Play Patty.
I hate Beli but he could be useful in this series if Manu is struggling. Just don't give him Danny Green's minutes.
Splitter being healthy is the biggest adjustment our team needs. :lol tholdren
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Play Patty.
I hate Beli but he could be useful in this series if Manu is struggling. Just don't give him Danny Green's minutes.
Splitter being healthy is the biggest adjustment our team needs. :lol tholdren
That type of assesment isn't good enough to me. That seems like a cop out. When really watching this game & re-watching a few portions/possessions, there was way more wrong than making your FT's. Just simple math tells you if they made their normal % of FT's and their road 3PT % and a few of those bunnies, it wouldn't have made up the spread.
Hence, there is still a gap even with all of those things hypothetically added back into the score. How do you fill the gap? That's the disussion in this thread. That's the adjustments. Making FT's and bunnies isn't an adjustment. How you handle Kawhi getting doubled in the post is. How the ball handlers handle getting hedged on nearly every PnR with their bigs is an adjustment. How they handle defensive assignments is an adjustment.
I don't think they need major overhaul, but there are some definite concerns.
Does anyone seriously think the Spurs will shoot 32% again ? Miss that many free throws ? F'in please. Spurs got this. I'm actually more confident now than I was before game one. We were actually looking like we were going to get back in that game, PLAYING TERRIBLE. Seriously, this is the Clippers, man. We own these assclowns and they know it. A game 2 loss wouldn't be the end of the world. We'll crush them in SA. Just have to win one on the road this series. That's all we need.
I have a feeling the clippers blew their load tonight. Paul always starts like this, then fades at the end of the series.
Shoot better than 37%.
Hope they don't shoot 52%
Play Mills over CoJo
Make FT's
Spurs played like dogshit and the Clippers didn't blow out. It's only the clippers kids.
Hey, on the bright side Green may have cost himself some green this offseason!
Pop didn't sound too worried. Simply said their defense played better than our offense. Mentioned Kawhi didn't handle well getting double-teamed.
Also mentioned transition D needing to get better.
Spurs decision making will be better in Game 2. The Clips played a great game and the Spurs shit the bed. Ball movement, please.
Tim saying the gameplan was ok, will adjust it, we couldn't hit shots and we need to be more consistent.
Leonard doesn't pass well out of the double team. Tim Duncan had that same issue for a long time, now they don't double him. There's no more room under the radar for the Spurs, everyone knows what they do because so many other teams are doing it as well. You stop them by stopping a couple guys, Kawhi and Danny. Danny just has to be picked up as he crosses half court, and Leonard has to be swarmed when he touches the ball because he's not a great ball handler and isn't tall enough to see over the DT.
How the Spurs address that is small ball. They run the shit out of the tempo, keeping Chris Paul as the primary scorer for the Clippers and making Blake and Jordan run all over the place. Spurs are in the front court, they need to run small ball with Tony, Marco, Patty, Danny and Boris, and put KL in there now and again to spell one of them and get some steals.
Also, hit the free throws. You won't win many games shooting 50% from the FT line.
Hack-a-Jordan won't work if you cannot secure the rebound or if you turn the ball over at the other end of the floor. Still, I don't think employing it before the half is a good idea. You get your guys unnecessary fouls and the opponent is about to go into the lockerrooms anyhow, so they'll not have momentum regardless.
The problem I see is that Pop makes a mental assessment of their chances playing head to head and he doesn't see the Spurs as being where they need to be, so he does everything he can do to put his fingerprints on the game to alter it somehow. That's bad and good. It's bad because it writes the team off before they get a chance to win, and it's good because it shakes up what Pop sees as a losing situation otherwise. Not because of the game delaying, but when he started that in the 2nd quarter, that intentional fouling, I felt like Pop thought the game was over already, and that turned me off to the game. I didn't care if they lost after that. That sucks, but that's how it is.
That's just a random internet throw away line. No one thinks what they type on here will be implemented by the actual Spurs. This is a Spurs board and this is a basketball discussion thread. Making FT's isnt an adjustment. That's just something every team tries to do. Requires no actual planning.
Not sure why you are more interested in arguing than contributing something of substance and random throw away lines?? It's the same value as the Parker bashing threads.
Hit free throws.
Play Patty Mills more.
Danny Green needs to shoot mid range jumpers if he gets ran off the line. If I was the coaching staff, Id tell him: Dont dribble more than twice and never ask for screens at all.
Parker/Green/Ginobili/Diaw a combined 11/44
Maybe call some plays to get some open looks. "Tony Dribble" isn't working.