So how can one guy change everything?

[smaka]

Defense is gone, offense is gone, passing is gone, there is no hustle from any player whatsoever. Spurs playing like scared chickens at the moment.
This looks like a Dallas series to me, only that OKC has more weapons to actually destroy Spurs.

[Malik Hairston]

Spurs have been out-scored in both games 3 and 4, even with Ibaka on the bench, tbh..

He makes a huge difference, but he's not the only reason for this meltdown..

[Capt Bringdown]

Spurs have been out-scored in both games 3 and 4, even with Ibaka on the bench, tbh..

He makes a huge difference, but he's not the only reason for this meltdown..

Not the only reason, but the main reason. With him in the middle, OKC can pressure passing lanes and shooters. Spurs got no answer for that, for what, years now?

[Budkin]

It's all mental. Spurs caught a break without him there. Now they are getting broke by him.

[wildchild]

It's all mental. Spurs caught a break without him there. Now they are getting broke by him.

Well maybe...but it's not only mental when Pop play Beli the last 10 minutes of the 2nd quarter benched Danny and Kawhi...that was a bad bad move

[florige]

This is unreal. All we need to is beat these pricks once to get this huge Ibaka monkey off our back.

[703 Spurz]

It isn't all on him. He's a key part of the team but I wouldn't have been shocked if the Thunder won one or both games at home even without him. Too much home-cooking by the refs and the dumb crowd has nothing else to live for so they make noise for 3 hours.

[baseline bum]

No more Durant guarding Duncan.

[ErnestLynch]

The difference is Thabeet, Sefolosha, and Collison have been sitting on the bench the entire game for OKC. They are who the Spurs were tearing up.

[poop]

Spurs acting like Ibaka is prime Olajuwon

[smaka]

Ibaka got into Spurs head so much it's hard to believe. Mentally weak ass team.

[Spurs9]

Spurs going Pacers on all of us.

[BillMc]

Well, 2 days of horrible press coverage...and if we're not careful an offseason of it.

[Horse]

He doesn't we've seen this before. Pistons in 05 hornets in 08 lots of back and forth

[Slippy]

It's all mental. Spurs caught a break without him there. Now they are getting broke by him.

couldn't agree more. It's more mental now.

Tiago passing with a point blank shot 4 feet from the keyway is proof of that. Doesn't help when refs don't get the 50/50 calls right either. Manu made the correct adjustment when he faked Ibaka on a drive only to have a Perkins goaltend allowed.

The big positive . Tony parker got over that mental hump of Ibaka tonight. Damn shame Westbrook took away some of that gloss.

[ErnestLynch]

This is a home court wins every game series.

[Malik Hairston]

It's a combination of Ibaka's return + playing at home + Brooks finally making obvious decisions like benching the liabilities from games 1 and 2..

[ezau]

It isn't all on him. He's a key part of the team but I wouldn't have been shocked if the Thunder won one or both games at home even without him. Too much home-cooking by the refs and the dumb crowd has nothing else to live for so they make noise for 3 hours.

Agree with this. Spurs would've still lost two close games in OKC anyway.