*** Official Game Thread 7/82: Spurs at Clippers (11/5) 7:30 PM CT, 2:30 AM Riga ***

[Chris]

Today's referees :lol

[daslicer]

So many strips in the paint for the spurs.

[ElNono]

Speights with a Manu tres...

[Kawhitstorm]

Kawhi doing to many pump fakes and picking up his dribble way too much. Awful game.

He looked gassed to me, all his shots were short & he was playing lazy defense. That might be why Pop benched him very early in the game.

[timtonymanu]

Lapro is the only bright spot from the bench

[RD2191]

Just shoot fucking 3s!

[Nathan89]

Lapro is better than Tony

[TheGreatYacht]

26 pts for Blake griffin :lmao
Who did the DPOY lock up today? Every perimeter player went off

[Robz4000]

Start Laprovitolla, bring Mills off the bench

[Ron Swanson]

Speights with a Manu tres...

:lol

[Chris]

Dedmon bullying nigs in the paint tbh

[spurtech09]

Good to see the young guys get some burn.

[raybies]

Airman

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Get this to 10 or less with 6 minutes left and I'll be happy :tu

[bklynspursfan]

Wtf kind of shot was that

[timtonymanu]

Wow Forbes. Fucked that up

[timtonymanu]

That kind of shit should have Forbes cut. Again doing stupid shit when we try getting momentum

[100%duncan]

Who did the DPOY lock up today? Every perimeter player went off

And? Im not even defending Kawhi. Stop being such a deferring faggot like aldridge tbh :lol

[bklynspursfan]

Horrendous

[raybies]

If pop really wants to end the game, he can put Murray in

[Mnky]

Sounds like the playoffs

:lol Bruh.

[xellos88330]

Play Murray!

[Kawhitstorm]

****FREE DEJOUNTE****

[daslicer]

Spurs have pretty much held serve with the clippers since the first quarter. If they didn't have that horrible first quarter the game would be close.

[RD2191]

Kawhi has 4 pieces of shits on defense starting next to him and people want to blame him for this loss? :lol

[DarrinS]

Just one of those nights.

82 games folks.

[TheGreatYacht]

And? Im not even defending Kawhi. Stop being such a deferring faggot like aldridge tbh :loljust saying. You kawhitards always pointing fingers when your boy freezes up

Share the blame faggot

[Kawhitstorm]

Who did the DPOY lock up today? Every perimeter player went off

Worst game of the season for Kawhi, by far.

[SAGirl]

Lapro is the only bright spot from the bench
I have liked him...

[timtonymanu]

Spurs have pretty much held serve with the clippers since the first quarter. If they didn't have that horrible first quarter the game would be close.

Yep and Spurs have a lot of games like that. Pretty good chance the game will be over if they're already down by double digits after the first.

[Captivus]

Kevin Durant Insurance Ad...haaa
JESUS!!!

[Kawhitstorm]

Kawhi has 4 pieces of shits on defense starting next to him and people want to blame him for this loss? :lol

Cripples won the game when Blake was beating Softridge/Pau down the floor on every play.

[raybies]

Game over

[Captivus]

Lapro is the only bright spot from the bench

I like him..needs more confidence and..he makes one good play and one bad play.

[RD2191]

Well that's that.

[timtonymanu]

Can't even get a hot shooting peformance from Bertans.

[Horse]

I thought this motherfucker Bertans could shoot?

[raybies]

Let's go!!!

[spurtech09]

Forbes needs more shots....

[Captivus]

If you have to lose, better this way..giving the bench players that see few minutes almost an entire quarter.

[bklynspursfan]

Not having Green against this team with all the perimeter switching sucks too. We sucked offensively tonight anyway but green will make a difference next game

[boutons_deux]

Spurs get blown twice at ATT

[Kawhitstorm]

Let the Cripples finish w/ the 1st seed, they always choke in the 2nd rd.:wakeup

[raybies]

I hate the body language

[bklynspursfan]

Funny it was 8-0 us and thought ok, we came to play tonight.. smh

[timtonymanu]

Dijon!!!

[Kawhitstorm]

Spurs get blown twice at ATT

Much rather have road warriors rather than home sick divas, tbh.

[timtonymanu]

Fuck you Crawford

[RD2191]

:bang

[spurtech09]

whats worse the spurs losing bad or that Lady Gaga commercial...

[raybies]

I'm use to the third string playing well with energy and organization. These rookies look lost.

[bklynspursfan]

Would be awesome if the bench provided a spark here, but they look just as bad. Just not smart choices

[bklynspursfan]

I'm use to the third string playing well with energy and organization. These rookies look lost.

Yea was thinking the same. I know they haven't played together much, if at all. But some of this stuff is simple mistakes they're making

[Kawhitstorm]

Cripples play-by-play guy expecting Pop to put back the starters after he cleared the bench.:lmao

[daslicer]

Yep and Spurs have a lot of games like that. Pretty good chance the game will be over if they're already down by double digits after the first.

Yeah that has historically always been true even during the Duncan era.

[RD2191]

Gawd, that lady Gaga commercial is really starting to piss me the fuck off.

[xellos88330]

That Lady Gaga commercial needs to go. It is irritating. Why show it twice in the same break!?

[SAGirl]

I hate the body language

from who? spill the beans raybies?
:hungry:

[Kawhitstorm]

Fuck you Crawford

Considering everyone on the Cripples is going off, this was a good game for Kawhi to wet the bed.

[timtonymanu]

Glad Mo is no longer with the warriors. Dude was always a pest.

[LongtimeSpursFan]

Kawhi led teams are going to struggle if he is in charge of starting the offense. He's mot
lebron or Parker of ginobili. Let someone else initiate the offense and wiro
the ball to Leonard.

[raybies]

Bertans is a pretty decent rim protector.

[SAGirl]

Defense is not the same as last season... team is not going to win 67 again...

[DarrinS]

Dreams of 81-1 dashed. :lol

[timtonymanu]

We've been a better road team than at home so far

[Perry Mason]

Good teams don't get blown out at home.

It's going to be a long season. I miss TD and the prime of the Big 3. This team just doesn't have any true leaders anymore.

Not yet anyway. Hoping for Kawhi to keep turning the corner.

[SAGirl]

Murray is competing. I like the effort ...

[Nathan89]

He looked gassed to me, all his shots were short & he was playing lazy defense. That might be why Pop benched him very early in the game.

Yeah, he most definitely wasn't 100%. I guess that's what happens when you carry both the offense and defense.

[Kawhitstorm]

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[DarrinS]

Kawhi led teams are going to struggle if he is in charge of starting the offense. He's mot
lebron or Parker of ginobili. Let someone else initiate the offense and wiro
the ball to Leonard.


:lol

[TheGreatYacht]

Kawhi led teams are going to struggle if he is in charge of starting the offense. He's mot
lebron or Parker of ginobili. Let someone else initiate the offense and wiro
the ball to Leonard.

[SAGirl]

Good teams don't get blown out at home.

It's going to be a long season. I miss TD and the prime of the Big 3. This team just doesn't have any true leaders anymore.

Not yet anyway. Hoping for Kawhi to keep turning the corner.

Good defensive teams you mean... Spurs defense is not what it used to be.

[raybies]

Need one seed to have a chance this year. Can't play warriors, clippers then cavs. I dunno, might just be the clippers year. They finally have a bench and doc has no problem playing his starters 40+ minutes.

[DarrinS]

Parker would've made the difference, for sure :lol

[sasaint]

Let the Cripples finish w/ the 1st seed, they always choke in the 2nd rd.:wakeup

I think that may change this season. Unless the Dubs do something to strengthen themselves inside, this Clips team could win the west.

[raybies]

795087779520774144

Where's Duncan

[SAGirl]

Spurs

Starters
MIN
FG
3PT
FT
OREB
DREB
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO
PF
+/-
PTS


L. Aldridge (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/2983/lamarcus-aldridge)
25
7-13
3-3
2-2
1
5
6
0
0
1
1
2
-22
19


K. Leonard (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/6450/kawhi-leonard)
28
3-13
0-3
8-8
1
5
6
1
1
1
2
1
-9
14


P. Gasol (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/996/pau-gasol)
21
3-5
1-2
4-6
1
3
4
1
0
1
2
1
-12
11


P. Mills (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4004/patty-mills)
25
1-7
0-3
2-2
1
2
3
5
0
0
2
3
-25
4


K. Anderson (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/2993874/kyle-anderson)
16
0-0
0-0
0-0
0
2
2
2
1
0
0
1
+3
0


Bench
MIN
FG
3PT
FT
OREB
DREB
REB
AST
STL
BLK
TO
PF
+/-
PTS


D. Lee (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/2772/david-lee)
12
0-3
0-0
2-2
1
2
3
1
0
0
0
1
-2
2


D. Bertans (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/6426/davis-bertans)
14
0-3
0-2
0-0
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
-9
0


D. Dedmon (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/2580913/dewayne-dedmon)
19
2-4
0-0
0-0
0
3
3
0
1
1
1
4
-17
4


D. Murray (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/3907497/dejounte-murray)
6
1-3
1-1
0-0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
-9
3


B. Forbes (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/2994526/bryn-forbes)
11
2-3
0-1
0-0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
-12
4


M. Ginobili (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/272/manu-ginobili)
13
2-6
1-3
2-2
0
4
4
1
0
0
1
1
-16
7


J. Simmons (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/2579466/jonathon-simmons)
16
3-5
0-0
0-0
1
3
4
1
1
0
2
0
-3
6


N. Laprovittola (http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/2968338/nicolas-laprovittola)
22
4-5
3-4
0-0
1
1
2
5
0
0
2
1
-7
11

[Kawhitstorm]

Defense is not the same as last season... team is not going to win 67 again...

That's what happens who Fat Head replaces Danny in the starting line-up & gets burnt by Moute.:wakeup

[DarrinS]

Where's Duncan

He retired

[tmtcsc]

This is a bad, bad loss tonight. This was straight up ugly. Does it mean anything in the long run? No, it means just as much as a blow out win over GS on the road. It means this team will have ugly nights like this until Pop knows how to utilize his team correctly.

Oh, and fuck all the excuses from Bill Land and Sean Elliott. Every team has to deal with travel and scheduling issues. Suck it up and play. If Kawhi Leonard can show up, so can everyone else. HE busts his ass more than everyone else. Pau needs to snap and start fucking moving like he gives a shit out there. He just seems to be going through the motions and waiting for the playoffs to start.

And in case anyone thought Murray was going to do anything this year, I hope his early returns has cleared that nonsense up for you. He's a twig with handles right now.

Oh and Kyle Anderson sucks out loud.

[RD2191]

Pau=pussy on defense
LMA=pussy on defense
KA/Simmons=trash
Parker/Mills= scrubs on defense

Kawhi is alone out there tbh

[SAGirl]

795087779520774144
:wow:wow:wow

[raybies]

Burn the tape

[Kawhitstorm]

I think that may change this season. Unless the Dubs do something to strengthen themselves inside, this Clips team could win the west.

Won't believe it until the break the curse. Spurs matchup w/ the Duds b/c they don't have anyone to skull-fuck Softridge & Pau owns Zaza. Cripples could be the #1 seed & then choke in the 2nd rd when Chris Paul gets injured....as always.

[timtonymanu]

This is a bad, bad loss tonight. This was straight up ugly. Does it mean anything in the long run? No, it means just as much as a blow out win over GS on the road. It means this team will have ugly nights like this until Pop knows how to utilize his team correctly.

Oh, and fuck all the excuses from Bill Land and Sean Elliott. Every team has to deal with travel and scheduling issues. Suck it up and play. If Kawhi Leonard can show up, so can everyone else. HE busts his ass more than everyone else. Pau needs to snap and start fucking moving like he gives a shit out there. He just seems to be going through the motions and waiting for the playoffs to start.

And in case anyone thought Murray was going to do anything this year, I hope his early returns has cleared that nonsense up for you. He's a twig with handles right now.

Agreed. But it also reaffirms my belief that Clippers are a matchup nightmare for us. Especially since our starting bigs mail it in sometimes.

[Darius Bieber]

Defense is not the same as last season... team is not going to win 67 again...

Won't even win 50.

[DarrinS]

Pau=pussy on defense
LMA=pussy on defense
KA/Simmons=trash
Parker/Mills= scrubs on defense

Kawhi is alone out there tbh


Parker would've brought that legendary lock down defense against CP3 tho.

[SAGirl]

Murray duel with jamal

[cjw]

We just played the Grizzlies last night, tbh.

Buggy ESPN app. Thought something seemed off. If you guys get your bench to be somewhat productive, might as well write you into conf finals

[raybies]

Pop flirting with cp3.

[daslicer]

This is a bad, bad loss tonight. This was straight up ugly. Does it mean anything in the long run? No, it means just as much as a blow out win over GS on the road. It means this team will have ugly nights like this until Pop knows how to utilize his team correctly.

Oh, and fuck all the excuses from Bill Land and Sean Elliott. Every team has to deal with travel and scheduling issues. Suck it up and play. If Kawhi Leonard can show up, so can everyone else. HE busts his ass more than everyone else. Pau needs to snap and start fucking moving like he gives a shit out there. He just seems to be going through the motions and waiting for the playoffs to start.

And in case anyone thought Murray was going to do anything this year, I hope his early returns has cleared that nonsense up for you. He's a twig with handles right now.


I agree with everything you said but lets not give Kawhi credit either since he was also pretty shitty in this game. It's very evident that the Clippers have his number. He tends to struggle with this matchup. He needs to have 2 or 3 good games versus them and I don't care about win or losing those games. I just want to see him play well against them. It just seems like they have mental edge on him and that won't go away until he has a few good games against them.

[tmtcsc]

Hold my baby, man.

[tmtcsc]

I agree with everything you said but lets not give Kawhi credit either since he was also pretty shitty in this game. It's very evident that the Clippers have his number. He tends to struggle with this matchup. He needs to have 2 or 3 good games versus them and I don't care about win or losing those games. I just want to see him play well against them. It just seems like they have mental edge on him and that won't go away until he has a few good games against them.

I'm speaking in terms of effort. Sometimes shots don't go in, but you can always hustle. I saw guys dragging out there. Aldridge wasn't focused and just got torched on defense. Absolutely torched.

[Kawhitstorm]

Pop flirting with cp3.

http://i.imgur.com/ic0ZMVx.gif

[Kawhitstorm]

I agree with everything you said but lets not give Kawhi credit either since he was also pretty shitty in this game. It's very evident that the Clippers have his number. He tends to struggle with this matchup. He needs to have 2 or 3 good games versus them and I don't care about win or losing those games. I just want to see him play well against them. It just seems like they have mental edge on him and that won't go away until he has a few good games against them.

It's pretty obvious they refuse to let him post-up & collapse when he drives, even Doc said it to reporters that he won't let Kawhi beat 'em.

He keeps forcing shots & the Spurs haven't been making open shots against the Cripples which is like pouring gasoline on the fire.

[daslicer]

It's pretty obvious they refuse to let him post-up & collapse when he drives, even Doc said it to reporters that he won't let Kawhi beat 'em.

It will definitely be difficult but Kawhi is going to have to find a way to be effective on the offensive end. He's going to have to find ways to be a play maker in that situation or be able to hit his fade away jump shots. Along with being able to play off the ball. I feel if Kawhi can have a few good games against the clippers then their spirits will be broken.

[sasaint]

This is a bad, bad loss tonight. This was straight up ugly. Does it mean anything in the long run? No, it means just as much as a blow out win over GS on the road. It means this team will have ugly nights like this until Pop knows how to utilize his team correctly.

Oh, and fuck all the excuses from Bill Land and Sean Elliott. Every team has to deal with travel and scheduling issues. Suck it up and play. If Kawhi Leonard can show up, so can everyone else. HE busts his ass more than everyone else. Pau needs to snap and start fucking moving like he gives a shit out there. He just seems to be going through the motions and waiting for the playoffs to start.

And in case anyone thought Murray was going to do anything this year, I hope his early returns has cleared that nonsense up for you. He's a twig with handles right now.

Oh and Kyle Anderson sucks out loud.

Lots of new faces. None of the young guys; Kyle, Simmons, Dijon, Lapro, Bertans, Forbes seem like good, regular rotation-worthy players. Neither do the old graybeards, Tony and Manu. That's a question mark for over half of the team members! Pau seems up-and-down so far. Deadman has been an inconsistent but pleasant surprise. Pop will need to do some serious coaching this season. In preseason I said I would be happy if they kept the 50-win streak alive. I'd take that this season.

I just wish PATFO had been a little more prescient about putting some pieces around Kawhi.

[Kawhitstorm]

It will definitely be difficult but Kawhi is going to have to find a way to be effective on the offensive end. He's going to have to find ways to be a play maker in that situation or be able to hit his fade away jump shots. Along with being able to play off the ball. I feel if Kawhi can have a few good games against the clippers then their spirits will be broken.

Don't you remember the 2015 series when Porker/Danny couldn't make a shot when the Clips were blitzing Kawhi? Today, Patty couldn't make anything & Kyle was just a warm body.

The best way to attack that defense is to run PnRs w/ Pau & force DeAndre to get out of the lane or give up a wide open look to Pau. Posting up the bigger Moute or playing ISO against a set defense is playing into Doc's hands.

[100%duncan]

just saying. You kawhitards always pointing fingers when your boy freezes up

Share the blame faggot

Says the person who defended Aldridge when he got lit up by 26 pts in the first half :lol

[raybies]

http://i.imgur.com/ic0ZMVx.gif

Lmao

[houston spurs fan]

:lol Shit I just assumed it was a road game. SLC to LA seemed more reasonable than SLC to SA for a back to back.

Tbf I'm no expert at game threads. Just taking one for the team to counter Amused's faggotry tbh.
We got fuckers around here starting game threads who don't even know we're in SA. No wonder we suck, freaking amateurs....#Bteam

[houston spurs fan]

We got fuckers around here starting game threads who don't even know we're in SA. No wonder we suck, freaking amateurs....#Bteam

[SAGirl]

Lots of new faces. None of the young guys; Kyle, Simmons, Dijon, Lapro, Bertans, Forbes seem like good, regular rotation-worthy players. Neither do the old graybeards, Tony and Manu. That's a question mark for over half of the team members! Pau seems up-and-down so far. Deadman has been an inconsistent but pleasant surprise. Pop will need to do some serious coaching this season. In preseason I said I would be happy if they kept the 50-win streak alive. I'd take that this season.

I just wish PATFO had been a little more prescient about putting some pieces around Kawhi.

They are not moving the ball well enough, IMO.

And all of those guys need time in the NBA... Only way you get rotation worthy players from day one is getting vets in FA, and the Spurs have their vets. They may not be carrying their load like they are supposed to, and that is a problem.
But all the young players would need to play and be relied on more, and push through mistakes to become real contributors.

Usually contending teams don't have so many rookies at the same time for a reason, at least not many that they plan to rely upon. As impatient as ppl are with them, they have barely played. It's like Pop said, "they have played a minute and a half." On nights when Manu is shitting things up, Pop would be better to just go with the young players and let them push through.

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I'd have gone with Kyle or Simmons and see what happened. Either they shat things up like Manu or either of them pushed through. But neither of them had as bad a game as Manu had. And IMO, but of course that is just me, Kyle needs to get going. He's not this bad of a shooter as he appears to be, and he was not this reluctant a scorer as he appears to be either. I think Pop doesn't care about him scoring bc he's playing with super high usage players, but he's also not going to help much if he doesn't get going with his own scoring.

[ElNono]

Kids got plenty of run in the 2nd half.... IIRC, Manu didn't play at all in the 3rd and 4th quarter...

IMO, Pop probably is more concerned about getting Pau acclimated, and try not to lose too many games missing two starters... bench is going to have plenty of time to play.

[SAGirl]

We just got to enjoy the season... sometimes the team looks like a real dangerous contender, but others the eldest show that they are long in the tooth and the youngest show that they are too green. It's a balance between not letting the oldest linger without reps and getting enough playing time for the youth...

[ElNono]

We just got to enjoy the season... sometimes the team looks like a real dangerous contender, but others the eldest show that they are long in the tooth and the youngest show that they are too green. It's a balance between not letting the oldest linger without reps and getting enough playing time for the youth...

Frankly, we've looked like a dangerous contender when Kawhi and LMA have efficient games, and at least one of Patty or Simmons are playing well...

Things could change a bit once we get another defender in Danny, and we figure out what Kyle's role is going to be off the bench. Bertrans started with a kick, but the last few games he's been missing good looks. Work in progress, tbh, everything has to come together.