The line starts behind me!!
like i said before, the spurs are good enough at center to win it all. neither oberto nor elson are consistently good. but usually one or the other is adequate on any given night. and on some nights, one might even be playing really good. popovich needs to be able to recognize when one is playing well and adjust minutes accordingly - in that game. unfortunately, this hasn't been the case a lot of the time.
Some folks here sure are wishy-washy
If the Spurs are going to run the motion offense as much as they have against Denver...Oberto will see more than his reg. season avg. in minutes.
He's at his best in motion. He's also one of the best guys to have in there against a zone because he cuts to open spaces when things bog down. He has an extremely high basketball IQ.
I believe this is the case also. Oberto's smart heady play is better suited against this team. Oberto is sometimes overwhelmed by quick jumping big men, but in this series he seems to have a good feel for what Camby and the Denver big men can do. How long Oberto can sustain it is still up in the air but what is certain is that Elson has been laying some major eggs on the court. He can't even finish an inbounds play. He is non-existent on the boards, which really if he can't do that he becomes pretty much useless since he is not as offensively creative with his passing as Oberto or Horry. And what happened to his hands, at the start of the season he held on to everything, now he can't hang on to the ball, every pass to him brings back nightmares of Nazr.NOT THE SOLUTION BUT HE'S BETTER THAN ELSON (FOR THIS SERIES ANYWAY)
he does have an extreme high IQ and in addition hes is a good interior passer.
He has been amazing this series, but we have to wait. If he continues to play like he has been... then the Spurs will have a great "free" boost.
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