Game Thoughts: Spurs @ Rockets - Oct. 7th

[ohmwrecker]

Don't hide from your feelings.

[angelbelow]

Cooze can play mostly center and a little bit of center.

lol

[Agloco]

Well this is priceless.......watching the same suspects (or suspect as it were) getting owned.

[mingus]

After watching last year's playoffs, one of my biggest worries about this Spurs team is their ability to defend on the perimeter - or lack thereof. We were all witnesses (pardon the pun) as to how PHX repeatedly exploited the Spurs and literally ran circles around their defense last spring. While Tiago will help defend pick-n-rolls, as well as providing an interior presence, it still doesn't solve the issue on the outside.

This was probably the Spurs biggest area of weakness heading into the offseason and quite frankly, there wasn't enough done to address it. Unless one of their existing players emerges as a plausible perimeter defender (Gee, Gist, Simmons), I fully expect the Spurs to have the same issue again this season. Which means certain teams will again be able to exploit them the way PHX did.

I'm curious if anyone else feels the same.

it's true. I think everyone hoped RJ would be able to revialize the defensive part of his game and George Hill would become an Elite defender, which is what Pop (and we) expected from him originally. Hopefully those two guys can pull through.

[objective]

RJ was so bad that his failure to be a stopper resulted in the nightmare that was the Centerpiece.

Now there's no Centerpiece, there's no Hairston, there's only cement shoes Masterpiece Simmons and heavyset hamstrung rookie Anderson. And DNP Gee.

4 more years of RJ!