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It's true but we saw the same thing in 2014.
Honestly it came down to plays, you know 2014 could have ended differently if a couple minutes were different, especially in game 4 of thst mavs series.
A stat that screams by itself: fools' gold..
8 of those minutes were the 4th quarter blowout of Griffin-less Clippers in March..
Not all regular season games are meaningless..The writing was on the wall when it comes to this team true pedigree....
Last edited by spursistan; 05-13-2016 at 01:20 PM.
It's true but we saw the same thing in 2014.
Honestly it came down to plays, you know 2014 could have ended differently if a couple minutes were different, especially in game 4 of thst mavs series.
What's staggering: in all those games the Spurs never held 11 pts or more lead before the 4th quarter..the Clippers game was the only one they held it at any point in all 13 games against those teams..
nah..we carried too much dead-weight this season..no contention with TD/Manu in this shape, falling off cliff as the season progressed...Kawhi/LMA are just not the same big time players..That year, in the Dallas series, Manu put us on his back in his first 6 games when almost evryone was ting the bed and he and Splitter pick-rolled the Mavs death that was good for 3-3 series tie until everyone woke up the up in G7..Nothing similar happened here..
as TD 21 have mentioned this as early as November, the lack of reliable, volume three point shooters is main culprit for this team inability to blow open games or comeback from big deficit..Even Kawhi's 3 ball faded in the series.He couldn't get a lift lare in games from the huge defensive assignments that rest on on his shoulders.. ..
This issue should be addressed in the offseason..
It was, but they also lacked the ability to penetrate and rollers. Obviously, those two things go hand in hand with three-point shooting.
With these three things in limited supply, it was a team trying to win offensively, in '16, on a steady diet of post ups and mid rangers. Even historic defense wasn't enough to make up for that, so that stat doesn't surprise me.
Aside from the narrative of the 3 pts shooter and not on D west personally, but he never really fit in the bench. Manu is a terrific passer and his PNR with a good rolling big was critical when shooters go cold (nature of jumpshooting, it's high variance and unreliability). When we lost both Tiago and Baynes we lost that. The bench didn't have an inside presence. Boris posting up was asked to be that but he coasted through most of the season. All of that was covered up by Manu coming out swinging out of the gates super hot initially and Patty the occasional hot shooting game.
Despite that West was reasonably ok during the RS but he was exposed by big lineups like Chicago and he's a jumpshooter himself. Through the RS you could get away with Boban who would score efficiently, Simmons had the occasional hot shooting game and so did Anderson but it went beyond lack of an additional shooter. As noticed by adding Martin, they were still having troubles.
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