Reply With QuoteIf that's the criteria, then:
1) why does Bogans continue to start?
2) why does Bonner get any floor time?
i am looking at this in a positive way...
a week or two ago hairston would have been in austin or in streetclothes behind the bench...
the fact that pop threw him out there at all...is a plus...i hope that pop was genuinely TRYING to give hairston some burn...so it is a good thing...so what that nash hit the shot...everyone else on the spurs has been abused with layups,dunks,etc...
be happy that hairston is a thought in pop's head now...
if hairston keeps working....he will have his day and he WILL prove to be a lot better than finley,bogans, and probably mason---hopefully before this season is over...
If that's the criteria, then:
1) why does Bogans continue to start?
2) why does Bonner get any floor time?
I agree with that, but if someone's going to suggest that Pop's been a genius for not playing Hairston all this time, then that person needs to think about the coach that put Hairston out there in crunch time when he needed a stop. When he's not going to the guy he describes as his "bulldog" or his "Bruce Bowen replacement" then the argument sort of goes out the window.
Wasn't Bogans out there too?
I thought he was guarding the inbounds.
As for Hairston, it's nice he got the opportunity. He should get more.
Bogans was guarding the inbounds. On a semi-related note, Bogans showed more energy and effort guarding that inbounder than I've seen him show since the Denver game.
The point I was trying to make is that if someone is defending Pop's decision not to play Hairston all year, citing Hairston's bad play on that pick and roll, then that person is suggesting that Pop put a player he doesn't think can play on Steve Nash in a crunch time situation, which then doesn't make sense unless one goes completely around the bend and thinks Pop is intentionally trying to lose games.
The fact that pop over the last 2 games has played hairston on Nash and Martin indicates that maybe pop is starting to gain some confidence in hairston. As long Hairston keeps up the intensity on D he should get some PT..
I don't expect you to.
Hairston doesn't play, people are pissed.
Hairston plays, people are pissed.
He played, I'm pleased. He'll play more.
I do like the conspiracy angle though. That's a new one.
Read my edit. Maybe it will be more clear. I know you jump in here at the end and only see half of what goes on and then make statements that you think make you look clever, but you're missing the boat even more than usual on this one. I'm not the least bit annoyed that Hairston played. I'd rather have him come in cold and defend Nash on the PnR than have Bogans on the floor in any capacity. I'm not sure where you ever even jumped to the conclusion that I of all people don't want Hairston to play. Seriously, do you even read my posts?
You should probably go back to the post where extatic said something to the effect of "He went under the pick. That's why he sucks and why Pop doesn't play him." and my subsequent attempts to point out the flaw in the logic.
Read my edit. Maybe it will be more clear.
I read all that. Including the conspiracy theory.
Good stuff.
Doesn't change my mind one bit. I don't necessarily agree with ex either. Another flawed assumption.
Yeah, I didn't think you'd go back and read. It's okay, everyone else knows you're wrong so you don't have to bother.
And to what conspiracy theory do you refer?
You sure are angry about not being angry.
Tough play for Malik.
You sure do talk a lot for never saying anything.
And yeah I agree. He kind of got out on an island there. Not sure how anyone else would have handled it.
So you didn't read it.
Unsurprising.
I don't think you will go back and read it either.
He is worthless it's that simple man, period.......... Bogans is just all out horrible and should not get any time in a game sides a few minutes off the bench in games that are over
So you agree with what I said after saying I never say anything.
Kinda left yourself out on an island there.
So much for a peace offering.
That was a peace offering?
lmao calling me a d bag when ur the one wishing bad things on pop. that being said, get a life.
Pop obviously wanted the mobility, speed and pressure defense he thought he'd get from a lineup consisting of Tim and four smalls.
Can someone answer this question? Why put Hairston, a virtual rookie in Pop's estimation, on an MVP Nash?
Why not have Hairston do the jumping jack role on the inbounds passer that Bogans did?
Granted, Nash had been eating up our veteran defenders all night with the Pick and roll with Amare to perfection? So was the bright idea to put someone else on him at the end of the game as another experiment?
Why was Tony Parker on the bench?
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