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The Spurs dont play Spurs basketball anymore. So Elson probably only learned how to be a lazy on defense.
You must speak some slang English where barely = can't.Should have never been more then an off bench role player who looks like he is really 6'8" and can barely jump over a piece of paper.
Pop-An-Adjustment has him at starting center.
In a few years when we have a better sucky center, we'll look and say man I can't believe the Spurs ever started that guy at center. What was that guys name? It reminded me of salted jerky...
The Spurs dont play Spurs basketball anymore. So Elson probably only learned how to be a lazy on defense.
Some good catharsis going on in the threads tonight.
He sucks! He will play you one good game and then for ten games we will see nothing from him.
Ok I was bored and couldn't sleep...
That screams to be photoshopped!
He needs to dunk intead of those lay ups he usually miss, I'd say Scola is better for Spurs offense.
For me Oberto is a MAJOR defense liability
He can't chance a single shoot. I don't even saying block shoots.
After see Oberto playing yesterday I'm missing Rasho
Oberto looks like an Achilles heel on this team. His shots under the hoop are almost automatically blocked. When he's standing alone under the basket and gets a crisp pass you just hope he can get it up before someone flies in from the weakside to swat it.
He's too slow and floorbound to do much on defense.
However, the pessimists seem to forget that the team hasn't had Elson for a while. He is the key to this team advancing -- especially aganist Dallas. What is that stat -- when Elson plays 20+ minutes, the Spurs are 20-1 or so. The Spurs look like a different team when Elson is running up and down the court.
look on the brightside guys.
Oberto will be 32 by the time the playoffs come.
The Gnome is out of bounds.
I would say "especially Duncan". Not only does he take a lot of ill advised shots, he's making more than his fair share of turn overs, and suddenly has this "at ude" about not getting calls that he feels he should have gotten.At this point, no one on this team has a right to yell at anyone. Everybody's ing up - even Duncan.
I think this is starting to rub off on the rest of the team.
Time for Duncan to suck it up and quit worrying about calls, and pass up on those forced shots he takes.
elson may not have as high a b-ball IQ on defense but his ability to run the floor in invaluable and puts incredible pressure on the opposing bigs. The transition game is awesome with him and tony. i'm praying to the Spurs God that Elson will return with a keener awareness of the defensive scheme and we'll finally have a competent big next to timmy. If we have to rely on Obi in the 5 spot, we're not going to make much noise come playoff time.
over the past few games, timmy has made me happy by playing through and complaining less about fouls. earlier this season, he couldn't do anything because he would complain to every ref in sight about what he perceived to be a foul.
what i need timmy to do now is to be more decisive once he gets the ball. either make a quick aggressive move or pass the ball. an old coach of mine always said if you can't get by your man in 2 to 3 dribbles, pass the ing ball. the longer you hold it, the easier it becomes to defend the team. so timmy, no more 5 second holds to draw the double. make a quick move to AVOID the double and if it comes on the catch, make a quick pass out to get the defense rotating.
Nicely done, Budkin.
Nazr- part II
oberto is a role player, and his D is adequate. it wasnt oberto clanking 3s and turning the ball over every 2 minutes. if oberto is keeping the spurs from winning, what does that say about the rest of our team?
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