He was my favorite player.

Not anymore.

Not his fault man. He's a few weeks short of 36 and he's been playing like a wild man for over a decade. He's fallen apart physically.

The fault is Pop's for sticking with him.

Agree with both of the above

OldArmy is right. Players are always gonna want to play, its the coach's job to get the best guys on the floor.

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The fault is Pop's for sticking with him.

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My question is why stick with him. He obviously hasn't been what he used to be all series excluding game 5.

he's got at least 4 years left playing soccer for mexico

Manu had more points than Green, Diaw, Splitter, and Neal combined.

He had 8 more points than Parker who disappeared the last 2 games.

The Spurs needed someone else ton****ing show up instead of having to depend on Manu to bail them out. Who the **** is going to replace his production?

I don't know why he stuck with him. Loyalty. Faith that he was going to come through yet again as he has for years and years.

But he just made bad play after bad play.

However, I give credit to the Heat defense, too. They played incredible trapping defense, and lots of Spurs wound up throwing the ball right to them.

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I don't know why he stuck with him. Loyalty. Faith that he was going to come through yet again as he has for years and years.

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Lack of options. Do you want Gary Neal bringing the ball up court and guarding DWade? What about Cory Joseph?

we needed manu. green and neal fell apart. there was nobody else. red rocket?

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At least he won't have to leave San Antonio.

Isn't he the highest paid Spur?

Shoot, Green played more minutes and did less than Manu.

This entire series Manu sucked. He was a turnover machine who made stupid play after stupid play. His turnovers were costly and big. Game 5 was the exception to his play all series and not the norm so I'm one of those still dumbfounded in why Pops stuck with him so much.

Granted I don't have 4 titles to my name like Pops.

billings made an appearance

Manu had only 4 TOs tonight.

Putting this game solely on him is shortsighted and bitter crap from Spurs fans. He's not the guy he used to be, clearly. But the fact that Parker was 3-12, Green was 1-12, and Neal was 2-7 is a bigger reason y'all lost.

****, Manu kept you in the game with clutch ass 3's (40% tonight). Sure he pressed too hard and made some dumb turnovers in the end of the game but the Spurs had NOBODY ELSE TO TURN TO.

There were no other options. Green completely disappeared. Parker's hamstring had him completely out of whack (I bet pop benched him because he's risking serious injury). Honestly his best bet was probably Neal, who takes a ton of dumb ****ing shots, but is 100% fearless and can actually be fairly clutch. But when you're down to Neal and Ginobili, you're trying to catch a straight on the final card

Problem with Neal is he ****s the bed anytime he gets double teamed. And the Heat spent every second trapping/doubling him. Turdover waiting to happen.

Neal is always late rotating over and his guy is usually the one draining a three. He killed us at times on both sides of the court.

Watching Manu was very very hard.

Neal is a flawed player, no argument there. Just saying he was the only other option and he might have been better than Ginobili at that point

Manu responded well tonight. Yea he had a few 4th quarter TOs. But he kept us in this game.

Much respect to Manu.

Manu has won too many games single-handedly for me to ever be mad at him, but it may be time for him to hang it up.

Manu kept us in the game tonight... he's not what he once was... but he was at least producing a little bit

T-Mac was available.