Dion Waiters says LaMarcus Aldridge alone can't beat OKC

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Originally Posted by Keepin' it real

Don't disregard LMA's burning desire to advance further in the playoffs than Damon Lilliard.

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He seemed very upset when asked about the incident, not revealing much but you could tell he knew be had an O board when Ibacka grabbed his jersey forcing a fumble of the ball. He's coming back for more. He's just going to have to get ready for the double teams and Timmy better come correct with better efficiency or his best partner might be Boban who I am sure Adams will not dare leave to double Lma. Each game is its own.

He's awoken a sleeping giant :toast

I wonder if they gave the other players those wide-open shots on purpose? The ones that they just missed?

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Originally Posted by Dro210

He was a sequence of bad calls/plays away from beating them by himself on Monday. In a fluke game where everybody else was cold, OKC was hot, and where he didn't see a "one-man show" number of touches.... He literally was an Ibaka jersey grab and hack away from putting in a game winning layup for his 43rd point on just 22 shots.

I really think he could beat them by himself, but he won't have to.

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This. That's why the "let LaMarcus get his" theory doesn't hold up. He's not scoring so much by being a volume shooter, he's doing it efficiently. Tim had 8 shots (which is par for the course for him these days) , Kawhi 18, Danny 11, Patty 9, Tony 9, West 8, Manu 8. No major player had only 3 or 4 except Boris, it was fairly distributed. Make ONE more of them and we're good.

And if LMA had made that last shot for 43 and the win, what an epic performance this would have been. Legendary. Shame it didn't happen.

Win or lose, it has nothing to do with what any of these clowns say before or after the game.

Yeah and it the Spurs would have scored two more points in game 2 the Thunder wwould be talking about how Aldridge is dominating series and what they need to do to make him uncomfortable

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

The team is leaning too much on LMA.

Need to get everyone involved

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They didnt lean enough on him in the 2nd half.

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Originally Posted by Dro210

He was a sequence of bad calls/plays away from beating them by himself on Monday. In a fluke game where everybody else was cold, OKC was hot, and where he didn't see a "one-man show" number of touches.... He literally was an Ibaka jersey grab and hack away from putting in a game winning layup for his 43rd point on just 22 shots.

I really think he could beat them by himself, but he won't have to.

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Originally Posted by dabom

Kawhi gonna have to choke a bitch. :lmao

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:lol

Gameplay is fine. LMA shots are fine. Rest of the spurs need to step up. Take away lma shooting percentage and the spurs had an embaressing night shooting for a home playoff game. They were 40% with his percentage. That's 4 in 10 shots with lma. And then lost by 1 pt. Waiters and the thunder wish the spurs would change it up. If the spurs are dumb enough to do it, they deserve to lose.

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Originally Posted by dabom

Kawhi gonna have to choke a bitch. :lmao

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don't be jinxing shit :lol

So he admits they almost got beat by one guy. More important who gives a fuck what he thinks?

Dion Waiters talking is the classic over confident scrub talking that you see every single year. Who cares. He will talk all the way up until the end of the series whether OKC win's or loses & whether or not he plays a role in that as long as there is a mic in his face.

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Originally Posted by SAGirl

It's quite possible they know SA is a two man team and so long as they have one of them under wraps, the other alone going nuclear along with some scattered scoring from the committee won't kill them they think and of the two, Kawhi going off is probably the most dangerous to them bc Kawhi gets in a zone that can kill you with the 3.

But it's clear they don't want any role player to get it going off doubling so they will live with LMA, rather than giving up 3s to Danny or Kawhi for example. They risked the 3 with Tony and Tony didn't make those open 3s, but they were selective to not allow Tony to get in a rhythm either. They didn't dare him all night bc bottom line Tony can make those shots and if he gets the jumpshot going all of a sudden they need to worry about Tony too.

It's been a solid srategy so far.

To me that spells trouble for the bench and the roleplayers. If they execute well none of those guys will get anything easy. D west and Dias need to play better or Boban needs minutes with the bench.

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They Just need to effn Show up!!!

What does Waiters call 124-92? And who has even heard of Steven Adams before this series? You get blown out in Game 1, win Game 2 by one point and speak as if you've played at least as good as SA the entire series.

Aldridge is getting easy points because OKC are soft defenders.

This is why I prefer Kawhi doing interviews his way and not Dion's way :lol

Who is "Dion Waiters"?

:wakeup

Good thing there's 4 other Spurs that play simultaneously WITH Aldridge.
Probably one of the dumbest things an opponent has said. Next to anything that came/comes out of Rasheed Wallace's halitosis-riddled chompers.

I guess Dion blocked out Game 1 when Kawhi and Green did a number on them in addition to LMA.

It's a shot at Kawhi because he was guarding him in game 2.

This guy is either going to look good by saying what he said or look like a fool depending on how the series turns out. Hopefully the Spurs win the series just for the comedy of seeing this guy fall apart.

Waiters is on fire, tbh..he is the same genius that pulled off a move that NBA officials and most people involved with the NBA had never seen before, and it helped his team get a playoff W:lol

He's just riding the momentum..

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Originally Posted by Robz4000

Unfortunately Pop has some kinda minutes restriction for Leonard.

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He sat for stretches with Westbrook on the floor in G2 because he picked up two fouls with like 6 minutes remaining in the first half. If the Thunderefs would let him fucking play he could reasonably stay with Westbrook more frequently.

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Originally Posted by timtonymanurich

Good thing there's 4 other Spurs that play simultaneously WITH Aldridge.
Probably one of the dumbest things an opponent has said. Next to anything that came/comes out of Rasheed Wallace's halitosis-riddled chompers.

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He said like Aldridge was the only one responsible for the shellacking they got handed in Game 1. Aldridge with 38, sure, but Kawhi had 25 and Danny had 18. Pick and pop with Aldridge worked wonders against them, so it makes sense to go to it somewhat frequently. Had Aldridge won Game 1 by himself and Game 2 played out the way it did, I could see this remark holding some weight. As it stands, Aldridge is torching them on offense and it took the entire rest of the team shitting the bed to give OKC a one point win.

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

The team is leaning too much on LMA.

Need to get everyone involved

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They are actually not. He's just been insanely efficient. He should have gotten the ball even more in game 2. His teammates really need to step up big time and help him out.

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Originally Posted by Ice009

They are actually not. He's just been insanely efficient. He should have gotten the ball even more in game 2. His teammates really need to step up big time and help him out.

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Agreed. Through two games he's only attempted 44 field goals. It's that he's scored 79 combined points on 33 makes and some converted FTs that make it look like he's the only offense the Spurs have. Tbh I feel like 2013 Finals Danny was the last time a Spurs player was so efficient on offense in at least two consecutive games.