Ludden : Spurs shrug off blowout with starting five in tune

[Kori Ellis]

6 and 6 from whoever is the starting center and 5 and 5 from whoever is the backup, while playing decent D. That's all they Spurs will really need and I think they can get it.

[Extra Stout]

It's not that they lost badly - it's realizing how weak this team is, after the Big Three. It's not like it materialized in my head all of a sudden that Elson was a sub-par player and that Javtokas should now be a Spur. (I detect a bout of "Javtokas is not that great" arguments - that's not the point, he has better tools than Elson does.)

All summer we were waiting for the F.O. to add some youth, athleticism, and talent to the bench. It never happened. Why are we suddenly supposed to be happy about it? They recognize what most of us do at this point - this team is geriatric and has tons of holes, and they didn't get the job done in the offseason.

I get the irritation at the thin, old lineup behind the big 3 -- but seriously, Javtokas sucks too. You're mistaking the 21-year-old RJ who could jump out of the gym, with the surgically-reconstructed 26-year-old RJ who is a serviceable Euro player.

[NuGGeTs-FaN]

Im sure TIMVP or others will shout you down, and tell you how absolutely pathetic and horrible he is and how they should have brought in an undersized power forward who grabs nuts, or a buzz cut lithuanian who looked pahtetic in the world championships.

Unless they have watched have the Nuggets for the the last 3 seasons then they have no grounds


Elson is a solid big man who does what is asked. Ive never seen him play alot of games at 30mpg but if that happened in San Antonio then i know he would perform

His main stats last season in games where he played 30 mpg+ were 9.1ppg and 7.8rpg.