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good point.
Yeah, this is prettyworthy.
good point.
That's exactly it. Pop see's Mason as a 40% 3 point shooter (even though he's shot at or above that mark just once in his career and only approached it one other time, though admittedly the sample size isn't substantial), knows the Spurs are somewhat devoid of three point shooting, on top of this he knows with Parker injured, the Spurs could use some more scoring/ball handling at the guard position and finally, he favors veterans.
So he'll keep calling on Mason from time to time, hoping that will be the game he breaks out, catches fire from deep and takes some of the pressure off of and allows him to limit the minutes of Ginobili and to a lesser extent, Hill to create/finish virtually everything at the guard position.
As witnessed recently though, his patience with Mason is wearing thin and with the Spurs wanting to get more minutes for Hairston and him generally playing well when called upon, Mason is getting the call less and less.
What a weird two years its' been for Mason with the Spurs, hasn't it been? He clearly has the character/personality of a Spur, seemed like a good fit (and was a good fit last season) and with the way he came out firing in the first half of last season with all of the game winners, he seemed destined for a long stay with the Spurs. Except his shooting progressively got worse as the season wore on (predictable, considering defenses began to key on him as the Spurs third scorer with Ginobili down, he played far more minutes than he ever had in a single season in the NBA, so his legs probably got heavy and not many players in the league shoot 45% from three, particularly ones who take a lot of their shots off the dribble, so regression to the mean was bound to come into play), Pop quickly lost faith in him in the playoffs and he never seemed to get un-tracked and back into Pop's good graces after that. Many had him penciled in as the Spurs starting shooting guard coming into training camp, but two things went against him in this regard: 1) Pop quickly realized that Jefferson isn't anything close to being a stopper and 2) Pop has (had?) a love affair with Finley, so Bogans was quickly summoned to fill the stopper role and Hill had improved so vastly that they, along with Jefferson and Ginobili, were bound to fill the majority of minutes on the wings. Go back a year ago, did anyone think a year later Mason wouldn't be in the rotation, would have asked to be traded at the trade deadline and would be guaranteed to be gone after this season? Unexpected to say the least.
There's little hope for humanity.
LOL, wow..I consider myself very biased to Hairston since I was one of the originators, but that's one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever read..I think TJastal is a good poster btw, so I'm not attacking him, but come on son..
And you go around calling other people idiots?
1. LeBron James
2. Dwyane Wade
3. Malik Hairston?
Sweet.
I simply sythensized and compared one aspect of Hairston's game to some of the best in the league, that being the ability to drive and finish. It's one skill out of dozens of skills that make up a player's net worth. If you still think this means "Hairston=Lebron" then you need to go retake a remedial math course.
Point being he has one great skill but needs to develop the rest of his game in order to ascend to the next level. Right now his game is similar to say, Tony Allen of the celtics. If he can learn to shoot the ball with some range and add some ballhandling and playmaking skills he has a good chance to be much better than Tony Allen.
Is that comparison a little easier for people to fathom without jumping off the nearest cliff?
his heart is larcenous
Is it really that unfathomable that he could in the discussion among the best in the league? , look at Matt Bonner last year, he was one of the best 3 pt shooters in the league does that mean he was overall a better center than Dwight Howard?
At best, Hairston's the third best slasher on his own team, behind Parker and Ginobili.
The only way your reasoning could even be remotely correct is if your definition of 'drive and finish' only includes dunking, and that's cherry-picking reasoning.
Do I need to ing say more???
Sorry for my french Kori and L.J but Mason seeing the floor the last 12 minutes, guarding Kobe might I add, is ing idiotic. WOW pop
How exactly did Mason get his spot in the rotation back anyways?..
I love you Harlem ..but read the OP...
can't you see why?
The OP is wrong. There's no love in compe ion. Stupidity and Intelligence rules them.
And Pop is right now being stupid.
I didn't mean " Pop is only playing Mason because he loves him"...The le of the OP was a just a le nothing more. It wasn't promoting Pop's man crush for " Money" Mase.
The whole reason behind the thread was Pop was still calling his name after a LONG stretch of horrible performances. It's stupid to say the least and idiotic.
I wish this was the truth.
My hope comes from Pop holding out Hairston tonight, despite Hairston being available to play..that tells me he's at least considering him in the playoffs..
Temple showed some good things again tonight too, he must be considered..
I really, really hope they're both ahead of Mason in the playoffs..I don't care which one, Mason needs to be out..
Mason is going to have an extremely tough series having to defend all that penetration from Dallas' swings..Kidd, Terry, Barea, Butler and Beaubois-tomatic(hopefully he doesn't play)..I feel a lot more comfortable with Temple's length and Hairston's athleticism, as opposed to Mason's nothing..
Hairston has a sprained ankle so thats why he was inactive tonight.
I know, but they said he could have played according to the game blog(I missed the first quarter, so I don't know everything that was said, so can't speak for myself here)..
Either way, Mason..
I hope to god Mason doesn't turn into Finley i.e. player that Pop plays way way too many minutes.
I would rather have Bonner at PG for 15 minutes than to see even 10 min. of Mason.
Pop MUST learn from last season, Mason was completely taken out of it and this season (especially with his slump and "trade me" at ude) I don't want to see him play a single minute unless the Spurs are up by 20 and there's 2 minutes left to play. Knowing Mason, he'll make one shot then let off 3-4 cuz he's "feeling it" which turn into fast break points or momentum changing plays for the Mavs or anyone else we face in the playoffs.
Truthfully, Mason doesn't seem like a useful weapon against anyone. Bench him, wish him well next season!
Well you guys better get used to Roger Mason in the playoffs. Mason logged 37 minutes tonight (most of any spur not named Dejuan Blair), so its safe to assume he'll be a major part of the rotation.
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