bench bowen?

[tekdragon]

bench bowen?

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what do u guys think

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[waly.mg]

Impossible

[j_epsilon]

If you mean bench Bowen when they are playing run n' gun teams like the Suns then, maybe yes you can afford to bench bowen since he is not going to add any instant offense. However, even then you need Bowen to stop the likes of Shawn Marion or Joe Johnson or Quentin Richardson, who's going to step up to give them a defensive whooping? Certainly not Barry, but maybe Manu.

This Spurs team is built on the foundation of defense and Bruce Bowen is the epitome of Greg Popovich's defensive mind.

Another thing about Bowen, if you haven't noticed, he always spots up in the corner, for a 3pt fg, which as these fellow spurs fans have already let you know, is a corner Bowen is mighty proven in. This might in turn force teams to run a zone defense instead of man, and zone defenses are slim pickins for the Spurs backcourt of Parker/Udrih and Manu/Barry.

Granted he is not going to give you clutch shots all of the time, nor is he going to give you offense all of the time, but Bowen has developed his shot into a very pretty one. Bowen is an all-star defender, not a complete "all-star" in the defensive/offensive sense.

The only foreseeable reasons I would see for benching Bowen is to bring Brent Barry in, or maybe play small ball. Which is something the Spurs only play when they need to fight fire with fire, small ball that is. Brent Barry has yet to come into the full mold the Spurs organization might have expected from him.

So no, there is no logical reason in benching Bruce Bowen. This guy is going to give it his all on defense, night-in and night-out. The Spurs NEED him to stop, or at least limit, the production the best player on the opposing team, well, if it isn't a PF or C.