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Parker played like dog crap, and deserved to sit,
Sure seemed like he might have thrown the game to teach the guys some humility...
Exhibit A: Beno instead of TP or JV in prime comeback time.
Exhibit B: No Bonner until the last 30 seconds of the game.
Exhibit C: Oberto's "quad bruise"
Exhibit D: Ex-Spurs brand new coaching career...
I know the last two are a real stretch but the first two don't make ANY sense at all!
Parker played like dog crap, and deserved to sit,
Why he didn't play Vaughn over Beno, I don't know. I hope JV isn't hurt.
But I believe Parker got pulled for giving up back-to-back And 1's.
As for Bonner, I don't get why he wasn't the 4 in the small ball lineup, if they had to use one.
If that was the condition, Manu and Tim should have sat too
Maybe he was hoping for a spark
If that was the condition, Manu and Tim should have sat too
Some spur hit a three to get with one, then Parker gives up a 3 point play. Then he comes back and does it again on the next possetion.
Yeah I know - that's what I just said in this thread. He gave up back to back And 1's.
CIA pop...
I just talked to whottt about this very issue, I think this was a tank job, ALL OF A SUDDEN he brings back small ball for some reason
They actually have been playing small ball in long stretches lately. They did so the other night in the win they squeaked out over Portland.
Too much of that birthday cake.
Pop doesnt care about wining streaks but what he does care abou is putting questionable players in at critical times to see if they can put something together. Hence beno being in while the two guys that were sure fire were benched...
dang....you're doing the CIA shuffle, lemme think about it.....well, maybe he threw the game, maybe he heard at practice some of the boys talking about streaks and stuff so he experimented with "not my choice!" kinda decisions.........
ok, then, that would explain alot!
I think the have spooked themselves about Milwaukee.
I'm really mad Bonner didn't play. I really feel like the team could have used him tonight.
I don't know why Pop didn't at least try playing him.
Pop's a smart coach. Sometimes he doesn't get trapped into that short sighted goal of winning expendable games.
The problem with "expendable" games is that the Spurs need, in Mar/Apr, every game to push themselves, as practice and tune-up for the playoffs.
Tonight was a perfect challenge: on the road against a team 3rd from the bottom of the ing EC but playing tough. Spurs had no response, couldn't find a way to win in adverse cir stances, couldn't turn it on, not even close. They got over the hump but couldn't keep it going, and looked like crap, physically and mentally, the whole time, like in the Dec-Feb crap streak.
flashback
If there was one game we were to lose in the next ten... this one was it. With the Bucks wanting to show their new coach something... like emotion... and the Spurs Big 3 playing like crap, it was a recipe for disaster.
don't cook mush and then tell everyone that steaks with all the trimmings are forthcoming
Just an off night. It happens, especially on the road. Did anybody really think Spurs would never lose again?
Parker punished for saying that he needs to support Eva by living in the same city.
J/K I didn't even know there was a guy named "Lynn" in the league.
...and neither did the Bucks until tonight.
I guarantee you that no professional sports coach in their right mind would ever do anything less than everything he can to try and win a game, no matter how "meaningless". These guys are way too professional and compe ive, and have way too much of an ego to "throw" a game.
It's a loss. Deal with it. It happens--you don't have to constantly try and rationalize it.
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