Leonard on Curry

Here's to hoping that Duncan and Splitter both get healthy and can do better at closing off the lane, rebounding and perimeter D.

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Originally Posted by Obstructed_View

That strategy might work in a must-win game, but this is a series, folks. The Warriors scored 14 points in the 4th quarter, so keep doing what you're doing. Throw fresh defenders at Curry, let him shoot contested shots, wear him down, don't let any of his teammates get going. Making your layups and grabbing rebounds would be a good idea too. Let the Warriors know that Curry's going to need to have a 22 point quarter every game for them to have a chance.

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THIS

we let Amare/PHX go for 37 ppg while eliminating PHX, should do the same with Curry/GSW,

BUT!!!

with Spurs shooting at least in the high 40%s

Tony fronting Barnes was bad... Just let him take jumpers, if he can hit those, shake his hand.

Watched the second half and overtime again just now. Leonard checked Curry a couple of times while he was still fresh. He went right by him like he wasn't moving and got layups, easy baskets for his teammates or drew fouls. He scored on Parker, but he did so with a hand in his face and someone right up on him. Parker and Joseph are much better choices than Leonard.

Another point many of you are missing: Thompson hurt the Spurs almost as badly as Curry did in the third quarter, and did so with shots he could hit every day of the week. Curry won't be hot like that for an entire game, but Thompson can hit 12 foot jumpers over Parker literally all day long.

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Originally Posted by Obstructed_View

Watched the second half and overtime again just now. Leonard checked Curry a couple of times while he was still fresh. He went right by him like he wasn't moving and got layups, easy baskets for his teammates or drew fouls. He scored on Parker, but he did so with a hand in his face and someone right up on him. Parker and Joseph are much better choices than Leonard.

Another point many of you are missing: Thompson hurt the Spurs almost as badly as Curry did in the third quarter, and did so with shots he could hit every day of the week. Curry won't be hot like that for an entire game, but Thompson can hit 12 foot jumpers over Parker literally all day long.

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I think Green did a great job...
Also Pop started Bonner in the 3rd, that f#cked everything, every time someone drives by our guards Diaw/Splitter would step up and still challenge the shot, but with Bonner/sick TD GSW had a layup drill

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Originally Posted by Brunodf

I think Green did a great job...
Also Pop started Bonner in the 3rd, that f#cked everything, every time someone drives by our guards Diaw/Splitter would step up and still challenge the shot, but with Bonner/sick TD GSW had a layup drill

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Green did a great job on both ends. Really happy for him that his shots went in when needed. Great redemption game for him.

Bonner was just beyond bad in every way. I hope he doesn't see a minute for the rest of this series.

I don't think Curry is going to repeat that same performance. He lit the Spurs up when they were sluggish and hadn't defended anyone in over a week, and haven't defended a real PG in nearly 3 weeks. The Spurs were as unprepared for that as they would have been anything.

Not to mention Curry was shooting like 75-80% or some shit on 30 foot threes. That shouldn't continue. Had he only made a logical amount of those (20-25%), he would've only had like 35-38 points and shot about 43% for the game, and the Spurs wouldn't have been down so huge in the first place.

He was great, but come on, he jacked up a ton of shots and hit nearly a handful of lucky ones to really bloat up his stats. Likely not gonna happen again in game 2.

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Originally Posted by Obstructed_View

Watched the second half and overtime again just now. Leonard checked Curry a couple of times while he was still fresh. He went right by him like he wasn't moving and got layups, easy baskets for his teammates or drew fouls. He scored on Parker, but he did so with a hand in his face and someone right up on him. Parker and Joseph are much better choices than Leonard.

Another point many of you are missing: Thompson hurt the Spurs almost as badly as Curry did in the third quarter, and did so with shots he could hit every day of the week. Curry won't be hot like that for an entire game, but Thompson can hit 12 foot jumpers over Parker literally all day long.

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and barnes for that matter so the spurs have a tough choice if they wanna switch the matchup and kawhi/green guards curry

barnes/thompson can shoot over parker all game long

There's simply no need to do one thing and give them time to adjust. Keep them guessing about what's going to happen, and don't let anyone get into a rhythm. Curry's going to go on runs, but unless he scores close to 60, it's going to be hard for them to win.

honestly, Leonard has the best chance at holding Curry. The thing is, he was playing lazy funnel defense, trying to funnel Curry to the paint in hopes of a good contest from Tim or whoever the big is in the paint. Although I believe this is the strategy from Pop, this isn't an encouraging way to defend someone who can score from any area on the court. He has to man up and play straight man to man like a pro and move his feet. That's the only way. Go hard or go home.

Stay on Curry and let everyone else beat you. Those barrages of 3s are devastating.

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Originally Posted by Budkin

Stay on Curry and let everyone else beat you. Those barrages of 3s are devastating.

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The Spurs played like ass, missed shots, missed assignments, got outrebounded badly, Curry went off for 22 in the third quarter and the lead still hovered around 15 points for most of the second half. Translation: They didn't pull away despite the crazy shooting.

Start trapping and doubling and the Spurs lose by 20 going away.

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Originally Posted by Brunodf

I think Green did a great job...
Also Pop started Bonner in the 3rd, that f#cked everything, every time someone drives by our guards Diaw/Splitter would step up and still challenge the shot, but with Bonner/sick TD GSW had a layup drill

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Bonner was physical against Lakers and it was good. Now, He is back to old habit of jumping away to avoid contact when someone drives to the hoop.

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Originally Posted by jbspurs

Bonner was physical against Lakers and it was good. Now, He is back to old habit of jumping away to avoid contact when someone drives to the hoop.

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This is going to be a difficult series for Bonner. I think his strengths are better used for when they play big. That way he can draw the big out of the paint.

Yeah the more I think about it the more it seems the best option is throwing fresh defenders at him. They could see how Parker does at the beginning of the game, see how Green and Joseph do early on and than maybe like game 1 have Leonard close the game on him. Its gonna be interesting to see what Pop does tonight.

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Originally Posted by boutons_deux

we let Amare/PHX go for 37 ppg while eliminating PHX, should do the same with Curry/GSW,

BUT!!!

with Spurs shooting at least in the high 40%s

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I think we should let Tony an Cory guard Curry. Therefore there won't be mix matches with Tony on the court. We dont need Curry going off an whoever Tony guards too. Cuz we all know regardless who guard's Curry, he's gonna shoot, an shoot, an shoot. So let him shoot an try to stop.the others. It might sound crazy.

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Originally Posted by therealtruth

This is going to be a difficult series for Bonner. I think his strengths are better used for when they play big. That way he can draw the big out of the paint.

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I understand the offense side will be difficult, On D he just need to be more physical.

It didn't look like it in the first game but i think Joseph is the best option to guard curry.
He is the only one that can actually get around picks to avoid the switch.

Sure he might get torched at some points but he is quick enough.

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Originally Posted by spurraider21

If you stick Kawhi on Curry and have Green on Thompson, that leaves Parker to guard Harrison Barnes. Not sure if I'm a fan of that, tbh. I feel you can only have Kawhi on Curry when either Parker is resting or if Jarrett Jack is out there

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Every shot made by Barnes was wide open. If Tony guards him and stays home, I can live with Barnes trying to shoot over the top of him. If Barnes wants to try to take Tony down the block and clog the lane (which they did a terrific job of opening up last game), I'm fine with that too.

Barnes might be the steal of the 2012 draft, but he's not that far removed from averaging 9 ppg on 8 shots/game while shooting 44%/36%. At this point in his career, he's still little more than a spot up shooter that has been on a playoff hot streak.

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Originally Posted by K-State Spur

Every shot made by Barnes was wide open. If Tony guards him and stays home, I can live with Barnes trying to shoot over the top of him. If Barnes wants to try to take Tony down the block and clog the lane (which they did a terrific job of opening up last game), I'm fine with that too.

Barnes might be the steal of the 2012 draft, but he's not that far removed from averaging 9 ppg on 8 shots/game while shooting 44%/36%. At this point in his career, he's still little more than a spot up shooter that has been on a playoff hot streak.

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I agree with this. Even if you switch you end up with someone near him. If you double and trap, he ends up wide open, and that's when he hits shots. I'm okay if he scores ten points on 8 shots from 15 feet in but I don't like him left alone in the corner to shoot threes in rhythm.