Game Blog: Spurs @ Jazz - April 9 - 8:00 PM CT

[T Park]

I already agreed with you about sitting Bonner's ass down.

And what do you mean... you guys?

Was talking about the forum pet Gary Neal, but okie doke...

[Ice009]

I would've gone Mills Green Jackson Diaw Splitter down the stretch.

I could have went with that 5 too. Would have loved your opinion earlier on your closing 5.

It just seemed to me that Pop wanted Neal out there so someone had to be benched to keep him there, and I would have moved him to SG and benched Green.

I would have been OK with that lineup. The reason I wouldn't have went with Green is because he is a poor finisher, his defense would have been better, but I don't think his offense is better than Gary's.

[T Park]

I could have went with that 5 too. Would have loved your opinion earlier on your closing 5.

It just seemed to me that Pop wanted Neal out there so someone had to be benched to keep him there, and I would have moved him to SG and benched Green.

I would have been OK with that lineup. The reason I wouldn't have went with Green is because he is a poor finisher, his defense would have been better, but I don't think his offense is better than Gary's.

Green doesn't take shots out of the offense though while
Neal does.

It's all hunkydory when he's making those pull up threes, but when he's jacking them up like he's Ricky Pierce, then it kills you.

[Ice009]

Green doesn't take shots out of the offense though while
Neal does.

It's all hunkydory when he's making those pull up threes, but when he's jacking them up like he's Ricky Pierce, then it kills you.

Very true. It doesn't seem like Pop has gotten on him about though as he continues to do it. I would love to know what Pop thinks about it and what he tells him about doing that. Having said all that Neal is more likely to make a shot than Green even if Green doesn't take too many shots out of the offense.

[DPG21920]

Go ahead and finish calling me re ed.

All because I disagree with you on a basketball take.

Oh if only I was as educated.

The word is knowledgable clown

[vander]

so the spurs lost and there's not a single "other color" user in the spurs section atm

hmm, I find that a bit interesting

[jiggy_55]

Crappy crappy play in the 4th. Can't believe we were up 8 pts in the 4th with this team and we couldn't pull off the win. Zero effort in the 4th q and Sjax's shooting was simply disgusting tonight. Lead the team with a +/- of -15, way to go Jackson after having the night off yesterday! Maybe he needs to start working on that stroke of his rather than his music career, all his 3's are bricks. Usually when a shooter misses a 3 you can see that the ball is headed in the right direction, with Jackson you can just see that the shot is a brick, awful honestly.

Pop's a re for tonight, loss is obviously on him 100%. You play Tony tonight and you get a win. WTF is up with him resting a 29 year old player who is in the peak of his career? Which team rests its 29year old superstar EVER? Duncan was never rested 5-6 years ago like TP has been rested, he only plays 33mpg night anyways. I wonder how some older players make it through playing 36+mpg a night and are never rested. This really gets to me. I can understand Manu and Duncan, but Tony no. What i really hate is resting them all the same night, if Pop insists on giving Tony a rest then ing give it to him another easy game we would probably win without him.

STFU

1- You guys need to stop kissing Pop's ass when he makes stupid and weird ass decisions like tonight that do not help the team whatsoever. There's simply no need to force a loss on your team and rest your 3 most important players on one night, yet Pop has done this twice already and it's re ed. Under no cir stances is this acceptable, the simple logic is to spread the DNP's over 2 or 3 games with each player getting a night off. It worked before and it will more than likely work on most nights and end up with a W.

2- Tony is young, I've never seen an old 29 year old yet. Never seen a 29 year old rested more than twice a season, Pop needs to stop pampering him. Duncan never got rest 6 or 7 years ago, and he used to play more than 33mpg. I get that this is a lockout season with a tight schedule, but I don't see other superstars being rested and they are older and play more minutes than TP does.

3- I know Pop could care less about the fans, but this is the NBA's most internationally represented team and some of us fans wake up in the middle of the morning to watch our Spurs play. I don't wake up at 4am happy to watch the Big 3 being rested while our team is asking for a loss. American fans will never quite understand this, but it's quite annoying. I also don't like it when we play a game pretty much asking to lose, this team is capable of beating most teams even with 2 of the Big 3 out, and I would have preferred to see Tony playing while the other 2 were rested.

4- Sjax's shooting was awful, no matter how you look at it. There really is no arguing this one, his shooting was on display for all of you to see. Been shooting below 30% for SAS, and below 30% for MIL this season. His shot is completely off and it doesn't even go straight, hits the side of the rim more often than not. Very ugly.