Game Blog: Spurs @ Bobcats - Jan. 15

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Originally Posted by Ice009

Thanks Ploto. I was sure PJ was the lead assistant.

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IN NAME ONLY

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Originally Posted by EricB

I sat behind the bench that night, Pop getting tossed was hilarious.

I was there. barely won and the team management was horrible.

Not as bad as Coach Bud's the other night against Dallas, but baddddd.

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lol what was the score of the game? Unless I am thinking of another Hornets game I thought we won that one big.

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Originally Posted by EricB

IN NAME ONLY

:bang:bang:bang:bang

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What do you mean in name only.

Do you want to elaborate or keep repeating the same thing. You can elaborate here, unless you don't know what you are talking about.

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Originally Posted by Chomag

Pretty much of what the playoffs are all about. Hopefully the guys will and I'm sure they will learn from this, and be able to use what they have learned when that times comes.

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hopefully they'll learn

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Originally Posted by TJastal

The points in the paint was again a factor, because of the small ball. Playing small ball last time I checked was up to the coach not the players.

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this

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Originally Posted by Ice009

What do you mean in name only.

Do you want to elaborate or keep repeating the same thing. You can elaborate here, unless you don't know what you are talking about.

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Whats in name only mean?

He was the lead in name only. He had the duties to take over for pop but other than that, he didn't influence anything other than run a practice or two.

He wasn't the O coordinator or ANYTHING!.

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Originally Posted by TJastal

The points in the paint was again a factor, because of the small ball. Playing small ball last time I checked was up to the coach not the players.

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You can't score inside if they're not worried about your 15+ footer, they'll just continue to pack it inside. Everything was contested as well, they played great defense. Another way to counter this is to get a ton of fast break points.

the griz is about to double the amount of points we have scored tonight they must be having fun

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Originally Posted by EricB

Whats in name only mean?

He was the lead in name only. He had the duties to take over for pop but other than that, he didn't influence anything other than run a practice or two.

He wasn't the O coordinator or ANYTHING!.

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Yeah, I know what name only means, but you didn't elaborate like you just did now. That was what I wanted to know.

Now why was he the lead assistant in name only? Why not give it to Budenholzer?

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Originally Posted by EricB

WTf, Pop is a defensive coach.

You guys are overthinking this.

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This is true, and it always has been, but we've generally had another defensive brain to provide support. We need a Tom Thibodeau, Don Chaney type coach to provide Pop some support.

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Originally Posted by poop

nothing is wrong with them, the problem tonight was lineup choices, such as playing the whole third quarter with a tiny lineup (during which time bobcats 'coincidently' pounded the paint and boards and built a 15 point lead). if we had played a true big or 2 the whole third it would have been a much closer game.

play the right matchups and we have no problem with this team.

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Originally Posted by TJastal

+1

Problem ain't the players, its the coach

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After 4 rings, its the coach. Did pop forget how to coach all of a sudden? If the players knocked down some shots, and took care of the basketball, they would have been it too. This was an UGLY game all around. The Spurs didn't deserve to win this game.

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Originally Posted by murpjf88

After 4 rings, its the coach. Did pop forget how to coach all of a sudden? If the players knocked down some shots, and took care of the basketball, they would have been it too. This was an UGLY game all around.

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:toast all those unforced turnovers they committed kicked them in the ass.

Updated with quotes.

Diaw scores 26 as Bobcats shut down Spurs 92-76
By Mike Cranston

Moments after Boris Diaw’ dominating performance, Stephen Jackson pulled the Bobcats’ power forward aside for a quick chat. Across the locker room, Charlotte point guard Raymond Felton was showering Diaw with superlatives.

The Bobcats had just beaten the San Antonio Spurs 92-76 on Friday night for their franchise record sixth-straight home win. But all they could think about was how good they could be if Diaw permanently ended his season-long funk and played like he did against the Spurs—26 points and 11 rebounds—every night.

“I told him after the game that we’re going to be hard to beat if he’s aggressive,” Jackson said. “There are not too many 4-men in this league that can handle the ball, shoot, pass at that size. I think he frees up a lot of stuff on the offensive end for me and Gerald (Wallace) when he can pick and pop or make plays for us.”

Wallace added 21 points and collected five acrobatic blocks and four steals as the Bobcats took control with a dominant defensive stand that bridged the third and fourth quarters. The Spurs went more than 9 minutes without a field goal, and the Bobcats’ 19-2 run put them ahead 70-57 and secured their sixth win in seven games.

And now even Diaw is playing well. It was less than a month ago that Jackson and Wallace criticized Diaw for his passive offense and lack of rebounding. With Diaw seemingly finding his groove after Jackson’s acquisition, the Bobcats are full of confidence.

“The way he played tonight, if we can get that the rest of the season, we’re going to be all right, man,” Felton said.

The combination was too much for the Spurs, who saw their three-game winning streak snapped with Tim Duncan struggling in his return after the veteran was given a game off to rest. Duncan hit just 4 of 12 shots and had 10 points and nine rebounds.

“They were quick,” Duncan said. “They were very aggressive defensively, and they kept the pressure on us.”

DeJuan Blair added 11 points and 16 rebounds, one game after he had 28 points and 21 rebounds in a win over Oklahoma City. It wasn’t enough for the Spurs, who had been 10-1 all-time against the Bobcats, including 5-0 on the road

In his second season in Charlotte, coach Larry Brown has the Bobcats finding ways to win. Coming in giving up a league-low 92.9 points a game, the Bobcats overcame a sluggish offense early by holding the Spurs to 39 percent shooting, including 5 of 25 from 3-point range.

“It’s a typical Larry Brown team,” said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, a former assistant under Brown in San Antonio. “Just tenacious, physical, pressure defense. Creating turnovers, creating offense out of turnovers. You knew it coming in. But we reacted poorly to it.”

With Wallace rejecting Duncan and others, San Antonio missed 14 consecutive shots in Charlotte’s game-clinching spurt.

Meanwhile, Diaw was cleaning up at the other end. Entering the game averaging only 9.8 points and 4.3 rebounds after averaging 15 points and six rebounds with Charlotte last season, he hit 10 of 14 shots, including all four 3-point attempts. Jackson added 16 points and reserve Flip Murray 11.

“We’ve just got to play consistent and the same way against everybody,” Diaw said.

San Antonio dropped to 15-5 in its last 20 games while getting little from Duncan. Instead of looking fresh after sitting out Wednesday’s win over Oklahoma City, Duncan looked a step slow in the second game on San Antonio’s four-game trip.

Still, the Spurs took the lead early in the second quarter and held a slim edge until their long drought started after Tony Parker’s three-point play gave them a 55-51 lead with 6:17 left in the third quarter.

But the Bobcats dominated from there, breaking the previous longest home winning streak of five set early in their inaugural season of 2004-05. They can reach .500 with another home win Saturday against Phoenix—Diaw’s former team.

“When (Diaw) shoots the ball well, it spreads the floor a lot more,” Duncan said. “He’s a 4 that can really dribble and drive the ball. When he can spread the floor and hit the 3s like he did tonight, it makes them that much better.”

NOTES: Bobcats C Tyson Chandler missed his 10th straight game with a stress reaction in his left foot. He’s out of a protective boot, but still hasn’t practiced. “It’s not exactly painful, it’s just a little uncomfortable,” Chandler said after shootaround. … Popovich said G Michael Finley (ankle) is “within a week or a week and a half” of returning. … Mason swished a three-quarter court shot to end the third quarter, but it came after the buzzer.

Didn't get to see the Spurs game. Looks like I didn't miss much.

WOW...only 76 points by the Spurs. I just got back from my kid's game. She scored 24 enroute to their victory. Woo-Hoo.

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Originally Posted by SpurNation

Didn't get to see the Spurs game. Looks like I didn't miss much.

WOW...only 76 points by the Spurs. I just got back from my kid's game. She scored 24 enroute to their victory. Woo-Hoo.

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At least your kid can hit a shot. Shocking how poorly some of the Spurs players shoot. Some of those shots were wide open and were not even close by guys like Bogans, Manu, Mason Jr.

atleast all spurs were cold
they were all tired
law of averages will catch up and they should shot lights out tomorrow

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Originally Posted by timvp

Did McDyess get hurt in the first half? I saw him holding his shoulder . . .

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It was just after that play Manu tried to pass to Dice and it was a TO

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Originally Posted by Spurs Brazil

It was just after that play Manu tried to pass to Dice and it was a TO

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This is the price the rest of the team is paying for Poop's decision to sit Duncan out.

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Originally Posted by ducks

atleast all spurs were cold
they were all tired
law of averages will catch up and they should shot lights out tomorrow

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If they are all tired after a night off how will they not be more tired tomorrow night? Just asking.

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Originally Posted by TJastal

This is the price the rest of the team is paying for Poop's decision to sit Duncan out.

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so he should've ran Duncan out there a night after he played 40 minutes?

Awesome..

Im for the LINE UPthey put in at the end= Theo Rattliff,Ian Maimnie,Blair,Hasslip...what a front court

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Originally Posted by EricB

so he should've ran Duncan out there a night after he played 40 minutes?

Awesome..

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He's not a pansy, and he's only going to be 34 years old and can handle a couple B2B's a year playing normal minutes.

He's averaging a measly 32 minutes a game, you think a handful of games out of the year playing 40 is really gonna kill him?

This idea of holding Duncan out of games is just fucking stupid to do, unless you are playing one of the absolute dregs of the league where victory is practically gauranteed.

Thanks to this moronic strategy, we've fucked up not just one, but TWO winning streaks now in the past month and totally screwed over our chemistry and momentum each time.

Putting that LINE UP in at the begining of the 3rd ...The Spurs always strugle in the 3rd because the oposeing team "ajusts" to there game..."Going big" for a good run would toast there energy and defense plan and ware them out...enough to go bac to plan A MEAT TENDERIZER LINE UP

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Originally Posted by alchemist

You can't score inside if they're not worried about your 15+ footer, they'll just continue to pack it inside. Everything was contested as well, they played great defense. Another way to counter this is to get a ton of fast break points.

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Going with a big line up for a quarter would salve alot of problems

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Originally Posted by alchemist

You can't score inside if they're not worried about your 15+ footer, they'll just continue to pack it inside. Everything was contested as well, they played great defense. Another way to counter this is to get a ton of fast break points.

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Your right,going big for a quarter would salve alot