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dude im even surprised that this game was even close dude....in case you didn't notice Duncan,manu,park,KL,splitter,danny green,and patty mills weren't playing.......
That's all I want to know, do the ol' sports want to win?
dude im even surprised that this game was even close dude....in case you didn't notice Duncan,manu,park,KL,splitter,danny green,and patty mills weren't playing.......
No.
"Rest" is more important than winning games.
Pretty much. Enjoy the holidays, mid.
Seems like Pop is content with getting a lower seed, which I don't mind, tbh..best-case is the Spurs get the 7th seed and get Memphis, would be an easy series..
Wouldn't be surprised if joining the '95 Rockets and adding that to his resume is on his goals list, considering his ego..
agree....grizz are playing good ball but there not even close to being a threat for the spursSeems like Pop is content with getting a lower seed, which I don't mind, tbh..best-case is the Spurs get the 7th seed and get Memphis, would be an easy series..
Wouldn't be surprised if joining the '95 Rockets and adding that to his resume is on his goals list, considering his ego
Nah, I just think this old "rest everyone on a back-to-back no matter what!" habit of his is dying hard this year.Seems like Pop is content with getting a lower seed, which I don't mind, tbh..best-case is the Spurs get the 7th seed and get Memphis, would be an easy series..
Wouldn't be surprised if joining the '95 Rockets and adding that to his resume is on his goals list, considering his ego
I can understand sidelining Duncan and the Mexican, but Green could've played 30 minutes tonight. Portland had zero problems looking sharp. The "exhaustion" following back-to-backs is overblown, and not backed up with any kind of convincing empirical data that proves teams play much worse in that scenario.
I don't think he's over-resting players, though..
Duncan is playing more minutes than anybody would have predicted, this season, and Ginobili hasn't taken much time off, either..
Green sat tonight for obvious reasons..they were going to lose the game anyways, so no point of playing your better players in a potential playoff matchup IMO..
Can't really discern between strategy and cir stances, this season..the Spurs have been hit with a ton of injuries that have changed the entire resting strategy..Pop knew Mills was hurt, but he didn't plan for anything else..none of us expected Kawhi to suffer from these random ailments, Splitter to get hurt and miss a bunch of time(well, maybe this one was expected), and Parker going through ribs/hamstring/etc problems..
Why not have Green in the lineup as a contingency plan?
If the Spurs are down big at halftime, then rest him. If the game looks winnable, then bring him in, because we know it was only a matter of time before Ellis was going off on Beli, Joseph, whoever.
You could make that argument for tonight, maybe, but I don't think it applies for the rest of the season..
And you know I don't defend Pop blindly, too, I criticize him all the time..I just think it's difficult to stick to the script and concoct a proper strategy when the team has a ton of injuries to rotation players..
I know you don't.
It's just that given Pop's reputation for over-caution, I'm skeptical at the stated severity of these injuries (Mills aside, obviously).
Pop has not been able to count on much these last couple of weeks.
January can't get here soon enough.
The way of the future, The way of the future, The way of the future, The way of the future,The way of the future, The way of the future, The way of the future, The way of the future, The way of the future, The way of the future, The way of the future, The way of the future, The way of the future.
That's why I wanted to reload in the 2007 off-season and why I wanted to upgrade the end of the bench this off-season. The Spurs have got nothing to fall back on.
I really wanted them to go after a backup for Kawhi, but again, the Spurs did jack .
I can't believe it's biting them in the ass again. They never ing learn. Other teams upgrade so they can dethrone the champs. Pop doesn't seem to understand this. Unless you have Michael Jordan and can psych teams out into losing the game before it even starts, upgrading the roster is a good thing. You don't need to keep useless players like Daye and Ayres around.
Yeah, really...I checked the score during the game, and saw that we were actually winning, and I was like, WTF???
The Spurs pursued Josh McRoberts in the off season, but he decided to go to Miami. He would've meshed perfectly with this team. I have to disagree with the idea that the Spurs didn't do anything in the off season. Keeping Patty Mills was huge, and they did it at a very good price. Many other teams wanted him, and he could've left for more money. Diaw resigned... obviously that will be important come playoff time. They looked at other options, but none worked out. But most experts felt like this: http://www.businessinsider.com/spurs...re-team-2014-7. If the Spurs had landed a back up SF, but not resigned Mills, people would be saying RC Buford screwed up... You can't just magically get every player you want. You're competing against 29 other teams, and many of them are willing to overpay players in an effort to get where the Spurs are EVERY year-- in the playoffs.
Regular season champs mean nothing....been there done that.
Exactly. I don't know how anyone can claim Popovich is overresting players this year. If anything, injuries are forcing him to overplay players.
It's a journey. No season is the same as the previous seasons.
It's called injuries..
They happen..
So? On no other team would he have sat. They literally played with two guards and three and a half perimeter players last night, so that a 27 year old, who when they get healthy, will play roughly half a game, could get a game off because he was tired?
Like midnightpulp said, he could have been utilized as a contingency plan. Him playing 15-20 minutes could have made the difference and if he has to have a game off at some point, he can have one off when the other three primary wings are all playing.
If he was going to get the game off, why not Diaw? He's older, with more mileage, plays year round regularly, plays more minutes when they're fully healthy and will play more in the playoffs too. Yet not only does he never get a game off, he get's run into the ground on the second night of back-to-backs.
Agreed. He's overdone it this season. Duncan and Ginobili don't need every back half of a back to back off and if/when this team ever get's healthy, they can get them then. I agree with giving them one off when it's a hectic stretch, like this past week, but they've handed away so many games so far that the biggest thing they needed to do and should have been able to do (keep the Thunder below them) is now in serious danger.
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Pop did say this string of losses would do the team some good in the long run. He's right. Either it lights a fire under their butts or it nets them a better draft position.
Diaw played 57 minutes the previous two games. Danny played 95. If you can't figure out which one needed the night off, I can't help you. It seems painfully clear to me.
I don't care about the previous two games; I'm talking in general.
The notion that Green needed the night off illustrates just how brainwashed so much of this fan base is by Pop.
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