I miss TJ Ford...

[capek]

That's a good point. Although, I feel like this years team and last years team are a lot different. Mainly defensively. I know Pop wants to use the "stolen iden y" card when it comes to last years WCF, and he's right. But the Spurs ultimately lost that series because they couldn't get stops. This years team seems so much better defensively and the #s back that up so far this season. I'm not overly concerned about the offense if everyone is healthy.

Ya, that's a good point as well. The extra focus on defense this year does make this quite a different team. Of course, the one question other teams always force us to answer come playoff time is what we'll do when they orient their gameplans around shutting down Parker. He's been a boss this year, has really come into his own as an on court leader, but it's still an unanswered question until we're actually in the playoffs. Getting De Colo ready to be a switch up guy to combat that tactic could really produce dividends.

[therealtruth]

The last two times we went into the playoffs with a rookie European guard in the rotation we ended up winning a championship (Manu in 2003 and Udrih in 2005).

[BadOne]

The last two times we went into the playoffs with a rookie European guard in the rotation we ended up winning a championship (Manu in 2003 and Udrih in 2005).

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[therealtruth]

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Manu played in Europe.

[Dex]

Manu played in Europe.

So did Bruce Bowen, but that didn't make him "European".

[freetiago]

He has both Italian and Argentinian ancestry

[TDMVPDPOY]

tj ford was very limited at what he can do, but how hard is it to ask for a backup pg just to hold onto t he ball and run plays, not expecting them to score or carry the bench....

he did what was expected from him as a spurs backup, now for the other spurs backup....they only specialize in certain skill sets while the ones we really need they dont have....

6 seasons wasting draft picks on backup pgs, but wont get that big we all been asking for...

[Gagnrath]

shouldn't more of that map be not Argentina as well?

[Boomersgold]

Not a good showing by De Colo again. Hes too inconsistent in my opinion. Wouldn't mind giving Cojo one chance to prove his worth.

[Whisky Dog]

From the outside looking in I'd say Joseph should definitely get a decent shot at running with backup point. He won't be worse than these two more than likely, and his defense at the position should be far better than the others.