Make Your Move...

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Originally Posted by Kuvai

Dont worry guys..

The year we rang IN 2014, we pretty much lost against all good teams until ALL STAR..

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And then we got taken to 7 games against the 8th seed.

Let's not act like we were the 01 Lakers come Playoff time. Losing against the good teams is a problem, and we seem to be good at doing that this season.

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Originally Posted by YGWHI

Just exploit the favorable matchups.

LMA was guarded by Dudley in Washington and the Spurs didn't give him the ball, Harden was defending Kawhi during 8 minutes in the 3rd quarter and the Spurs ignored Kawhi...The same with Neto guarding him, Sessions, Beal, this season the list is extensive.

We have players who can create mismatches but no one exploits them.

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I wonder if that is being emphasized by Pop this season. I agree with you in that too often there are mismatches particularly in the first unit that go unexploited. That is on Tony as game manager, but also the player with the mismatch needs to be aggressive and ask fir the ball after grabbing position.

Boris ND Manu are really smart and sometimes even without a mismatch, they screen and move to create it and as soon as it happens they go to it. Really high IQ players, they don't need Pop's prompting fir that. First unit is not playing smart offensive basketball.

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Originally Posted by T_L_P

And then we got taken to 7 games against the 8th seed.

Let's not act like we were the 01 Lakers come Playoff time. Losing against the good teams is a problem, and we seem to be good at doing that this season.

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I don't think it's a problem. Except for the Pelicans game, the Spurs have only lost by 3-4 points to teams. Small factors like if Danny Green was not in a scoring slump, the Spurs could very well have the same record as Golden State right now.