If the Lakers want to continue defending the pick and roll the way they have been, I think it could be done (maybe not 60% average but 50%+). :hatQuote:
Originally Posted by therealtruth
Our shooters are way too good to leave open like that.
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If the Lakers want to continue defending the pick and roll the way they have been, I think it could be done (maybe not 60% average but 50%+). :hatQuote:
Originally Posted by therealtruth
Our shooters are way too good to leave open like that.
Fast break points:Quote:
Originally Posted by therealtruth
Spurs-22
Lakers-4
Points in the paint:
Spurs-54
Lakers-30
I can't remember a more beautiful 3rd quarter.Quote:
Originally Posted by timvp
The maker of this thread needs to be tarred and feathered. Or at least bitch slapped.
OK I guess public ridicule will do. Mods, please pink his ID and bar him from starting any more threads for 3 weeks.
It's good to be beasting going into the playoffs. I just want us to play our best games, if we lose I can live with it.
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Originally Posted by GSH
If the thread starter owns up to his foolishness I am OK with leniency.
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Originally Posted by Knoxxx
Most of us have laid a few eggs here. Saying "oops" works wonders.
Well I appreciate the attempt at analysis of our win at LA. My own "analysis" was that Kobe comes out launching in the rubber match and the Lakers get worse.
As it played out, Kobe was not the problem. The offensive juggernaut that is our Spurs, along with the overall genius of Pop and the FO are the real stories.
There is no more feared team in the league than us, period.
love how tony continues to disappear v the big teams
Lakers bigs are way too slow. They cannot contend with the speedy guards. Everyone on the Spurs sans Splitter/Blair can hit midrange jumpers consistently. If the bigs cannot close out and get back to the Spurs bigs then it is game over for the Lakers.
SPURS DICK SWANGIN LOW FUCK THEM LAKErs
The OP was 100% correct. It's fools gold to think the Spurs can continue to beat some size, a breaking down fade away chucker, and a shitty bench with precision pick and roll basketball, solid defensive rotations, and rebounding. They'll never be able to continue that in the playoffs, there it will only be a 5 to 7 pt win and not a 22 pt win. Fools gold.
Thrilled with the win, obviously.
Some interesting things to note:
The Spurs did indeed regress to the mean in their long twos, after their ridiculous 19-of-28 (67.9%) effort from there last time. In this game they attempted fewer of them (24) and made far fewer (10), shooting 41.7%. That's just about normal.
Parker in particular, who couldn't miss on those long J's in the last game (10-of-12), was only 3-of-8 this time around, while Duncan was 3-of-6 compared to last game's 5-of-7 effort.
Where the Spurs made up the difference was in the paint, where they had 10 more points than the last game. Their hustle (or a few lucky bounces) also got them five more offensive boards and seven more FT attempts (and 12 more makes!).
Finally, the Spurs were a ludicrous 10-of-15 from downtown. They're not gonna lose many when they're shooting like that.
Defensively, the game was hard to figure. The Spurs allowed 19 more FTA than last time, two more offensive boards, gave up four more made threes, and forced seven fewer turnovers. Even though they defended well enough that the Lakers shot only 43% (compared to 48% last game), the Spurs still allowed a half-dozen more points.
Yet they were so otherwordly efficient on offense it simply didn't matter.
So here's my conclusion... the Lakers are big yes, but they can't consistently take advantage of their height because they're so slow on the perimeter. The Spurs will get all the open looks they want against these guys as long as they're patient. It's just a matter of making the open shots. LA is particularly vulnerable when the benches get involved, as they have almost no serviceable reserves outside of Barnes. I can't say I'm as worried about this match-up as I was a week ago, but we still have to see how guys like Green, Bonner and Leonard deal with playoff pressure.
i'd also note that, even with shorter rotations in postseason, LA is going to have a really hard time not losing 6-10 points over a 3 minute span when the teams go to the benches.
inexplicably, their bench actually managed to go on a run against the Spurs in the first half. but in the second, we saw the lead go from 8 to 19 in a wink once subs started coming in.
The OP mentioned that beating the Lakers badly while hitting long twos at such a ridiculous clip was fool's gold. He was exactly right. Last night, they beat the Lakers badly by scoring in the paint and outrebounding them 42-29.
Well our Spurs have made alot of people look foolish lately.Quote:
Originally Posted by GSH
WOW!! did Timmy look good last night