Game Thoughts: Spurs @ Hornets - Oct. 31, 2012

[Dingle Barry]

Hope to see these grades plotted on a graph every, say, 15 games or so

[The_Worlds_finest]

Dingle Barry, probably the greatest name to ever grace the ST forums.

[TD 21]

Overall
On paper, this wasn’t an easy game. No Ginobili, on the road, home opener for the Hornets, career debut for Anthony Davis, nonsensical preseason rotations … it was a recipe for an early season defeat. But the Spurs stiffened defensively, got enough points late from their stars and eked out a quality win.
Final Grade: 90

If this wasn't an easy game on paper, then damn near nothing will be. The Hornets possess exactly one established scorer and he didn't even play. They also don't play with a true point guard. They should have struggled to break 85 points and 40% shooting.

This was only a quality win if you subscribe to the theory that every win is a good/quality win. In reality, it was a sub par performance and they were lucky they were able to pull it out at the end. If they were playing even a mediocre team, they'd have lost.

[Solid D]

Good synopsis, although I thought Patty Mills was very sloppy, so he needs to tighten that up. Some bad timing on those TOs, as well. He helped undo the series of great plays by Kawhi.

The Spurs were fortunate to win this game. Several times, the Hornets failed to recognize mismatches and the Spurs dodged bullets. If Don Nelson had been coaching New Orleans last night, Anthony Davis might have gone for 35. I also thought Vasquez was really special running the team. My opinion: if Vasquez gets a better jump shot, he will really hurt teams in a 2-man game with Davis.

Parker's 3 was really huge, btw.

timvp, I can't imagine having kids, job, relationship with Kori and staying up to all hours pounding out these Game Thoughts time after time. kudos

[DieHardSpursFan1537]

Glad to see timvp is back

[therealtruth]

Great writing man. I agreed with pretty much everything.

I also hope the way Splitter played in the 2nd half is the way he plays for the rest of the season. I think Splitter just needs to prove it to himself, as in, give Splitter some more minutes and hopefully within those extra minutes he puts up about 15 pts and gets about 8-10 rebounds. All he needs is, to do that for a week or 2's worth of games and soon he'll be set on averaging that.

Hopefully, Mills will get more minutes next game. I have more faith in Mills ,developing into being a consistent back up PG, than Neal. When Mills gets going he can be quite annoying to the opposing team.

If the team comes into the game with energy, we'd be a lot better off(of course).

Splitter's biggest enemy is Pop. You think Pop will give him consistent minutes that will allow him to get better? Pop's going to do his best to keep him guessing about minutes.

[DapDaGenius]

Splitter's biggest enemy is Pop. You think Pop will give him consistent minutes that will allow him to get better? Pop's going to do his best to keep him guessing about minutes.

Oh yeah, I forgot Pop was kind of like that with Splitter, I never understood why though.