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Reasons to struggle:
1-Small ball.
2-Not playing our best players.
3-Injuries.
4-Constant change in the rotations.
3 of 4 are responsability of one man.
I would rather see the defensive presence beign a bigman (let's say McDyess, or my pipe-dream: Ian), and the floor-spacer a wing (Mason or Manu).
Reasons to struggle:
1-Small ball.
2-Not playing our best players.
3-Injuries.
4-Constant change in the rotations.
3 of 4 are responsability of one man.
Classic!
I blame Pop and half the Spurs Fans.
The half that think that it is not Pop's fault.
Maybe if they quit giving him a pass we can get Avery Johnson in here to correct this thing before its too late.
And don't give me that AJ can't coach crap, because he beat Pop head to head. So if he can't coach what does that say about Pop.
looks like Pop has mentally left the building, the guy is ready to enjoy retirement. That Gasol deal really ed with Pop's head, he's never been the same since.
Answers to (or rotation to fix the) struggles:
Within Pop's parameters (that means no Ian and with some small-ball)-
line-up:
Tony-Hill-RJ-McDyess-Duncan
-Hill the "defensive stopper" (even though he isn't one, he's still a lot better than Bogans), besides he plays better when he starts.
-RJ, our only true SF and even though he wasn't what we expected, he's still better than Finley, Bogans and Mason.
-McDyess, perfect combination of size, defense and perimeter shooting to play alongside Tim.
-Tim and Tony don't need explination.
Rotation players:
Manu-Mason-Blair-Bonner
-Manu and Blair come in at the six minute mark instead of Hill and McDyess.
-Mason at the 8 minute mark instead of RJ.
-Hill and McDyess come back at the 10 min mark instead of Tony and Tim.
-In the second quarter RJ comes in instead of Hill with 2 minutes gone by.
-Tony, Tim and Bonner for Manu, Blair and McDyess with 8 minutes remaining.
-Hill for Mason with 6 min remaining.
-Manu and McDyess or Blair (whoever is playing better) for Bonner and Hill or RJ (whoever is playing worst) with 4 minutes to go.
This way we...:
-Avoid small-ball but I know that's impossible so my suggestion when Pop inevitably goes to it is: always with Tim as the center (maybe McDyess, but nobody else), RJ always at the 4 (all our other wings are too small), and with either Hill, Tony, Manu or Mason (no Bogans or Finley) in the other three positions, Small-ball doesn't work when one of your guards can't shoot or is a dead corpse.
-Avoid the Bonner-Blair front-court which is just as bad as small-ball.
-Avoid playing Bogans and/or Finley.
I know this rotation gives Tim and Tony an average of 36 min per game and that's a bit high, but I thought of this for the remainder of the season but especially for the playoffs (if we get there) and there they will have to play that amount of minutes.
The Spurs are not "struggling". They are just going out there and running into a much more compe ive league than we saw for most of the 2000's. For the 2000s it was the Spurs, Lakers, Mavs, Suns, and Pistons at the top of the league with 25 mediocre teams. Now, we are shifting into a league where 19 out of 30 teams as of today are .500 or better.
You can't win them all.
What if the shots start going in at the right time?
Spurs not struggling!?! Are you even watching the games this year? Honestly it has nothing to to with the amount of losses but more how they play in them. Spurs have been beaten in just about every way this year.
LOL...
Once we start making the shots we're supposed to make we're going to win the games we're supposed to win... no surprises there...
One of the trademark of a winning team or a championship quality team is that good teams finds ways to win. Bad teams find ways to lose. This season the Spurs are finding more and more ways to lose games than I have seen in Pop's and Duncan's era. And it's not getting any better, several guys most notably RJ, McDyess , Bogan and bonner look like they have no clue. It's amazing that earlier in the year Bonner almost singlehandedly won a game for the Spurs a game where not even the big 3 showed up. But that Bonner left with the broken hand, he is not the same guy and lacks confidence as does just about everybody and Tim and Manu are quickly losing theirs.
How does one extra win take you from mediocre to terrific?
If we were gifted Gasol, we'd be sitting atop the NBA now & Pop would be enshrined as a basketball genius.
There's no answer to the Gasol trade, no one can compete with that.
No surprise at all. You have to be shooting well when you can't play defense.
Pop has lost all ability to use common sense.
Parker-Hill-RJ-Duncan-Dyess
What was wrong with that?
This new lineup is so bad. Other teams probably laugh at it.
I'm sure the Spurs do a lot of things other teams laugh at. Equally funny is the fact that there are still Spurs fans that support the stupid things the Spurs do.
"Squintball." Hilarious.
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