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if we going out in the next game, might as well start splitter and give him the playoff experience, since he wont get any in the foreseeable future....
What a stupid post! Duncan, McDyess, and Jefferson - all 3 of them, had 10 pts combined, same as Tiago!!! Did you look at the box score before writing this non-sense??? In addition, Tiago's offensive rebounds were 6, i.e. MORE than the entire team combined!!! What are we talking about here? If Tiago played in Game 3, the Spurs would've won it probably, since that game was pretty damn close, a loss by 3 pts...
If Pop wants to give himself another chance, he should start Tiago in the next game, and in game 6, which will be the MOST important game of the series!
I don't understand Popovich anyway - the whole world saw that we DO NOT HAVE front line in the last game against L.A. at the ATT center /we've got blown out at that game!!!/, so WHAT WAS POPOVICH THINKING about??? How can you beat Memphis without a true center? NO WAY! Dyess is too old for that...
GO SPURS!!!
if we going out in the next game, might as well start splitter and give him the playoff experience, since he wont get any in the foreseeable future....
In 20 minutes last night, Tiago nearly matched the production (points, rebounds, and defense) of Bonner and Blair combined in games 1-3.
And awfultalk wants to try and pin last night's loss on Splitter
In 20 minutes last night, Tiago nearly matched the production (points, rebounds, and defense) of Bonner and Blair combined in games 1-3.
And awfultalk wants to try and pin last night's loss on Splitter
Splitters best performance was in the first half against Haddadi. The same Haddadi who had only played several minutes in game 1 and was pulled due to sucking. So while calling Splitter 'the best frontcourt player' when all of our frontcourt played poorly is not saying much.
I would start Blair, and play Splitter and Dice together off the bench. Blair was semi-decent on Randolph when he played. I would not put Bonner on the active roster.
It'd help if Jefferson and Neal didn't play 20 off their man, or if Bonner could defend someone who has post moves, or if more than 1 person could hit shots at a good clip in a game, etc.
Spurs have just continually played like crap. They pretty much have ever since McDyess went into the starting lineup over Blair (not saying that's the cause, just a rough timeframe).
But yeah, Splitted played much worse to open the second half than he did during the first. I'm not sure he knew what he was supposed to be doing with Tim out there as well.
Splitter in 20 minutes had twice more offensive rebounds than the entire spurs team...
Man, some people are being pretty harsh on splitter...
10 pts on 5/9, 9 rebounds, 1 TO, 2 PF in 22 minutes.
That's the best statistical line any of our bigs has put up in the playoffs this year. Even TD in game 1 isn't as productive per minute as it took him 36 minutes. And Splitter played good defence while doing it.
Some people on this thread are ing morons...
Playing Splitter instead of Blair was the logic move. Starting him along Duncan in the second half didn't make any sense. There was no spacing on the floor, and the Spurs' offense just collapsed.
I don't mean Duncan and Splitter can't play together, but you just can't throw that line-up together and expect it to work right off the bat.
Reminds me of the Spanish NT coach panicking this summer and playing together Marc Gasol and Fran Vázquez without any previous combined experience (it was pretty obvious they were the best bigs in the team and the guy refused to try playing them together in preparation games). Of course it didn't work.
If we know anything about Tiago it is that he is not an offensive player, yet for some apparent reason, Tony and Manu kept feeding him the ball really hard to explain, that one long pass by Manu had to be perfect, it wasn't then Hill feeds him the ball as he was right on the front of the rim to which Tiago couldn't handle. It's not one guy it's the whole team, shooters don't shoot, our two best players have forgotten they have teammates, they are like one of those young inexperienced teams that lose sight of the concept of team ball and start going at it one on one. What happened to all the chemistry from early in the season.
Without Splitter in the lineup (even for 5 to 15 MPG), our front line is completely identical to last season's front line. The same team that was swept by the Suns. How that is not irking to Poppovich and the Spurs staff, I have no idea... Through out the season, when Tiago got minutes, he seemed to be good for maybe 1 to 3 solid defensive possessions per game (drawing a charge, effecting shots in the paint, etc), it feels like that positive aspect to his game has been excluded from our rotation, a rotation that could use a defensive spark outside of Tim ... I think the bottom line is, younger players like Tiago and Blair are almost certainly going to make mistakes - but we have to play them/let them play their game if we want to go anywhere and develop into a better team.
Wow, this times a million.
McDonald is an idiot.
Splitter was indeed the lone bright spot in a game, where the Spurs had very little of any.
Unfortunately, Pop is more likely to sway the way of the OP, and Splitter should witness the Spurs' public embarrassment from his spot on the bench. Though it's not impossible that Splitter will be inserted into the game during garbage time prior to elimination as a way of saying "thank you".
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Pop panicked in the laker loss, and started dice, since then spurs are a .500 ballclub. He ed up the chemistry, Turd Towers came into existence, 6 game losing streak, manu injured in a pointless last game of the season, things have gone downhill since.
Haddadi finally gets >1' in a game, Memphis routs the Spurs.
Discuss.
Yup. McDyess has maintained from day 1 as a spur he prefers coming off the bench. Instead, he's been flipped from bench to starter and back to bench more times than i can count in his 2 years as a spur.
Poppozit has done him a great disservice.
I quote myself again because, regardless the fact that Splitter has played a solid fifth game, it amazes me that Popovich can ever think that a line-up including both Duncan and Splitter, surrounded with Parker, Ginobili and Jefferson, can work at all at this point. Fortunately he reacted quickly and the experiment only lasted for a couple of minutes this time.
If you're gonna play Duncan and Splitter together, which it's already very difficult to make it work considering they haven't teamed-up for the whole regular season, you can't have three guys on the perimeter who all of them look primarly for slashing situations, including a point guard who is not a perimeter threat at all. That's a disaster waiting to happen.
What the was he thinking?
Splitter should have taken blairs minutes all season long. He's taller, better defender and rebounder against quality frontlines than blair. ing pop, finally realizing it when spurs are at the brink of elimination.
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