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[txstr1986]

The theory that Pop ruined Mason by playing him at PG is just plain wrong.

First, Mason started to suck before he played some PG. He was awful the whole month before playing the point.
Second, Mason sucked last year with Knicks and sucks this year with Washington.

So to buy the Pop ruined Mason theory, you also need to buy:
- The reason why Mason sucked before playing PG was that he had the intuition that he would play PG in a the future.
- The reason why Mason still sucks now is that he has been so traumatized by playing PG a couple of months that he hasn't recovered from it almost 2 years after it.

But yeah, keep repeating that Pop ruined Mason. It makes so much sense...

Haha, yeah, Mason is on the worst team in the league and still can't get more than 10 minutes a game.

[ChuckD]

I wonder what Joseph has done not to even get backup minutes at point with Ford injured and Neal sucking real bad.

There are 2 issues with rookie PG:
- too many turnovers. Joseph has only one TO so far this season, in 24 minutes. In the same amount of time Neal managed to get 4 in the last game only.
- not creating enough on offense. Joseph has 4 assists in 24 minutes, which certainly isn't great, but seems serviceable (especially combined with low TOs).

There should be a way to play Joseph at point for ~10 minutes and not completely ruin the Spurs chances to win a game...

That's just Pop for ya. When push comes to shove he doesn't show confidence in his young players very often. Recall when he wouldn't let George Hill play the point either in the playoffs when Parker was hurt. Even though he had been doing it for a large chunk of the season and doing spendidly. So instead we got to witness the Roger Mason Jr fiasco.

Clowned. Pop played CoJo 13 minutes last night, including some 4th Q action.