Don't ever talk about Danny that way in my presence.
exactly. Green was absolutely HORRIBLE last season, but he showed up on the playoffs
I became a fan in the early 90s. I went thought the injury riddled 20-62 season. That was rough. I couldn't watch any of the games, but I still followed the team. Each game I thought, maybe we can win this game, maybe we can win a few games and get on a bit of a run, maybe we can get into the playoffs and D-Rob and Sean will be back. I thought the team played hard, but they simply just didn't have the talent to win games. That was a real tough season. As soon as Tim retired some people wanted to rebuild, but I thought back to that season and thought there is no way that I want to rebuild with the talent we have on this team. No way do I want to flush the season down the toilet. I just don't know what certain fans around here are thinking. Even if the Spurs rebuild, there's no guarantee that they'd even get back to the level of this current team, and if they do, it might take years. Why the would people want to do that? Why not take a chance with the talent we have and try and win now. It's crazy to just blow it up. There's no guarantees of anything doing that. ing spoiled fans for sure.
Simmons should get a real chance in the starting lineup regardless of green injury...
would've preferred it was tony who had to miss 3 weeks tbh.
such a bold, risky comment tbh
This is the question I've most been wondering about. If Anderson starts then who plays SF on the bench. Keeping Simmons or Forbes in the spot seems best for the rotations. It's going to be interesting.
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...rsus-warriors/
Pop on Danny's significance:
Manu:“He’s probably more important to us defensively against a team like that than he is offensively,” Popovich said. “He is going to make shots or miss shots, but at the defensive end, he has really been important for us. And against a team that runs offense so well like Golden State, that will be a challenge (to face the Warriors without him).”
Pop again:We will miss his defense in this game, particularly, because he is one of our top defenders and can guard multiple positions,” Ginobili said.
With Green out, backups Kyle Anderson and Jonathon Simmons are expected to have greater roles. Anderson started in place of Green last Friday when the Spurs beat the Rockets in the preseason finale.
“We’ll spend a lot of time trying to get them to be a little bit more consistent (defensively) because they are going to get minutes,” Popovich said of Anderson and Simmons. “And they are not going to be end-of-game kind of minutes. They are going to be important (ones). So we will see after the first seven, eight, nine, 10 games if they are really picking everything up and being consistent at the defensive end.”
There we go.
Don't lose your money...
Don't make me more depressedAnd don't forget as well opening tim Tim Duncan won't be hugging that ball anymore
KD's playing off the ball and getting a ton of great looks, he was on fire in the last preseason games, even their rookie looks good... They're in winning mode again.
Probably 12.5 underdogs before the injury.
these hot cutting edge takes
I also think Anderson will start so that Manu can run the bench unit.
Simmons will probably play SF backup if he is healthy, but I actually wouldn't mind seeing Bertans get some of those minutes as well.
looking for a reason to cut your wrists again or what?
Dublets ATS all day.... that's the easiest one I've seen in awhile. SA s will be demolished and it will be glorious.
We can't guard this GSW one on one, no one can. Defense is good but we would never hold them under 40%, especially at home. I am sure it would be better to score more points on them, than we usually do. In this regard Bertans on SF and Kawhi on SG would be awesome in terms of experimental basketball which Pop loves especially in first months of regular season games.
Are you actually a Spurs fan? Calling them the SA s? Go watch the Cowboys fail and don't ever come back here. I also saw you mention downstairs that you'd pick a prime Garnett over TD. What a ing joke.
You obviously haven't watched a prime Tim Duncan to make an idiotic statement like that.
I was actually WAY more intimately into basketball in 2003 and 2004 than I have been in recent years, because I was 9-10 years old back then, not in school, not chasing girls yet and literally had nothing else to ing do but watch NBA and play computer games.
I saw the Spurs in 2003 and that still was probably my favorite championship season. It was so glorious. But there were tons of close calls and more often than not it was the other guys who were carrying TD, not the other way around. TD got a lot of rebounds and was a force on defense, no doubt. Offensively, he just wasn't as dynamic as Garnett in 2004, though. TD got spoonfed a lot and his 4-down post efficiency just wasn't that great. TD seemed to take off quite a few games. In 2004, Minnesota was the #1 seed in the West and Garnett was all they had because of the Joe Smith incident, but damn if the T'Wolves weren't elite... Garnett was IMPOSSIBLE to stop and on defense, his blocks, unlike TD's, were actually forceful enough to amp up his crowd and team. Garnett was an absolute albatross out there.
i actually watched every game that was televised that season. that was such a brutal year. didn't we finish that year with dominique wilkins as our PF?
Look, you're pretty much remembering wrong. TD carried the Spurs in 2003. It was one of the best single Championship seasons by an individual player ever. He had to carry a huge load without a true second all-star. I don't even really want to waste my time as I'm too busy to write a long reply out. Minnesota's 2004 team definitely had talent as they had Sprewell and Sam Cassell. They definitely had talent on that team. If anything, they helped him get out of the first round for the first time.
I saw the Spurs in 2003 and that still was probably my favorite championship season. It was so glorious. But there were tons of close calls and more often than not it was the other guys who were carrying TD, not the other way around. TD got a lot of rebounds and was a force on defense, no doubt. Offensively, he just wasn't as dynamic as Garnett in 2004, though. TD got spoonfed a lot and his 4-down post efficiency just wasn't that great. TD seemed to take off quite a few games. In 2004, Minnesota was the #1 seed in the West and Garnett was all they had because of the Joe Smith incident, but damn if the T'Wolves weren't elite... Garnett was IMPOSSIBLE to stop and on defense, his blocks, unlike TD's, were actually forceful enough to amp up his crowd and team. Garnett was an absolute albatross out there.
Tim Duncan was also absolutely dominant back then in the low post. He was also a of a lot more athletic from 1997 to around 2003 as he had elite lateral quickness back then, which is why he was one of the best defenders of all time. He wasn't the highest jumper, but jumping isn't the only thing athleticism is based on. He was getting double and triple teamed, which is what allowed the Spurs shooters to be open. The reason Stephen Jackson and all those guys were good was because of Tim Duncan, not the other way around. Even Kevin McHale said that after he traded KG, he said KG isn't a player like Tim Duncan where you can give TD the ball at the end of the game, and if you're down, he'll score the points needed to win you the game. He said KG couldn't do that. McHale himself would have taken TD over KG. I have no ing idea how a so called Spurs fan picks KG over TD.
I'd really like to know. Is there any other Spurs fan or other unbiased NBA fan on this board that would take KG over Tim?
Yep, Dominique was on that team. I would have watched every game if I could have, but I"m not in the US so I didn't have access to watch any games back then. I felt really bad for him. He wasn't supposed to be the best player on the team, but unfortunately he had to try and carry the team because of all the injuries. I thought that team under Pop really played hard. Even though we had a poor record, I really liked his coaching back then. I thought he got those guys to play hard.
Last edited by Ice009; 10-25-2016 at 10:26 AM.
He is a troll
Sprewell and Cassell were ing 35+ and washed up to by that time, c'mon...
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