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who needs offense? not the spurs!
i guess the front office doesn't realize that defense requires athleticism too.
It wasn't any fun being champs anyway.
This team just looks tired and old. But that's what happens when you've got eleven players over the age of 30.
And someone needs to point out to them that Duncan ain't getting any younger...
who needs offense? not the spurs!
i guess the front office doesn't realize that defense requires athleticism too.
but they FO will always be looked at geniuses because they drafted TD, oh what a steal there
What younger players were available?
you have the rights to the best player in europe and you get NOTHING out of it. awesome job!
ah yes, lets beat that invisible horse into the ground some more.
wtf? you really thought the spurs would win without ginobili in LA? this was a pure tank game.. the spurs win the next two and everything is fine...wgaf anyway....
and the way things are going they won't win the next two
Age is no excuse for missing open jumpers, playing without heart, and completely collapsing in the 2nd half for the 123213th time in a row versus a Western Conference Playoff Team.
You know what's funny? People think the Spurs offense is bad, it's not a coincidence. If people notice, the offense every game the past month or so has suffered in the SECOND HALF. This is due to older players who get a little more tired as the game goes on. It's no coincidence the Spurs are short on so many of their shots in the 2nd half.
And even when the score was tied at 53 in the first half, who the heck didn't see this kind of meltdown coming from the Spurs in the 2nd half? It's become so predictable that the Spurs are going to struggle offensively in the 2nd half of games against good teams, that I can't remember the last time it DIDN'T happen....and no the Houston game really doesn't count as they were without Yao.
That is age though. They're short on virtually every shot. Old legs don't always have the same lift as the game goes on, that's why they're clanking so many shots off the front of the rim.
Im still waiting for that list of young players they passed over....
Yeah that lineup of Vaughn, Stoudamire, Oberto, Udoka and Bowen to start the 4th was a great way to chip into a 12 point deficit. Pop's coaching and personnel decisions has been absolute against WC playoff teams. I never thought I would say that Brent Barry is the difference between le and no le but he's the one guy that can give us a decent boost off the bench other than Manu.
Spurs need to get their act together fast.
That kind of lineup to start the fourth par for the course these days.
Can we the league do a realignment and get us in the East before the playoffs start?
The spurs have been the oldest team for years and you same people complained about the same problems then and were the first to buy their champioship shirts!! Do I think they are look old? Yes, but only against the best teams in the NBA(imagine that). The spurs rely on depth and this year seems the worst that I can remember in sometime.
Just curious,
who else is supposed to play
Theres only 12 guys
Typical lame comeback from you.
You know what? That's their job to figure out. None of us saw Kurt Thomas for Barry and Elson coming, so it's ignorant to assume the Spurs couldn't have found some younger players out there to bring in.
That, or find someone competent for drafting domestic talent. They made their bed with the whole draft a bunch of Euros and wait to see if one pans out in a couple of years draft strategy, the problem is other teams have caught up there, and now we can't draft domestic talent worth to replenish the pipeline.
Everyone said this team needed to get younger after winning the le last year, even the forum cheerleaders like you. Well now that problem is coming home to roost.
Manu's spent (and now injured), Tim Duncan is showing off a vertical on par with Will Perdue, and our AARP role players are getting beat to the loose balls every night.
But don't let the facts get in the way. You can hang around, wait for us to get smoked in the playoffs, and wait for Pop and the Excuse for News to designate the problem child/blame for our postseason failure.
It'll probably be Stoudemire or Thomas more than likely, they're the new guys on the block, or they will run some story about how we just couldn't overcome the loss of Brent Barry or some stupid like that that you lap up and say 'wait til' next year'.
Sequ - this is a general thread, I'm not commenting because we lost to LA today, I expected that. It's how we lost. This team is hosed because it's older, slower, and won't be able to rely on corporate knowledge to get it past all the firepower in the west this year.
Could say the same for you.Typical lame comeback from you.
You know what? That's their job to figure out
Anyone that doesn't acknowledge that this team is extremely old and in need of some changes, thankfully two will becoming in the forms of Ian & Tiago, is a blind "homer." This team has been embarassed 5 times against top-caliber teams and gave up a 22-point lead to the best team in the league, yet some would have you believe that there are no problems.
The front-office hung onto the excuse that they didn't want to prematurely break-up a championship group. But, they should've brought in younger players to supplement the four players that matter the most.
They'll be retaining at least a few of the current players, but they've gotta go after younger shooters like James Jones this off-season.
Sequ.......
People think that if Ginobili played the Spurs would have won today's game? I'm not so sure about that. The score would have been more respectable probably, but when Duncan goes 5-15 and Parker disapears in the 2nd half and Vaughn reverts back to his overdribbling self and Bowen is missing wide open 3 pointers, there's only so much Ginobili can do...
The FO got flak for changing the roster in prior years.
The FO gets flak for not changing the roster this year.
The only way they can win is to win the whole thing now that a lot of you are so used to that outcome.
The roster will get younger next year, but that will do no good this year. I can't remember so many 20 point losses in a season. It's not looking good unless EVERYONE outside of Horry (who does not look good for coming around by the playoffs) gets well quickly. Sigh!
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