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And the third best is Brent Barry.
The Spurs really need to address their backup point guard need. Paino sucked in the summer and now he's already hurt. And honestly, he's not even a point guard to begin with.
As it stands, the second best point guard on the Spurs is Manu Ginobili.
Paino is coming into a do or die season for him personally and comes into camp injured ... again.
Weak.
And the third best is Brent Barry.
Don't dare say something bad about him................
He needs time don't you know that!!!!!
Thats all we heard last year.
Unfortunately the market for backup point guards is now dried up and gone.
No thanks on that peanut head.Jeff McInnis anyone?
He couldn't pass up Jacque Vaughn on the depth chart in New Jersey..
I've been saying since last year to give up on this scrub
Twisting a finger is one of the most common BB related injury.
As far as I know, it has no link with bad conditioning or lazyness, it's just bad luck. Blaming Beno for twisting his finger is weak.
Should we just keep this handy for the inevitable day when Beno twists his finger? I'm sure Tony Parker is feeling for Beno in his time of need.
Tony broke a finger and is in camp ready to go while Beno is learning training camp etiquette from Terrell Owens.
Tony broke his finger siw weeks ago. If he had broken it at the end of the WC, he wouldn't be ready for the start of the training camp.
Tony was just lucky to get injured soon enough in the summer to be ready for the training camp, Beno hasn't this luck.
Fixed it for you.
If you want, you can blame Beno for that.
It's just lame to blame him for this injury. And it's pointless to play in the training camp when you risk to aggravate an injury, even more than the "real" training camp will start when spurs will be back in SA.
Or Beno isn't in shape and gets injured easily. *shrug*
I hope he comes into the season in great shape and tears it up. I want another young player getting minutes.
Stop complaining.
We all know that the shape is not the issue in many cases. Some players are more injure prone.
We still have Tony, jaque, manu and Brent who could be at the point.
I'm not sure that Beno is really injury prone. For 2 years with Spurs, he has had :
- a knee injury during the 05 summer.
- an ankle sprain in april 06 (he missed two weeks).
- a hamstring injury during the 06 summer.
It's not that much and his injuries were minor.
Maybe Beno isn't as solid than Bowen, Duncan or Parker and won't be able to play 35mpg during a whole season, but Spurs don't ask him to do that. Beno just need to play 15mpg for 100 games/year and his rookie season has shown that his body can handle that.
Lame thread.
In the summer Beno was drafted, he had a hand injury, an abdominal injury and a knee injury. Also in one of the seasons (I don't remember which), he had a shoulder injury where he was wearing some sort of brace under his uniform.
Why? The Spurs are expecting Beno to be the backup point guard. He needs to get in shape and stay healthy. Manu/Brent aren't the answer as the full-time backup point and you were the one complaining that Vaughn and the other bench players are too old.
So Beno needs to step up.
Isn't that when you are not in the shape you can get into it in the middle of a season?
well IMO it should be easier, but what I've seen none of the spurs players improved during the season. Am I wrong?
Bruno usually brings it but that's a funny line. Beno is so injury prone that Pop has gotten on his case for that very fact. Last season he said that he refuses to discuss a Beno injury.
Beno has been injury prone his whole basketball life. He's barely played on the Spurs and has been injured tons.
Tony Parker missed two games last season. What happens when Beno makes his first start?
Yep you guess it, he got injured.
The part that makes it unacceptable to the Spurs' brass is these are all pain threshold type injuries. These aren't injuries that make him physically unable to play.
You missed an injury or ten.
- June 2004 bruised knee in the predraft camp (misses last two days of camp)
- July 2004 bruised knee in the Spurs summer league practice (misses all but first practice and first couple games)
- July 2004 bruised thumb in a Spurs summer league game (misses the rest of the game)
- July 2004 pulled ab muscle in Spurs summer league practice (misses the rest of the summer league games)
- August 2004 bruised knee in Slovenia national team compe ion (misses the rest of the compe ion)
- October 2004 bruised thigh (misses a couple days of training camp)
- October 2004 sprained ankle (misses a couple preseason games)
That was all before he even played a game for the Spurs. Since then Beno has had another dozen minor injuries. I know Pop is sick of Beno using injuries as an excuse.
And Spurs fans should be just as sick of it ... especially when Beno will play such an important role for this team.
If push comes to shove, I'd rather see Brent at PG. I think he makes better decisions at that position than Manu.
Beno has only missed two games during his rookie season and has benn unvailable to play in his sop re year for something like ten games (6 games because of an ankle sprain and something like 4 games because of th flu).
Bruno usually brings it but that's a funny line. Beno is so injury prone that Pop has gotten on his case for that very fact. Last season he said that he refuses to discuss a Beno injury.
Beno has been injury prone his whole basketball life.
I don't care if Beno isn't able to play starting minutes since he is a backup.
Beno twist is ankle only after 13 minutes, this injury has nothing to do with the fact that he starts (and it was his second start of the season).
When Beno should have played through pain ?
The only moment when playing through pain was justified was after the Clippers game when Spurs needed him as backup PG. He suffered at that moment of a rolled ankle : Duncan and Ginobili have missed a lot of games because of this injury this last two years, so it's not that easy to play with this kind of injury.
These was little injuries : he would have played if it was during the regular season. It's like listing Parker's and Manu's bruises.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b....12b2d826.html
Beno is maybe a soft crybaby but he isn't injury prone : he can play backup minutes a whole season.Last season, Udrih played in 101 of the Spurs' 105 games — a contrast from his injury-checkered days in Europe.
"He got over that because we didn't allow it," Popovich said. "If he had any kind of bumps and bruises last year, we just ignored it because we knew they weren't serious."
Beno is injury prone. Not as much as Sani, but not far behind.
This is why Slovenia is a top five country
The incident I remember with a smile is once when Beno was knocked on his ass, I think in a pre-season game, the teams ran down the court. As Beno was getting up holding or rubbing some body part, he looked over at the Spurs bench for sympathy and Pop just shrugged!
And USA is pretty much top5 as well.This is why Slovenia is a top five country
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