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No Belinelli is better than Green. Green should be a match up or change-of-pace player, honestly. He's good at shutting down point guards and can be lethal from long range against shaky defenses. That's the entirety of his repertoire, however.
Bellinelli>Neal, thats for sure.
I just hope Marco has ice in his veins just like Neal.
No Belinelli is better than Green. Green should be a match up or change-of-pace player, honestly. He's good at shutting down point guards and can be lethal from long range against shaky defenses. That's the entirety of his repertoire, however.
Right now for sure. But a lot of people look better than Green when he's slumping. Few look better when he's on. The Spurs' first unit is out of sync offensively, and it affects him the most.
I don't know why people are praising Belinelli for last night though. That was about as Neal-like of a performance as you'll ever see. Nothing about that shot selection bodes well for him getting consistent minutes in the playoffs.
he wouldn't be a prime team cancer if he wasn't great at fooling people, would he?
That's a pretty lofty statement.
Not really.
water is wet thread imho. saying Beli > green is just as safe as Lee > Diaw, tbh
Both are equally important.
And he moves around trying to get open. Neal just stood there looking like Tracy Morgan.
Not just lofty. It's an outright stupid statement tbh.
Talking about benching a player who is notorious for hot-cold stretches after 3 games is outright stupid? Green should start Beli should finish unless he can't be hid on defense.
Saying Green is as good as anyone in the league when he is on is just stupid. I mean, for f's sakes, what we saw from MARCO the other night was FAR FAR BETTER than anything Green has really ever done. Sure, he hit wide open treys in the Finals. Whoopidy do, he was wide open and did NOTHING else on offense. Dude is just a spot up shooter tbh!
Lol. People continuing to overrate regular-season chucking. Neal has his share of awesome shooting games too. And people were calling for him to start over Green then as well. Where are those people now?
Even while being horrible on offense, Green managed to lead the team in plus-minus. Anyone who was paying attention knows Danny's defense on Lillard was the reason why the game didn't get out of hand sooner.
Marco Belinelli, better than Danny Green?
Danny Green almost wasn't in the league a couple years ago. Danny was damn near the Finals MVP last season, so let's not start sucking each other off just yet. Wait for the jury to come to a decision.
https://twitter.com/g0ldbluntz/statu...666304/photo/1
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Haha I saw that too. She aint even hot im sure he could pull hotter chicks than that. Lol oh marco living up to his Italian heritage,
Wait, that's actually real...?
Yeah...tell me an offense in the NBA that doesn't value players who can knock down 3's open, or not. Ironically Memphis and the Lakers could have certainly used Green when we hammered them.
I think Chinook meant when Green is hot he is as good a shooter in the NBA. That of course is right, he in one of the five best three point shooters during his 5 year career. Green hit 20 3's in a 3 game span during the rodeo road trip last season. Including 7 against Detroit, and 8 against Minnesota, including 4 in the 4th quarter. In the post season, he was player stellar defense against Steph Curry in the GSW series . He was a big reason why we able to stop Curry and the Warriors.
If hitting wide open 3's in the finals is so easy why was he the one to break the three point record. That was held by the most prolific 3 point shooter in NBA history (Ray Allen). You're clearly glossing over a his achievement for the sake of your argument.
As for Belinelli, I like him. I watched him alot on the Bulls. His lack of defense means that the the other four 4 Spurs in the starting lineup would have to pick up his slack. We would see our defense take a step back for sure. We jumped from 11th to 3rd last season in defense and the Parker-Green-Leonard-Splitter-Duncan lineup was the 4th best defensive lineup in the NBA.
There is absolutely no reason to change a starting lineup that should have won at least 62 games if healthy (Parker, Duncan, Leonard all missed at least 10 games but we still won 58)
As for whether Green isn't as good as Beli is completely irrelevant. If your a Spurs fan you know individual talent doesn't overshadow players who fit into our system. Green does perfectly. Head to head last season, Green was a better player. That includes shooting percentages.
Green
P.E.R-14.1
3PT %-42.4%
2pt%-48%
FG%-44.8%
Offensive Rating-110
Defensive Rating-102
Minutes-27.5
Belinelli
P.E.R-10.4
3PT %-35.7%
2pt%-41.6%
FG%-39.
Offensive Rating-104
Defensive Rating-107
Minutes-25.6
Thats just embarrassing...
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Looks like the Italian Stallion likes grilling up y sausage
nobody is comparing Belli to 2013 Finals Green
2013 Green was an aberration, a fluke. Please. I love Green, but I really doubt he can repeat last years playoffs and Finals performance. Let's face it, Green faced the Lakers/Warriors/Grizzlies defenses, some of the worst perimeter defenses in the league. He was just on another planet by the time the Heat series started, but as you watch closely, the better Heat perimeter defense eventually brought him back to earth.
THIS SEASON so far, IMO Bellinelli is the better more all around player. AND Belli brings what Spurs sorely lack which is great off ball IQ and playmaking, something Green just doesn't have.
Belinelli was stuck on a POS Bulls roster while Green got the privilege of playing with experienced Spurs starter.
You'll see. Marco will outshine Verde this year. Book it.
I thought 2012 playoffs Green was supposed to be an aberration. That's what people kept saying last season when they wanted the team to trade for Re or move Jack into the SL. That awesome Finals run may be an outlier, but his performances in the last two post-seasons go beyond that.nobody is comparing Belli to 2013 Finals Green
2013 Green was an aberration, a fluke. Please
THIS SEASON so far, IMO Bellinelli is the better more all around player. AND Belli brings what Spurs sorely lack which is great off ball IQ and playmaking, something Green just doesn't have.
Then you claim that the Grizzlies have a poor perimeter defense when it consists of three players who have made the all-defense teams. That claim also ignores Green's stellar defense throughout the latter three rounds, which was critical to a handful of close games.
The Spurs definitely needed some of the things Belinelli can provide, but they needed it for their bench. The SL needs defense and spacing, which Green does at a level far beyond what Belinelli provides.
If I remember correctly Green was utter most of last year until the end of the season, people were probably calling for his head on here too. Green is far too valuable to this team, he is by far the best PG stopper on this team, he was the one shutting down Curry/Jack/Cp3/Westbrook/Conley etc. last year. He's good at defending opposing SG's his own size and great at defending smaller guys. Him and Kawhi compliment eachother pretty well defensively, Kawhi can handle the big guys from PF's to large SF's while Green handles the much smaller guys.
Green had a number of 20+ point games and had some great defensive highlights throughout the regular season last year. If anything, he slumped going into the playoffs and didn't get it together again until the Golden State series.
He had some stinkers along the way, though, like his horrible performance in Atlanta. People were mainly calling for his head because they had no faith in him come the post-season.
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