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On the bench.
I know Boris Diaw pretty much took his spot once he signed with the team, but Dejuan has been a ghost since ???? Is he in the dog house with pop or something? I thought James Anderson was the only who doesn't get any minutes???
On the bench.
Where he need to be for these playoffs. Hope he learns a lot from players like Jackson and Duncan, he needs to be taking notes. Also, I wouldn't mind keeping him around a few more seasons, tbh.
He's the 5th best big man, and the overall 11th man on a team with a 10-man playoff rotation. Duncan is obviously the best big man, Diaw is starting at PF because he plays well with Duncan, Splitter is the 3rd big man and Duncan's backup, and Bonner gets a few minutes as the 4th big, spacing the floor.
Blair isn't better than any of those guys, so he sits. No real mystery.
he's where he can do no harm to our chances.
i thought he couldve got some mintues last night when boris was in foul trouble and matt not doing . i mean just to kill time and get rebounds or be another big body *shrug* who knows
was digging the mohawk tho lol
He got a good history in OKC, No?
I'm guessing the Spurs will pick up his option (it's only $1 million) for next season as injury insurance and to try to limit Tim's minutes again, but that next year will be the last we see him in a Spurs uniform. He's just an awful fit here and would likely do a lot better on a team that needed his offensive skills enough to be able to tolerate his defensive deficiencies.
I thought this was a bumped thread.
How many "Where is DeJuan Blair?" threads have there been in the past month?
Anyway, he's on the bench where he belongs.
He's got some talent, but not great. We hoped he'd be more of a rebounder. He has had amazing rebounding games, but really hasn't translated like we thought it would.
I think he is gone if spurs sign boris and the other big
spurs could use blair to try to trade up
I know he's not well liked here but I imagine Blair has a decent reputation around the league averaging 9.5/5.5 in 20 mins. He's still a half decent rebounder and has good hands.
I'm hoping we can package him in a trade with someone like Neal (leaving Mills as our backup PG assuming he picks up his player option) for a pick if theres someone we like in the late first round.
I also believe that the Spurs will guarantee his final year. His contract becomes fully guaranteed if the Spurs don't waive him on Nov. 1, 2012.
Why don't you go back and read some of timvp's post game analysis threads from like, 2 months ago, maybe?
why don't you just tell us what he said instead
He got his shine during the regular season. I say he played enough..
Simply too short.
Couldn't hurt in the boards area.
could hurt in all other areas
He'll play tomorrow, in garbage time, once OKC gets their only win of the series. Frankly, I can see Pop throwing in the towel early if the game turns into a blow out to avoid giving the Thurder too much confidence ahead of game 4.
The Spurs are a stats team. Blair's advanced metrics, kind of sadly in my opinion, don't quite measure up to the rest of the team's. I love the way he plays, he's ferocious and fun to watch, but based on how the Spurs run their organization, I think he's benched primarily because the Spurs are nearly always statistically worse when he's on the court, regardless of lineup.
Also, as alluded to above, the Spurs simply can't have 3 offensive players in the paint, that would absolutely crush their offensive game plan. And with a 10 man rotation that already has 4 bigs.... yup.
I do think the Spurs take the metrics much deeper than the paragraph above, and will play lineups based on stat-dependent matchups within games. I'd be curious to see how Blair's adj. +/- looks when matched up against a player like Perkins. Intuitively I think he has enough fight, talent, and body on both the offense and defense ends to make that a plus statistically, but I have zero numbers to back that up.
I strongly think he could excel elsewhere in the NBA better than he does in San Antonio, as a poor man's Paul Millsap. He definitely has trade value.
He would be nice on a team like the Warriors or Wizards or any other ty team where he can stat-pad, tbh..
He's one of the worst defensive bigs in NBA history, he doesn't fit well on a le contender..
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