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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
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DPG21920
Told ya, Mel :lol
Coincidental happenstance.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
Splitter was a complete vagimatic douche.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
based purely on emotion, I'd say Harden. Those 3 pt shots were daggers. Unreal.
Since then, he's been a scrub. smh
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
Nice very nice way of falling into a delicate yet stupid trap set by a Lakers fan. He's trying to make us go at each other. Who to blame? Lets blame a terrific Thunder team for being better.
How low are we?
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A collective tendency to choke that has become this team's defining character trait in playoffs.
It would have surprising if the Spurs hadn't choked away a 2-0 lead.
Spurs are soft.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
Steve Kerr for getting Perkins angry and motivated :downspin:
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
KD. If he didn't go apeshit (strangely missing in the Finals by comparison), especially that 16 in the 4th Q of game 4, we would've won the series in 5.
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Just to throw this in, Durant, Westbrook, and Harden haven't REALLY played well since the Spurs-Thunder series. I give them credit where credit is due by way of what they did to the Spurs but just ask, "The sixth man of the year", how he's doing with team USA.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
The OKC crowd in game 3. They were insane. Haven't seen a crowd like that since maybe the Utah Jazz crowd in the 97 and 98 finals. Gave OKC a massive boost.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
We won as a team and we lost as a team. Everyone contributed both to the wins and the losses. A lot of the blame falls on Pop for getting outcoached by Scott Brooks. Scott made major adjustments for game 3 and it seemed to put everyone connected with the Spurs in a state of confusion. That has happened quite a bit in the playoffs the past few years.
We are at a semi-difficult point considering age...a big gap between those with 1-3 years of NBA experience versus the other half with lots of years on the body and legs of a group not known for athleticism to begin with.
I had hoped we could have acquired another big who could still move with ease and an athletic defender to go with KL, DG & SJ. Another Bowen like player who could clamp down on guys who love to shoot...Kobe, Lebron, Durant, etc. Or a healthy Manu if he can find the proverbial fountain of youth for his fast aging body. WE really need to excel on defense this coming season to keep up with the Thunder, Lakers and Heat.
And lastly get rid of the impotent Bonner. Damn it, Pop, stop being so damn hardheaded. :ihit
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
Parker was the MVP. He should have gotten the blame. He couldn't shake of Sefalosha and keep the team involved. The Spurs counter should have probably been to put Kawhi on Westbrook.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
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SouthTexasRancher
We won as a team and we lost as a team. Everyone contributed both to the wins and the losses. A lot of the blame falls on Pop for getting outcoached by Scott Brooks. Scott made major adjustments for game 3 and it seemed to put everyone connected with the Spurs in a state of confusion. That has happened quite a bit in the playoffs the past few years.
We are at a semi-difficult point considering age...a big gap between those with 1-3 years of NBA experience versus the other half with lots of years on the body and legs of a group not known for athleticism to begin with.
I had hoped we could have acquired another big who could still move with ease and an athletic defender to go with KL, DG & SJ. Another Bowen like player who could clamp down on guys who love to shoot...Kobe, Lebron, Durant, etc. Or a healthy Manu if he can find the proverbial fountain of youth for his fast aging body. WE really need to excel on defense this coming season to keep up with the Thunder, Lakers and Heat.
And lastly get rid of the impotent Bonner. Damn it, Pop, stop being so damn hardheaded. :ihit
I agree about Pop being outcoached. Game 3 they laid an egg. Game 4 they played a close game and then Durant goes off at the end and their bigs shoot like crazy. Game 5 should have been doing the same thing with more focus. Pop's the one who preaches pounding the rock but he panicked in game 5 when he didn't need to.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
Starting Manu was a bad call IMO...
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
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DeadlyDynasty
Can't be a referee or a coach, either. What player receives all of or most of the blame for the series loss?
:lmao Lakers fan thinking one guy is responsible for the win or loss.
:lmao Kobe
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
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therealtruth
Parker was the MVP. He should have gotten the blame. He couldn't shake of Sefalosha and keep the team involved. The Spurs counter should have probably been to put Kawhi on Westbrook.
Then who would defend Durant?
If I had to blame anyone player tho it would have to be Tony, he lost his aggression from games 1 & 2 & was very marginal for the rest of the series, all tho he did have a good 1st half against the Thunder in game 6...but his nuts shriveled up when he was needed most.
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tp had a mvp calibre season, gets a big head ahead of the wcf after disposing cp3 calling out the frog, only for the frog to outplay another frog
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
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DeadlyDynasty
Can't be a referee or a coach, either. What player receives all of or most of the blame for the series loss?
So in other words, you're asking us what the second biggest factor in the Spurs' loss in the WCF was?
Don't twist it around and see if anyone puts blame on anybody more than the refs. . .because no matter how classy some here may pretend to be, anyone who isn't naive knows that shit was fixed.
Anyway, no specfic player just totally shat the bed. Some "underperformed", some just didn't hit many shots over the course of the game, etc. But I really can't think of any players who just totally failed late in games, because the main failures I recall came with whistles at the end of those plays. I was fully confident in the Spurs on every play unless a whistle was blown, or a whistle was swallowed on obvious goaltends or moving screens. Literally. Spurs had more taken away by the refs than they lost with failed performances by Spurs players.
I guess I can say that the most "disappointing" player was either Danny Green or Tiago Splitter. Splitter just didn't do much, and Green missed almost everything. Neither one is called upon to do tons, but Green is at least expected to shoot more than 26% for the series. And Splitter: 11 rebounds in 53 minutes, against medium-sized frontcourt. And only 6 points and 5 boards in the last 4 games combined. But again, neither guy is called upon to do tons for the team. It was mostly the convieniently lopsided officiating in key moments of the last 3 games that killed the series for the Spurs. Especially terrible were games 5 and 6. Game 6 there being Lakers/Kings game 6 level rigging.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
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Spurs da champs
Then who would defend Durant?
If I had to blame anyone player tho it would have to be Tony, he lost his aggression from games 1 & 2 & was very marginal for the rest of the series, all tho he did have a good 1st half against the Thunder in game 6...but his nuts shriveled up when he was needed most.
Jax would have been a good option. He would have frustrated Durant from the beginning of the game by getting in his head. Danny Green could also have helped of the bench.
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Love how the NBA fixed it so that OKC would suddenly start making jumpshots that they'd never hit before and never hit again. David Stern is uber powerful.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
I look at three players. Green because he failed when it matters.
Bonner and Blair because they can't be relied upon when it matters.
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Re: If you had to blame one player for the WCF series loss, who would it be?
