GT: Spurs @ Bucks presented by Patty's Bad Haircut - 3/25/18, 2:30/C (10:30P Riga)

[FkLA]

Murray is such a fucking retard. All-irrational confidence team member.

[BillMc]

I think he was willing to go for a quick-two there and was trying to get Murray to drive and either make the basket or kick it out.

This. Murray apologists can blame Pop all they want. It was a boneheaded play.

[rude1_79]

Wow, call a timeout pls. Not sure I trust any of the 3 guards on the court to get a 3 on the fly like that.

[FkLA]

DJ had played adequately enough not to be replaced by TP or god forbid Forbes.

That last play though... blame goes to Pop, then the team on the court not getting into motion. DJ is a fucking kid tbh, and not one you can trust to make something happen in that juncture of a game

Poop should've definitely called a timeout but DJ is a fucking retard too. Who the fuck does he think he is dancing around and pulling up for a three? Penetrate and get a quick 2/kick it out to a teammate who can actually shoot if the defense collapses.

[Chinook]

I'm as okay with this as I can be for a lost (and not just because I have LMA, Green and Mid in fantasy). Pau came to life again, Gay looked good for the most part (except he let Shabazz son him on the boards like 10 times in a row). They guys who will have to hold the fort going forward did their jobs. The defense was good, despite the score. The Bucks made a number of contested jumpers to expand their final lead. The rebounding was apparently good too, even though it looked like dogshit to me.

[TheGreatYacht]

1-5 when you start the game threads. Just give it up b Dex

[Hoops Czar]

I think he was willing to go for a quick-two there and was trying to get Murray to drive and either make the basket or kick it out. It wasn't a bad idea considering MKE had guys like Henson and Giannis on the floor who can't be relied on to shoot 2/2 in clutch moments. With the way the team had been shooting threes, I don't think it's absurd to not rely on them getting a good shot at the end.

Or maybe Murray expected the Bucks to play the %'s and foul in that situation. Pop should have been the adult and called the time out and taken the ball out of Murray's hands.

[Spurtacular]

Murray didn't even look at the sideline. No chance for play or a time out. Young Westbookian stupid.

Unless they changed the rule, the coach can call timeout.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGu7kGXAa-E

[TimDunkem]

This. Murray apologists can blame Pop all they want. It was a boneheaded play.

Not calling a timeout before a boneheaded play is made is a boneheaded move.

[dabom]

1-5 when you start the game threads. Just give it up b Dex

:lol

[Keepin' it real]

Pop coaching the closing seconds like he had TP, TD and Manu out there.

Last game, we saw he finally learned to foul when up 3. Maybe soon, he'll learn not to tell his inexperienced PG to hurry and run a play when he still has a timeout in his pocket.

[TheGreatYacht]

Murray didn't even look at the sideline. No chance for play or a time out. Young Westbookian stupid.
Why would he look at the sideline? Poop wasn't calling a play. He was just winding his arm in a circular motion basically saying to hurry up.

Im willing to bet on Pop's mothers life that he was drunk during this game. Seriously. He gave it away when he was telling the ref Murray was pushed out of bounds when there wasn't a Buck within a 20 foot radius

[TimDunkem]

1-5 when you start the game threads. Just give it up b Dex

B..b..b..but Dex said that this game against the Greek Freak and long athletes who give the Spurs trouble was the most winnable game left on the schedule!

[r0drig0lac]

Or maybe Murray expected the Bucks to play the %'s and foul in that situation. Pop should have been the adult and called the time out and taken the ball out of Murray's hands.

this

[Expert]

29-8 at home, 14-23 on the road.

What gives?

[paperboy77]

Just saw the end.. why didn’t they call timeout? Questionable at best.

[SpurPadre]

Murray never should have had the ball in the first place. He should've been in a corner if they wanted to leave him open for a three, then that's the only reason to be settling for a Murray three.

So he got the board and dribbled across the court to heave a desperation 3? WTF? I don't care how young he is, that was fucking stupid.

[SpurPadre]

29-8 at home, 14-23 on the road.

What gives?

Kawhi is soft as fuck, that's why, tbh.

[TimDunkem]

There was a good 8 seconds before anyone other than Murray decided to move on offense. Pop should've used the timeout. Period.

[ducks]

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Jeff McDonald
Jeff McDonald
@JMcDonald_SAEN
Pop often will not call a timeout in that situation, in order to keep the defense scrambled.

Considering the guy with the ball is 21 with little experience in that spot, I probably would have burned my last one to set something up.
3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2018 from New Braunfels, TX

[TimDunkem]

McDonald is a PATFO slurping apologist. He's just happy to have a job and give other teams a chance.

[SpurPadre]

DJ giving Fathead a run for his money as the worst possible player to have the final shot with the game on the line.

That title will always be Bonner's, tbh.

[Spurtacular]

So he got the board and dribbled across the court to heave a desperation 3? WTF? I don't care how young he is, that was fucking stupid.

Yup. And all other four Spurs above the top of the three line and nobody setting a pick.

[SpurPadre]

Yup. And all other four Spurs above the top of the three line and nobody setting a pick.

:bang

[TDTPMG21920]

That has been a problem all season, no cutters and awful screens

[boutons_deux]

29-8 at home, 14-23 on the road.

What gives?

A mediocre team that cant score, nothing more idicative of playoff weakness than a seriously shitty road record

[NameLess Scrub]

I see Patty shot like 16.7% from the field. Can I blame him for this one?

[Dex]

1-5 when you start the game threads. Just give it up b Dex

:depressed

[tbdog]

Our PG rotation shot like 5 from 17. Front office seriously needs to address this.

[SpursforSix]

I see Patty shot like 16.7% from the field. Can I blame him for this one?

:pop: those are good numbers. Right in line with getting over himself

[spurs10]

I see Patty shot like 16.7% from the field. Can I blame him for this one?
Think that was about the average for our guards...so sure, but blame them all.

[cd98]

So glad Pops focus after the game was Trump not attending the gun protests instead of the Spurs blowing yet another road game and continuing to take backward steps in trying to get home court in the first round.

[TD 21]

:lmao At the Spurs' luck. Naturally, Antetokounmpo had to play, he had to make 3 3s and the Wizards, who they just beat 4 days ago, play next and have been struggling recently, had to lose at home to the Knicks. Watch Wall make an unexpectedly early return.

[daslicer]

:lmao At the Spurs' luck. Naturally, Antetokounmpo had to play, he had to make 3 3s and the Wizards, who they just beat 4 days ago, play next and have been struggling recently, had to lose at home to the Knicks. Watch Wall make an unexpectedly early return.

What's even worse I have heard John Wall could possibly comeback for the Spurs game.

[SAGirl]

Our PG rotation shot like 5 from 17. Front office seriously needs to address this.
Agreed. They had this problem last season too but now it’s more pronounced bc Kiwi isn’t playing.
And throughout all of this Pop has kept White in the gleague and will ride Forbes...

[LakerHater]

Hated seein Mills/Murray close out the last 4 mins!

Coach Pop shoulda subbed one of them out for Gay!

[Ice009]

I see Patty shot like 16.7% from the field. Can I blame him for this one?

He's always been almost useless on the road. One of the points I've brought up the past couple of years about him.

He's one of the worst road performing regular rotation players in Spurs history, yet he still gets big/decent minutes in road games. His 3 point shooting percentage is usually terrible on the road. I'm not sure what it is this season, but when I looked last season, there was a big difference between his home and away 3 point shooting. I think the 2015/2016 season was similar.

[99 Problems]

:pop: Pau was embodiment of Giannis today when the game was slipping away, ignored by STalkers ha, the ignorance knows no boundaries.

[John B]

Curry is out for 3 weeks. Spurs tanking for 7th seed :stirpot:

[r0drig0lac]

Our PG rotation shot like 5 from 17. Front office seriously needs to address this.

spencer dinwiddie who was unemployed 1 year ago would be our best backcourt player by far and I could name 3 or 4 more in d-league situations that would be better than the dwarf group we currently have

[Dex]

spencer dinwiddie who was unemployed 1 year ago would be our best backcourt player by far and I could name 3 or 4 more in d-league situations that would be better than the dwarf group we currently have

Derrick White should probably be leading our PG unit tbh.

[sammy]

Hated seein Mills/Murray close out the last 4 mins!

Coach Pop shoulda subbed one of them out for Gay!

Parker or Manu should close out the game! Murray not experienced enough and wasted too much time then shot a desperation shot and LMA was wide open at the 3 point line! Geez! :bang

[sammy]

As someone who couldn't see the game, why in the FUCK did Murray of all people take that 3 at the end?

The ball should've gone to LMA! LMA was wide open at the 3 point line! Geez!:bang

[Dex]

Parker or Manu should close out the game! Murray not experienced enough and wasted too much time then shot a desperation shot and LMA was wide open at the 3 point line! Geez! :bang

He didn't even take a jumper. He literally tried to throw up a floater from like 25 feet.

[SAGirl]

Hated seein Mills/Murray close out the last 4 mins!
Coach Pop shoulda subbed one of them out for Gay!

This too...
I am not sure what has happened with Rudy this season. I assume a bit of the decline is the fact he's been coming back from an injury (early season he appeared to be in minutes restrictions since Pop strove to keep his minutes between 20-24. Once he's come back from the bursitis, his minutes rarely top 20. He perhaps has not been 100% and has some post game soreness or just things we don't know about that would cause Pop to be OCD with his minutes.

"Not this Gay" is a known clutch mothaf*cka when it comes to closing games so it's just weird seeing Pop not utilize him in moments like that. At least a couple of games (the GSW game they lost when Bryn Forbes failed to make a game tying 3 was one), I would have liked to have seen Gay get minutes to close it out.

At this point, I wonder if Rudy is just opting out and not coming back next season... It's just weird.

[Darius Bieber]

This too...
I am not sure what has happened with Rudy this season. I assume a bit of the decline is the fact he's been coming back from an injury (early season he appeared to be in minutes restrictions since Pop strove to keep his minutes between 20-24. Once he's come back from the bursitis, his minutes rarely top 20. He perhaps has not been 100% and has some post game soreness or just things we don't know about that would cause Pop to be OCD with his minutes.

"Not this Gay" is a known clutch mothaf*cka when it comes to closing games so it's just weird seeing Pop not utilize him in moments like that. At least a couple of games (the GSW game they lost when Bryn Forbes failed to make a game tying 3 was one), I would have liked to have seen Gay get minutes to close it out.

At this point, I wonder if Rudy is just opting out and not coming back next season... It's just weird.

He's the David West of 2018.

[SAGirl]

He's the David West of 2018.
makes sense. in terms of being a "one hit wonder" with the Spurs, you are probably right.

[daslicer]

This too...
I am not sure what has happened with Rudy this season. I assume a bit of the decline is the fact he's been coming back from an injury (early season he appeared to be in minutes restrictions since Pop strove to keep his minutes between 20-24. Once he's come back from the bursitis, his minutes rarely top 20. He perhaps has not been 100% and has some post game soreness or just things we don't know about that would cause Pop to be OCD with his minutes.

"Not this Gay" is a known clutch mothaf*cka when it comes to closing games so it's just weird seeing Pop not utilize him in moments like that. At least a couple of games (the GSW game they lost when Bryn Forbes failed to make a game tying 3 was one), I would have liked to have seen Gay get minutes to close it out.

At this point, I wonder if Rudy is just opting out and not coming back next season... It's just weird.

I don't think he will opt out since I can't see him getting a great offer on the open market that would be more than what he's scheduled to make next year.

[SAGirl]

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[TimDunkem]

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How will the slurpers throwing only Murray under the bus spin this? :lol

[Ice009]

nope, better on the road than at home this year and last
http://www.espn.com/nba/player/splits/_/id/4004/patty-mills

(i had to look it up)

It must have been longer than I thought when I last checked. He definitely had a couple of seasons where he was worse on the road. I just checked your link and it was the two seasons prior to the past two (2014-2015 and 2015-2016) where he was worse on the road. Either way, the difference isn't much this season as he only makes 1.7 threes at home Vs 1.9 on the road. Pretty poor that he makes less than 2 three pointers a game when that is the main reason he's on the court for.

Spurs really do have some shit 3 point specialists on the team.

[TheDoctor]

978047232296603653

CIAPOP TANKING FOR THE 7th SEED :drunk

[BillMc]

CIAPOP TANKING FOR THE 7th SEED :drunk

:lol

[Nathan89]

Is that the Buford emote?:lol

[spurraider21]

Is that the Buford emote?:lol
:whine :drunk

[TheDoctor]

Is that the Buford emote?:lol

Damn :lol

:drunk(ford) --> : drunk(ford)

[BillMc]

Is that the Buford emote?:lol
:lol

[NameLess Scrub]

:pop: those are good numbers. Right in line with getting over himself

Pop, he must have been physically trying to get over himself in order to shoot that bad.

[NameLess Scrub]

Think that was about the average for our guards...so sure, but blame them all.

Good. Will certainly not blame LaMarcus.