Didn't get to watch this game, but were Kawhi and Danny playing any defense?

[midnightpulp]

They got smoked by Reddick, Crawford, and Barnes.

Or did Pop put Danny on Paul (who also did a great deal of smoking)?

Fuck happened to the wing defense tonight?

[timtonymanu]

Pop chose to sit both guys through most of the game.

[loveforthegame]

Leonard and Greens defense was not the problem tonight.

[hater]

Green played great D. shot like shit

Kawhi shot like shit. Played lackadaisical D. NIgga looks entitled

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Pop benched kawhi for Marco cuz kawhi couldn't make a shot . That's where the game was lost

[itzsoweezee]

They both played great defense. Popovich benched Kawhi and Green didn't get much playing time either.

On the other hand, Diaw and Belinelli were really bad on D.

[TheGreatYacht]

Reddick, Crawford, Barnes... ALL went off. Embarrasing :lol

[midnightpulp]

Yeah, I see Leonard and Green only got a 54 combined minutes. Pop being Poop. So what if Kawhi is shooting like shit? You keep him in regardless because he can contribute in a variety of ways. I saw on the play-by-play that the Spurs were up 9, Pop sat Kawhi, and the Clips charged right back.

[midnightpulp]

Right after Kawhi sat:

6:03 Manu Ginobili enters the game for Kawhi Leonard 74-65
5:50 Tim Duncan misses layup 74-65
5:47 74-65 DeAndre Jordan defensive rebound
5:41 74-68 Jamal Crawford makes three point jumper (J.J. Redick assists)
5:20 Tony Parker misses jumper 74-68
5:18 74-68 J.J. Redick defensive rebound
5:13 74-71 J.J. Redick makes 25-foot three point jumper (Jamal Crawford assists)
4:56 74-71 Glen Davis personal foul (Aron Baynes draws the foul)
4:56 Aron Baynes makes free throw 1 of 2 75-71
4:56 Marco Belinelli enters the game for Danny Green 75-71
4:56 Aron Baynes makes free throw 2 of 2 76-71
4:48 Tony Parker personal foul (DeAndre Jordan draws the foul) 76-71
4:43 76-74 Jamal Crawford makes 26-foot three point jumper (Chris Paul assists)

[MI21]

Green was really nice on defense in the 4th.

Leonard was ok defensively, putrid offensively.

[TheGreatYacht]

Yeah, I see Leonard and Green only got a 54 combined minutes. Pop being Poop. So what if Kawhi is shooting like shit? You keep him in regardless because he can contribute in a variety of ways. I saw on the play-by-play that the Spurs were up 9, Pop sat Kawhi, and the Clips charged right back.
Spurs choked because they hit BS 3's, Marco got baptized, Davis got the crowd nuts... Game.

[spurtech09]

even with those guys having a bad shooting night the spurs still had a chance to win the game.....weird game.....even with a healthy griffin in the line up the clips do not scare me...there a fluke team that will never win a championship...whats the deal with KL...is that hand still bothering him

[BatManu20]

Kawhi and Green's defense were fine, it's their offense that was terrible

[spurtech09]

whats up with the refs

[ElNono]

Pop went with Gino-Beli for too long, IMO... you gotta have only one of those with one of Green-Kawhi out there...

But don't fool yourself... Splitter was also eating shit from Deandre all night

[NASpurs]

Pop benched kawhi for Marco cuz kawhi couldn't make a shot . That's where the game was lost

Don't question Pop, he's infallible apparently.

[spurtech09]

Pop went with Gino-Beli for too long, IMO... you gotta have only one of those with one of Green-Kawhi out there...

But don't fool yourself... Splitter was also eating shit from Deandre all nightsplitter had a good offensive night

[Chinook]

Kawhi and Green's defense were fine, it's their offense that was terrible

Shouldn't be grouped Danny shot 4/6 and had three nice drives. He just happened to miss 2/3 threes. Happens.

[spurtech09]

bet is the spurs were playing at home it would of been different....wait that's if the refs don't pull that ticky tack foul BS

[rasuo214]

Unless Marco, Manu or one of the other bench guys are on fire offensively I don't care how poorly Kawhi or Danny are shooting they should still be on the court for their defense alone (unless they are also playing poorly on defense). Especially when Pop plays small ball, put Kawhi at the 4 and defenders can't sag off on him.

[Johnny RIngo]

They got smoked by Reddick, Crawford, and Barnes.

Or did Pop put Danny on Paul (who also did a great deal of smoking)?

Fuck happened to the wing defense tonight?

Pop went hack-a-Jordan in the 4th. Spurs didn't take advantage because they weren't making their shots on the other end. Parker bricked two jumpers. Marco missed three shots. Duncan was converting but nobody else it seemed like.

[Johnny RIngo]

Unless Marco, Manu or one of the other bench guys are on fire offensively I don't care how poorly Kawhi or Danny are shooting they should still be on the court for their defense alone (unless they are also playing poorly on defense). Especially when Pop plays small ball, put Kawhi at the 4 and defenders can't sag off on him.

No point in playing Kawhi down the stretch if Pop wasn't even going to attempt to play D. He went all in on the hack-a-Jordan strategy.

[apalisoc_9]

Because Pop thought it would be a genius idea to play Manu-Patty or Tony- Belli..

[timtonymanu]

It was a typical game the Spurs should have had against a scrub team (since Blake is out) but were fucking around too much because guys were off, "coasting" etc. We've had a couple of those this year already.