And Tony has been feeding the big fella!
He didn't get dog housed, he got there's-no-primary-wing-scoring-option-on-this-team-ed.
It's funny though, they supposedly stresses defense, they predictably have great difficulty guarding one of the worst offensive teams in the league (who's missing their best player/scorer, to boot) and instead of having Leonard guard Jack and having Parker shift over to guard Belinelli, he just goes away from him.
How does Dejuan Blair rate 20 minutes tonight and Splitter only rates 23? Blair was horrible tonight. Absolutely horrible.
And what happened with Leonard?
he needed to get over of himself a little bit
I agree that's probably the reason, though Ariza loved that decision.
Pop gave Anderson a chance at playing tonight. Nothing happened to Leonard.... Not hard to understand here.
WTF? Putting one of your best defenders in to defend a last second shot is stupid? GTFO.
Yeah, I'm just used to watching the back-picker on those side-OB plays. I don't know why Jack didn't look for him.
Never heard of a player being too "cold" to defend.
No, putting him in for the first time since 4 minutes to go in the first quarter is what's stupid. If he's one of your best defenders, why has he been sitting on the bench for 41 minutes?
Seriously, your reaching on this OV. A whole different story if your asking for offense for a guy whose cold. And you think Leonard isn't one of the best defenders for the Spurs?
Bro, I think Pop blatantly did that cuz of 2 reasons
1) Duncan was gassed
2) he wanted to give game-ending crunch experience to the youngins. Witness James freakin Anderson guarding the inbounds pass.
Pop was trying to tear him down to bring him up, rookie style
It's the same logic I guess that had Pop putting RJ on Amare in a tie game with 3 seconds to go and what had Steve Novak inbounding with 2 seconds to go in overtime.
Seriously, if a guy is good enough to be in there for those situations, then he should be in there while the other team is tearing you up.
Good points.. I thought he might have been hurt or something and I just missed it. Would have liked to see him abuse Ariza while Parker and Splitter were doing their offensive damage.
Your empty posts are helpful as always.
Boston beats Orlando 87-56 tonight... what a seriously crazy season.
seriously without their 2 best players healthy?
Such is the mind of Pop. Not saying what I woulda done, just saying Pop's intentions seem fairly obvious to me. I could be wrong, but I like to pretend I'm right so I just forget about it and move on.
Let's just hope that Leonard and Anderson both learned something in that last play.
It was the 1,000 time someone asked WHAT HAPPENED TO LEONARD? Not going to go in depth every time someone refuses to look through the rest of the threads to figure it out.
If I quoted your name and asked you specifically I could understand the comment. If you don't want to talk about it you don't have.
Secondly, I was active in the live thread, I don't recall anyone responding to "what happened to leonard questions" with in depth analysis. In fact most of the speculation happened on this page.
Glad the silver and black got the win, but at the same time, constantly seeing teams and players get their season high in stats is getting old. This team is an easy first round out unless they decide to play some defense.
I know they are capable of playing better defense and there is still time to get it right, especially since Pop can play Tim and Tiago together. Maybe Bruce's jersey hanging from the rafters will inject some "Rash" into this team.
*Now that you finally played them together Pop, please let us see some high-low action between Timmy and Tiago...please!
So what happened to Leonard?
What I've noticed about this team is that, other than Tiago and sometimes Blair, no one really gets into foul trouble. Does that mean no one is expending energy on defense?
Pop likes to save the leftover fouls for the next game.
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