times but too inconsistent.
Boris Diaw D+
Second straight poor shooting game. Really weak on the boards. Never found anything resembling a groove.
Gary Neal C+
Relatively decent. Actually hit a few shots and authored good passes. Transition D bad; halfcourt D adequate.
Stephen Jackson C+
Tried to carry slack with mixed results. Plus passing. Competed on D. Efficiency still a problem. Got tired late.
Matt Bonner B-
Did good work on D but lack of boards undid a lot of positives. Three-point accuracy returned.
DeJuan Blair B-
Another outstanding night rebounding-wise. Offense mostly a struggle but good aggression. Woeful on D.
Nando De Colo C
No playmaking to speak of tonight. Got benched for defensive mistakes.
Patrick Mills D+
Got his shot at backup PG. Didn’t take advantage. Impotent on O. Ineffective on D.
Aron Baynes Inc.
Checked in. Turnover. I think I’ve seen that before…
Pop C-
Yeah, let’s scratch the idea of using 4 different point guards in one game. Bigman rotation also odd.
Bonner/Blair/Pop grades are too high.
Agree with everything else
Looks like Baynes is on his way to earning a reputation.......not a good one though.
I think Patty's poor play on the offensive end was more Tony Parker's fault than it was his own. In the second quarter, for some reason, Parker got overly aggressive and began driving the ball in on almost every possession (hero ball style). As a result of Parker's increased aggressiveness, there was very little ball movement on the offensive end.
There is no excuse for Patty's poor defense though. He kept going behind screens instead of fronting them, and Bynum took advantage of this.
Last edited by Boomersgold; 02-08-2013 at 10:38 PM.
Splitter stepping up to stop point guard penetration
no one checks his guy and they get an easy drop off pass or offensive rebound
team still hasnt adressed this the entire time Duncan has been out
his D on Monroe was also either really good or really bad
he started off really strong stealing the ball and keeping position then other times hed get put behind him
only one who was able to contest his midrange shot and force him to put it on the floor
Greens defense gives him a C tbh
Pop should have tried Parker on Knight and Green on Calderon
Calderon uses more screens arguably but he isnt as quick and green has the length to contest
Blairs rebound numbers were padded off his own misses as usual and i dont think anyone will miss his stupid mistakes
suprised he didnt get the 3 second call in a game
the obvious push off leading to 2 free throws when Pistons were in the bonus and Blair jogging back smiling was vintage Blair
Jackson has been terrible everywhere but passing this season
Diaw is at least being aggressive which is a positive but his selection is what makes him so efficient
he did rush a few tonight that you normally wont see
Kawhi Leonard has been trying to show off a little more mid range game now that manu/duncan are out and they shoot the majority of the teams midrange shots
pop should be posting him up more
Agree. I think Patty was wide open on 3 or 4 times but tony had the blinkers on. Yes Patty was terrible tonight on defence. To me it semmed like Patty wasnt himself tonight? A trade coming up?
I was shocked when I saw Blair had 10 boards, didn't think he had a good game at all. He was horrible on offence IMO, took bad shots and missed easy ones.
Anything over C for Blair at this point is too much, IMO
Weak comment, tbh. (@ hero ball.)
Mills running the point by himself generated two points in the second quarter. Parker comes in next to Mills and they score eight points.
If Parker doesn't go hyper-aggressive, the Spurs got annihilated. He was the only player who could make a play tonight. Literally everyone else was subpar in that category. Who was the next best at making plays? I don't even know ...... Stephen Jackson? Kawhi Leonard?
31 points on 16 shots. Eight assists and one turnover. And yet he's pointed to as the problem. Amazing.
Baynes looked like he tweaked something going for that badly thrown oop from Mills at the end there.
Spurs not developing a post game or at least letting him iso a couple of times and pops reluctance to change things will bite them in the ass
if we play a team like the Lakers in the playoffs you have to abuse bad matchups
put ginobili in the starting lineup so nash cant hide on defense vs green
if he tries to put nash on leonard then it will be even more lol since he could just post him up with probably over a foot in length in that matchup
instead be content to sit with what is working and play his terrible lineups that include everything but that
Yeah, Mills wasn't great in this one. He was passive and never looked to score. Maybe being given inconsistent playing time has ruined what confidence he had gained during his Olympic campaign.Weak comment, tbh. (
Mills running the point by himself generated two points in the second quarter. Parker comes in next to Mills and they score eight points.
If Parker doesn't go hyper-aggressive, the Spurs got annihilated. He was the only player who could make a play tonight. Literally everyone else was subpar in that category. Who was the next best at making plays? I don't even know ...... Stephen Jackson? Kawhi Leonard?
31 points on 16 shots. Eight assists and one turnover. And yet he's pointed to as the problem. Amazing.
Why does everyone seem to think that the word "hero ball" has negative connotations to it? I use it to describe when there is little ball movement, and a player puts it on his shoulders to carry the scoring load, which may or may not be bad depending on the player that is playing "hero ball". I had no problems with Parker playing hero ball, tbh, as he was the only one capable of slicing the Pistons' defense.
About 5 minutes of Patty's 7 minutes was played with Parker. What I meant was that you can't criticize someone (not only Patty) for not producing points when Parker's taking most of the shots.
Yeah that turnover had nothing to do with Baynes, it was just Mills trying to make something out of literally nothing.
Pop will have to think twice about playing Baynes in a league where such dangerous passes occur.
happens, suck it up and move on.
What's it going to take for Splitter to be more assertive on offense in most, if not all, games? Perhaps a large can of spinach or even whatever they gave Drago?
i was surprised baynes played so little. you'd think his physicality would've helped in the rebounding department...
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im not pro baynes but im sad that pop did not gave baynes more minutes to gave us some box out and possible rebounds, the pistons destroyed us in rebounding 33 against 49 with 15/49 are offensive rebounds resulting to putbacks so thats all in all + 30pts some of with and 1, when we are having a run and the pistons missing some shots their front court just outrebounded as resulting to putbacks/3pts/or 3 pt play which really hurt us....
splitter just dont have the upper body strength to box out greg monroe
blair/diaw were just too small to contest monroe on rebounds its like greg monroe vs. a guard
on SJax - i think that fractured finger are getting to his shots, his in a shooting slump lately especially missing those open 3s which was a walk in park for him before.
green/kawhi - bright future of the spurs their very good defensively and offensively
neal - i think its a very bad idea letting neal handle the PG he really chokes alot especially when getting pressured by other guards which is almost always resulting to a turnover or a bad play, when neal and green were both in the floor our team is out of sync because they play the same position as a SG, i hope pop could device a rotation that would let neal to be an exclusive SG because ball handling wise his really poor compared to NBA standard but shooting the ball even with a fast break 3 pts im all hands on this guy.
Nice grades. It seemed like the good guys were fighting up hill the whole damn game, and they were. Detroit's ability to penetrate tore up the Spurs. Need to bounce back hard to have success in the next two, likely need at least Manu or Tim, or both. That "cowboy" pass that Mills tossed to Baynes either slipped out of his hands, or maybe he needs to be sent to Austin in lieu of Joseph, who wouldn't throw something so dumb. Pop going with Diaw and Blair was ..........nope.
Seemed like the game plan early on was to get Boris involved and aggressive.
Not really his game, imo. He's more of the type that needs to have the game come to him.
A game in which Blair is the leading rebounder and Bonner is gifted extended minutes tells you all you need to know about where Pop's head was tonite.
That's it, isn't it? I didn't even see the game; I just followed it on the yahoo box score. Splitter is probably the fifth best player on the team, frequently scores through pick and rolls and can cause a lot of damage to the opponent on both ends. But we already know this. So the question is: why don't his teammates know this? Instead, with just Splitter on the court sans Duncan and sometimes Parker, they actually prefer to shoot from the outside.
So what the is wrong with this picture?
Thanks for the grading, as usual. It seemed as if I watched the whole game within a couple of minutes.
Just a sidetrack (please direct me to relevant link if it exists), why there's no/seldom grade E between D and F?
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