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yeah, too bad they finally got double digit losses though
Quote from Pop on the radio show.
He said pretty much the team's tank is on empty. Manu asked to come out after 5 minutes into the first quarter.
So, anyone else that wants to rip this team for no heart, no this no that.
They were whooped.
Once again, they are human, theyve played the MOST games of anyone.
The effort was there, but the bodies werent responding.
That simple.
yeah, too bad they finally got double digit losses though
I thought Manu looked really worn down the other night especially after the huge night against Phoenix. Hopefully they'll all rest for two days and be refreshed for the next game.
He ASKED to come out? You know if Bill Parcels coached that team he'd be riding the pine for the rest of the year. Hudson was riduclued for a week straight after his stint last month
What I think is promising out of last night's loss is the idea that, even playing poorly and even with their tanks on empty, the Spurs gave themselves plenty of opportunities to win the game. So many other teams (ala Sacramento on Sunday) would have packed it in after that first quarter and moved on to the next game. The Spurs dug deep and tried to find something that would work, and almost managed to get the game. That mentality (if not the execution) pays off over the long haul.
If these guys were major league baseball players this would have never happened. Where are the good folks from Balco when you need them??
This is a silly point. Pop subs utes for Manu around the 6 minute mark of every first quarter. Last night, Manu asked out after 5 minutes. Rather than questioning his manhood or his integrity, I think we should applaud his commitment to the team. Rather than drag up and down and potentially cost the team, he admitted that he needed a breather. That's part of being on a team. Not unlike Emmitt Smith asking for breathers after long runs (when he used to make long runs).
Besides, it's not as if he asked out of the game for good . . . . and it's not as if Manu has struggled to perform when the Spurs have needed him.
Sickdsm, yeah thats what players that actually "try" do sometimes. Unlike Cassell and "I'm Broke" Latrell Spreewell. Dude had a 48 point night and his stats tell you what he does on the reg. Guess your not used to seeing players winded being a fan of the Tpups. Garnett is paddling on a lonely ship these days.
Back-to-backs are . In an 80+ game season, there are going to be nights when their bodies don't respond. I always hate losing, but they're going to come. I don't think it was a matter of playing down to Portland's level nearly as much as they were dead. The road games ahead don't look to be too rough. We owe Seattle; Miami will be tough, we get Cleveland after a couple of home games; but other than that this next stretch doesn't offer too much of the NBA's elite.
I'm always reminded of Kareem's cameo in "Airplane." The little kid questions his work ethic. He grabs the kid by the shirt and offers, "The I don't! LISTEN KID, I've been hearing that crap since I was UCLA. I"m out there busting my buns every night. You tell your old man Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes."
No excuse for that. You dropped a 30 point bomb on sac the night before, everyone should be rested enough. this was the 1st quarter????? You guys are a bunch of homers. Maybe if you'd get off his jock long enough you'd question him and the minutes. How the does Devin get only 7 in a blowout?
Good thing manu went for 48, i guess that gives a free pass for the rest of the season.
You're a good man. You noticed the subs ution patterns (and there are very definite ones). Spot on, bro'.
Maybe manu should have realized it was a 3 for 8 kinda night and told Pop he didn't want to go back in. Devin was obviously feeling it and could have played his minutes. I mean if he's spent after 5 how come he was able to play 33?
Classic, Tony parker gets crackback after dropping 20 and 7 for being pussified over his current housewife but manu is applauded for asking to come out.
The comparison to emmitt's long run is rediculous. Manu didn't do much in sacramento either.
No one applauded Manu until a Wolves fan had to come out and question him for wanting to come out of the game. Bringing up a Bill Parcels example of all examples.
Honestly who cares that he wanted to come out? The dude has been playing for years straight with minimal breaks in between seasons. Even Duncan mentions how tired he has been lately, and how 40 min games are rare for him. I really don't see your argument here. This is a Spurs board, if some people want to prop up their players then they have every right to without having to hear some Wolve fan spew off about how Manu didn't do much in Sacto because you happen to look at a box score and saw he shot lower than 50%, and assumed he played poorly.
In case you didn't know Tim Duncan is the leader of this team. And any time a player like Parker or Manu doesn't shoot 50%, does not mean that person played poorly. So please, if you are going to criticize other posters critiques or praises, at least watch most of the Spurs games instead of looking at FG% in a box score.
Until then, go post somewhere cause your just filling the forum with non sense.
Wolves really suck... don't they... lol
Hey, while you're making posts in June about Manu asking to sit 5 minutes into a qt, he'll be on a river barge holding up a trophy. While KG is at home practicing his powder clap that he does before every game.
But man, do the Wolves suck... more then your Mom at happy hour in some poorly lit bar.
You know, the back to back *would* have some legitimacy, if it weren't for the Sacto game the night before. In that laugher, here's the PT:
Duncan 32
Bowen 32
Parker 30
TMass 30
Ginobili 29
Barry 23
Rose 21
Udrih 18
Marks 13
The most anyone played was 32 minutes, no starters played in the fourth, but they were too tired from the night before?
Sorry, that's weak. Just admit that they didn't give a damn, but to say they were tired is either 1) a serious cop out or 2) we have some conditioning problems on this team.
Pop said that Manu and Tim were "spent". He said that they expended as much energy and effort as they could, but they just didn't have the juice.
of course that would an "excuse"
what the would pop know right, not like hes WITH the players or anything.
Jesus H. Christ Tpark, go get laid. You are the most defensive mofo I have ever seen.
We all know Tim's been hurting/sick lately, I was amazed he had the game he had Phoenix.
I can buy him, and Manu (after Friday) being tired, but the whole team? Especially the rest of the starters?
The whole team just mentally wasn't in to it. We should leave it at that and move on.
I would think Massenburg would be.
played the most minutes all year.
Horry shouldn't have played period obviously.
The TEAM is tired. 44 games in the amount of time given is alot.
They could be MEntally tired as well, that shouldnt be out of the realm.
so are you jealous because your team sucks or because you aren't getting any play? either way, you need a hug, man.
I also agree that "spent" is rediculous. These guys sleep in 5 star hotels, travel on a charter etc. It was all mental this game plus Portland for their credit did not choke this one away per their usual fashion instead got hot.
The Spurs starters played very minutes vs. Sac town.
This was a bad loss period that despite some valient efforts to keep in it was really lost by an abysmal start to the game. Plus Pop rested many of the starters for long stretches while Brown, Barry, Beno and Rose played.
Manu gets a pass just because he is always so competetive and he was back in there trying to pull it out. But again, this loss simply stank - despite the Spurs actually having a chance due to hitting their FTs most of the game for once on the road. Bowen especially, played very bad as did Tim in the first 15 minutes of the game.
MadDoc
Manu did what he had to for the team to succeed... simple as that. BTW thanks to BSPN you didn't get the full story of what happened at Arco... Manu was the human highlight film.
Oh and before you question anybody's work ethic don't forget to criticize your own first....
---KG copped out of Olympics....
---Cassell and Spreewell nearly held out... but seem to be 'holding' out anyways (their demeanor on the court and overall lack of passion tell the story).
was marks spent is that why he did not play but one mminute
Trying to compare Parcell to POP and girly Hudson I want to be traded to,
MANU is just wrong.Need to come out after 5minutes is alot better than I need a new contract I have to feed my family 14 million is not enough I can not take them to Chucky Cheese. Tpups win 3 games in a row they come back to this forum start ing about the SPURS, where were you when the Tpups lost 4 or 5 in a row. GET OUT NOW!
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