Wasn't he a restricted free agent? Wouldn't Chicago just have matched?
Tim had a good statistical game but he had mental errors on the defensive end and that one where he went for the steal and let Jackson turn around and lay it in was probably the biggest mental blunder I've seen Duncan make this season.....it was absolutely inexcusable
he also was turning it over by allowing people to swipe the ball again
however
mad props on his free throw shooting
That's when Nocioni came into the NBA. He needed a decent contract to come over to pay his buyout which I think turned out to be a 9 million 3 year deal. Spurs paid Barry more than that. I don't even know if the Spurs were interested in him at all back then, but the should have been after seeing him in the 2004 Olympics.
Oh -- then.
I care so little about it, I don't remember.
Yeah I'll shut up about it now. I just get mad when he does this to us. Everyone on this team that played with Sjax should know not to freaking leave him open though.
I'm sure Manu was told to double off him. Not a good tactic IMO.
Yeah that could be the case, but like you said not a very smart tactic at all. I hope Pop didn't come up with that one cause Sjax taught him a lesson.
It's the regular season. They'll see what worked and go from there.
yeah, I think it's almost time to start looking at our defense now cause that's been downright awful at times. What do we do about getting some blocked shots and causing some intimidation? I think we only had 2 blocks tonight. Is it time to give Elson another shot?
We're not going to win games ala Suns and Warriors by just engaging in a shooting contest, we need to get back to our D.
The Nuggets vs Suns game ended up being something like 120-137 (suns win)....and that was the final boxscore without OT!
Also, it's kind of scary just how good the Western Conference is this year....last year's 7th and 8th seeds have a chance to win 50+ games this season...not to mention the emergence of surprise teams like the Blazers and Hornets who are playing really well. Anyway you stack it, it's going to be a tough road just to get out of the Western Conference. Meanwhile, for all the talk of the East being tough now that the Celtics are good again...there remains only 2 legit contenders in the East (3 if you possibly want to throw in the Cavs). After that, the rest of the Eastern Conference playoff teams are again a joke.
4th game in 5 days DON5T BLAME THE SPURS
The fact that they were able to bounce back and almost win it impresses me considering the b2b fatigue.
On one of the possessions, Manu doubled off Jax , and the other player, was slow to rotate on Jax, he clanked it on that one, but it was pretty blatant.
Anyway, we lost this game because we all had poor defensive stretches, individually for everyone. But the Warriors were just doing their thing, so whatever. Just another regular season game.
Who on the Warriors are the Spurs leaving Jack to double team?
I wonder WHY we lost the game? Our old players cloudn't stay in their legs in the OT...This year we take Dallas's role and LOST already 2 times against Golden State - Elson was perfect to play in this game - he could run, he was fresh, and the Spurs could've drilled GS's defense on the middle by going through the center - the problem is Pop was playing ONLY Timmy at the center - he benched Oberto, who is playing him only 13 minutes per game - so, Oberto doesn't perform...Elson was on bench as well and played ZERO minutes again (!!!) - so there you go again - we are playing WITHOUT CENTERS (the same way we lost from Dallas 3-4 in the Playoffs), and the defense in the middle is NOT working properly (Horry is too old to do what Elson and Oberto can...)...When you look at the stats - when Timmy, Tony and Manu score in double digits, the Spurs should win, right? But, because Pop is playing WITHOUT CENTERS-BIGS, NOBODY could close the PAINT and could block shots - it is too much work for Timmy to work on both ends, who has to score, gets rebounds, and play in both ends of the floor - something impossible to do - that is WHY we will keep LOSING when playing like this...The questions is HOW FAR this could go? I said before Popovich has tendency to do FOOLISH things after he wins Championships - THAT IS WHY HE COULDN'T REPEAT les because he NEVER kept the system that gave him the success (while there is an argument that he couldn't keep some of his players before, this year he even kept all the players, but he is changing the system all the time - he benched elson and Oberto!). His problem is - he gets 'off balance' too easy - Elson irritated him somehow, now he sits, and we suffer the consequences from that(???);
THE SPURS ARE CURRENTLY a .500 team - win one and lose one...By that said, if they keep the current system to play "WITHOUT CENTERS", they WILL NOT REPEAT...Horry is NOT the same as before to help timmy in the end of games - Oberto played very well in the Playoffs last year - he deserves to start - Elson showed some good signs as well - he blocked the "game winning" attempt at ATT centers against Dallas this year...
How many threads did you post the exact same thing?
it was a good test of the spurs' smallball ability without really sacrificing anything except a loss. if this was how pop wanted the lineup to really look like in the playoffs, he would have been pissed already. but he's not.
the lack of effort performed by Horry pisses me off a lot. Even though i know he will be great in the playoffs, he still needs to show up for regular season games.
Wow you actually posted in a thread that wasn't about just Tony and EVa
I think Horry is done.
Yeah cause Horry always plays stellar in january.
I said it last year and I'll say it again.
Horry will get minutes in the playoffs, and will play well.
He will knock down series winning shots again like he did last year.
You take being a whiny, excuse making to never before seen levels...
I hated when the officials told the Spurs that they had to stop playing defense. That's so unfair.
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