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You might want to be more specific.
Bowen dominated Kobe in their first matchup. In their second matchup, Bowen outplayed him again. In fact, Bowen would have led the Spurs to victory if Manu would have shown up that game.
In their last matchup, Bowen played 23 minutes in the win and had a +/- of +11. Let's pretend he "sucked", though. So in three games against Kobe this season, Bowen has dominated him once, outplayed him a second time and "sucked" a third time. That looks like a good season so far to me. Unless you have a suggestion of who to go out and replace Bowen with who will be able to dominate Kobe each and every night out.
I'm all ears if you have such a suggestion.
As opposed to defensive superstar Manu who shut Pierce down.
Good call.
He also had a stretch of games a couple weeks ago where he played 34+ minutes in six out of seven games.
He had a bad game against Peja but Kirilenko and Durant was mostly against Manu. And the reason Bowen wasn't playing more was because that was a stretch of games that the Spurs offense was horrible and Pop was trying to get more offense onto the court.
On a whole, Bowen has played his role well this season. He's had some games where he wasn't successful in slowing down the superstar he's going against, but that happens to every defensive stopper. If there's a defensive stopper out there who shuts down his opponent every night out, again I'm all ears. The Spurs need to get that guy on their team.
There's no "could" about it. At 36, Bowen is almost done. I don't think his play has dropped off yet but it will within the next year or two.
More consistent how? When placed on non-scorers and the non-scorers don't score, is that a victory that counts towards his consistent total? Ginobili wasn't playing defense for a couple week stretch earlier in the season but few Spurs fans noticed because he wasn't guarding anyone of note.
So defensive perimeter stoppers who go against the best player on the other team every night aren't allowed to have any "off" games? That's the funniest point I've ever seen anyone try to make in SpursTalk history.
I guess defensive stoppers are supposed to shut down their opponent every night out. I'm sure if Ginobili got to defend superstars every night out that he'd shut those superstars down nightly. Right?
Of course.
Yes, obviously Manu never has a bad game. He's God's gift to the Spurs. Unlike that freeloader Bowen.
Good call.
Exactly. That scrub Bowen should never let his man score a point. That's his only job. He should just give all his championship rings to Manu AKA The True Champion.
Another simply marvelous point.
Bowen's defense hasn't fallen off, especially compared to last season. You act like there's a player in NBA history who stops their man every night out. The offensive superstars who Bowen routinely guard *gasp* sometimes play like offensive superstars. You know, like how Pierce played in the first five minutes of the game the other night.
Oh and where's the list of players that defensively consistent Manu has defended well against recently? Notice how you conveniently left that list out of your post
Also notice how convenient it is that a Manu Fan comes crawling out of the closet after Ginobili explodes a game later. Where was this lame rant after the Celtics game? It's easy for Manu Fan to come out of the closet after Ginobili has a monster game against the Raptors.
It's so amazingly lame when Manu Fan tries to crap all over Bowen's play and legacy on a whole. Bowen has allowed Ginobili to defend nobodies 99% of his NBA life and Manu Fan pays tribute by crapping on Bowen? Brilliant.
Manu Fan is always quick to claim that Manu could do anything Bowen can do ... and then the one game Manu has to guard someone, Pierce destroys him. Pop then switches Manu off onto Rondo and Rondo has a career game. Yet it was all Bowen's fault. Just how last year in the playoffs when the Spurs went against the AI and Carmelo duo and the defensive superstar Manu ended up guarding Steve freakin' Blake. That was obviously another case of Bowen being overrated and Pop not knowing how good Ginobili is defensively, right?
Obviously.
