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One nice basket, one nice pass, two FTs. Now for the reality check: on consecutive possessions; stepped on baseline, offensive foul, traveling violation.
I missed his other appearances because of work, but tonight I got to see him.
I loved the high/low to Blair. Id like to see those two get more time together and utilize that play quite a bit.
I like that he made his FTs and his form was excellent.
I wasn't happy with the turnovers, but hey, when all you get is garbage time here and there, you force some things and tend to be a little over aggressive.
Oh and yes, we win by nearly 20 on the road against the 2nd best team in the West.....shocking indeed.
what a great night of Spurs basketball.
One nice basket, one nice pass, two FTs. Now for the reality check: on consecutive possessions; stepped on baseline, offensive foul, traveling violation.
The offensive foul wasn't an offensive foul, and he didn't travel. Pop could be seen on camera after the travelling call shaking his head and saying it was a bad call. If Ian had been getting playing time the last two months the refs don't call either of those. The reality is what he did with the ball in his hands that many plays in a row after so much time in a suit behind the bench. An additional reality is what he did to the guys in the other color jerseys when they had the ball.
That's what you would expect from a guy that is basically a rookie though..he's going to have good and bad..
They went straight to him at the end. With the trade deadline looming, I bet you the coaching staff wanted to have one last look.
What reeks of the slap to the face of educated spurs fans is how Pop blatantly demanded the entire offense run solely thru Ian for the last 2:30 of the game.
Very nice basket, very nice lob pass telepathic style to DeJuan.
Now for the reality check. Popazit calls timeout, afterwords EVERY possession the Spurs went into the obviously ordered Stand n Veg offense. Ian was to post up, get the entry pass and then all 4 Spurs stood away and vegged while Ian was to go one on one. It's as if a huge announcement was made by megaphone to all the Denver players.
Also the travelling violation looked pretty iffy.
As opposed to some open flow offense which he seems to do just fine in.
Popazit has long surpassed idiot mode.
The refs beg to differ with you.Seriously, now Team Ian Coco is pimping him by saying he got bad calls?
Making mistakes shouldn't be a criteria for not playing for the Spurs..
Bogans and Finley get minutes and they make mistakes all game..they're also 2 of the worst players in the NBA right now..sadly, I'm not exaggerating at all..
It should be pretty simple, even for you. Go back and watch the plays. They aren't that hard to figure out. You aren't so ignorant that you don't understand the reality that refs blow the whistle more on guys they don't know? You don't remember, "Hi, I'm Devin Brown"?The refs beg to differ with you.
Even if we set aside the reality that a familiarity with a player influences the calls he gets, there were more than enough good things from Mahinmi during his minutes on the floor this year to indicate that he should be, at worst, the second big off the bench.
Gotta love how he looks like Mark Madsinmi in summer league and Wilt Chamberlinmi in regular season games.
But lack of experience is a criteria. The spurs are trying to chase down a playoff spot and Ian is in no way, shape or form ready to compete at the nba level. Now is hardly the time to experiment with the unknown and outside of a good game against New Jersey, he hasn't shown a whole lot.
Bogans is completely worthless and should share the bench with Ian. His defense was highly overrated and his offense is non existent.
Everyone makes mistakes, but I don't believe either of the gentlemen that you mentioned have come down and committed three consecutive turnovers in garbage time. You know, that time of game when refs really just want to NOT call anything?
Yea he seems too inconsistent and foul-happy. Dare I say it: Not even Bonner's that bad
The only big that got any minutes though was Duncan at 27 mins. McDyess had about 16, Blair 21, Bonner 14. Small ball won this game.
In typical Pop fashion, he will probably trade him tomorrow for a washed up vet.
I'll find out real quick when I hear the collective of Spurstalk groaning when it happens.
I remember we were talking about how he needed to show them what urgency looked like in the preseason. His sleepwalking just doomed him.
Since McDyess was still on vacation the first half of the season, the start-Mahinmi-ten-games plan should have occurred. Shameful it didn't. It's too late to do anything now. The only chance the Spurs have at keeping him in the offseason is to not play him, hide his potential and keep his value low.
Wait, did I just stumble into Pop's way of thinking?
If that's the plan, he shouldn't have played today. I believe the Rattler was available.Since McDyess was still on vacation the first half of the season, the start-Mahinmi-ten-games plan should have occurred. Shameful it didn't. It's too late to do anything now. The only chance the Spurs have at keeping him in the offseason is to not play him, hide his potential and keep his value low.
Wait, did I just stumble into Pop's way of thinking?
I submit, once again, that it's WAY too late for that. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there arefifteen teams that have that New Jersey game on DVD filed away and are ready to give him, at the very least, more money than the Spurs can. You can't teach size, you can't teach speed, and you can't teach soft hands.Since McDyess was still on vacation the first half of the season, the start-Mahinmi-ten-games plan should have occurred. Shameful it didn't. It's too late to do anything now. The only chance the Spurs have at keeping him in the offseason is to not play him, hide his potential and keep his value low.
Wait, did I just stumble into Pop's way of thinking?
We need a Doug Collins troll to over analyze Ian's situation in 20 sentences or more...
Three turnovers can do some nice PER damage
Three turnovers can do some nice PER damage
you guys still have faith in this guy?
hahahahahahaa move on fellas
All we can hope for now is that he goes to the East next year..
One athletic all-D League player down, one more to go..
New Jersey? Really? They are actually the first team I think will eclipse the Philly futility mark for a season. That's like going off on a HS team. The reserves from a very good Denver team were better compe ion than the NJ regulars.
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