Tiago Splitter is in the starting lineup!

[Seventyniner]

Pop made the right call. Though Tim and Splitter did not quite gel, the one thing the combo did was keep LA off of the offensive boards. In the last LA game, they got so many offensive rebounds in the first quarter the game was over 10 minutes in.

I don't mind Blair starting against other teams, but when the Spurs play big teams the Spurs need to use Splitter and Diaw like they did tonight.

Agreed about not using Blair against the Lakers, and the Lakers did have 7 offensive rebounds in the 1st quarter last Wednesday. However, the score at the end of the first was 24-21 Lakers; the game wasn't nearly over.

[rmt]

Pop had the best excuse to play Splitter tonight without ing Blair's confidence. 2nd game of a b2b2b, rest Blair today and give him all the minutes he can handle tomorrow against a crappy Kings team, rest Duncan tomorrow, etc. Pop just being CIA.

Don't see why Pop should care one hoot about Blair's confidence since he hasn't about Splitter's - leaving him on the bench for pretty much 2 years. On almost any other team, Splitter would be starting and/or playing 30 mins. Only because he's Pop that he gets away with playing an undersized, 6'7" center who sucks at what was once his calling card (rebounding). I cringe everytime he throws up one of his circus shots. That junk ain't going to work come playoff time so bench him as soon as the regular season is over.

[TJastal]

Don't see why Pop should care one hoot about Blair's confidence since he hasn't about Splitter's - leaving him on the bench for pretty much 2 years. On almost any other team, Splitter would be starting and/or playing 30 mins. Only because he's Pop that he gets away with playing an undersized, 6'7" center who sucks at what was once his calling card (rebounding). I cringe everytime he throws up one of his circus shots. That junk ain't going to work come playoff time so bench him as soon as the regular season is over.

It's pathetic what a waste of time and energy it was to invest that much PT (starter for over 2+ years) into a player whose important attributes are all falling steadily and the only thing increasing is his waist size.

All that effort into a player that won't hardly even play the rest of this year (unless Pop flies over the cuckoo's nest) and most likely won't even be on the team next year.

All that development time that could have been going to Tiago instead got sucked into a black hole faster than a whataburger getting sucked into Blair's stomach.