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tim needs some muscles
He said it after game 1, he couldn't concentrate on Gasol because he had to have an eye on Z-Bo. Blair and Bonner were of little help, when Splitter started playing, the serie was almost over.
I think Parker also got frustrated, he also said something about Splitter.
The players no longer trust in Pop, they quit.
That why they didn't call a timeout in one game.
tim needs some muscles
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. TD is not the same player since 2006 Tim's game has been declining most noticeably IMO his foot movement on his hook shots. Now the guy is a shadow of himself he can still defend and I think thebankle was bothering him defensively but his offense is almost nonexistent at this point. He'll have ahold game scoring wise once in a while but not on a regular basis. It happens age doesn't discriminate.
I think that he had a lot of hope for a good playoff run, then Manu's injury, the close losses happened. He played well through the first 3 games (quite well in the 3rd) but it was obvious that Bonner/Blair/even Dice was overmatched with Zach. Then Pop brought in Splitter much, much too late in the series.
Don't know why Pop went away with TD on Zach - I thought he did a pretty good job when he was on him - Zach had trouble scoring over TD's length. People have pretty unrealistic expectation of TD at 35. Didn't he have a double-double for the series - that's not bad against Randolph/Gasol (one of the best big men/combo) compared to his RS season stats against the entire league? This in a relatively low-scoring series too.
I still blame Pop for much of the mess. After the Twin Towers and 4 rings based on defense, to think that a frontline of TD/Dice/Bonner/Blair in the playoffs is going to cut it was stupid. Even Mahinmi would have been better than Bonner/Blair - not got pushed around so much. The doubling of whoever Bonner/Blair was on threw the whole defense off.
Yeah, but all the bunnies he missed in game 6 were terrible.
PS I hope that the good game that Bonner had doesn't give Pop even more ideas about using Bonner more next season. Where was Splitter in the 2nd half?
if only duncan still had his jumper whether it was the bankshot or the 18ft top of the key, then it didnt make him look like a fool out there minimize to only stupid no lift layups
Duncan has earned the right to do whatever he wants, but unfortunately the Spurs will just be trapped as a 2nd round ceiling team until he retires
Tim isn't/wasn't soft and he can/did play physical. You can't be soft being as great a low post scorer/defender as he was/is.
Last edited by Spurs da champs; 04-30-2011 at 01:19 PM.
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