But He Doesn't Spread The Floor!

[Mugen]

Your fears are justified, because all three will play ahead of Splitter. The hope is that Splitter will be able to play and be effective against the Lakers frontline. But McDyess, and to a lesser degree, Bonner, will have to play well for the Spurs to beat the Lakers. Would you agree that even if Splitter evolves into a solid rotation player this year, the Laker's frontline would still be considered better than the Spurs frontline?

Yes the Lakers frontline' would still be better. But the presence of Splitter goes a long way in negating the length/rebounding advantage that the Lakers have.

IMO, Bonner should see very limited mins. if these teams are to meet up. Phil is not an idiot and is gonna make sure to chase Bonner off the 3 or maybe even dare Bonner to beat them. And I have ZERO faith in Matt Bonner to make them.

Presently constructed, i think this team has a chance to win an NBA le. I just hope Pop isn't too stubborn to destroy that chance.

[Frenzy]

Chump and jtas......the fight is out there!!

[DesignatedT]

IMO, Bonner should see very limited mins. if these teams are to meet up. Phil is not an idiot and is gonna make sure to chase Bonner off the 3 or maybe even dare Bonner to beat them. And I have ZERO faith in Matt Bonner to make them.

Pretty much. Until he can show he can hit in the playoffs than I would rather he not get huge minutes in the post-season. Saying that, if we were guaranteed this Bonner in the playoffs than I wouldn't be against him playing at all, he is a big part of this record we have right now and people fail or refuse to acknowledge that fact. He has consistently been our 2nd best big man so far this season and is far from terrible as some here claim. Again though, it all goes back to his past performances in the playoffs and I can't blame anyone for taking that into consideration.

[ChumpDumper]

Don't honstly remember the tongue in cheek comment that I made. I believe it was every DNP. Don't really feel like wasting 10 minutes of my life digging it up, either.

Ah, the old "it was just jokes" defense.

You use that a lot.

Who ing cares, I always maintained Udoka was a stop gap till Anderson came back. You act like I hyped him up as the next Bruce Bowen, which is patently false.

You hyped him up to be an NBA player, which is bad enough.

One game against a team that will be scratching and clawing for a bottom seed without their top player. Damn it doesn't get any more important than that I tell ya... And speaking of all these important minutes, might I say that's just what a guy who is learning the ropes of the nba needs in order to become a more importanter player. /sarcasm off

So you concede they were important minutes.

All you had to say was yes.

[Mugen]

[yavozerb]

Except for one 7/7 game in Oklahoma, Bonner's been horrible shooting threes on the road. He should only play in the playoffs at home where he shoots over 50% from downtown. I don't recall him ever making a three in the Staples Center, against either team. He missed so many easy threes against the Clippers in our ghastly 85-90 loss there that I wanted to shoot myself.

Wow, just stfu already and please quit posting...You have no idea what you are talking about and I cannot wait until school starts back up so you get out of here..

[EricD]

Bump..


Yeah what now??

Who was right all along??!!

More Splitter!!

[rayray2k8]

If and when Splitter plays more it won't be at the expense of Bonner, but Dyess or Blair.

Dude called it.

[TJastal]

Last game

Bonner: 20 minutes
Splitter: 15 minutes

Pop still doesn't get it.

[EricD]

Been over a year already!


Awktalk, Rascal, and a few other clueless soul's eat some crow!

MORE SPLITTER!

Some Pop-riders really need to get a clue.

[WeNeedLength]

Ahhh yes another Bonner sucks thread. We all know he sucks and he shouldn't play the minutes he does, but give it a rest already.

You know this thread is over a year old right?

[EricD]

You know this thread is over a year old right?

His handle is Chato.

What do you expect?

Half the people here don't have a clue, including him and others who ride Pop's jock.

[TJastal]

Funny to revisit all the popsucking and excuses that were being used for Pop's failure to integrate Splitter into the rotation properly while the team was 25-3 last year. Chumpdumper's birdbrained comments are pretty good, especially. Seeing how happy he was about 25-3 and not "overusing" Splitter. LMAO good times.

As for my prediction the team would lose as many games as Splitter DNP's, well didn't quite nail that one (Splitter 22 DNP's, 21 total losses). Missed by 1. Damn.

[jjktkk]

Funny to revisit all the popsucking and excuses that were being used for Pop's failure to integrate Splitter into the rotation properly while the team was 25-3 last year. Chumpdumper's birdbrained comments are pretty good, especially. Seeing how happy he was about 25-3 and not "overusing" Splitter. LMAO good times.

As for my prediction the team would lose as many games as Splitter DNP's, well didn't quite nail that one (Splitter 22 DNP's, 21 total losses). Missed by 1. Damn.

Its funny seeing another thread where you get on as well.

[ChumpDumper]

This is great.

I was right about NOLA and Denver's being playoff teams.

I was right about Manu's overuse being the main problem.

I was always right about Splitter's being injury prone. That's just a matter of history, like Manu.

Splitter would have been fine had he simply gotten more minutes against Memphis. It's not like I didn't want that.

[silverblk mystix]

This is great.

I was right about NOLA and Denver's being playoff teams.

I was right about Manu's overuse being the main problem.

I was always right about Splitter's being injury prone. That's just a matter of history, like Manu.

Splitter would have been fine had he simply gotten more minutes against Memphis. It's not like I didn't want that.

Chump...you are really stupid and now you are trying to save face.
Be a man.
Admit how you rode Pop's and approved of how he was using Splitter. Now that you saw what Pop cost the team...you suddenly change your in' tune.

Be a man. You look very stupid either way but at least be a man and admit it.

If the Spurs had won the le last season with small ball and bonner ball and pop had just nailed splitter to the bench the whole way...then I would have eaten and actually praised Pop and admitted that I don't know about bball and I would worship at the church of pop happily.

But it did not happen and you are now trying to save face.

Stupid ass.

[EricD]

I don't understand why some of you listen to Chump.

You guys should understand that he spends 100's of hours a week watching the irrelevant JV D-League, not the NBA!

He's like ST's Chris Sheridan of the D-League. Why does everyone care what he thinks about the league (NBA) that he never watches?

He's too busy rubbing one out to players who will likely never suit up for an NBA team on a weekly basis.

Get a clue guys, Chump's black-bold is fools gold.

[ChumpDumper]

I don't understand why some of you listen to Chump.

You guys should understand that he spends 100's of hours a week watching the irrelevant JV D-League, not the NBA!

He's like ST's Chris Sheridan of the D-League. Why does everyone care what he thinks about the league (NBA) that he never watches?

He's too busy rubbing one out to players who will likely never suit up for an NBA team on a weekly basis.

Get a clue guys, Chump's black-bold is fools gold.

Good post. I liked it the first ten times you tried it. I don't know why anyone cares so much about what anyone thinks here tbh. I'm not asking you to like me or even read my posts.

You might want to review the percentage of your posts you have dedicated to me.

I'm sure the next one will be fresh and original!

[EricD]

Good post. I liked it the first ten times you tried it. I don't know why anyone cares so much about what anyone thinks here tbh. I'm not asking you to like me or even read my posts.

You might want to review the percentage of your posts you have dedicated to me.

I'm sure the next one will be fresh and original!

You really don't have a clue Toro.

You might want to review the percentage of your posts being a trolling Popologist Poppy rider tbh..

Even about topics that are blatantly obvious on what the team needs.

Get a clue.

[ChumpDumper]

You really don't have a clue Toro.

You might want to review the percentage of your posts being a trolling Popologist Poppy rider tbh..

Even about topics that are blatantly obvious on what the team needs.

Get a clue.

I reviewed it.

It's really not what you think.

Thanks for caring so much about me though.

Say something about the Toros again!

[silverblk mystix]

lol minor league quasi-expert....

[ChumpDumper]

lol minor league quasi-expert....

When did I say I was an expert?

Link please.

lol butthurt fan club

[therealtruth]

Funny to revisit all the popsucking and excuses that were being used for Pop's failure to integrate Splitter into the rotation properly while the team was 25-3 last year. Chumpdumper's birdbrained comments are pretty good, especially. Seeing how happy he was about 25-3 and not "overusing" Splitter. LMAO good times.

As for my prediction the team would lose as many games as Splitter DNP's, well didn't quite nail that one (Splitter 22 DNP's, 21 total losses). Missed by 1. Damn.

I'm sure if Splitter had gotten more burn last year the last game wouldn't have been his first 20 and 10 game. Pop re edly held back his development to the hurt of the team. Bonner does not have that upside. 20 and 10 will win a playoff series for you like Zach Randolph showed not a streaky three point shooter who shrinks from the moment.

[jwmann2]

I'm a firm believer that the guy that does the best in practice may not always do the best in games. That's how most coaches decide who to play but its all about how you matchup with the opposing players the night of. Then again, there are a lot of NBA players that can matchup with anyone, Kobe, Lebron, Timmy, Nash.

[TJastal]

This is great.

I was right about NOLA and Denver's being playoff teams.

I was right about Manu's overuse being the main problem.

I was always right about Splitter's being injury prone. That's just a matter of history, like Manu.

Splitter would have been fine had he simply gotten more minutes against Memphis. It's not like I didn't want that.

Well congrats, smart guy, you won the bonus prizes. Too bad you completely whiffed on the grand prize. Funny how you claimed back in December that Splitter was getting more minutes then patted yourself on the back about how you predicted it would happen. When it was proven that it wasn't even true, course then you changed your argument to "Well, he's playing more minutes against playoff teams!". Which turned out to be a a grand total of 18 minutes against the hornets and 21 vs the nuggets. And in fact in the two weeks prior against the same two teams he got just 11 minutes & a fat DNP. But that didn't matter apparently. Course then you bragged about how Pop was going to play Splitter more and more minutes as the season went along. And guess what, you ended up being wrong again. With the exception of March, he logged fewer minutes in every month compared to how he started the season.

Nov 10.6 min / gm, 2 DNP
Dec 8.2 min / gm, 3 DNP
Jan 8.0 min / gm, 4 DNP
Feb 6.0 min / gm, 7 DNP
Mar 12.75 min / gm, 3 DNP
Apr 9.6 min / gm, 4 DNP

But go ahead by all means keep rejoicing over your consolation prizes. I wouldn't want you to feel completely stupid or anything.