Spurs are Struggling when Gasol and Aldridge Play Together

[Chris]

http://spurs.247sports.com/Bolt/Spur...ether-48812392

It's still entirely too early in the season for anyone to panic but a disturbing trend is starting to become noticeable with regard to San Antonio Spurs big men Pau Gasol and LaMarcus Aldridge.

According to Marc Stein of ESPN.com, in the 113 minutes LaMarcus Aldridge and Pau Gasol have played together to this point in the 2016-17 regular season, San Antonio has been outscored by 25 points.

Obviously, with Gasol still transitioning into the Spurs' system, this is just a small sample size that Stein is pulling from but it is undoubtedly something that Gregg Popovich will have to monitor as the season moves forward as the frontline of Gasol and Aldridge was supposed to be one that San Antonio could lean on throughout the year.

Should things not change dramatically in the coming weeks, we could see Popovich be forced to become a little more creative with his rotations in order to make sure that he's putting a lineup on the floor that will be effective.




Should we start Dedmon and bring MVPau off the bench tbh?

[Chinook]

And they're struggling when those guys play in general. Both have been net-minuses so far. It's disturbing.

[Chris]

Still way too early to make judgments, but ya, this is what many of us(the anti-Gasol posters) were worried about, tbh..

Pau accepting a bench role

Have to see what the defense looks like with more continuity/defensive chemistry + Danny returning..

I forgot about LDN. I may have underestimated Fathead's overall detriment to the team in the starting lineup.

[kaji157]

Exactly the same happened last year at the beggining of the season whith LA and TD. They just need to learn to play together.
I´ve been saying in all the cliffjumper threads about the Clippers destroying us, that we lost against one of the teams with the best starting bigs in the league while having 4 out of 5 new bigs on our rotation. Too early to cry havoc.
And we also missed Danny´s D on CP3.

Our interior play will get better, remember LA has been here one year, and Pau, Dedmon, Lee and Bertans are all new. That will always show against good interior play.

[Proxy]

Let's wait for DG to get back and into rhythm