Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
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SAGirl
Which is why I always said that the player we were watching is not all he can be. To a degree Manu and the established rotation are not a fit for him. What he does best we saw in this game. Maybe we will need that.
I know old schoolers will say if we need that we are lost anyways, and maybe we are but prime Manu and Tony are not walking back in. Didn't Timmy win a championship with newbies Tony and Manu. Now we have this team with newbies Simmons and Anderson. That they made a comeback in this game cannot be lost on Pop.
And perspective, he's young, may be up and down, but has to be pushed and teammates if they want to win and truly be egoless have to push him too and I think they will TBH.
What the vets need are rest. So forcibly KA and Simms will have to have a bigger role. Makes sense Pop is slowly giving them more rope, especially against good teams.
Vets will still carry the load when the playoffs come around, but hopefully rested and if there's any injury, hopefully the kids are ready to step up.
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
Kyle makes boneheaded plays every now and then but if pop is going to experiment now, its gotta be kyle. Simmons IQ is questionable.
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
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ElNono
What the vets need are rest. So forcibly KA and Simms will have to have a bigger role. Makes sense Pop is slowly giving them more rope, especially against good teams.
Vets will still carry the load when the playoffs come around, but hopefully rested and if there's any injury, hopefully the kids are ready to step up.
I would not be opposed to Manu sitting out a game here or there. It frankly was surprising to me that he didn't do it much earlier in the season and it seemed like he was meant to rest more games than he has. He covered up for a lot of disfunction in the SL earlier in the season, and I am afraid he's going to reach a stage like he did after December 2014. Just ran out of fumes.
Simms and KA have consistently been a positive factor in games. Players like that you can't ignore to the demise of the team. I thought several games Manu should have played less minutes.
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
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SAGirl
I would not be opposed to Manu sitting out a game here or there. It frankly was surprising to me that he didn't do it much earlier in the season and it seemed like he was meant to rest more games than he has. He covered up for a lot of disfunction in the SL earlier in the season, and I am afraid he's going to reach a stage like he did after December 2014. Just ran out of fumes.
Simms and KA have consistently been a positive factor in games. Players like that you can't ignore to the demise of the team. I thought several games Manu should have played less minutes.
Manu is a rhythm guy, tbh, too much rest is bad for him too... eventually he'll have to rest though, or get dinged up and need the rest anyways.
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
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Harry Callahan
Kevin Love is the biggest
[email protected] in America. At the end of the game, he was looking around for someone to interview him. Love is a loser and any team with Dick Jefferson is doomed to fail.
By the way, why is it that the Cavs can jump around like fools after they get called for the occasional foul, and no T is issued. Pathetic.
don't worry, the Dubs will rescue us from LeBitch's gloating in June :lol
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
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UNT Eagles 2016
don't worry, the Dubs will rescue us from LeBitch's gloating in June :lol
So they can replace it with Draymond's version of gloating and jumping around.
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
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NameLess Scrub
So they can replace it with Draymond's version of gloating and jumping around.
as long as lebitch doesn't ring tbh
honestly, the Dubs don't rub me the wrong way the way Lebron and especially OKC does
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
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UNT Eagles 2016
as long as lebitch doesn't ring tbh
honestly, the Dubs don't rub me the wrong way the way Lebron and especially OKC does
Fair enough..
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
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Chinook
The Spurs play Aaron Gordon and the Magic next game. There's no excuse for not starting Anderson against another combo-forward. Could understand not wanting to start Kyle against the Pelicans, but I'd force NO to pull Asik by having him try to check Anderson. Then they'd get to play Dallas, and Anderson on Dirk would be an interesting experiment if I ever saw one.
I like this plan. One thing that Im loving about Kyle is that he enters the game prepared and ready. He's drilling that mini-crossover-shot with such confidence no matter his position on the court. Right, Center and Left. He did a tremendous job guarding and murdering Love's ass.
Regarding Simmons, he's been driving to the basket fiercely but has learned to contol his body a lot. Playing with a lot of confidence with a "nothing to lose" attitude. He's converting baskets through lots of bodies in the paint. Those drives would easily been turnovers early in the Season.
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
Spurs have a problem because they don't have anybody that can take over the game offensively.
LMA is supposed to be that guy, but we are mid season and he hasn't done that *once* the entire season.
Not once did LMA be so dominating that it blew the team out of the court.
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
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TheDoctor
I like this plan. One thing that Im loving about Kyle is that he enters the game prepared and ready. He's drilling that mini-crossover-shot with such confidence no matter his position on the court. Right, Center and Left. He did a tremendous job guarding and murdering Love's ass.
Regarding Simmons, he's been driving to the basket fiercely but has learned to contol his body a lot. Playing with a lot of confidence with a "nothing to lose" attitude. He's converting baskets through lots of bodies in the paint. Those drives would easily been turnovers early in the Season.
If Kyle can fire that jumper from the 3 and not the two (he takes a different shot from different ranges), then maybe he's explosive enough offensively. His problem is when defenders sag of him. However, he's unique in that he can be beat a defender that is tightly covering him. Green can't do that and Aldridge can only do that when he posts up.
Re: Game Thread: Spurs @ Cavs -- Sat. (1/30) - 7:30PM CST (3:30AM Riga Time)
I don't know why people here act like the Warriors are a bunch of buffoons.
They are young, hyper and hyped, AND they win by sharing. They are what the NBA is about. They aren't thugs. They are just young and great.
Stop the jealousy.
The reality is that we aren't that good. The league is down so we always look nice when we aren't playing against the one or two other competitive teams. Problem is, when those other competitive teams play against us, they still look decent.
We have to work on our offense. Our "star players" can't iso and that's all we are relying on right now. We need another source of points.
Reality is that we are screwed unless KA and JS reach the next level over this last half of the season.
We aren't beating the Warriors, Cavs and probably not even the Clippers or Thunder with "we got an open shot because they were too dumb to rotate".
We need our guys to be able to actually hoop and be really good at it.
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