Spurs notebook: Brown's health is creating a dilemma

[boutons]

And Sean is great entertainment and comic relief for the other Spurs when they throw him alley-oop passes!

For his limited minutes, Sean seems to manage to try an alley-oop move every game.

[MannyIsGod]

I don't understand the dilema surrounding this decision.

I have loved Mark's play just as much, if not more, than the next guy, but there is no way to justify his pressence on the squad in the post season. If Tim Duncan reinjures that ankle, Marks is not going to save the Spurs or even buy them time for him to get healthy. At one point, he was definetly out playing Nazr, but Nazr turned it around and has gone light years ahead of Marks in the rotation.

Even if Devin is going to be out for a couple of weeks more, you put him on the roster. He is the type of player that can effect a game when he comes off the bench moreso than Marks.

Basicly, it boils down to this. I think Devin can eventually contribute much more than Marks could ever hope to on this team. In addition to that, I don't think leaving Marks off the roster in any ways hurts the Spurs chances for a ring. There is simply too much upside to adding Devin and not enough of a downside to keeping Marks off to justify any other decision.

[waly.mg]

The team need to select to the playoff roster the player who can play in big shape in the playoffs

The team needs players of first level in the Rosters

i don´t seem to me neither Marks, nor Wilks players able to change the destiny of a game but If they seem to me Robinson and the Browns able to do it

[MadDog73]

So, it's Johnson, Marks and Wilks off the roster then?

[waly.mg]

My Roster is:

Parker-Manu-BB-TD-Nazr

Rasho-T-Mass-Udrih-Horry-Barry-Brown-Robinson

[Kori Ellis]

Congratulations on the new baby, Waly-mg.

[Jimcs50]

This is a bunch of crap, this only have 12 men on the roster in the playoffs.

It makes the caoch decide who will feel like an outcast, and take away his being part of the championship run.

Also it makes the coach predict on who will be injured and who will not.

Why not do it like reg season and allow a player to come off injury list after 5 games on it?

[MadDog73]

My Roster is:

Parker-Manu-BB-TD-Nazr

Rasho-T-Mass-Udrih-Horry-Barry-Brown-Robinson

I agree. And congrats, too!

[MannyIsGod]

Jim, I'm with you on that.

[MadDog73]

This is a bunch of crap, this only have 12 men on the roster in the playoffs.

It makes the caoch decide who will feel like an outcast, and take away his being part of the championship run.

Also it makes the coach predict on who will be injured and who will not.

Why not do it like reg season and allow a player to come off injury list after 5 games on it?

Yeah, I wonder what the point of it is? Is it just to keep message boards busy until the playoffs?

[waly.mg]

Thank you, he will be a Spur too, may be a Spurs player

He weights aprox 11 pounds

I´m 6´3"

[timvp]

Thank you, he will be a Spur too, may be a Spurs player

He weights aprox 11 pounds

I´m 6´3"

Make sure you teach him young to use both hands and buy him a mini-hoop ASAP.

[TMSKILZ]

& Waly, make sure you pratice FT's with him!

[waly.mg]

May be, may be

I love basketball, but i´m a Golf Pro

The Kids can choice between 2 sports

[spurster]

Why not do it like reg season and allow a player to come off injury list after 5 games on it?

One reason is that the injury list is optional. A couple teams have no players on it. I believe the Suns are one of them. There are also no trades or 10-day contracts during the playoffs either.

[TMSKILZ]

So what's the latest word/info reguarding Devin & his health?

He's going to be sorely missed if he can't make it for the playoffs. His OFF & DEF were coming along very nicely during the season. We could use him against the likes of C.Anthony, Nash, QRich, JJohnson, R.Lewis, R.Allen, TMac, Peja & D.Wade.

[travis2]

So what's the latest word/info reguarding Devin & his health?

He's going to be sorely missed if he can't make it for the playoffs. His OFF & DEF were coming along very nicely during the season. We could use him against the likes of C.Anthony, Nash, QRich, JJohnson, R.Lewis, R.Allen, TMac, Peja & D.Wade.

According to the Ludden article this morning, he will NOT be healthy enough to play the 1st round, at least at the beginning...

[travis2]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b...1f4cbce64.html

Devin Brown, whose right leg is still not at full strength, won't be healthy enough to play when the first round begins; the only question is whether Popovich includes him on the roster. Rasho Nesterovic, who has missed the past five games with a sprained left ankle, is closer to returning but also might not be ready for Game 1.

[timvp]

According to the Ludden article this morning, he will NOT be healthy enough to play the 1st round, at least at the beginning...

Same boat last season. Then Pop was saying that Devin Brown was likely out until the second round.

He played in Game Two of the first round.

[bigbendbruisebrother]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b...1f4cbce64.html

Devin Brown, whose right leg is still not at full strength, won't be healthy enough to play when the first round begins; the only question is whether Popovich includes him on the roster. Rasho Nesterovic, who has missed the past five games with a sprained left ankle, is closer to returning but also might not be ready for Game 1.

TP said in his interview yesterday that Rasho would likely play tonight versus Minny. Maybe Pop is CIA with his own players as well.

[boutons]

"Same boat last season."

No! Last season, Devin didn't have a herniated lumbar disc, nor were his back cramps so bad and long that his leg muscles atrophied.