Bowen fell victim to the Finley-Pop relationship..a casualty of love..
This was a huge problem last year and it's still here and it will be the same result IMO in the endI miss the old Spurs teams on D! Bowen etc. This team might be a middle of the pack team, but they are not longer elite and this is a problem thats not going to go away without the right personell.Yep, basically! We won games on D, not on scoring alot nor running with teams if we did not have to! When we did we could get stops in the end, not anymore and it showed last year during the Suns series. This team is not great, I accepted it before the year came! I don't expect too much so it's fine.
This was a huge problem last year and it's still here and it will be the same result IMO in the end
Yep, basically! We won games on D, not on scoring alot nor running with teams if we did not have to! When we did we could get stops in the end, not anymore and it showed last year during the Suns series. This team is not great, I accepted it before the year came! I don't expect too much so it's fine.
i am a big time homer but this is so true
I know Bruce lost a step, but in that Dallas series he was still by far our best defender and one of our top 3 players that showed up for the series. That's why I don't understand why he never came back after the trade. I thought there was more to it. Did the Spurs even try to get him back?
The reason I am asking now is because maybe someone is willing to divulge more info since it's been a while.
I was mad the a lot of that season when Bruce wasn't getting court time and if I had to guess IMO Bruce felt disrespected and didn't want to come back. I'm just curious if the Spurs wanted him back even in a reduced role if he was willing to accept a role like that.
Pop didn't believe he had much left in the tank or was someone they could rely upon. They would have been fine with him coming back, but in a much diminished role -- like end of the bench.
Bowen was better than an end of bench player and he was certainly better than the likes of a Finley or Mason who were going to play ahead of him, so he wanted no part of it.
Bruce is a proud man.
Nobody wanted Bowen.
It happens.
Actually, Boston did, but there are and were very few teams where having a player like Bowen makes sense for the team. Need to be a contender and have the right kind of talent for him to be useful to the team and for the situation to be worthy of his time.
But it's neither here nor there, it's yonder.
"It is what it is."
Never read that. Is there a link to that effect somewhere?
Yep I read that too, but I don't think Bruce wanted to play with a couple of the guys on that Celtics team.
I believe it, just didn't read it.
I'm sure there is. I know I read something about it here when that was all going down, pretty sure I remember Don Harris mentioning it on one of his sportscasts as well.
Quick search, first thing that popped up. The teams rumored to be interested were Boston, Orlando and Cleveland.
I'm almost positive there was a better and more credible report than just some rumors via Dime though.
Well I was pretty damn dissapointed, but just a tad satisfied after last nights loss. Dissapointed because they lost, but satisfied because all I wanted was a good game and once they got down 18 I thought "OK if they can cut this lead to single digits and make it a game at least I'll be happy." Last night was my 1st Spurs game of this season (hopefully I go to one or two more). The last Spurs game I attended last year was the Game 4 Spurs-Suns game in which the Suns completed the sweep...not good, so this time around I wanted to see a W, but I knew the risk I took when purchasing tickets to an early season game. Well being up close and personal here are some of the things that stood out to me:
1. TOO MANY 3-pointers! I don't know what the the Spurs were thinking last night thinking they were the Suns out there...it got so bad that at one point my girlfriend turned to me and said..."What the why wont any of these guys drive the ball in?" I didnt have an answer. Manu especially settled WAY too much..I can't believe I'm saying this but Bonner would've helped some last night.
2. The Spurs looked extremely soft in the paint. I can't believe I'm saying this again, but even Bonners big body in the paint might have helped this cause. In the 3rd quarter Chris Paul had a good 4-5 uncontested layups...pathetic. Splitter for damn sure will be put to use when he is ready to go...
3. RJ looked like a completely different guy. He was really nowhere to be found in the 1st half and I thought damn, he isnt going to do anything tonight. Boy was I wrong, the guy blew up in the 4th quarter and was one, if not THE main reason the Spurs got back into the ball game. I agree with Timvp when he said last year RJ wouldve completely vanished from the game after the 1st half he had..but the guy kept playing and was very aggressive on both offense and defense.
4. Seeing as this was one of the few games I will probably attend this year I was pretty pissed with Pop pulling the plug on TP and TD, but after the line-up of Hill, Manu, RJ, Neal, and Blair made that furious comeback...I understood the move. But I did disagree with him sitting TD and TP the whole 4th and especially when they cut the lead to single digits. I think a lineup of TP, Manu, Hill, RJ, and TD could have pulled off the W at the end...
5. Gary Neal can straight up shoot the rock. I saw him get off the bench and thought "Alright lets see what this guy's made of." In the minutes he received, he made the most of them. He didnt hesitate on the shots he took and was also very aggressive on D as well. He even had a nice slash to the rim and finished a tear-drop type of shot. The thing is, he is a little undersized for a 2-guard and it might hurt the Spurs on the opposite end...
Well just thought I would share some of the things I saw up-close and personal.
Blair looks for shooting touchDefense top priority:
...“It’s always my No. 1 concern,” Popovich said. “If we lose 10 in a row or win 10 in a row, it’s always my No. 1 concern.”
...“Every team has games where opponents shoot great on a given night,” Popovich said. “It’s best to draw conclusions over a span of time, rather than on one game. That’s dangerous.”
by Jeff McDonald
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...hooting-touch/
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