Did you watch the very last play? CJ pressured that 3 perfectly and didn't foul. There were about 3 or 4 really good defensive plays CJ made tonight. 1M does not make those plays at all but he might have scored better. So who is to say you might be right? the scoring could offset the defense?
He played three good defensive plays... I understand when someone hardly ever plays good defense it's easy to think when they do their job it should be celebrated but that's not how it works. When you're a defensive liability 90% of the time, you don't get celebrated the 10% of the time you aren't, sorry. Especially when the guy backing you up plays right 90% of the time.
Other than Memphis being in front of us despite having a worse winning percentage, I found it odd that we have only played 73 games and it's August!
I like that starting lineup but think opponents would trap and we dont have enough ball handlers.
The Blazers had worse problems than CJ's defense tonight. Most of the time the guy backing him up was on the court with him. At least most of the time that really counted. Not taking anything away from what Trent brings. Love watching him.
Every team Ive ever been on has a whipping boy.
Hahaha I underestimated with 125!
Nice backhanded compliment.
Yeah, all of you who were saying that Whiteside sitting and his play before that was about an injured ego and not an injured hip should like this post... it'll have a lot of likes from people who were dead wrong. Please, seriously don't like this post if you thought Whiteside was actually injured. That shit all of you were saying was crazy presumptuous.
Wait... I think we're on the same page. Someone asked me what Manu made in regards to CJ being overpaid. I was saying that Manu was underpaid and far far better than CJ... not even close. I should have made clear how ridiculous I thought the comparison was instead of pointing out some of the ways Ginobili was better than CJ is.
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He certainly was. He also knew how to draw a foul and pass the ball.
So after reading some other posts I wanted to respond to you again. Ginobili was a two time all-star, future hall of famer and key contributor to 4 championships. His "sixth man" role was kinda funny because during his prime he played starter minutes 25-30, I know after so many seasons of Stotts that those don't seem like starter minutes but they are. If you were getting at what I think you were getting at, no I don't think we can afford to bring CJ's monster contract off the bench. Right now, I think that is the only logical move Stotts can make though (bringing CJ off the bench) however Stotts probably won't do that.
That is funny. We were just behind Memphis for a while there even though we had the better winning percentage and were a half game closer to the Lakers.
