Reply With Quote
waiting for the games matter. Not some cheap game in Utah. They'll be alright.
waiting for the games matter. Not some cheap game in Utah. They'll be alright.
Pop still relying on a 36 year old wing player...who has played enough international games to equal two different careers who has been a turnover machine his entire career and now can't do anything else to make up for said turnovers...that he just gives the other teams free points.
Lot wrong but the most obvious is The Contract and Parker re-paying it by being fatter and tier than ever.
the team seemed more invested until his return. Maybe they see Pop giving Parker special treatment, or maybe they're just going through the motions and worn out. Possibly they'll flip a switch. We'll know more in a month or two.
Biggest things:
1) Parker legitimately playing like one of the worst PGs in the league. He's playing so poorly that it's hard for any lineup he's included in to do well.
2) Lack of 3-point shooting. We had 8 players shooting >37% from 3 last year. This year we only have 3.
3) Role players aren't showing up. Splitter and Diaw have been nonexistent for most of the year. Mills hasn't played that well. Green can hardly get minutes at this point.
4) Trying to get Kawhi involved in the offense is fine, but we're only doing it by giving him isos and post-ups. He's been scoring at well below league average efficiency in both of those categories.
False. No matter what stat you look at, he's been a top 5 player on this team this season:
#3 PIE
#4 PER
#4 VORP
#5 WS
The fact that a 36 year old bench player *is* a top 5 player on your team is what's really scary. It means that most of the rest of the team has been really bad.
Diaw needs to be in the starting line up....
Parker not landing his mid range shots, not driving in to the paint and dishing out or finishing at the rim as well as he is/was capable of.
Leonard being a bit unsure, or not fully comfortable with his role on offence (now that Parker is not the main offensive weapon he has been).
Mills and Green being streaky and not consistent with their shot.
Tiago can't run, jump, pivot, or hustle due to whatever is up with that calf.
Baynes is a bench guy, not a starter. He can't handle the responsibility he has been given yet.
Diaw has lacked consistency and impact
Last edited by Lerojo; 02-24-2015 at 12:05 AM. Reason: typo
all star break was plenty of practice time...despite Duncan....I say refs
Yeah, that's my point. Why is this guy still relied on this much at this point of his career? And Per pie pox puke whatever, he's still a turnover machine.
The overseas players got complacent and didn't work hard because well they are world champions now, Danny again did a world summer tour instead of working on his lame game, right now I'd rather see Jeff Errors or Matty B start over Baynes, at least they get in there and hustle, I'm not making Baynes the scape goat but he is not an NBA player maybe borderline 12th or 15th man.
Because everyone else is sucking worse... FWIW, this season:
Turnovers per game:
Tony Parker: 2.4
Manu Ginobili: 2.3
Tim Duncan: 1.9
Kawhi scored 12 points 5-7 in only 18 minutes against the Warriors. Easily he could have scored 20 points if Pop would have let him play 32 minutes like Curry and Thompson.
It's funny like how all is about players but nobody questions Pop's decisions
Pop has been ing trash this season.
Motivation is severely down. It is the root of what ails the Spurs.
As one bemedalled Argie poster here said, "Motivation is one of a drug".
Motivation drove them to run over and murder the Miami Heat.
Motivation got them to run roughshood over the NBA.
Motivation even got a fat-ass Boris Diaw to play the best stretch of his basketball career.
Formerly Argie, formerly Italian, tbh...
Still doesn't change what I've said.
You say Pop is relying on him like he has options. Numbers say he doesn't. I've been one guy here that has said the Spurs shouldn't be relying on Manu that much, but what options are there with the general suckfest?
Dude you keep saying what I'm saying. Why doesn't he have options? Why is Manu still his only option at this point of his career?
what's the over/under on how many of your posts aren't snarky bull ? 0?
Because Parker sucks ? Pop has no other alternative. The $14 million dollar "star" point guard is playing so ty that he has to keep going back to Manu to bail the team out. Worked extremely well in the playoffs last year. Manu just doesn't have the legs to do this year round anymore.
They're happy to settle for 5 (like a lot of Spurs fans, tbh). There's no excuse. This team has only been together for two years now. They don't need ing time to get it together. It should be second nature. All the young guys should be embarrassed that a 38-yr old is playing better.
Sucks because if they had it together they could take any one of the teams coming out of the east and feast on a repeat.
Because we paid younger guys like Tony, Diaw, Danny, Beli to show up and play and they largely have not. I know it looks like we're not trying to win games, but we actually are.
That's subjective and can't be wagered.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions