Comments on: San Antonio’s Silent Slump

By: Milan Aliamo

Milan Aliamo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:30:55 +0000

Go Spurs!!

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:40:09 +0000

Dare I say… Ewing theory??? j/k, but obviously, it’s really good to see the Spurs win and get some of the new guys involved.

By: bigtee

bigtee — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:22:35 +0000

maybe the spurs should start hill, manu, rj, blair, and McDyess, and bring Tony, roger mason, bogans, bonner and Timmy off the bench. let manu rj and hill attack the rim all first quarter with blair and McDyess cleaning up the boards. then slow the game down and keep the lead

By: bigtee

bigtee — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:10:24 +0000

Hopefully these last two games have helped to silence the crowd of people wanting to release or not play bogans. The spurs know talent and they are also are very high on driven hard working individuals, That’s what bogans showed tonight. plus he can hit the three ball.

By: Grego

Grego — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:34:58 +0000

^^But Spurs struggled when Dallas went zone.

This is where Duncan is most important, especially against a team that has weak post defense, that will get burned if they don’t help.

Even if you kept Duncan and Parker as the 1st two options, you can sit them at different periods and utilize the rotations with different sets of players.

In theory Pop could have 2 of the big 4 on the court at all times (with Hill in some of those lineups).

By: BB

BB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:32:02 +0000

RJ is the best Spur right now. These are weird games, but those stat lines from these last two are out of this world. Qualified by my admittedly absurd excitement these past two games, it seems like he might be our best all-around offensive player since George Gervin. When I watch this team play, the whole offensive hierarchy of the past decade seems irrelevant. I think to be truly successful, the Spurs should give up on the idea of Tim and Tony as the 1st and 2nd option in all situations. Just look at how weird the high pick gets with McDyess floating out towards the 3 pt. line instead of rolling to the basket. This team has options and schemes and talent not suited to a big two or big three offense. I’m pretty pleased that we can win sloppy games against the Mavs, though. I think Pop was trying to throw out as many different looks as possible, but McDyess played very well on Nowitzki tonight.

By: Grego

Grego — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:21:40 +0000

With RJ’s latest game, if you throw out his first two games,

33.4 mpg
21.4 ppg
60.2% fg (7.8 fgm/game on 13.8 fga/game)
41.3% 3pt (1.4 3-fgm/3.4 3-fga)
4.2 reb/game
3.2 apg
1.4 spg
1.4 turnover/game

His free throw shooting is very Spur like though.

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:51:33 +0000

It’s official.

The spurs should bring parker and duncan off the bench and have ginobili and jefferson starting.

By: Chris K.

Chris K. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:52:44 +0000

I LOVE the starting lineup that Pop sent out tonight: Hill, Bogans, Jefferson, Blair, McDyess.

Substitute Tony for Hill and Duncan for McDyess and I think we’re good!

By: SpursfanSteve

SpursfanSteve — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:36:42 +0000

apparently, i wont be watching any of the game because i live in freaking oklahoma city and the idiots up here have a baylor/mizzou football game on fox sports. i hate this place. i cant even find the OKC game televised. anyone know where i could watch it?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:11:32 +0000

RJ on Dirk no doubt. He did well against West.

By: SpursfanSteve

SpursfanSteve — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:06:01 +0000

I want at least one short stretch of Hill guarding Dirk with weakside help. Is this completely absurd? I’m sure it seems so. But Hill has length and quickness and the only thing Dirk could do against him is post him up. Which would be where the weakside help comes in. Since we are still in the experimental stage of play, i wouldnt mind seeing Blair get a little time on him too. If he plays smart i think he has the physical tools to keep up with him. But he would have to play smart, which sense hes a rookie that might be asking a bit much.

And i vote for deactivating Bogans (and Ratliff if need be) and activating Haislip and Hairston. Bogans is effective at denying his man the ball, but after his man gets it, Bogans gets burnt. The thought of him chasing JET around makes me sad. Are both Duncan and Parker going to be out tonight?

By: Hollywood

Hollywood — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:48:16 +0000

Against Dallas I expect Pop to for some reason shorten the rotation and go small for long stretches. I don’t see Pop experimenting too much tonight (or is that every night?)

By: zack

zack — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:28:55 +0000

i had good seats to almost every preseason game, i was really focusing on blair and haislip in those games , and even though haislip wasnt putting outrageous boards and numbers up he was playng hard, from what i saw he was playing alot better than bogans, ian, and alot quicker than theo in the preseason. so i really hope pop puts his players to use rather than acting as if they dont exist, and i hate to be negative but if i see finley called out there to guard dirk i will soil myself.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:36:30 +0000

I would argue that RJ’s numbers can be a little deceptive.

If we throw out RJ’s first two games (all his numbers look stellar except free throw shooting):
41.7% 3pt

For added benefit, his overall:
63.3% fg (7 FGM/game on 11.5 FGA/game)