GT Spurs @ Thunder: Saturday 7:30 PM CST, 3/10/2018

[SAGirl]

when a team is aggressive it will have more free throws, watch okc attack the rim at every opportunity
Sure... But Spurs were attacking inn the first half and didn't get foul fouls called. Thought both Tony and Manu were getting bodied up.

[tholdren]

Ready for this season to end.

Only if spurs release 70 percent of the team

[NASpurs]

:lmao being tied with the Clippers in the loss column and being out of the playoffs with the incoming loss to the Rockets on Monday

[ElNono]

:lmao

[tholdren]

Lol murray....

[bbarry]

this is the worst game spurs have played in a couple of months.

[SuperCam]

has Poop put in the scrubs yet? oh wait

[BatManu20]

Hopefully they watch a video about woman's suffrage tomorrow, tbh


Lol

[ElNono]

has Poop put in the scrubs yet? oh wait

since the game started, tbh

[K...]

when your toughest player can just barely wipe your ass, your team will be soft

[cd021]

We might not even score 80 :depressed

[K...]

pop already thinking about SXSW panels about anti racism and inclusivity

[SAGirl]

this is the worst game spurs have played in a couple of months.
Agreed.

[$pursDynasty]

SA is the most unathletic team in the nba, we have 0 slashers, jonathon simmons would be the third best player of that team


The spurs just never match physical intensity. They are always getting pushed around. Pathetic.
Pop seems to have something against athleticism even when we come across some Pop will push them away. Pop must not believe you can be athletic and be a Spur, smh.

[SuperCam]

zero assists from our starting "point guard". trade this fucking scrub this offseason while some dumb GM thinks he has value because he's young

[SAGirl]

Manu with the garbage time crew....

[BatManu20]

Kawhi at home wearing a custom Lakers jersey as we speak tbh.

[TimDunkem]

Who exactly doesn’t think we’re awful? Come on.

Raybies, DPG, Brooklyn, Atl Spur, Reddit, SA/NBA casuals, dabom, etc

[cd98]

Spurs looking punch drunk. They’ll probably beat Houston.

[cd98]

Manu with the garbage time crew....

Its a sad way to end an incredible career.

[NASpurs]

Season high 7 points :lmao

[ElNono]

Manu with the garbage time crew....

you mean the comeback crew

[Nathan89]

:lmao being tied with the Clippers in the loss column and being out of the playoffs with the incoming loss to the Rockets on Monday

But...muh...Pop can coach a dleague team to the playoffs.:lol

[NASpurs]

pop already thinking about SXSW panels about anti racism and inclusivity

:lol

[$pursDynasty]

Fathead is Pop's dream Spur, extremely unathletic and "smart"

[SAGirl]

We might not even score 80 :depressed
Brynsanity can always show up to keep the faith alive.

[spurs10]

Wonder after out loss in Houston if we will still be in the playoffs. I think we will get some wins to close the season....tonight was unwatchable.

[cd98]

Spurs trying to make it look respectable in garbage time.

[cd021]

Now spurs can hit 3's :lol

[TheGreatYacht]

Manure in there with the cleanup crew. Where he belongs nowadays

[ElNono]

10-0 with capt Gino out there.... time to bring in Fathead and tank

[Budkin]

I hate hate this fucking team.

[NASpurs]

I hate hate this fucking team.

I hate this roster too.

[Budkin]

Wonder after out loss in Houston if we will still be in the playoffs. I think we will get some wins to close the season....tonight was unwatchable.

There aren’t enough winnable games left. We’re not going to make the playoffs.

[Mikeanaro]

Quit watching after the 1st half, clown balling at its best.

[K...]

the unathletic spurs are defensive juggernauts especially against a soft warrior team. But that leaves us open to straight rape from fumb athletes. Been that way for years.

[tholdren]

Murray so stupid

[K...]

Forbes wants off this corpse of a team

[SAGirl]

Brynsanity

[bklynspursfan]

No and 1 for Bryn. Why would it be in this shithole

[Budkin]

Forbes wants off this corpse of a team

Like he gets to talk... he’s fucking terrible.

[K...]

at least westbrook got his numbers and hopefully adams dies

[SAGirl]

Forbes wants off this corpse of a team
Good moment to show off... He was upset he missed the game tying 3 against GSW. It shows.

[ElNono]

too little too late...

[cd98]

Why did we take a timeout? Did Pop think we had a chance?

[spurs10]

Got it close...5 bang

[bklynspursfan]

Sure... But Spurs were attacking inn the first half and didn't get foul fouls called. Thought both Tony and Manu were getting bodied up.

Yup. And Aldridge in the middle. No respect from this ref crew, and not even surprised considering the opponent.

[UZER]

Pop seems to have something against athleticism even when we come across some Pop will push them away. Pop must not believe you can be athletic and be a Spur, smh.

I’ve been saying this for years. He would rather have a slow flat foooted player who will stand where he tell them to, regardless if they can block a shot or get a rebound, than have an athletic guy who will go outside of his ironclad coaching box and just go make a basketball play. This is what they mean by, “is he a Spur?”

[TimDunkem]

Game.

[cd021]

Wonder after out loss in Houston if we will still be in the playoffs. I think we will get some wins to close the season....tonight was unwatchable.
Spurs will be 37-30

Assuming GSW beats Minny on Sunday and the Pels beat Utah;

4th New Orleans-38-27
5th OKC-39-29
6th Minny-38-30
7th Spurs-37-30
8th Clippers-36-29 (assuming they beat the Magic tonight)
9th Denver-36-30

[BillMc]

Would trade this whole Forbes mini-explosion for him hitting that last shot against Golden State

[sammy]

Why is Murray still in the game? Parker should be in there running the offense! Thunderefs to the rescue

[TheGreatYacht]

you mean the comeback crew
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO

[bklynspursfan]

Brewer hacking Murray, still no call.

[BatManu20]

It's amazing how poor of a defender Bertans is for his size and length. Not for lack of trying, he's just really bad on that end. Players know it and attack him relentlessly.

[ElNono]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO

hey, they put lipstick on a pig... we were on pace to score 80 pts...

cleaning crew now in

[sasaint]

Ellshay ellsbay

Took me a minute. In English s-h should be separated by a dash. Otherwise it is typically a diphthong. Please forgive my edantic-pay ature-nay.

[HI-FI]

:pop: “there’s nothing wrong with the System. Next question”

[Nathan89]

:violin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5zGkqAWsWE

[HarlemHeat37]

It's amazing how poor of a defender Bertans is. Not for lack of trying, he's just really bad on that end. Players know it and attack him relentlessly.

He is terrible on D, but Gay might be even worse, unfortunately:lol

[spurs10]

Spurs will be 37-30

Assuming GSW beats Minny on Sunday and the Pels beat Utah;

4th New Orleans-38-27
5th OKC-39-29
6th Minny-38-30
7th Spurs-37-30
8th Clippers-36-29 (assuming they beat the Magic tonight)
9th Denver-36-30 Thanks! We can climb out of that!

[SAGirl]

Murray was best up mentally at the end. You could see how upset he was they lost. One could tell he wanted to win.

[cd021]

Forbes wants off this corpse of a team
I want him off too so its cool

[HarlemHeat37]

I want him off too so its cool

:lol

[SASdynasty!]

It was a good run.

[K...]

long live the tank....TIRED: SPAM ......HOT: STAM

[r0drig0lac]

Pop seems to have something against athleticism even when we come across some Pop will push them away. Pop must not believe you can be athletic and be a Spur, smh.

the worst of it is that anyone in the nba can see this problem, it ends up disrupting the team every season, all the teams find 2-way players in the g-league who really can help and do not have the glaring deficiencies of some "proven" players of san antonio, so there is no excuse for lack of cap space, it's all about Popovich

[ElNono]

Murray was best up mentally at the end. You could see how upset he was they lost. One could tell he wanted to win.

He plays with Fathead, it's frustrating for everyone, tbh

[BillMc]

Took me a minute. In English s-h should be separated by a dash. Otherwise it is typically a diphthong. Please forgive my edantic-pay ature-nay.

:lol

o-nay roblem-pay

[SAGirl]

He plays with Fathead, it's frustrating for everyone, tbh
Can't pin this on Kyle tbh. But you are gonna.

[UZER]

The Thunder ain’t got no respect for the Spurs...none.

[CGD]

Silver linings, we’re now looking at the 19th pick instead of 23.

[ElNono]

Can't pin this on Kyle tbh. But you are gonna.

It's not a one game problem, he's just not very good, tbh

[BillMc]

The Thunder ain’t got no respect for the Spurs...none.

Much like ST

[cd021]

Thanks! We can climb out of that!

IF and I mean IF we can sweep our six game home stand including a massive game against Minny and also GSW then the Spurs could probably climb back up to 5th, then again we'll probably get smacked by Orlando and New Orleans and then we'll be fucked.

I've never seen anything like this in the NBA, this is insane, six teams could be separated by 2.5 games for seeds 4-9 by Monday morning

[phxspurfan]

Damn... savage ass ESPN playing Boyz II Men - End of the Road at the end of the broadcast

[BillMc]

:violin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5zGkqAWsWE

Yes, but we don't get the satisfaction of watching Leonardo DiCaprio die in basketball.

[tholdren]

Murray was best up mentally at the end. You could see how upset he was they lost. One could tell he wanted to win.

Hes worse than mills

[cd021]

Bertans actually shot over 40% from 3 in a game :wow

[SAGirl]

Spurs post up after post up offense :td

[SAGirl]

Bertans actually shot over 40% from 3 in a game :wow
Too bad he got in foul trouble so quickly. He could have played more if not for that.

[pad300]

A quick boxscore review. Both teams shot 86 times. The spurs made 40. The Thunder made 39. Both teams made 10 threes (the spurs on 20 attempts, the Thunder on 28). The thunder won by 10, despite hitting less shots - how they shot 16 of 24 from the FT line, the spurs shot 4 of 7 (and 3 of those came with us down 13 and less than 4 minutes left). Thunderrefs...

[BillMc]

This season more disappointing than The Last Jedi.

[cd021]

Too bad he got in foul trouble so quickly. He could have played more if not for that.

He did get shafted on a couple of calls but he has to work on his shot selection, overall.

Rudy's probably looking at him like "Damn, you can pass sometimes its not against the rules" :lol

[TimDunkem]

The Spurs have no one who can get to the rim consistently and people wonder why they don't shoot freethrows. :lol

[cd021]

A quick boxscore review. Both teams shot 86 times. The spurs made 40. The Thunder made 39. Both teams made 10 threes (the spurs on 20 attempts, the Thunder on 28). The thunder won by 10, despite hitting less shots - how they shot 16 of 24 from the FT line, the spurs shot 4 of 7 (and 3 of those came with us down 13 and less than 4 minutes left). Thunderrefs...

Spurs didn't drive tbh. Jump shooters don' t tend to get whistles.

[illusioNtEk]

:violin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5zGkqAWsWE


:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

[cd021]

This season more disappointing than The Last Jedi.

Or for non Star Wars fans; Justice League-what a shit movie.

[SAGirl]

Forbes wants off this corpse of a team
Think he's the kind of guy that goes to a different team and will torch the Spurs next season too.

[LakerHater]

Did the Spurs evn run ONE PnR???

[BillMc]

Or for non Star Wars fans; Justice League-what a shit movie.

Yeah, Justice League sucked.

[UZER]

A quick boxscore review. Both teams shot 86 times. The spurs made 40. The Thunder made 39. Both teams made 10 threes (the spurs on 20 attempts, the Thunder on 28). The thunder won by 10, despite hitting less shots - how they shot 16 of 24 from the FT line, the spurs shot 4 of 7 (and 3 of those came with us down 13 and less than 4 minutes left). Thunderrefs...

This seems to be a reoccurring theme against the Thunder. They just push us around like sissies so the refs call everything for the players that look like men on the court, not the little bitches in the Spurs uniforms.

Just once I would like to see a Spur get suspended for starting something with someone on another team that man handling them. But we all no Pop will park them on the bench for games with DNP - coaches decision.

[SAGirl]

Yup. And Aldridge in the middle. No respect from this ref crew, and not even surprised considering the opponent.
At least Murray took out Adams.
:depressed

[TimDunkem]

Did the Spurs evn run ONE PnR???

Another thing the Spurs don't have: Someone who can consistently run a pick and roll. We still rely on our mummies to do most of the ball-handling.

[BillMc]

The meltdowns are much more relaxed recently. ST is accepting their fate....

[BillMc]

A quick boxscore review. Both teams shot 86 times. The spurs made 40. The Thunder made 39. Both teams made 10 threes (the spurs on 20 attempts, the Thunder on 28). The thunder won by 10, despite hitting less shots - how they shot 16 of 24 from the FT line, the spurs shot 4 of 7 (and 3 of those came with us down 13 and less than 4 minutes left). Thunderrefs...

Thunderrefs partly. Partly because Spurs so rarely drive to the hoop anymore.

[cd021]

Yeah, Justice League sucked.
Watched that horseshit again, thinking I was too hard on it, but nope still a train wreck.

[Darius Bieber]

The meltdowns are much more relaxed recently. ST is accepting their fate....

At this point, everyone knows every game is a Spurs loss. Only idiot homers believe otherwise.

[SAGirl]

A quick boxscore review. Both teams shot 86 times. The spurs made 40. The Thunder made 39. Both teams made 10 threes (the spurs on 20 attempts, the Thunder on 28). The thunder won by 10, despite hitting less shots - how they shot 16 of 24 from the FT line, the spurs shot 4 of 7 (and 3 of those came with us down 13 and less than 4 minutes left). Thunderrefs...
They got reffed, but the Spurs are screwed bc of the amount of physicality allowed on post how vs shooters/guards.

[cd021]

Another thing the Spurs don't have: Someone who can consistently run a pick and roll. We still rely on our mummies to do most of the ball-handling.
Parker can but he doesn't doesn't/can't close anymore, probably would've won that GSW game if Pop went Parker-Green-Anderson-Bertans-LMA tbh

[BillMc]

Watched that horseshit again, thinking I was too hard on it, but nope still a train wreck.

Yep. Terrible villain, bad pacing, horrible characterization. Ben Afflick looks like he's screaming for help (and he was the best thing about Batman v. Superman, also no great shakes). Flash guy wasn't too bad. Wonder Woman is easy on the eyes. That's it.

[SAGirl]

Did the Spurs evn run ONE PnR???
Multiples with Dijon most of the game. He struggled setting up the offense. Lamarcus struggled too, so can't blame it all on DJ.

[cd021]

They got reffed, but the Spurs are screwed bc of the amount of physicality allowed on post how vs shooters/guards.

OKC with only 13 Personal Fouls, only 3 were shooting fouls :lol :wow

[LakerHater]

I dnt remember seein any, all i recall is the many post ups

[TimDunkem]

Parker can but he doesn't doesn't/can't close anymore, probably would've won that GSW game if Pop went Parker-Green-Anderson-Bertans-LMA tbh

Hence why I mentioned the mummies thing. The older guys just don't have that second gear anymore. No excuse for the Spurs to still be relying on these guys so much anymore. Honestly, they still probably would even with Kawhi healthy.

I don't mind them as bench players. The issue is when Parker is your best option in the clutch to handle the ball, and having a glut of guards who can't handle the ball or pass, so Manu has to run the offense for them.

PATFO set this roster up to fail sooner or later with or without Kawhi. It isn't 2014 anymore. Most of these guys are done.

[cd021]

Yep. Terrible villain, bad pacing, horrible characterization. Ben Afflick looks like he's screaming for help (and he was the best thing about Batman v. Superman, also no great shakes). Flash guy wasn't too bad. Wonder Woman is easy on the eyes. That's it.

Actually liked Aquaman and Cyborg, Wonder Woman was just ok-though Gadot looked amazing- compared to BVS and her solo movie, and Affleck looked like his divorce was finally taking its toll.

Flash got annoying pretty quick for me and whats the point of assembling a team of superheroes when Superman could've single handedly crushed the villain?

I'm just ranting at this point now :lol

[cd021]

Hence why I mentioned the mummies thing. The older guys just don't have that second gear anymore. No excuse for the Spurs to still be relying on these guys so much anymore. Honestly, they still probably would even with Kawhi healthy.

I don't mind them as bench players. The issue is when Parker is your best option in the clutch to handle the ball, and having a glut of guards who can't handle the ball or pass, so Manu has to run the offense for them.

PATFO set this roster up to fail sooner or later with or without Kawhi. It isn't 2014 anymore. Most of these guys are done.

Yeah I disagree with that part; Murray, Anderson, Manu, Mills and Parker all can handle the ball to varying degrees-that is far better than ,say, the 2015 team that lost in first round to the Clips.

The issue is Murray, Anderson, and Parker can't shoot so you can't play the three of them together meaning that Pop has to mix and match to put shooting on the floor around the players than can handle but not shoot thus the Mills, Murray, Anderson Bertans LMA lineups.

Manu can handle, shoot, and pass so he makes sense in theory to close games with LMA but Anderson ,and occasionally Murrray, normally closes because of his defense and passing so that means Bertans might also need to be on the floor to offset his negative spacing.


I think a bigger issue is that Forbes, Mills, Manu, Green, and Bertans, are the only high volume 3 point shooters and Forbes doesn't really play (he shouldn't) Mills is a turnstile on D, Green is playing fewer minutes off the bench because the Murray-Green-Anderson-LMA-Gasol was so bad offensively and Bertans may not be a rotation player when this team is fully healthy really only leaving Manu who is shooting below average from 3 this season.

[UZER]

Hence why I mentioned the mummies thing. The older guys just don't have that second gear anymore. No excuse for the Spurs to still be relying on these guys so much anymore. Honestly, they still probably would even with Kawhi healthy.

I don't mind them as bench players. The issue is when Parker is your best option in the clutch to handle the ball, and having a glut of guards who can't handle the ball or pass, so Manu has to run the offense for them.

PATFO set this roster up to fail sooner or later with or without Kawhi. It isn't 2014 anymore. Most of these guys are done.

Until the Spurs let go of those guys, and I mean at the most let them only be very very deep bench players (which will never happen), they can’t truly move on as a franchise. They cast too big a shadow on new players. There’s too much respect for them, and rightfully so.

They will always get minutes and make it tougher for new guys because they’ll never be able to live up to what Tony and Manu once were.

It’s just time to move on.

[HarlemHeat37]

I'd rather watch my sister have a train run on her than watch LaMarcus Aldridge pass out of a double team, tbh..absolutely nauseating..

[Nathan89]

I'd rather watch my sister have a train run on her than watch LaMarcus Aldridge pass out of a double team, tbh..absolutely nauseating..
:lma choo...choo...motherfucker

[TimDunkem]

Yeah I disagree with that part; Murray, Anderson, Manu, Mills and Parker all can handle the ball to varying degrees-that is far better than ,say, the 2015 team that lost in first round to the Clips.

The issue is Murray, Anderson, and Parker can't shoot so you can't play the three of them together meaning that Pop has to mix and match to put shooting on the floor around the players than can handle but not shoot thus the Mills, Murray, Anderson Bertans LMA lineups.

Manu can handle, shoot, and pass so he makes sense in theory to close games with LMA but Anderson ,and occasionally Murrray, normally closes because of his defense and passing so that means Bertans might also need to be on the floor to offset his negative spacing.


I think a bigger issue is that Forbes, Mills, Manu, Green, and Bertans, are the only high volume 3 point shooters and Forbes doesn't really play (he shouldn't) Mills is a turnstile on D, Green is playing fewer minutes off the bench because the Murray-Green-Anderson-LMA-Gasol was so bad offensively and Bertans may not be a rotation player when this team is fully healthy really only leaving Manu who is shooting below average from 3 this season.

Mills and Murray cannot handle well. Mills especially sucks since he can't pass. Anderson doesn't get many opportunites, and is rarely aggressive.

Again, our best ball-handling options are mummies and that is a glaring problem. Until this team does better there, it is going to be tough to get open looks for anybody, especially our awful shooters.

Also, I'd say that the fact that a post-up offense led by the worst passer from the post in Aldridge doesn't help much either.

[spurraider21]

dabom game threads tbh

[Nathan89]

Mills has can't do anything off the dribble. Therefore he has a shit handle tbh.

Also everybody can handle the ball "to varying degrees".

[cd021]

I'd rather watch my sister have a train run on her than watch LaMarcus Aldridge pass out of a double team, tbh..absolutely nauseating..

Would also like to submit;

-Joff not realizing when to pass out of the paint, i.e. when he has three opposing players in front of him and two open players on the perimeter.

-Forbes- just every minute he's on the floor, really.

-Pops rotations

-Pass, pass, pass, pump fake, drive, pass, pump fake, drive and then clanking a pull up

all good choices tbh

[SAGirl]

The meltdowns are much more relaxed recently. ST is accepting their fate....
Yup.

[TimDunkem]

Mills has can't do anything off the dribble. Therefore he has a shit handle tbh.

Also everybody can handle the ball "to varying degrees".

This. Every NBA player can "handle". Can they handle under pressure? Can they handle through the paint and get a guy a look? Can they handle the ball and direct an offense, or run a pick and roll?

Only Manu and Tony can consistently do all of the above and that is sad regardless of what's going on with Kawhi this season.

[cd021]

Mills and Murray cannot handle well. Mills especially sucks since he can't pass. Anderson doesn't get many opportunites, and is rarely aggressive.

Again, our best ball-handling options are mummies and that is a glaring problem. Until this team does better there, it is going to be tough to get open looks for anybody, especially our awful shooters.

Also, I'd say that the fact that a post-up offense led by the worst passer from the post in Aldridge doesn't help much either.

Murray is actually decent, despite his rep as having poor handles, and is decent passer. Mills can bring the ball up the floor competently, low bar I know, and I never said he was a good passer.

Anderson is a good secondary passer ( I define that as someone who doesn't run point but is able to create off drives and finding the open man) and has solid handles.

Leonard definitely would help in terms of ball handling, then again he almost never passes to LMA so that's an issue.

I think the fact that the Spurs are such a poor 3pt shooting team is a bigger issue than Aldridge's struggles against doubles. Players like Bertans and Manu have shot poorly and the Spurs have three guards that flat out don't take 3's (only a combined 86 attempts 3600 minutes) Gay is a low volume 3pt shooter and has regressed compared to his Kings days, Forbes isn't a rotation player and Green is coming off the bench leaving Mills to chunk up 3's with varying degrees of success.

[cd021]

fivethirtyeight has the Spurs at 58% of making the playoffs

and the finishing 18th overall, in terms of projected record (18th and 48th picks)

[NASpurs]

Melo had 2 points and PG had 11 points. Easy win!:flag:

[SAGirl]

Melo had 2 points and PG had 11 points. Easy win!:flag:
Defensively Kyle and Dijon did a good job on them... Pau was decent on rim protection until Collison humiliated him.

I will ask you this ironically but there is some truth. Does it surprise you at all that the Spurs looked better against GSW and almost win that game if not for a massive choke, when Pau didn't play the entire game vs the way they looked against OKC with Pau?. That can't be a coincidence.

[NASpurs]

Defensively Kyle and Dijon did a good job on them... Pau was decent on rim protection until Collison humiliated him.

I will ask you this ironically but there is some truth. Does it surprise you at all that the Spurs looked better against GSW and almost win that game if not for a massive choke, when Pau didn't play the entire game vs the way they looked against OKC with Pau?. That can't be a coincidence.

I actually thought about that while watching this game and I also made a similar connection concerning Pau but let's be real, GSW are just going through a "bored" phase and probably playing down to the competition... and let's not forget that Pop really limits Pau's minutes against the Warriors. I really didn't take much from that Warriors game even though I did actually think about how bad this Spurs team looked tonight after Pau coming back from injury. He doesn't help matters, that's for sure.

[tbdog]

A quick boxscore review. Both teams shot 86 times. The spurs made 40. The Thunder made 39. Both teams made 10 threes (the spurs on 20 attempts, the Thunder on 28). The thunder won by 10, despite hitting less shots - how they shot 16 of 24 from the FT line, the spurs shot 4 of 7 (and 3 of those came with us down 13 and less than 4 minutes left). Thunderrefs...

bertans got some calls against him, especially his 5th was particularly unfair. And LMA was getting hammered in the first half. Thunder are very aggressive on offensive rebounds. I never understood why they don't get called for over the backs.

[SAGirl]

I actually thought about that while watching this game and I also made a similar connection concerning Pau but let's be real, GSW are just going through a "bored" phase and probably playing down to the competition... and let's not forget that Pop really limits Pau's minutes against the Warriors. I really didn't take much from that Warriors game even though I did actually think about how bad this Spurs team looked tonight after Pau coming back from injury. He doesn't help matters, that's for sure.

I don’t know that there are sufficient games left in the season and if Kiwi indeed comes back it will alter the current dynamic, and mask whatever is going on with Pau but I thought the other game against GSW the Spurs were also surprisingly competitive and it was really the bench with Forbes sucking and getting lit up and Pau that gave up leads Klay also got hot, and eventually GSW won without problems but they played better with Davis than with Pau.

[spurs10]

I'd rather watch my sister have a train run on her than watch LaMarcus Aldridge pass out of a double team, tbh..absolutely nauseating.. Can we see a picture of your sister?
:ttiwwp::ttiwwp:

[Chillen]

Damn just checked the standings Spurs almost out of the playoffs, still in the race for now at this moment the 7th seed. 3-8 anything can happen before the end of the season most of the teams have evenly matched records, yes Spurs may not make the playoffs because all the teams have the same damn record almost.

[daslicer]

Damn just checked the standings Spurs almost out of the playoffs, still in the race for now at this moment the 7th seed. 3-8 anything can happen before the end of the season most of the teams have evenly matched records, yes Spurs may not make the playoffs because all the teams have the same damn record almost.

What I find interesting is that even though the Spurs lose its not like any of the other teams are gaining traction outside of Portland. They are all losing at ridiculous rates too.

[r0drig0lac]

Defensively Kyle and Dijon did a good job on them... Pau was decent on rim protection until Collison humiliated him.

I will ask you this ironically but there is some truth. Does it surprise you at all that the Spurs looked better against GSW and almost win that game if not for a massive choke, when Pau didn't play the entire game vs the way they looked against OKC with Pau?. That can't be a coincidence.

ST studs will say that Gasoft is playing an excellent defense this year even though some of us had already indicated on the day of his signing that he is no longer a basketball player (at least not at a competitive level)

[SAGirl]

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[TD 21]

What I find interesting is that even though the Spurs lose its not like any of the other teams are gaining traction outside of Portland. They are all losing at ridiculous rates too.

No, they're not. The Trail Blazers, Pelicans, Clippers and Jazz, have all been playing out of their mind for a long time, while the Thunder have tread water and even though the Nuggets and Timberwolves (since Butler's injury) have slipped recently, they've played relatively well since the Spurs slide started at the beginning of the new year.

[tholdren]

Murray is actually decent, despite his rep as having poor handles, and is decent passer. Mills can bring the ball up the floor competently, low bar I know, and I never said he was a good passer.

Anderson is a good secondary passer ( I define that as someone who doesn't run point but is able to create off drives and finding the open man) and has solid handles.

Leonard definitely would help in terms of ball handling, then again he almost never passes to LMA so that's an issue.

I think the fact that the Spurs are such a poor 3pt shooting team is a bigger issue than Aldridge's struggles against doubles. Players like Bertans and Manu have shot poorly and the Spurs have three guards that flat out don't take 3's (only a combined 86 attempts 3600 minutes) Gay is a low volume 3pt shooter and has regressed compared to his Kings days, Forbes isn't a rotation player and Green is coming off the bench leaving Mills to chunk up 3's with varying degrees of success.

Youre wrong. Murray cant pass and doesnt have any court vision. You must not watch. Dude has trouble passing to wing. Its laughable how shitty his pg ability is. Its like richard jefferson.

[SAGirl]

I actually thought about that while watching this game and I also made a similar connection concerning Pau but let's be real, GSW are just going through a "bored" phase and probably playing down to the competition... and let's not forget that Pop really limits Pau's minutes against the Warriors. I really didn't take much from that Warriors game even though I did actually think about how bad this Spurs team looked tonight after Pau coming back from injury. He doesn't help matters, that's for sure.


ST studs will say that Gasoft is playing an excellent defense this year even though some of us had already indicated on the day of his signing that he is no longer a basketball player (at least not at a competitive level)
He does block a shot of he's right under the basket... Defensively isn't even the worst of it.
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[tholdren]

He does block a shot of he's right under the basket... Defensively isn't even the worst of it.
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So, eyeballs have said gasol sucks. It took shitty stats a whole year to catch up. U dumb

[NASpurs]

He does block a shot of he's right under the basket... Defensively isn't even the worst of it.
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Basically it's a $48 million contract for the high-low play with LMA that works maybe a few times a game.

[picnroll]

High low but also good discussions about wines and operas.

[TimDunkem]

High low but also good discussions about wines and operas.

:pop::"Culture is an important thing...So is having someone to tell you where all the best vineyards in Spain to visit in the off-season are. Not everything is about basketball."