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Pop 36%
Parker 26%
11%
Bonner 9%
Duncan 7%
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Pop 36%
Parker 26%
11%
Bonner 9%
Duncan 7%
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For this series, mostly Pop and TP, but the reason Spurs aren't championship contenderss is bec. Duncans decline. I can stomach the latter w/o a problem.
Parker. He's the healthiest and youngest member of the Big 3 and yet has declined the most. He's making terrible decisions that we haven't seen all year and his confidence is pretty low.
With the amount of turnovers and missed attempts he's had, he's literally given the ball away to the Grizz for huge momentum building plays. His midrange game has gone the way of the dodo and even Rondo seems like a better shooter nowadays. The rest of the team relies on his ability to create especially the shooters...
I don't know wtf is wrong with Parker but it sucks ass for the Spurs. Also doesn't help that he had that Eva fiasco earlier in the season. A couple of these losses were just decided by a possession or two and Parker was the key factor in that
Bonner 100%. If Splitter played instead of Bonner this series we are already into the 2nd round... as you saw last game.
I blame 1) RC for failing to go out and get a legit big man/size to put next to Duncan.
2) Pop and RC for failure to get a 2nd post presence. Granted we had the black hole, aka Gooden. But a decent big body in the middle we could play with Duncan.
3) RJ. He's regressed a lot this year. But I think part that goes to Pop. Pop needs to run plays for him. Get him involved. He was supposed to be a 4th scorer. He's become a complimentary player in our system. He doesn't fit.
4) Playing Bonner too many mins. He's been a great regular season guy, but how many times has he come up empty in the playoffs???
5) Pop - coaching.
6) TP - regression and bone headed plays.
7) GHill - when he's on, he has masked RJ's disapperance. But he's been awful this series.
It can still be turned around, but unlikely. For all the talent we have, we are just being outplayed. Even if we manage to get past the Grizz, I think this year shows that building around Manu and TP isn't going to work in the future.
How long till we can really start rebuilding? Would the team considering trading TP? Even Manu?
I think trading TD or Manu might get cause a HUGE PR backlash.
I would add Grant Hill to that group...
Agree. What I can't stomach though is the decline of Pop brain and the complete passivity of Parker
Father Time
I Fault Pop when he decided that Don Nelson was the best thing since sliced bread.
It's a shame that the only time you're right is when you're being sarcastic.
Pop/Bonner/RJ performed at the level I expected in this series.
TP is the only one who's performed at a surprisingly disappointing level this series. If he had performed the way he was capable of then that would have been enough to rise above the inevitable play from Bonner/RJ and dumb moves by Pop.
But he's the bed so far while the others have been par for the course. So he gets the lion's share of the blame, IMO.
Pop & RC
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Pop...he lost this series in that regular season finale against the Suns...
Pop.
Instead of "saving" Duncan by minimizing his minutes, why didn't you "save" him by getting him an athletic/long/defensive big to play along side him. Duncan might have played fewer minutes this year, but he's still had to be the sole anchor of the Spurs interior defense, which is asking a lot at this time in his career.
I would have settled for a somewhat developed Splitter, even a mistake prone Mahinmi. Instead we trot out an old forward, undersized forward and forward who shoot threes. It's not Dice's fault he's old and playing the 5. It's not Blair's fault he's undersized and playing out of position. It's not even Bonner's fault for jacking up threes. Bonner's not a terrible player for what he provides, he's just overused, which is all on Pop.
The front office
They put this team together without a solid front line.
Robert Horry because ever since Robert Horry left, it made go Pop go delirious to look for a stretch 4 and settled with Bonner for that position. Who was it that said Bonner was going to be a Robert Horry type player? I remember reading that once here.
Original thread is original.
As much as I love Pop this move really baffles me, you sit them down against the Lakers and then you bring them out for the last game, a meaningless game because we now had to win it to just to tie for the best record because it was obvious that the Bulls were not going to lose thier last game. I would've thought getting a win agains the lackluster Lakers would have put them in a better situation to rest everyone for the last game, but irregardless the whole thing just made no sense.
Back to being a Bonner rider or just trolling the trolls?
The Grizzlies.
DeadlyDynasty... for betting for the Spurs...
Parker is not a traditional guard, the team needs a creative guard that feeds his teammates and of course ... a real center too.
RC Buford 50%
Pop 50%
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