Plan B is more Bonner than before. Bonner starts, Bonner comes in for Bonner, Bonner shoots all technicals, Bonner, Bonner, Bonner
Plan Bonner
This is an important post. Thunder were good at closing out our shooters, and with Bonner and jaxs slow motion release they can afford to give more space to them
Plan B is more Bonner than before. Bonner starts, Bonner comes in for Bonner, Bonner shoots all technicals, Bonner, Bonner, Bonner
Plan Bonner
next ST GTG at TimVp and Kori's for game 4
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It would be cool to make a slide show of these photos put them music.
Bonner - disgusting. Makes me want to puke everytime I see Novak lighting it up in NY. To think, Pop sent Novak on his way and kept Bonner. Can you imagine if it were Novak with all that space instead of Bonner?
Great stuff, timvp. I agree that OKC made good adjustments but the Spurs made a lot of mistakes that look easily correctable and they should be back in business in Game 4. I'm not sure if Pop will make any adjustments to the rotation (don't fix what ain't broken, one loss doesn't mean it is broken) but if he will, one move I'd like to see is getting Blair some minutes. Somehow, he plays really well against the Thunder.
Novak couldn't hold Bonner's jock on defense and that's pretty awful.
How's Novak doing in the ECF? Oh wait...
Sure he can get regular season looks with Melo, Amare and TC on the floor. So could Lin. Big deal.
Boner is reaching Jefferson levels of uselessness. We are literally playing 5 on 4 when he's on the court.
Although he out-rebounded Tim Mother ing Duncan in game 3.
If you didn't notice the Heat made Novak invisible in the first round. But you make a good point that Bonner basically hurts the Spurs by allowing his defender to cheat and not making him pay. In fact what's killing our spacing is the Thunder sagging off guys who they don't think can beat them.
ETC ETC ETC... BS, that is not what I am challenging
Of all the photos TIMVP posted, plus if you watched the game, you choose to single out Bonner as been dis-respected and given space by the Thunder defense, seriously?. Look again at all those pictures, they were giving the same space to all, inclusive Neal, whom I dare you to say is he is not a cold blooded shooter.
But of course why waste a golden opportunity to bash Bonner, who I agree played like , just like every other Spur, but guess what? This is not Bonner's team so if Tim (OUTREBOUNDED BY BONNER) Tony and Manu play like , then put the ing blame in its place.
Anyways, next game none of the Big 3 will play this bad, at least if they want a chance to play the finals.
Awesome job LJ.
And I think it was very apparent the spurs players have given up on Bonner.
It's just such an obvious truth, it makes Pop's lineup decisions with Bonner so much more erroneous
Thanks, LJ; though these stills do make us seem much more open than I remember. Even when we were open last night, OKC's disruption of the passing lanes killed us. Mix that with a plethora of sloppy passes and you have yourself a disaster tail.
You can only give a guy so many chances. In the Finals last year Rick Carslile gave Stojakovic up to game 3 to see if he could contribute. Once he saw he couldn't he took him out of the rotation. Matt's had 3 games to show up and still hasn't. If Pop wants to play him at all he has to put him on a super short leash.
You want to kill me timvp with your threads ...
I really do not like to read sometime but do have to now and I have limited time
OK let's read this.
Good analysis, but do you really want to be rushing a three-point shot just 8 seconds into your first possession of the game, when you're just two points down?
Gawd, I knew it was bad but I didn't know it was THAT bad. Pictures don't lie.
OKay thx LJ
I would love to come on a GTG and watch some games!
On this topic you showed clearly that spurs were not spurs.
Brooks was ahead of Pop, as the spurs way to win was obvious to gain inside presents.
Spurs were afraid of making TO and the motion was dead.
Spurs needs to make a better on pnr's
The most important thing is spurs perfectionism in making plays
Thunder find ways to keep Bonner out of rhythm
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:18 pm by Mike Monroe
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...out-of-rhythm/
I was thinking the same.
The offense was just coming out of transition and getting set up. If Diaw shoots that everyone would be outraged at the shot selection (unless he made it of course, in which case it would've been one of those "No! No! No!...Yessssss!" type shots). Instead, Diaw ran the offense and looked for a better shot, which they got in a Kawhi floater in the lane, which he clanked unfortunately.
Agreed, he should've shot that.
Agreed. This is one of the plays that Zach Lowe used in order to illustrate how the Thunder made such a "brilliant adjustment" by having Ibaka rotate to Duncan. I disagree with Zach that it was brilliant or genius or anything like that. It was nothing more than a routine rotation that you always see on PnR defense. Duncan was just hesitant to pass for whatever reason.
Diaw fumbled the ball in the lane here. Passing to Duncan was reasonable. I don't think he had enough of a handle on the ball to get it all the way out to Green.
Spurs were just coming out of transition. Green was sprinting to his spot on the weakside corner. Westbrook was trailing him, but paused momentarily on the way to give Duncan a nudge. Not sure how Green is at fault here.
On this play the pass that Duncan just received was tipped, giving the defense time to react. Harden is headed towards Bonner at that moment. Duncan faked a pass to Bonner, but the window had closed thanks to the deflection, so Duncan decided not to make that pass.
Agreed. A skip pass to Bonner was also an option there.
Agreed.
Agreed.
Watching the video, that was a difficult cross court pass with a high chance of being a turnover. Also, Neal had already started his shooting motion.
The pass to Bonner would've been difficult. Collison wasn't that far off of him a split second before your screenshot. Collison was also in the passing lane, so it would've been a high risk pass. The pass to Splitter would've also been difficult since Manu and Splitter were too close together, but maybe easier than the Bonner pass. I think the problem there was Manu driving into three defenders.
Agreed.
Agreed.
Agreed.
Actually he did pass it to him a second after your screenshot, after first faking it to Neal and taking another step. Fisher closed out on Neal, Neal swung it to TP in the corner, TP pump faked the closeout defender and drove, but was called for traveling.
Agreed. That possession was one big cluster .
Agreed.
Agreed.
Agree overall. Not trying to be critical and I appreciate your effort, but single still frames don't always tell the whole story. Animated gifs would be nice but yeah I realize those are time consuming and could make the page really slow to load. But yeah overall I agree with your points, just extremely bored and wanted to add some commentary from the peanut gallery.
Again thanks for the effort, I love this type of play analysis.
Really good analysis by timvp. It is glaring that OKC doesn't respect Bonner and, perhaps, his teammates don't trust him. Diaw needs to take his shot without hesitation. There is opportunity for Loanard and Green to attack the rim from the baseline. Also, lol at asking Gary Neal to make an extra pass. Once it gets to Neal, it ain't coming back out -- reminds me of Terry mings.
Seeing stills of Bonner miles wide open over and over just makes it all the more painful. If the guy could even hit a 3rd of his 3s we'd be killin it.
Really awesome style of analysis, timvp. Spurs passing should be a not-so-difficult fix.
More Diaw. Less Bonner.
If Tiago plays soft, then give Blair a try to run the PnR and rough it up.
Last game we couldn't even swing the ball to get a shot. Hopefully we can get the ball movement going again. And everyone needs to be prepared to shoot if open.
And of course, get nasty.
Here I thought it was the change of seasons that kept Bonner out of rhythm, now I learn it's the weather.
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