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Not knowing time and score.
Not rotating.
Leaving his feet to pass.
Hesitating on his shot.
He's playing like he's ready for a summer vacation, honestly.
Sorry if this has been posted already
but he played like one possession last night
and tonight mike wilks has more time logged than him
did he do something malik-esque that i did not realize?
or is he hurt
Not knowing time and score.
Not rotating.
Leaving his feet to pass.
Hesitating on his shot.
He's playing like he's ready for a summer vacation, honestly.
I think tonight Pop wants to take advantage of bdavis and fisher with quicker guard lineup.
poor beno
well maybe its just a temporary wall
Doghouse? I don't know... looks more like the house lately.
Whoever is going to back up TP, should at this point be logging a good chunk of minutes, imo.
hes been playing like this since February.well maybe its just a temporary wall
DOnt know WTF his deal is.
Rookie wall.
It shouldnt be much of a problem.
Both manu and barry can play and have played point guard in the NBA.
In fact, last night i was really surprised with all the ed up lineups pop gave us that we didnt see a Barry, Manu, Robinson, and two bigs line up when we were being tentative and slow on offense
Pop ed em up, or because of injuries.with all the ed up lineups
I hope you answer B.
Pop being a great coach and all, i respect him, but he made a mistake when he was trying to improve(correct) the lineup that owned everyone during first half of the year. If someone got games from back then i recommend watching like i did, its a big difference and shame really. I was convinced that spurs got rings this year in their pockets, now i give you guys 20%.
I know you aren't talking about the starting lineup because Pop can't control the injuries. If you are talking about the bench lineup that excelled earlier in the season, that lineup included Devin and Malik -- they aren't here.Pop being a great coach and all, i respect him, but he made a mistake when he was trying to improve(correct) the lineup that owned everyone during first half of the year.
Dario, have you seen Beno play lately? He's losing playing time because he's messing up, not for any other reason. He's regressed defensively over the last few weeks. Against the Warriors, he dribbled out the clock because he wasn't paying attention to how much time was left. He almost got a backcourt violation twice because he wasn't watching the clock. And he's missing his defensive rotations big time.
Beno's playing like a rookie...most of the season he had zero pressure, zero reputation and zero expectation, and Pop had made Barry the team ..
When the pressure got turned up due to injury...Beno started playing like the rookie he is...this is why I defended Barry when people wanted to forget about him and make Beno and Devin the backbone of the rotation...
Barry's problem wasn't stepping up under pressure...it was not having any pressure, not being needed by his team. Giving up everything he had made for himself in Seattle, money, starting, and suddenly being less valued on a team than rookies and NBDL players...
I think Beno greatly benefits from Tim Duncan being on the floor...so I do not want him out of the rotation...especially since he has probably shot better of kickouts from Duncan that anyone on the team this season...but I am not surprised he's playing like the rookie he is...I am also still wary of totally going with Devin, he played great against LA last season..but he also had no expectation, no reputation, and no pressure to produce...I don't want to get AD'ed again...
I think the truth is Beno and Devin probably play better with Duncan than Barry does, at least during the regular parts of the game...but he doesn't seem to need Duncan and the 4 down offense seems to hurt his performance(althouth the team performs well period)...so maybe he should be the guy off the bench running the offense when Duncan isn't in the game...Let Beno be the shooter...and Barry will probably perform better during the times he is playing the inside out game with Duncan if he's getting started in other ways...
Last edited by whottt; 04-11-2005 at 04:42 AM.
Last game i saw was when duncan went out, my job takes to much of my time atm, but i was watching first spurs lakers game and first sputs boston game afterwards. You must watch it after you watch a game these days, its like looking at good old days. And i m not talking only for beno, its the whole team starters included. Spurs game against mavs will probably be painfull to watch.
PS: its like lakers, they had it all, now they have kobe (me frustrated)
Edit: and another indicator how low spurs have come are threads on this forum, before spurs were 10-1 and people here whined about that loss, now forum is full of threads like "we still believe in this team" etc.
Last edited by Dario; 04-11-2005 at 07:36 AM.
Low? WTF? Despite losing their starting power forward, center and arguably their best 6th man, and despite having to integrate two new players and a host of unplayed scrubs, the spurs have won 7 of their last 10, are a 1/2 game back from the top seed and one win away from clinching the southwest division. Have they been through some tough ? Yes. Have they let it drag them down? No. They've responded, which I'll admit was something I wasn't totally confident about.
The adversity this team has faced has been tremendous, and they may just have learned something that will carry them to another championship: how to play with poise on the road (which is something they haven't been able to do consistently even in the "good old days" as you describe them).
Man, I get executed for posting like this.
Is Beno in the doghouse? No, he just sucks.
thats cuz you probably flat out say he sucks like u just did
I think Beno is going to be a stud in this league.
he maybe but he is stinking up the spurs right now
Beno's confidence is at the lowest point all-season. He needs to be put in situations that can build it back up.
But also, I think Pop is giving Wilks and Marks a long look because it's probably between those two for the last spot on the playoff roster.
It's kinda funny though. As much as you guys bag on Sequ because he says certain players suck, he's kind of right.
If Beno was playing for a different team, no one here would be saying he was going to be a stud. You'd be calling him a scrub. Derrick Dial anyone? Antonio Daniels anyone? Samaki Walker anyone?
All Spurs players that people thought were going to be studs, and turned out to be DUDS. (I knew I shouldn't, but I couldn't stop
But seriously, Beno has shown flashes of being a good point guard, but he's shown just as many flashes of being an NBA never was. It's not an easy leauge to excel in and I woudln't be suprised if he never develops.
That being said, I still think the Spurs should hold onto him because he has shown promise. I'm not sure how I feel about him on the playoff roster. Up untill maybe recently, I would have said he was a lock. But Wilks has played well, and Beno has just sputtered. I don't know, but at least we have 5 more games before the decision has to be made.
So Manu is a scrub?As much as you guys bag on Sequ because he says certain players suck, he's kind of right.
I said kinda. And I as talking about his opinion of Beno. He was wrong about Manu and he knows it.
Beno has to be a lock on that playoff roster. Wilks as the backup point? I just don't feel that at all.
I like Wilks as an extra point guard to guard guys like Nash and Boykins. But he is too small to play against most of the other points, Imo.
wilks atleast plays d beno does not
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