Positive side

[100%duncan]

We can win with Lebron going total god-mode against us. If TD and TP just hit those 4 fts we win that game. Just don't let Bron's supporting cast to go off tbh. Stay home on the shooters. Let Diaw/Kawhi/Green take Lebron one on one and let him shoot those jumpers.

[spurraider21]

We can win with Lebron going total god-mode against us. If TD and TP just hit those 4 fts we win that game. Just don't let Bron's supporting cast to go off tbh. Stay home on the shooters. Let Diaw/Kawhi/Green take Lebron one on one and let him shoot those jumpers.
"stay home on shooters"... people act like the defenders lose concentration and just walk away. its calling playing team defense, its a necessary part of the game, especially when lebron is blowing into the paint every other possession

[99 Problems]

Has Wade lost that eliteness needed to takeover a finals game?

[100%duncan]

"stay home on shooters"... people act like the defenders lose concentration and just walk away. its calling playing team defense, its a necessary part of the game, especially when lebron is blowing into the paint every other possession

I guess you didn't understand the part of letting Lebron get his... That's the problem they leave guys like Allen, Bosh, Lewis open and Lebron is too smart and too good not to pass.

The whole point is we can't stop from Lebron going apeshit and that's okay because this game proved we can win with that, what we can't win against is role-players killing us.

[spurraider21]

yeah... you can't let them take layups

[crc21209]

"stay home on shooters"... people act like the defenders lose concentration and just walk away. its calling playing team defense, its a necessary part of the game, especially when lebron is blowing into the paint every other possession

True. But some of Miami's open 3's can be limited if the Spurs play smarter. A couple I remember from this game: Splitter going to help in the paint in no man's land trying to help one of our guards who was defending on Allen driving inside. Splitter needs to back off and stay on Lewis, let Allen try and finish in the paint, which isnt his strength. Another one was Belinelli trying to help Manu when he had Wade cornered and with nowhere to go. The help man needs to come from the same side IMO, not the opposite side where you would have to run back across the court to get back to your man..

[UZER]

"stay home on shooters"... people act like the defenders lose concentration and just walk away. its calling playing team defense, its a necessary part of the game, especially when lebron is blowing into the paint every other possession

:lol that's exactly what beli did with Ray Allen.

[spurraider21]

:lol that's exactly what beli did with Ray Allen.
yeah, that was beli and diaw totally miscommunicating on the rotation. i'm not positive who's fault it was, but Beli is a safe bet :rollin

[hommeaetage]

I don't care if Lebron hit 7 jumpers in a row, I'm still giving him the jumper over driving to the paint. LeBron's jumper form will never reach Kobe/Jordan level

[therealtruth]

I guess you didn't understand the part of letting Lebron get his... That's the problem they leave guys like Allen, Bosh, Lewis open and Lebron is too smart and too good not to pass.

The whole point is we can't stop from Lebron going apeshit and that's okay because this game proved we can win with that, what we can't win against is role-players killing us.

We've got to play our best defenders on Wade/Lebron and just stay on shooters. It's going to be especially important in Miami where the role players will play better.

[UZER]

I don't care if Lebron hit 7 jumpers in a row, I'm still giving him the jumper over driving to the paint. LeBron's jumper form will never reach Kobe/Jordan level

Exactly. He cannot keep up that shooting over a series. A game here or there, yes, but he will come back down to earth from outside. Let him keep shooting.

[Agloco]

I don't care if Lebron hit 7 jumpers in a row, I'm still giving him the jumper over driving to the paint. LeBron's jumper form will never reach Kobe/Jordan level

This. You will absolutely lose if the supporting cast gets involved like tonight.

[100%duncan]

We've got to play our best defenders on Wade/Lebron and just stay on shooters. It's going to be especially important in Miami where the role players will play better.

Yes, it's not hard to guard shooters even if you're bad on D (ehem Belinelli) if you just stay on them. Just continue sagging off Lebron and Wade and if they make jordan-like shots then so be it. Don't let scrubs beat you ffs.

[spurraider21]

the spurs still had the opportunity to win despite LeBron scoring like this. this isn't my main concern

[100%duncan]

the spurs still had the opportunity to win despite LeBron scoring like this. this isn't my main concern

Exactly :lol

[sananspursfan21]

All that time kawhi was in foul trouble, why not put Danny green on Lebron??? He's almost as good of a defender if not better and he was only in foul trouble the first quarter

[The Whopper]

sananspurstan21.

Danny was in predetermined foul trouble too.

[MeloHype]

The positive side is Miami only has 1 win, not 2, not 3, not 4

[gameFACE]

These teams are too closely matched to not win on each others court. Spurs will get the win on Tuesday only to have Miami come back and even it out on Thursday.

[100%duncan]

It's funny we have that game and go on to lose and now people are cliff-diving like hell. :lol

[Uriel]

Hypothesis contrary to fact.

[dg7md]

the spurs still had the opportunity to win despite LeBron scoring like this. this isn't my main concern

We've got to hit freebies... we were gifted another game but botched it.

[BillMc]

:lol that's exactly what beli did with Ray Allen.

It's understandable, Ray's never hit a big shot in his life.

[smaka]

Basically, Spurs had many problems - foul trouble, subpar FT shooting (60%!), awful 4th quarter, Beli played too much, etc; meanwhile, LeBron was hitting everything (I bet my ass he won't shoot that good on jumpers again in this series), Bosh made that 3, refs didn't see they wanted to call timeout when we were only down 3... All this, and the Heat only won by 2. I don't know, but in my opinion it's not time to go in all desperate mode already.

If a couple of plays turned out the other way, we could be heading to Miami down 0-2, or either 2-0, so I guess 1-1 is a pretty fair outcome for both teams. Spurs are the best road team in the NBA, doesn't matter that the Heat are unbeaten (YET) at home, because they played D-leaguers so far. I expect at least a split from Spurs down there in Florida.

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[100%duncan]

Hypothesis contrary to fact.

Fact is if you watched the game, you should understand what I'm talking about. smaka basically said it all...

[100%duncan]

repost oops