Haha...Another season, bonner the first big off the bench

[Johnny RIngo]

I think you're looking into this this games rotation a little more than you should. Randolph isn't the quickest in defending the P&R. Forcing him away 23 feet away from the basket and giving Parker ample room after the screen to get to the rim or find and open Bonner is never a bad thing. Either Parker carves them up or Bonner drains 4 3's in less than 20 minutes. Bonner is still the 10th or 11 man in our rotation. He'll get some burn on any given night for a few minutes.

I'm not the one complaining about Bonner getting minutes- everybody else is. On a night where TImmy's out with injury, it makes sense to give him time. For some reason, Spurstalk goes crazy anytime he sees the floor.

[ElNono]

Pop *does* go into this mixing it up mode during the start of the season though.... I don't expect today's rotation or minutes to be indicative of anything...

[HI-FI]

Practice....

One or both of them will see a good amount of minutes at some point this season. Pop is usually hesitant on playing new players early on, unless their veterans. Baynes & Ayres will play sporadically early on. Bonner won't be in the rotation. Pop ,seldom, used him last season and yet people still complained even though he played his role well.

good point. it wouldn't be ST without wrist cutting or complaining though.

[Hoops Czar]

Practice....

One or both of them will see a good amount of minutes at some point this season. Pop is usually hesitant on playing new players early on, unless their veterans. Baynes & Ayres will play sporadically early on. Bonner won't be in the rotation. Pop ,seldom, used him last season and yet people still complained even though he played his role well.

Ayres is new to the Spurs but both are veteran players. After the preseason Baynes had, I was sure he'd see more paying time than Ayres. I wasn't really thoroughly impressed with Ayres coming into the season and now I'm even less impressed, especially on the defensive end.

[ElNono]

Pop actually had some nice words about Ayres on the postgame interview... basically saying he got his feet wet with the system and soaked up some valuable minutes. Looks like Pop is going to take it easy with him.

[HarlemHeat37]

This isn't like previous years, to be fair..we've already seen Pop pull Bonner against teams that will exploit him in the playoffs the past 2 years, so I don't mind Pop giving him minutes during the season, tbh..

Spurs only objective during the regular season is to keep Duncan/Manu/Parker fresh, integrate 1 or 2 new guys and implement Leonard as one of the cogs of the system, tbh..

[Biernutz]

Went to the game tonight and Matt was matched up on their big's. Matt was mixing it
up under the basket and he was pushing some of their big's around. He can bang
with them and he now has a floater,a short jumper and of course the three point shot. He can come
in as a big and still has some offense. I say Matt is a keeper.......

[gee]

I had a few second rage, but Bonner was good tonight. As long as this is a matchup specific deal and he spends most of the time on the end of the bench its all good.

Baynes amazing preseason
Duncan gone all night
Baynes still doesn't get action until garbage time

[weeks]

he's finally earned his spot but it is pretty funny to think about how many people have predicted his death
guy has 9 lives and outlasted all sorts of better players