Tim needed to pass it out when he got double teamed.Although he did well he still ended up shooting poorly. Not saying Bonner should've been in, but with how badly Splitter played offensively on top of Bonner not being in complete choke mode made the decision to keep him out there not as mind-numbing. When the games truly matter I fully expect Pop to go with Splitter.
So why do you have so much faith right now when you know Bonner will get mins now in the first round etc? Last years team at this point was miles ahead of this years team, MILES AHEAD!!!! I laughed when some said this team was better than last years early on, maybe on paper at some point and chemistry you would figure would grow! NOT NOW! This team is not a s of last years at this point, period.
Plus Tim has been beasting all season long right next to Tiago or Diaw. One can't shoot for from outside, the other is regularly too hesitant to take a shoot. Nobody was saying a peep about floor-spacing back then. At this stage using that card with Matty is trying to rationalize what makes no sense, tbh.
OKC is not beating Memphis???????? Are you serious????????
Yessir. Conley/Allen/Prince hold Westbrook and Durant to +/- 80% of their averages, Gasol and Randolph all over Abaka and Perk, Martin pisses himself, Griz in 6. Book it.
Memphis would compete if ZBo finds where the he left his game. With this ZBo they might lose in the 1st round, tbh
Take that to Vegas man, I would not bet on that to save my life right now. No way in . If you win money cool.
I agree, with Gay too! Z BO looks lost right now IMO! Good lord they might lose in round one as you said if he can't find his game! The other dude talking about they will beat OKC right now, well I would not bet on that right now at all lol, damn no!
OKC isn't losing, but ya, the silver lining is that the Spurs bracket would be the easiest it has been in years if they get Golden State/Houston and banged up Denver..
The bar coming into the season was set way too high. Players were overacheiving. This year, some of them have crash landed and its not looking good. If Splitter continues to play like junk, the Spurs better nott offer more than a two year deal because he won't be worth a bag of beans once Ginobili retires.
I'm afraid to play Memphis. If the Clippers fluke out with another series victory against Memphis it'll likely be a second round bye in addition to the first round bye we are obtaining.
For telling the truth ?
Suuuuuuure, meaningless game. Then maybe the Spurs shouldn't have tried to win.
And the west is full a lame ducks. There isn't a single team that is looking really good.
If Spurs can get some health, they have a legit shot at winning the west.
You sound awfully y for a team that needed overtime in the worst game of CP3's career, an injury to CP3, and bull reffing respectively to win the season series, tbh...
The way the seedings are falling into place is a minor miracle Imho... spurs couldn't have asked for a better road to the WCF. If I was Pop though I woukd try to avoid G.S because of TP not being 100%... let the young gun Leonard take the spotlight in the 1st round (defending Harden).
Pop/Health are the keys tbh, i am hoping that Pop doesn't truly believe that Neal can play at SF(or any position), or that Bonner will be useful in the playoffs...
Those are all excuses you make. You like doing that, don't you? Face it. There are only 2, maybe 3 teams that will come out of the West. My Thunder, the Spurs or the Grizzlies. The Clippers have no business being in the finals much less representing the superior Western Conference. That would be a slap to the face of basketball and the end of the world as we all know it.
Houston is better than GS. I can't believe there are people dumb enough to think GS is a legit opponent when Houston has the goddamn Spur killer playing for them.
In effect, Pop gave up when he and RC resigned Bonner a few seasons ago. They should've been searching for a real backup PF, instead of this perennial playoff choke artist. Overall, I'd say Pop also gave up when did go far enough to surround his Big Three with bettter role players - and this dates back as far as 2010.
This off-season is going to be quite interesting. And yes I'm already thinking about it.
The team we watched for the first half of the season has done an incredible Houdini act (thanks to injuries).
In turn, the injuries have derailed a significant amount of confidence from the best two play makers on the team. Manu wasn't the same when he came back in February and Parker is currently a s of himself. With those two not being able to be as effective ( yes I know Manu is hurt right now), its made life tough for the role players the past few months. With it being harder for the role players to score as efficiently (because their playmakers aren't as sharp), it has consequently made a negative impact on the role players' overall confidence.
Injuries have turned this contender into a pretender in a matter of a few months and it's pretty shocking and depressing. It all has to do with the domino effect of self-doubt (created by injuries), starting from the best play-makers on the team.
Confidence is everything.
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you could argue though that no role player would help enough when your core is this old and parts of it are unreliable (ie Manu's health, TP in the playoffs). I think Pop became too attached to them and has lost some of his hunger in the process. Kawhi has been like a blessing, but he will have to play amazing this playoffs for us to have a legit chance.
to be fair those dunks were on gasol/mwp not dwight, though im not sure dwight was on Bonner, or they just had him out during the 4th for free throw purposes. not sure tbh
you aren't alone. spurfan has been looking forward to this upcoming offseason for over a year, pretty much since the Jax trade which we know is opening up salary in conjunction with Manu's free agency as well as Tiago's.
It's a foregone conclusion that Blair is gone. He doesn't want to stay, the Spurs don't want him back. Neal is a question mark. He hasn't been great this year, and he would have been paid a lot more after last season than after this season. For this reason, I could see Neal staying. Pop seems to have trust in him. To be quite honest, I like Neal provided his role is well defined as a shooter and not as a point guard, and provided he isn't getting huge minutes. I'm curious to see what happens with Bonner. The Spurs FO seems to like him with his small defined role. They could buy him out for 1 mil or let him play for over 3 mil. Hopefully they bite the bullet and let him walk. Manu's value has plummeted with all his injuries this year. At the start of the season, I was expecting him to be signed for right about TD money or maybe for 7-8 mil per year, roughly half of his current contract. However, with his late season play-decline and typical myraid of injuries, I'd be shocked if he got more than MLE money. Tiago will probably get about 9 or 10 mil a year, and that means we'd have cash to make another acquisition.
Its going to be a big offseason, but I'm all for delaying that as much as possible. If Pop is confident that TP is fully healthy and was "just playing like crap" today, then maybe it'll light a fire under TP and he'll kick it into gear. If Manu has the first round to get his legs under, and Boris uses round 2 to get his legs under him, we should be good to go for our OKC showdown, provided we survive those rounds
The way TD has been playing, I just don't see us being bounced early
I know how the Spurs can get a le next season: Get rid of Pizza face (aka Pop) and have Mike B. coach. He seems to be hungry and wants a le, unlike Pop. Pop is afraid of Scott Brooks, Lionel Hollins, Erik Spo, and so on. All hungry and younger coaches. Pop is like Larry Brown, he already settled and set in his ways. Stuck on stupid. There's your answer.
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