Game Thread: Spurs vs Nets - Mar 1st 2021 - 7:30PM CT

[MannyIsGod]

I'm saying they've routinely had the same flaws on display all season since they got Harden. No team has won a le without a top 10 defense, theirs is bottom 10. They also have notorious playoff chokers and locker room cancers as their leaders, and said players are useless without the ball in their hands. This team is basically SSOL Suns 2.0, but with more unlikeable players.

Durant and Kyrie are playoff chokers now? That's not even remotely true. Harden yes, but who ing cares if he's the 3rd option? The Phoenix Suns never had anywhere near this much star power. And none of this has to do with tonight's game. Not sure what amazing defensive team is going to stop them in the East, but you go on ahead thinking that they are anything but an absolutely amazingly good offensive team if it makes you feel better.

[MannyIsGod]

Kind of funny how bad some people want our players to hate Pop just because they do. Whatever DJ and Pop were arguing about, I promise you DJ still thinks the world of Pop.

Y'all have been ing about the dude for ages and yet somehow he's managed to reinvent this team on the fly without a tank and y'all still ing . I'm not saying he's perfect, but its amazing how much y'all want him to be awful and hated.

[John B]

It'll be interesting to see what happens with Bate-Diop going foward. Dude has some tools and definitely is not scared. I really liked the flashes he's shown in the past few games.

KBD is giving them more options on guarding long athletic forwards. I would put Samanic there too. This team just needs some more tweaking, and they could be a defensive juggernaut.

[John B]

Kind of funny how bad some people want our players to hate Pop just because they do. Whatever DJ and Pop were arguing about, I promise you DJ still thinks the world of Pop.

Y'all have been ing about the dude for ages and yet somehow he's managed to reinvent this team on the fly without a tank and y'all still ing . I'm not saying he's perfect, but its amazing how much y'all want him to be awful and hated.

I saw that too. What’s that all about? Which play was it? But DJ has to pipe down like the big 3. He cannot be the leader if he doesn’t show how to be coached first. I noticed DJ was also upset the other night loss with Patty making the last play, which I completely agree, but DJ couldn’t show defiance there.

[Sugus]

Kind of funny how bad some people want our players to hate Pop just because they do. Whatever DJ and Pop were arguing about, I promise you DJ still thinks the world of Pop.

Y'all have been ing about the dude for ages and yet somehow he's managed to reinvent this team on the fly without a tank and y'all still ing . I'm not saying he's perfect, but its amazing how much y'all want him to be awful and hated.

It's actually insane. Now with Luka looking like, at the very least, a serviceable NBA backup big, I'm thinking back to that thread by like, ElNono or some troll like that? Complaining about the Spurs draft record over the years, citing mother ing Livio Jean-Charles and posters on ST want the Spurs to fail more than their opponents, I swear

[GAustex]

Sammaich changes direction surprisingly well. So far he has past the test. He needs to settle down a bit on offense and become a serious threat.

Like said above=KBD aint scared and once he gets some rhythm i think there maybe something there

[BackHome]

Gotta give Poodle some props I know I rag on him but he had a good game Double Double can't complain about those numbers

[Dejounte]

People hope for the DeMar/Aldridge era to be over but I'm over here hoping for the Mills/Gay era to be over.

[Robz4000]

Durant and Kyrie are playoff chokers now? That's not even remotely true. Harden yes, but who ing cares if he's the 3rd option? The Phoenix Suns never had anywhere near this much star power. And none of this has to do with tonight's game. Not sure what amazing defensive team is going to stop them in the East, but you go on ahead thinking that they are anything but an absolutely amazingly good offensive team if it makes you feel better.

What has Irving done without Lebron holding his hand? And at Harden being a third option when at this point he's prolly the best player on their team. They might end up coming out of the East since it is so ty, but I could see the Heat making a good trade and getting hot again, or Milwaukee getting healthy.

[Ice009]

Please get rid of Mills, his usage and hero balling is costing them games. He shot ok boxscore wise but his actual shots were terrible. All his misses were forced terrible shots that he had no business shooting

The old Chuck-a-sarus reared it's ugly head again. I hate it when he takes a lot of those bad shots that he shouldn't be jacking up. Him and Rudy Gay are both chuckers who take bad shots, but they seem to make enough of them to keep getting playing time . I don't want to see these guys on the Spurs really. Patty sucks on defense too. Harden got a lot of easy points in the 4th quarter when Mills was on him.

Samanic was really good IMO. Very impressed with his play so far is the minutes he's gotten.

DeRozan, not sure what to say. I don't want to trash him again as it happens a lot, but again, this wasn't a lottery team and when the game was up for grabs at the start of the 4th quarter, Demar didn't do much. He was downright awful to start the 4th quarter and his lack of 3 point shot really limits his game. It allows teams to key in on him. Not sure if I want to pay him due to that weakness in his game. Teams can just run him off the three point line and crowd him when he gets inside.

[GAustex]

Can't wait to get the whole team back-even our best player in White-just for you SpurPadre-then we get to see what we got moving forward. Strangely I sense some momentum starting to build. Need all the pieces first

[John B]

Gotta give Poodle some props I know I rag on him but he had a good game Double Double can't complain about those numbers

Yah but a lot of those ally ops too. I’d give him a B-

[stephen jackson]

Scrub of the day - Bruce brown

[Mr. Body]

Agreed tbh, and I'll say it again, people are overrating this Nets team.

No one's listening.

[paperboy77]

Sux they lost but they really had no business taking it to OT. On the bright side we are missing a lot due to the COVID overreacting.

[Mr. Body]

I have lost count on the number of inside-the-paint runners the Nets made. Defense was absolutely horrible. Lack of defensive rounding, not stopping penetration, and the list goes in. Yet, they went to overtime? Not deserving at all.

Here's a guy who knows nothing about basketball.

[Mr. Body]

People hope for the DeMar/Aldridge era to be over but I'm over here hoping for the Mills/Gay era to be over.

With Rudy Gay, we collect a couple of those rebounds that killed us.

[John B]

Nets also had some favorable calls as another darling of the NBA imo

[Robz4000]

No one's listening.

Go back to crying about the commissioners.

[John B]

With Rudy Gay, we collect a couple of those rebounds that killed us.

I think KBD and Samanic saved us some 3pts with their close outs that Gay wouldn’t make imo

[Robz4000]

Here's a guy who knows nothing about basketball.

[Mr. Body]

Go back to crying about the commissioners.

What commissioners?

[Mr. Body]

I think KBD and Samanic saved us some 3pts with their close outs that Gay wouldn’t make imo

Gay would have helped. The problem was playing Lyles so much. Samanic needs more of those minutes at this point. Lyles has no prayer of staying in front of Harden or Irving and can't even rebound that well.

[Dejounte]

[daslicer]

they got taken to OT by a Spurs team missing arguably their best player, another starter, and a key bench piece. Not like the Spurs played well either.

I mean, they got career highs from two of their scrubs tonight and their team combined for five turnovers. And they got taken to OT.

You haven't really watched the Nets. Bruce Brown has gone off quite a few times this year due to the center of gravity Kyrie/Harden generates. In general scrubs tend to go off when they are playing with superstars. That's just basketball 101.