You can use this thread to apologize to Tony Parker.

[dabom]

For Simmons and Kyle:
they are a very different topic and I dislike with intensity all the trolling concerning them.
I am indifferent to Simmons, but if you play him Pop: get him rolling. dude should have had at least a couple of cuts to the basket in 8 minutes when he was playing off post players. He hasn't given much. I think he's developed as a ball dominant guard and maybe that is what Pop wants, but he has the tools to be an excellent cutter and off the ball player if he was more active and he wasn't. Some of that has to be on coaching and maybe some has to be given to the lack of court vision and passing skill on Lamarcus. anyways, that is my hot take. If he's not giving more is bc the Spurs don't have him doing more.
Really Kyle played well. You look at his stats and he was both efficient and a positively impactful player for the most part. I am unsure what happens next round and if he doesn't play rest of the way so be it, but he could produce more just isn't given a chance at this point. Pop will live and die with guys putting up 0fers in consecutive games etc... so it is what it is with Pop. I won't say more bc the trolling here is exhausting tbh but if Pop doesn't maximize his roster not much that can be done by these guys if they don't get shot attempts.

Fathead has been . You need to stop trolling with this "positively impactful" .

[RD2191]

"Always right"

[gambit1990]

Kawhi/LMA weren't going to be enough this series, since it was unlikely that LMA would have a big scoring impact. So no, Spurs would not have gotten further by centering everything around Kawhi/LMA while Parker is relegated to being a spot up player/on the bench. Parker was the difference maker this series.

you're imagining the SL with 4 players. spurs get it done with patty or murray starting.

parker was the difference maker, murray could've been that too.

ok, you cling to your unrealistic opinion so that you can try to talk and say "I told you so" if the Spurs don't go all the way.

i'm already on the record as saying i doubt the spurs win it all with tp playing 25 mpg. would love to be wrong, don't think i will be.

was never worried about losing to the grizzlies, had the spurs in 6.

[RD2191]

Reddit has the most ing vanilla takes in the world.

Bay Area gots TBH. Remember when havocs gf had to come on here to defend him?

[dabom]

Bay Area gots TBH. Remember when havocs gf had to come on here to defend him?

I remember

[midnightpulp]

you're imagining the SL with 4 players. spurs get it done with patty or murray starting.

parker was the difference maker, murray could've been that too.

i'm already on the record as saying i doubt the spurs win it all with tp playing 25 mpg. would love to be wrong, don't think i will be.

was never worried about losing to the grizzlies, had the spurs in 6.

Murray is a talent, but he's not ready. He would've been deer in the headlights this series.

Starting Patty kills the bench.

So no. Wrong again.

[jbspurs]

I am guilty!

[PopTheGOAT]

Murray is a talent, but he's not ready. He would've been deer in the headlights this series.

Starting Patty kills the bench.

So no. Wrong again.

Spot on, tbh. Wish the Murray part wasn't true, but it clearly is.

[DarrinS]

Tony fans are seriously emo tho. "You're lucky he even performs for you bas s!"

[gambit1990]

Murray is a talent, but he's not ready. He would've been deer in the headlights this series.

sounds like something pop would say

Starting Patty kills the bench.

So no. Wrong again.

... that's why i said tony could be the scoring punch off the bench.

[midnightpulp]

Spot on, tbh. Wish the Murray part wasn't true, but it clearly is.

I wanted him developed some before going into the playoffs, but that didn't happen.

I'm still okay with using him as a desperation move if Parker/Patty are blowing ass with the Spurs facing an 0-3 deficit or something.

[Cry Havoc]

Bay Area gots TBH. Remember when havocs gf had to come on here to defend him?

Remember when you admitted you don't know about basketball?

[gambit1990]

pop: these playoffs aren't for georgie/splitter/murray

[gambit1990]

people on this site acting like it's impossible for a rookie to contribute to a starting line up. he wouldn't even need to carry an offensive load with him playing alongside kawhi, la, gasol.

[PopTheGOAT]

I wanted him developed some before going into the playoffs, but that didn't happen.

I'm still okay with using him as a desperation move if Parker/Patty are blowing ass with the Spurs facing an 0-3 deficit or something.

Yeah I wouldn't mind that against GS (if it happens), but I really don't see Pop going that route

[midnightpulp]

sounds like something pop would say


... that's why i said tony could be the scoring punch off the bench.

Where's your evidence showing this will work, and will work better than the current bench dynamic?

When I broke it down, the Spurs lose like 3 net rating points if they were to start Patty over Parker. Patty works obscenely well with the bench players. No idea why you would want to change that.

[gambit1990]

Where's your evidence showing this will work, and will work better than the current bench dynamic?

tony was obviously able to create for himself this series.

he didn't create for others in the SL and could've been as effective as he was off the bench.

[gambit1990]

Remember when havocs gf had to come on here to defend him?

no way i didn't know havoc was a lesbian.

[midnightpulp]

tony was obviously able to create for himself this series.

he didn't create for others in the SL and could've been as effective as he was off the bench.

That's not evidence.

Tony starting/Patty off the bench is as best as it's going to get for this team.

[RD2191]

no way i didn't know havoc was a lesbian.

[gambit1990]

That's not evidence.

do you have evidence tony created for others in the SL and couldn't have been as effective as he was off the bench?

[SpursIndonesia]

Murray is a talent, but he's not ready. He would've been deer in the headlights this series.

Starting Patty kills the bench.

So no. Wrong again.

Dijon was quite discombobulated playing against their thrash in the garbage time of game 5, i can't imagine what the Grizz starters will do to him in the playoff atmosphere like now.

[gambit1990]

the round is done. i never worried about it, on to the next one.

[Chris]

I bet you would.

Just learn to admit when you are wrong. Murray would have gotten eaten alive by the Griz.

nice sig

[100%duncan]

Only in ST there is some crying after a series win. God you are all such gots