Injury Update: Tony Parker (right hip soreness) is out

[Kawhitstorm]

But not necessarily better with Ray, but as we should get more Kawhi/LMA action, Ray should be fine anyways. I am hoping. Greek Freak did bother Kawhi last time, and LMA has been better on PnP with Tony than posting up on his own and getting doubled up.

My guess, we play maybe a faster tempo here. Simmons was a big success last game bc he got a lot of easy transition baskets with Kawhi. They may be onto him for this one also, so I guess we will see.

Ray is probably going to start but it would be best to just give Kyle most of the minutes then have either Patty or Manu on the floor to bring up the ball. Manu barely played against the Lakers when Tony was out & instead Pop chose to roll w/ Kyle/Simmons. Tonight, Manu is most likely going to play his regular minutes thus Ray must be on a short leash if he wets the bed like he did against the Lakers.

Kyle/Simmons size is actually needed against the Bucks since MCW likes to postup (Ray/Patty). Middleton has also been on fire so Danny has his hands full (he gave Danny/Simmons fit in the post during their last matchup), Kawhi is a better matchup if LMA is going to checked Giannis.

[SAGirl]

Ray is probably going to start but it would be best to just give Kyle most of the minutes then have either Patty or Manu on the floor to bring up the ball. Manu barely played against the Lakers when Tony was out & instead Pop chose to roll w/ Kyle/Simmons. Tonight, Manu is most likely going to play his regular minutes thus Ray must be on a short leash if he wets the bed like he did against the Lakers.

Kyle/Simmons size is actually needed against the Bucks since MCW likes to postup (Ray/Patty). Middleton has also been on fire so Danny has his hands full (he gave Danny/Simmons fit in the post during their last matchup), Kawhi is a better matchup if LMA is going to checked Giannis.

Thanks for that update... and now that you mention it I do have a very specific recollection of Middleton posting up Simmons repeatedly with ease their last game. Simmons really has no length to bother him and Middleton is sufficiently strong, athletic and a good enough shooter and scorer that you have to give him more resistance than that. He got his shots to go with relative ease and Simmons gambles for steals a lot, at that point Middleton was like woop, turn and slam! Once Middleton was on a roll, he also chewed up Danny: chomp chomp

Kyle's length did give him trouble though and you can't have Kawhi on him full time with greek freak around.

It will be an interesting game, like you said their length can cause both Ray/Patty problems. We probably need a good game from all our wings in this one. Tony wasn't huge that last game, but he did a good job setting others up. It was one of those earlier season games where he wasn't on heroball mode.

[Mel_13]

Tony is out for the Utah game tomorrow night per the team twitter.

[Brazil]

Tony is out for the Utah game tomorrow night per the team twitter.

thanks for the info

[SupremeGuy]

Tony is out for the Utah game tomorrow night per the team twitter.

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