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Lay off the crack... Talk about downgrading at nearly every position. Spurs won't sniff home court in this year's playoffs.Starting 5 of Parker/Anderson/Leonard/Duncan/Splitter?
yes. I'm all for that.Starting 5 of Parker/Anderson/Leonard/Duncan/Splitter?
Crazy powerful 2nd unit that sets up with Manu, Neal, Blair and RJ (maybe). Remember how awesome Manu and DeJuan played together in Blairs rookie year? Seems like so long ago.
Lets go with the 10 man rotation even in the playoffs.
Lay off the crack... Talk about downgrading at nearly every position. Spurs won't sniff home court in this year's playoffs.Starting 5 of Parker/Anderson/Leonard/Duncan/Splitter?
Switch Anderson for Manu and that's the closing lineup I want on the floor.Starting 5 of Parker/Anderson/Leonard/Duncan/Splitter?
It's about implementing the youth movement. I don't see how there's a downgrade if it's the same roster. Same players, different slots.
Youth doesn't win basketball games. Youth can come off the bench to give the team a spark. Looking at this lineup, I have a clear picture of why nobody wants to play here.
If its a youth movement the Spurs are looking for, Parker won't last the year.
Yeah, because the lineup we used last year was SO effective in the playoffs.
It's evident the Spurs haven't put a stamp down on youth sparking bench, since Manu has been the sixth man for years. If no one wants to play here, I'm sure they would look at the whole roster, not my idea of who should start. And it's common sense that they need to make some moves in favor of youth, just about every experienced veteran team does it. If they didn't, we would see them trying to trade away their assets every single year.
WOW.
You just worry about your Cavs, Hoops.
With here you mean Cleveland, right? The only team with less FA activity than the Spurs ...
I am sick and tired of the excuses. How does the Hill for Leonard swap favor a youth movement? Most veteran teams I know replace lost pieces with adequate players of equal or greater value. They don't flag down scrubs like Howard. Manu was a starter last season and he belongs in the starting lineup this year.
That should tell you something right there. One of these teams has championship aspirations.
Unfortunately, we have to hope that. Thats the only way Pop will not play Bonner.
Who else is left that is of value that we can get?
Exactly.
Splitter absolutely cannot start unless we are only going to play three big men. Don't people remember how ty Blair and Bonner are together?
Agreed. That said, you start your best five players. Always. You don't hide a guy's deficiencies by putting him on the other team's best player and hoping your superstar can wear himself out trying to make up for it. If you want to know why Tim Duncan's always winded, it's because he's been playing defense for two ing people ever since Rasho and Nazr left.
Duncan/Splitter
Blair/Dice
Bonner can go jump in a lake.
Blair and Bonner are bad together, but that's not how it works.
You don't have to start Duncan and Splitter and take them out at the same time. You can go Duncan/Splitter, Duncan/Blair, Blair/Splitter, Duncan(or Splitter)/Bonner, etc. Rotate them, and then you can always add that fifth big whoever it may be. If it's McDyess, great. If it's Gani Lawal, no biggie. You're just asking him to play a few minutes a game.
The day Bonner stops getting minutes is the day Pop retires. Is Mcdyess even at training camp?
Tell that to Pop. The Spurs' freefall began last year when Blair was pulled from the starting unit.
I know this is an Andeerson thread, but it seems like nobody is remembering Neal and gving him props for the job he did last year.
He proved he can play and deserves some minutes.
If Splitter and Duncan start together.. which would be the case with probably any other coach in the league aside from corporate knowledge Pop...then we shouldnt assume Blair and Bonner will have to be the 3rd and 4th bigs.. i think Leonard can handle minutes as a small ball 4 against oppoosition second units.. since the majority of teams bring undersized big men off the bench.
How much worse can he be than Blair and Bonner? He is taller than blair and better defensively... he is longer than Bonner and light years better in rebounding and better defensively.
Neither do Richard Jefferson or Matt Bonner.
Last year Blair was fat. This year, here's to hoping he's in shape and it works out.
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