Spurs: Mohammed playing his way out of starting job

[angel_luv]

Your 2nd pick was Nachbar and 3rd was Beno.

Ssshhhhhhhhhhh! Don't tell Benji!

[Carie]

It's a bit different when you can't play because you are hurt and your team has set its rotation for the postseason. This is the preseason and his wife had a baby.

I do understand what you're saying about the rotations being set for the postseason. But the wife and baby bit is getting old. Rasho didn't do anything purposefully to cause his hurt ankle either. If you look at it that way, Nazr had more of a hand in his own not playing than Rasho did. Okay, maybe not a hand, but another body part anyway

[angel_luv]

Hey, I say this is Nazr easy way out. One way or the other, my Rasho was going to get the start! =)

[ploto]

You have a choice.

The season starts in one week and the Spurs begin with three really good teams- Denver, Cleveland, and Dallas. Who do you start?

The guy who has been your regular season starter for the past two seasons, who came into camp in great shape and in a nice rhythm from a successful summer with his national team and who has played well in the pre-season showing an increase in aggressiveness.

or

A guy who has missed half of training camp (for whatever reason), who isn't really in game shape physically, and whose mind has not even been on basketball, who hasn't been able to be with the team- even watching and observing and learning like a guy who is injured.

[itzsoweezee]

I guess nobody remembers how well Rasho was playing last year after we got Nazr and up until he twisted his ankle. I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing Rasho being the starter at the beginning of the season but I still feel like Oberto will be starting sometime before the end of the year.

i sure don't.

[2centsworth]

Fanball has been great to me in Fantasy Football.

[Marcus Bryant]

I do understand what you're saying about the rotations being set for the postseason. But the wife and baby bit is getting old. Rasho didn't do anything purposefully to cause his hurt ankle either. If you look at it that way, Nazr had more of a hand in his own not playing than Rasho did. Okay, maybe not a hand, but another body part anyway

Difference is, if he can't play on it and it's the postseason, step to the back.

Holding an absence due to a family illness over his head is pretty damn ty. But that's assuming the Spurs are a class organization. Crap like this makes you wonder. Effective? Sure. But some of you San Antonihomers need to realize how the organization operates.

[Carie]

Difference is, if he can't play on it and it's the postseason, step to the back.

Which he did, without complaining.

Holding an absence due to a family illness over his head is pretty damn ty. But that's assuming the Spurs are a class organization. Crap like this makes you wonder. Effective? Sure. But some of you San Antonihomers need to realize how the organization operates.

How is this holding it over his head? He's not stuck on the bench forever, now they just have to give him time during the regular season to learn what they hoped he could learn during training camp. I haven't heard one complaint about why he wasn't there. Have you ever heard a player complain about the organization when it comes to taking care of their players?

Everybody here has made good points. Why would you want him to start if someone else is playing better right now?

[Marcus Bryant]

The point is that the decision is not being made solely on his play. Pop certainly singled out his absence as a reason. I mean, it's in the friggin' paper.

[E20]

MB is right.

[spurschick]

It sounds like his wife is very sick. It's great that we have some other guys who can step up while Nazr takes care of his family.

[Carie]

The point is that the decision is not being made solely on his play. Pop certainly singled out his absence as a reason. I mean, it's in the friggin' paper.

Maybe I missed what you're talking about in the paper. What did Pop say?

It sounds like his wife is very sick. It's great that we have some other guys who can step up while Nazr takes care of his family.

I was wondering when we didn't see him again tonight. I hope everything is okay.

[Solid D]

Holt Cat and Pop bashing in the midst of the team's heyday is like getting a birthday card from your grandma with $20 in it and telling grandma it doesn't have much of a "personal touch".

[Vashner]

Did he have to fast during the camp? I have seen that fasting kill performance first hand.