2013 NBA Finals, Game 1: Spurs @ Heat - June 6 @ 8 PM CT

[100%duncan]

FTs ffs

[BatManu20]

Splitter................

[Tim_duncan21]

Nice Kawhi!

[TDfan2007]

Awful FT shooting by both teams so far.

[Tim_duncan21]

Timmy's gonna feast on those boards

[Baam]

GTFO Neal...

[BatManu20]

Get Neal out

[TDfan2007]

Terrible shot by Neal.

[Spurs Brazil]

Fuck Neal, GTFO

[loveforthegame]

Come on Neal.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Kawhi's playmaking looking great! The kid has come of age during these playoffs. :D

[timtonymanu]

Those 3 pointers will keep coming for Miami. Spurs have to close out better.

[HarlemHeat37]

GET GARY NEAL OFF THE FUCKING FLOOR!!!

WOOOOOOOWWWWWW IT'S THE FUCKING NBA FINALS..

[phxspurfan]

Neal on Allen is no bueno

[SanAntonioSpurs23]

Of course Miami hits everything

[Crookshanks]

Damn these hot 3-point shooters!

[Brunodf]

WHY IS NEAL PLAYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Pop never learns

[dg7md]

Get Neal out of there.

[timvp]

Neal on Ray Allen? Seriously, Pop?

[100%duncan]

Lol hesitation fucking idiot

[phxspurfan]

All of the Heat shooters are hot...wtf

[Kidd K]

Spurs need to stop sagging off their 3pt shooters. That's all most of their role players can even do offensively.

[32fastest]

holy Crap!! That rack behind RC!!

[TDfan2007]

Miller and Allen shitting all over us.

[superjames1992]

Their scrubs are going off.

[DesignatedT]

Get Neal outttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

[01Snake]

Heat draining 3's.

[timtonymanu]

Gary Neal being predictable. Cant defend for shit. Can't hit 3 pointers anymore. Why is he even playing?

[Brutalis]

Love how Miami is being allowed to be more aggressive.

[Johnny RIngo]

Neal throwing up garbage and playing zero D...SA's the only team in the league that would have the audacity to play a D-League level player heavy minutes in a Finals game

[polandprzem]

super

Allen and Miller are going off like I said they might

:pctoss

[phxspurfan]

Spurs played perfect for the first 2 minutes. Now they're back to playing frustratingly bad.

[Darius McCrary]

Poop isa moron for playing neal

What an epic failure

[angelbelow]

Hmm Gary Neal.. why hesitate?

[T-Pain]

anyone else see those big ta-tas behind RC Buford?

[Baam]

WHY IS NEAL PLAYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Pop never learns

Must be for his defense cause he hasn't been shooting the ball well since he got PF...

:pop:

[wut]

Neal hasn't worked for us all playoffs, why the f4ck now?

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Lord I hate Neal. I said it the moment he came on that Neal on Allen was a recipe for disaster, and it has been. Neal is not up to this level of basketball.

[100%duncan]

Spurs need to stop sagging off their 3pt shooters. That's all most of their role players can even do offensively.

This

[007nites]

Neal hesitated like 3-4 times before he took that three

[objective]

lol @ Pop vs. Spo being a mismatch.

Neal in the game = Spo the better coach.

[moisaenz]

Neal has made 2pts given six

[Budkin]

Meh they won't keep hitting

[spursparker9]

Of course their shooters become hot in the finals...

[DAF86]

Fuck the threes. Everybody knocks on three point shooting teams during the regular season but at the end more times than not is what ends up determining the NBA champion.

[m33p0]

50% against 42%.

[BillMc]

Heat hitting their 3s...

[Nathan89]

Since when did Neal hesitate to shoot? fuck!

[Juggity]

I love Neal for quick offense, but he cannot stay in the game long-term. That is going to cause the spurs to lose.

[siraulo23]

damn threes their in rhythm and making em :lol

GSG!

[math]

why don't we guard the 3 point line again ? How many 3 point shots do they have to hit in a row for us to think that just maybe we should guard their 3 point shooters behind the line ?

[phxspurfan]

Everybody but James is going off and the Spurs are down. Not a good sign.

[Keepin' it real]

Fire back, Neal!!

[Spurs Brazil]

Manu tres!!

[100%duncan]

C'mon spurs manuuuuuuu

[32fastest]

anyone else see those big ta-tas behind RC Buford?


Beautiful.

[TDfan2007]

Great shot by Manu.

[ace3g]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BMHv1WzCUAEeF3i.png:large

[m33p0]

should have been a catch-and-shoot but neal decided to grow a conscience.

[BatManu20]

Meh they won't keep hitting

Why wouldn't they? It's not like these are fluke 3's/ They're all great 3-point shooters. They kept it up al last year's Finals too.

[007nites]

Neal thinks he can guard LeBron

[loveforthegame]

Terrible. :(

[m33p0]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BMHv1WzCUAEeF3i.png:large
i know what you're looking at coz i'm looking at it myself.

[phxspurfan]

How are these not fouls? Damn

[TDfan2007]

Parker is OFF

[BatManu20]

We look like shit. Point blank.

[noles1983]

guard these faggots.

[loveforthegame]

WTF are they doing.

[timtonymanu]

They're totally playing into Miami's hands right now.

[Juggity]

Neal is singlehanded losing this fucking game. Holy shit.

[100%duncan]

6/11 smh

[timtonymanu]

I hope this is a product of rust and not because of Miami's superb D.

[Kidd K]

Again, so many of the heat's players can't do ANYTHING besides shoot the three. Stop sagging off of them, fuck.

Also, Manu needs to stop playing emotionally and forcing shit whenever the Heat go on a 4 or better scoring run.

[Budkin]

Rusty as shit

[HarlemHeat37]

Parker leaving shooters, as usual..

[Darius Bieber]

Even Indiana put up a better fight than this.

[TDfan2007]

Wow. Was that so hard?

[Bill_Brasky]

TD on Birdman every time

[anonoftheinternets]

please get neal out of there

[TDfan2007]

Now THIS is what I'm talking about

[Spurs Brazil]

Green 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 3333333

[01Snake]

Danny Friggin' Green

[BatManu20]

Lebron is going to have a triple double in the first half! Holy shit

[Tim_duncan21]

yeahhhhhhhhh

[Sleepy_Floyd]

Danny F'ing Green

[Juggity]

Danny Green with no hesitation

[math]

Well I guess I understand - playing defense is hard work and guarding the 3 point line is more hard work. So, I guess that is why we have decided not to guard the 3 point line.

One wonders why the Spurs players are thinking when they keep leaving 3 point shooters open and the Heat keep making 3's. How many times does that have to happen before they catch a clue and think we better guard the 3 point line ? At a certain point, one wonders if it is intentional and if the reason is that it is just too much work to guard the 3 point line .

[KL2]

Neal needs to GTFO now

[007nites]

Green is money. Every time he shoots it usually pure net or in and out.

[HarlemHeat37]

Gary Neal can't score..so why is he on the floor?..

He's arguably the worst defensive player in the league and he can't pass..what the fuck?..

[100%duncan]

Green damn dat dude making up for last year

[OrEmuN]

Green is getting more and more reliable.

[DAF86]

Danny came to play. Seriously, the wing rotation should be Manu, Green, Leonard. Nobody else.

[Floyd Pacquiao]

danny came too play...lets just go 4 down every posession

[DesignatedT]

why is fucking neal playing this much....................................

[Brunodf]

Green!!!

Neal hurts our perimeter D so much that i don't know why Pop doesn't realise that!!!!!!!

[phxspurfan]

Like 2 heavyweights going at it in round 1. Good coaching by both so far

[Tim_duncan21]

finally, a field goal from duncan! keep it coming

[Budkin]

Greeeeen

[32fastest]

Timmy said get that bird shit outta here!!

[angelbelow]

Duncan returning with less rust, more focus.

[TDfan2007]

Green has been huge. What a beautiful stroke.

Tony and Neal are awful off-ball defenders, and it's showing tonight.

[m33p0]

TD taking the birdman to the vet.

[MmP]

Since when did Neal hesitate to shoot? fuck!
Damn exactly

[m33p0]

boom!

[BatManu20]

Does anyone want to justify Pop's decision to keep Neal in the game? He's cost us about 8 points alone.

[Richie]

Spurs getting great shots, just need to finish them and defend the 3 better.

Didn't like Parker sagging off Norris Cole so far giving up open 3

[loveforthegame]

I can't stand watching Neal. smh

Good thing Green is hitting.

[timvp]

Get this even by half. Le Go.

[Brazil]

Props to Green ! Playing well

[math]

Timmy can't hit anything and we keep leaving their shooters open for 3s and we are not playing defense. We are looking to be even close tbh.

[soxxx]

So nervousss

[Nathan89]

Feed Timmy please.

[TDfan2007]

Neal should not be playing in this series....at all.

[100%duncan]

Just stop sagging off of shooters tbh

[Juggity]

We're not too far in the hole yet. Keep Neal out and keep throwing it to Duncan down low.

[Richie]

Does anyone want to justify Pop's decision to keep Neal in the game? He's cost us about 8 points alone.

Defensively he's bad, but he's been getting easy shots (and missing) against Allen.

[Kidd K]

Game is close except the Spurs keep sagging off the Heat's 3pt shooters who can barely do anything but shoot the three ball in fear of LeBron getting a slightly cleaner look at the basket. The Spurs are playing perfectly into their hands tbh, allowing LeBron to be a playmaker instead of a shooter which he is more comfortable with. :\

[TDfan2007]

Tony and Timmy have been subpar and we're only down 3. I'll take it.

[HarlemHeat37]

One of my keys before the series was to stop sagging off shooters, particularly Parker, Ginobili and Gary Neal..

This isn't a case of the Spurs defenders needing to help on Lebron..they've been stupidly sagging off shooters for the entire playoffs..the difference is that it didn't hurt the Spurs against Memphis and LA because they only have 1 or 2 shooters..the Warriors hurt the Spurs and Miami will, too..

[Johnny RIngo]

Neal needs to go back to Turkish league where he belongs. IMO, he will look terrible next season outside of the Spurs system. Mason 2.0

[math]

Give the basketball to whomever Matt Bonner is guarding. This is not rocket science.

[m33p0]

Does anyone want to justify Pop's decision to keep Neal in the game? He's cost us about 8 points alone.

quick offense. there's no other reason for him to be there. backfired bigtime tho.

[Sleepy_Floyd]

Oh shit Red Mamba doin' work

[BatManu20]

Bonner and Neal in at the same time?? Mother of God

[Spurs Brazil]

OMG, Bonner and Neal

[phxspurfan]

Duncan missing all kinds of easy shit

[DAF86]

OMFG Neal still in.

[superjames1992]

Welcome, Bonner.

[100%duncan]

C'mon cmon

[TDfan2007]

:lol Bonner AND Neal in the game now.

[math]

At least Blair and Bonner are not in at the same time. Timmy finally.

[HarlemHeat37]

Game is close except the Spurs keep sagging off the Heat's 3pt shooters who can barely do anything but shoot the three ball in fear of LeBron getting a slightly cleaner look at the basket. The Spurs are playing perfectly into their hands tbh, allowing LeBron to be a playmaker instead of a shooter which he is more comfortable with. :\

No, the same culprits have been sagging off shooters for the entire playoffs, tbh..

[Kidd K]

Again, anyone saying Duncan isn't playing well needs to have their eyes checked. . .or their brains checked.

The only thing he hasn't done well so far is hit his jumpshot.

[Spurs Brazil]

Yes TD!!!!!!!

[Richie]

Timmy missed his 2nd layup

ARGH

[100%duncan]

Fuck yes

[siraulo23]

well shoot bonner and neal lineup

battier struggling?? say no more!

GSG!

[math]

yea. I hate that. I really really do. Terrible decision.

[math]

Tim Duncan coming to life and showing signs.

[BatManu20]

Wade is back. Spurs are in trouble.

[100%duncan]

Get Neal the fuck off tbh

[Sleepy_Floyd]

I bet Mills hits that three miss by Neal

[Kidd K]

No, the same culprits have been sagging off shooters for the entire playoffs, tbh..

You talking about Neal, Parker, and sometimes Manu? If so, yes that's exactly who I'm talking about too. Neal just blows on D, but Manu and Parker tend to try and help on drives and give up those open looks by choice though, which needs to change when they're guarding 40%+ 3pt shooters.

[math]

Neal the chucker. And Wade gets a layup.

[Spurs Brazil]

Of course it'd happen. Bonner + Neal is total garbage

[100%duncan]

:lol

[BatManu20]

Yea we're in trouble

[Baam]

:lol Bonner AND Neal in the game now.

:pop:

[TDfan2007]

This is some of the worst defense I've seen of the entire playoffs.

[Juggity]

Pop, what in the goddamn fuck are you thinking.

This is the NBA finals.

[Brunodf]

Pop is the Heat MVP. Playing Bonner/Neal in the Finals!? Really? Pop must have money on the Heat

[noles1983]

spurs looking like little bitches. Neal go fuck yourself

[Crookshanks]

Wade has been garbage during the playoffs. Figures he'd get hot tonight. :bang

[HarlemHeat37]

Why are Bonner and Neal on the floor at the same time in an NBA Finals game?..

[50 cent]

Popdammit to hell. Neal is fucking killing us.

[Virgil]

Fuck you GARY NEAL!

[100%duncan]

This is bs :lol

[Darius Bieber]

This without Lebron on the floor. Wow. Sweep.

[BatManu20]

WTF is Pop doing? Seriously. Dumb.

[Floyd Pacquiao]

just give the ball to tim every posession you dumb fucks!

[timtonymanu]

Wade playing well. Bad news for the Spurs.

Ugh take Gary Neal out, Pop. FFS.

[Johnny RIngo]

Bonner/Neal in a Finals game :lol

[32fastest]

Heat attacking on every possession. Spurs not so much.

[Brazil]

Wtf with Neal tbh ??????????????

[SpursRulez4eVeR]

every heat scrub go deep on bonner and neal big surprise!

[timmy2003]

come on guys

[dallasmaverickslose]

We are literally clanking ALL of our shots while the enemy is making ALL of theirs..........

[DAF86]

I love how everyone knew what was going to happen whit Neal and Bonner at the same time on the court except Popovich.

[math]

Wow horrid defense.

[BillMc]

Why is Gary Neal getting so much time???

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

I can't believe Pop has left Neal in there while he's been awful. What's wrong with Manu, or even CoJo? AT least he can defend.

[siraulo23]

damn a lot of heat firepower

[loveforthegame]

Duncan looks much better.

Neal and Bonner need to GTFO.

[Richie]

Transition D is KILLING us

[noles1983]

This without Lebron on the floor. Wow. Sweep.

pussy

[Spurs Brazil]

3rd on Bosh

[m33p0]

bonner + neal= epic fail everytime

[loveforthegame]

Keep attacking Leonard.

[TDfan2007]

When Timmy is posting with a small on him give him the ball IMMEDIATELY!

[Brazil]

Bonner Neal fuck fuck

[Nathan89]

Feed Tim and we get Bosh in foul trouble.

[Sleepy_Floyd]

That bounce pass to Bonner from Manu was nuts. I thought that was a turn over for sure but the spin on that thing

[testies]

This without Lebron on the floor. Wow. Sweep.

fuckign faggot

[JohnnySixString]

This is Spurs basketball.

[math]

Miami playing okay but Spurs playing terrible, much worse than in the previous series and it is mostly their own fault - not due to Miami.

[TDfan2007]

Wade is killing us. Of fucking course.

[Baam]

Danny is getting torched by Wade, so much for gimpy Wade.

[BatManu20]

Man our D has been so disappointing this game.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Pop is just mucking around with lineups to see what works and what doesn't. Nothing else makes sense.

[Sleepy_Floyd]

fuckign faggot

Now that's a classy first post :toast

[m33p0]

go to TD! go to TD everytime! you muthafuckerrs!

[math]

The bad part is that Bosh and Wade are contributing more and so are the rest of their role players. Allen, Chalmers, Cole, Miller.

[100%duncan]

Wtf

[manny]

just wow

[BatManu20]

Wow

[m33p0]

Miami playing okay but Spurs playing terrible, much worse than in the previous series and it is mostly their own fault - not due to Miami.

this is true

[007nites]

wow bonner was wide open inside

[Shaolin-Style]

If that were splitter instead of bonner that was a bucket.

[HarlemHeat37]

Bonner wide open under the net and passes it out:lol..

[superjames1992]

Wow? Kawhi...

[Brunodf]

Take Bonner out, he is killing our offense with his hesitation

[TDfan2007]

Timmy needs the ball.

[Sleepy_Floyd]

LOL Bonnerrrrrrr

[100%duncan]

Bonner you idiot

[loveforthegame]

FU Binner.

[Kidd K]

go to TD! go to TD everytime! you muthafuckerrs!

They can't man, the refs have called two bs fouls on him already. They have to be careful using him now :(

[Crookshanks]

Whew - thank goodness that 3 didn't go in

[BatManu20]

Bonner GTFO. Put in TMac.

[Spurs Brazil]

damn Bonner

[Baam]

Bonner with two big fails under the basket.

[math]

The Heat are 6 of 12 from 3. Not good.

[HarlemHeat37]

Bonner leaves Battier open for 3 and then misses an open layup under the net:lol..

[angelbelow]

Bonner might not be ready for road games.

[Virgil]

Where is Parker?

[Shaolin-Style]

Wow like 4 major errors in a row by bonner. I just don't even know.

[timvp]

Not loving the D the last quarter. Need to not give the Heat so much freedom of movement.

[phxspurfan]

More Splitter, less Bonner plz kthxbye

[DAF86]

Get Bonner out, he's not for this series. Finish with Tony, Manu, Green, KL or Diaw and Duncan.

[TDfan2007]

I can't make sense of these rotations. Why aren't we going to Timmy every time now that he's hot?

[timtonymanu]

Pop, this isn't the Grizzlies or Lakers.

Matt Bonner was a non-factor in the Warriors series. This Heat team is like a steroid version of them.

[noles1983]

no more bonner and neal!! what the fuck pop u tard. lucky to be down only 6

[BatManu20]

Pop is throwing this game tbh. Has to be. No other explanation for playing Bonner and Neal this much.

[math]

We are shooting about 40 % and the Heat are shooting 55%.

[objective]

Bonner + Neal in the FINALS?

Pop = MOST OVERRATED COACH OF ALL TIME

[100%duncan]

Why the fuck is bonner rolling to the ring? Stick to the 3 mfer

[loveforthegame]

I'd rather try Blair or Mills instead of Bonner and Neal.

[crc21209]

Bonner was wide open under the rim and he decides to pass. Next time down he actually shoots the layup and misses horribly...

[m33p0]

41% to 55%

[GaryJohnston]

fuck we are rusty

[Brunodf]

Pop giving a HUGE confidence boost to the Heat

[Richie]

Getting the ball inside for Bonner to finish is a bad play. Lets get Splitter back in.

[backinblack]

Two beautiful passes by ginobili, WASTED! Damn Bonner

[itzsoweezee]

These finals are not for Bonner.

[Crookshanks]

Spurs are not playing horribly, but you can tell they're still shaking off the rust. And Miami is in a great rhythm - all that could change as the game wears on.

[Chomag]

Sit funking Bonner for god sake PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Bonner needs not to shoot from corners - he's better on the wing. And it's the reverse for Kawhi.

[Floyd Pacquiao]

go 4 down pop what the fuck!

[100%duncan]

Finish this half strong please

[angelbelow]

Pop is mentally rusty

[TE]

Bonner and Neal are again the weaknesses of the Spurs

[anonoftheinternets]

yea these finals are not for bonner... maybe at home, but not game1 on the road.

[Darius McCrary]

Good sign that Manu's passing works against the heat

Bad sign that they were to Bonner

Splitter hits those layups, but Bonner is actually spreading the floor for us without shooting. They're guarding him and honoring his shot.

[Nathan89]

Waiting for a Blair sighting.

[dg7md]

We're getting great shots, they just aren't falling in.

Keep it up. They'll fall... eventually.

[siraulo23]

bonner in the game ok nothing we can do, pop will play him
neal in the game, ok we also know he' gonna play

them together in one lineup? :lol :pop

[DespЏrado]

c'mon Spurs!

[m33p0]

They can't man, the refs have called two bs fouls on him already. They have to be careful using him now :(

he had battier on him.

[TDfan2007]

This is ridiculously bad defense and the decision-making on offense has been even worse. I'm not sure how we're only down by 6. Manu got hacked on that drive.

[BatManu20]

Manu...