Spurs beat Nets in Manu’s return

Also if you noticed how Bonner has been getting more rebounds and has since turned into a rebounding machine. Well let’s just say it’s a by product of Splitter doing the dirty work of boxing out as well allowing Bonner lots of easy rebounds while those two are on the court together. Funny how you pick up all sorts of things the second time you watch the same game. Fine by me as long as Splitter plays and contributes and gets the experience he needs in only his first real year in the NBA.

The spurs have an abundance of perimeter and wing players. Trading jefferson for added backcourt depth would be a big boost toward our playoff odds. leonard and green have proven capable and are only going to get better. also we have manu to add to the mix. leonard is definitely capable of defending most 3’s. The wizards have been very unhappy with blatche and have some cap space to allow for a straight up trade.
http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine. This trade would help out both teams. washington would get a professional presence in the locker room with a bunch of young players. The spurs would get a scoring talented forward. This trade also keeps together our big three for a playoff run.

Yeah. Thinking the same regarding Blatche’s noted reputation. But hasn’t that only been recent (past couple of years) that Blatche became more “vocal”? Also heard that a lot of the problem stems from him and McGee not getting along. I know… not a professional attitude by either… but doesn’t that somewhat fault the coaching staff for not being able to manage the situation? I think Pop and company would do a better job in controlling while Jefferson’s under used talents would go a long way to helping a much under achieving wing slot in DC. Especially helping that team’s dismal 3 point percentage.

One can never tell about Pop and who he thinks he can mold. He’s kinda narcissistic in that regard. Proof being….Just look at R.J.

Anyway….if the Wizards would be interested…I think the Spurs would be too regardless if the common thought is Blatche is “uncoachable” because…well…Pop is not a “common” type of coach. Pop and Blatche just might be perfect for each other.

Side Note: Just looked here http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/wizards.jsp If you scroll over Blantche’s name, a pop up appears telling the history of salary transactions. In that it states Blatche’s contract is based on performance incentives likely not to be achieved. That could go a long way in his displeasure if not being used enough to achieve what ever “performance” level that grants him 100% of the salary listed. But…with that said…would the Spurs use him enough that allows him to perform to those expectations?

He wouldn’t fair well in the Navy Seals.

I kinda like to follow foreign players that we picked in the last couple of years. Read off the Eurobasket site that Ryan Richards has left the Lugano Tigers Swiss team for personal reasons. They were 15-1 when he left the team and they didn’t say if he’s done with the Swiss team they just said he left the team. Don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. Sounds mysterious. He was getting sporadic minutes towards the last couple of games. He started out really well when he got there taking it to the teams he played against and was piling up nice box scores but that changed about 10-12 games into the season and then was seeing spot minutes here and there. There’s the veteran PF (Abukar) a real stud on that team that has played for them for a while that got huge regular minutes in the past kinda like their Timmy. Don’t know what happened but Richards was really making work of those games with ease until down at the end of the schedule then he left. Big ? Anybody hear anything.

David Aldridge has an interesting article about the Spurs. See “Dribbles” at this link: http://www.nba.com/2012/news/features/david_aldridge/02/13/morning-tip-linsanity/index.html#dribbles

Aside from Manu’s return, he talks a lot about the play of our young guys. Most interesting of all is this quote from Popovich regarding the Dallas OT loss from Jan 29:
“We asked each other on the bench every two minutes, ‘Should we get the other guys back in now,?'” Popovich said. “And we said ‘Why? Those guys stunk. These guys are doing really well, so we might as well let them play.'”

What do you think, 48MoH writers? How about a piece revisiting that Dallas OT game and how, if in any way, that has changed the dynamics of this team or the trajectory of this season? There’s a lot of other food for thought in that article as well. I’d like to read what you guys have to say about it.

This post was made in New York City. NEW YORK CITY?!?!?

linsanity{!!!} ..?…. i wish jeremy lin success and a long, productive career playing basketball, whether it be in the NBA or europe …maybe he’ll stay in the NBA and continue his stellar game (he has been playing good), it could happen …if it doesn’t: SHEEP in wolves clothing. the flavor able in new york could go and go till the expiration date expires and leaves new yorks mouth insipid; the same media machine that lead RJ, blindfolded, to a cliff, is doing the same with lin - possibly; again, i wish lin success, but, that media machine: if lins production drops or just simply disappears, he’ll have the same, unfortunate fate that RJ was dealt with; all because of the media machine.