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Our starting five from here on out should be.
I. Mahinmi/D.Jones/Bonner
Duncan/Blair/Dice
Jefferson/Fin/Manu
Mason/Bogans/Hairston
Parker/Hill/Jerrells
Give the last 2 roster spots to Jones and Jerrells. Pop should give a good amount of mins. Blair, Mahinmi, Jones,Hill and Jerrells. My thought on this is not to TANK the season but with 29 games left lets see what we have. Blair has already shown what he can do with big mins. Hill is a straight up baller IMO D.Jones has earned a spot on the team with D-league play and Jerrells could be that pg reserve for the next couple of years. At 31-22 now and 29 games left Let the youngs showcase what kind of players we could have next year. We might as well see what Mahinmi can do we've paid him millions to be a D-leaguer. Jones is a young big that could be servicable for many years. Lets just see what we have give them the mins.
On to the 2010 draft The guys that I think should be on the spurs radar.
Solomon Alabi
Jarvis Varnado 1st pick IMO
Jerome Jordan
Lance Stephenson 2nd pick IMO

Spurs are done. The FO seems to have waved the white flag by not making any moves before the trade deadline.

For the future draft picks - I would really love to have DaSean Butler with the 1st round pick. The 2nd round pick is kinda late and you don't know whether you'll be able to snatch a decent talent there so I'll leave that one to RC

Ian Mahinmi isn't a good enough prospect to warrant being put in this kind of position. Besides, when he starts getting abused it's going to kill his confidence. It makes even less sense when you want to play them to 'see what they got', yet wish to draft a bunch of bigs. This tanking mindset rarely does teams any good. The Spurs won't be making much noise this season, I don't believe that's reason to give up entirely on ever being a contender again with Duncan. No, they need to continue to work to try to play better basketball. Once you give up, you're dead. No need for that.

Never would I say give up but more give the young players more min. please pop.

I don't think you give up on the season right now. I think we should play out the season and if we're gonna rebuild, do it in the summer. Not during the season like you're suggesting.

As far as the starting 5, I don't get it. Why should we start Ian Mahinmi over Dejuan Blair? If the point is to develop our youngsters, then give Blair all the minutes he can handle. Let him foul out every game if we have to so he'll learn. And why bench Hill to start Mason? He's not even young. The guy is older than Richard Jefferson. It's not even likely that he returns here next year.

I agree with co_laper, its way too early to call it a season. We're still in position to make the playoffs and thats what we should be playing for. Also Ian's had one good game as a pro that doesn't warrent making the starting center.

I'm not ready to call it quits yet, while it is unlikely that we make noise in the offseason, stranger things may happen. One thing i know is that we will NEVER win by giving in.
Who knows everything might just click and we go into the playoffs on a huge roll.

I reckon

C Blair
PF Duncan
SF Bogans
SG Manu
PG Parker

Jefferson doesn't warrant being a starter and being the trump card off the bench may give him the freedom to find some flow to his offence. Manu seems to be playing some pretty decent ball and his offence may take the pressure off TP who has been playing hurt.
Mason and Hill should play alot of minutes too, Mason can hit big shots as we know and Hill is a baller, I think a Parker and Hill backcourt during stages of games would be a good one too.

Lets not call it quits yet guys, Tim would be in the serious MVP talks if the Spurs were playing to their usual standard and as long as he plays well we are always a chance!

I don't really feel like Bogans deserve to start either. Given our lack of SFs outside of Jefferson, I think it's time we play Manu there at SF along with Hill and Parker. Those 3 guys are our best perimeter players and other than because of positions, I don't see why they shouldn't start. Manu is taller than Bogans, Mason, and Hill so when he plays, he's likely to be on the floor with other SGs (making him a SF) anyways.

I say we go with Duncan, Blair, Manu, Hill, and Parker.

Rust In Peace wrote:Spurs are done. The FO seems to have waved the white flag by not making any moves before the trade deadline.

I don't think they waved the white flag, simply, we don't have tradeable assets... and thus... no trades.

Nolan wrote:I agree with co_laper, its way too early to call it a season. We're still in position to make the playoffs and thats what we should be playing for. Also Ian's had one good game as a pro that doesn't warrent making the starting center.

I am not ready to give up until the season is over.

Yeah... we aren't going to win a championship, I just hope we can derail someone elses championship dream. Modest goal given how we have played.

We have been beyond blessed as a team and you know what... I am excited for the unknown. I am excited for the draft but until we are out of the playoffs we should not fold.

We can summon the 95 Rockets and do some damage from a lower seed. This is the best we can hope for.

Manu keeps playing the way he has we might end up with the 3rd seed. Dallas isn't too far off. We get hot here at the end and you never know.

SApuro_ wrote:Manu keeps playing the way he has we might end up with the 3rd seed. Dallas isn't too far off. We get hot here at the end and you never know.

Manu's been playing out of his mind lately and he's been doing it consistently too. If he keeps it up and Duncan keeps up his solid play we could suprise some people.

You look at the record of 32-23 and think the worst, but we're not that far off Dallas and a top 4 seed. We have a pretty rough schedule the rest of the way (in March we play a horror three game run of Lakers, Cavs and Celtics in sequence), but I'm hopeful that we can start playing the way we should've been playing all year.

The emergence of Finley and Bogans as starters recently is making me lose hope. I know Pop has a great resume, but he's been God awful this season. Hairston deserves minutes. Every time he's played he's been impressive. I fully expect Hairston to latch on to some other team who will realise what a gem they have.

I can't believe out of all the players we have Pops answer to our starting problems this far into the season is Micheal Finley, We all love pop but he's been F*#@king up royally with his lineups thus far.
It's as simple as this if he doesn't start Jefferson then he needs to start Manu.

We need the offense at the begining of the game to get us off to a good start, and with Parker out having TD and Hill surrounded by Bogans, Dyce and Fin isn't enough.

Yeah, I really don't understand anymore why Manu is on the bench. If anything, maybe it's time to play Parker off the bench. With him being not 100%, maybe Parker can get his points easier playing againts opponent's bench. Plus, it'll limit his minutes easier and perhaps get him healthier. God knows we need Parker if we want to go anywhere.

tony parker 09 wrote:I can't believe out of all the players we have Pops answer to our starting problems this far into the season is Micheal Finley, We all love pop but he's been F*#@king up royally with his lineups thus far.
It's as simple as this if he doesn't start Jefferson then he needs to start Manu.

We need the offense at the begining of the game to get us off to a good start, and with Parker out having TD and Hill surrounded by Bogans, Dyce and Fin isn't enough.

Completely agree with both points.

I'm fine with benching RJ, but if we're gonna do that we need to start Manu. I'm also not a big fan of starting Hill and TP together. We need balance between the two and I think if we're gonna make a run we're gonna have to sit TP for a little while and let him heal.

Yeah, I really don't think TP and Hill in the same backcourt works that well offensively. Defensively thou, Hill is one our better defensive players and he's doing a pretty fine job.