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My heart tells me that's crazy talk! My Brain tells me your probably right!
this makes no sense. Bonner is already hurting the team. And next year we will probably have a longer shot at a le signing Ian or not.
My heart tells me that's crazy talk! My Brain tells me your probably right!
Sure it is. We have a Matt Bonner problem. Put Ian ahead of him, and he'll be sitting on the bench where he should be.
do you really think he'd sign with the Spurs when he can go to, say, OKC and get playing time? at first i believed they were "hiding" him away, but i don't think they can do that and expect to sign him for next year. he's going to have offers from other teams, and i would expect him to take the one that is going to give him the most playing time.
Ian won't play in the playoffs unless it's garbage time. Pop won't do anything drastic and is going with what he's got.
We're just gonna have to deal with it.
I got money that Bonner will at least hit one 3 pointer in tomorrows game. I hate the bas , but we need everyone to play well to beat the suns.
I don't think the Spurs are "hiding" Ian. I think that, for whatever reason, the powers that be (Pop) gave up on Ian long ago. Long ago. And nothing can change their (Pop's) mind.
That said, I would welcome Ian getting all of Bonner's minutes. What could possibly be the harm?
I sure wish we could have gotten Frye when we had the chance.....and then got rid of Bonner.
And yes, I believe Frye would be our newest version of Horry, a big who can light it up from beyond the arc....of course Frye wouldnt be as intelligent or as savvy as Horry, but he would have that deadly offensive stroke.
But yes, I want Ian....give the guy some time. I also want Temple.
I have yet to see bonner take an uncontested three...if they were leaving him alone he would be shooting much more....they are leaving him open and closing out as soon as he touches the ball....
The only thing that sucks worse than Bonner are your posts.
And he subbed in Bogans and Bonner instead.
i just don't know why a seemingly tier player in RMJ gets pt in the first game and Mahnimi doesn't. Mahinmi is athletic enough to stay in front of Frye (probably not long without fouling out), and they're going to continue to exploit that with Duncan.
All the sensible Spurs fans wanted Bonner/Mason traded before the deadline. Doubt the FO even considered getting rid of Bonner though(he played well enough in the reg season to warrant a roster spot).
But we can't play him, he might get a foul or 2..... and then he'd be in FOUL TROUBLE ... and you know we can't have that.
you are either joking or you don't understand "uncontested"
I don't mind Bonner being in there. As long as he's matched up against Frye, which means when Duncan's out, or Amare's out (I don't want Tim on Amare except during crunch time).
And under absolutely no cir stances should Bonner guard Amare. I'd rather have Mahinmi out there if he's going to be matched against Amare, even though that'd last like 2 possessions.
Bonner and Mason being weak-minded chokers are the reasons the Spurs have struggled in the playoffs. If they keep anywhere close to their regular season shooting clips, Spurs win all these games in blowouts.
I would rather see Ian, but I doubt if it's going to happen.
BUT even if it's not Ian, it really is simple addition by subtraction.
Take away Bonner's minutes and give them to someone else.
It's sort of like Finley. Even though Finley wasn't getting any minutes, the team improved by releasing him.
Did it? Finley's playoff 3pt fg% as a Spur is 40%.
Yeah, this is where we miss Finley. At least he could play in the playoffs.
As hard as that is to believe. I agree 100%.
Pretty sure that the extra revenue a couple of western conference finals playoff games would bring would more than offset any potential "inflation" to Mahinmi's contract that might result should he actually contribute in a playoff series. So I don't think it's very likely that the Spurs would sit Mahinmi because they're afraid he would be "too good" and thus become expensive. If Pop thought Mahinmi could help he'd play him.
haahahahha nice.
i guess it's safe to say that cg doesn't like Ian
It's nothing personal against the guy. I just don't think he's a very good basketball player nor do I think it's in any way a smart decision to toss him out there when the Spurs are fighting for their playoff lives simply because he's tall and athletic. I would absolutely love it if Ian could somehow turn himself into the athletic, skilled big man the Spurs desperately need, but Ian hasn't shown me anything to suggest that's going to happen any time soon, let alone tonight.i guess it's safe to say that cg doesn't like Ian
If Ian gets a chance, I 100% hope he proves me wrong. I will gladly choke down a husky sized helping of crow and give the man his due. (although if he does it this weekend his due from me probably won't come until monday because i'll be out of town)
Bruno,
Have you changed your opinion of the Spurs' plans towards Ian? I thought initially when his contract wasn't picked up that you thought this was an obvious sign that the Spurs had given up on him. Perhaps I'm thinking of another poster.
Boner is averaging 3, 2, and 0.25 on everything else.
you literally could not do any worse than matt bonner.
play ian, at least hes quick enough to make amare work a bit.
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