It was absolute crap tonight save Duncan. I watched the game and there were possessions in which we would just force a long, contested shot 5 seconds into the shot clock. It was ugly. And so frustrating.

Still, it’s only game 2. Pop didn’t look overly concerned. I will trust. I will be patient. Now let’s win the next 80, k?

For some reason, watching the game reminded me of last year’s Spurs. We couldn’t make shet!

I think in the first half the team felt it could keep up just by scoring and not bothering on defense, when the inevitable drought occurred, we still couldn’t play defense and fell behind big. Pop is probably glad this happened though, if we would’ve won another game on offense alone it would’ve been a terrible message for the team.

i think this is a good wake-up call to all us fans who were getting a little giddy after game 1. hopefully its also a good wake-up call for the spurs that things are far from good yet.

and i’m sorta glad i had to leave for work, instead of watching what sounded like a frustrating second half to watch.

Ye of little faith.

We can still win this game! Go Spurs Go!

Tops in +/- Bonner with +11
Bottoms in +/- Dice with 15 (but at least he scored a point)
TD with 28 pts and 16 reb, his +/ is 0
Manu took 11 shots to get 12 pts
Blair 3/3 from the field for 6pts, 4 reb, 4 fouls in 13 min

and the Bulls are almost as bad at FTs as we are

Our Defense was acutlly good it was our rebouding that killed us. Altough in the second half it was hit and miss on defense. This team certaniley has what it takes to be a great defense team now it just need to find out what the roation is and who does what.

I watched this game on TV with my friend. I am SO glad I actually did not attend. I could not believe it. Everything looked bad, and as Barkley said, we looked OLD. I’m sorry. And I know I missed the thread and maybe this question was answered earlier, but why in the hell did both Finley and Bonner both start and play extensive minutes??

I actually kind of expected this loss, we almost always lost after a big win. Also it was a back to back against a young team in the road, in their home opener, we just could not mach their energy, but we are going to be alright, 80 games left.

Chicago dominated the paint in both offense and defense. They made us into a jump shooting team and it was painful to watch. Tony and even Duncan got abused inside with Duncan doing most of his damage with his bank shot and from nice passes that left him free inside.

It is scary how the team is still extremely dependent on the 3pt shot. If those are not falling, the oppenents clog the lanes and the Spurs crumble. Pop needs to come up with plan B (something outside the box POP) for nights were we shoot so poorly from behind the 3pt line.

Well he showed up lastnight to play and he looked good. Chicago showed how athletic they were compared to us.

We looked like as if we were late into the season how slow we looked. It was only the second game. I know that we are okay, I am not worried one bit and I know PTR is not either.

Mulligan.

Here’s the main question I have after this debacle:

Why do we have a 15-man roster if we’re not going to use the “spares” on B2B’s? I think Malik and Ian(or Haislip) would have actually helped us match up with this team more than Ratliff or Finley. Those guys are old and slow – they can’t match up with the players Chicago has, especially in a SEGABABA.

Anyone notice that RJ doesn’t seem that explosive?

He had a couple of drives in the game last night and it seemed he had at best an average vertical leap. He didn’t seem explosive at all.

Third quarter collapses are “in” again.