I'm talking about mental toughness.
Duncan looked almost the same as in 2001 (hint: broom), and the spurs could not get on their feet.
Since when I saw Duncan in that mode I knew how every position will end. Damn I watched the Spurs too many years not to know that kind of things.
I remind you all that Suns were on a b2b on a road while Spurs had a time to rest.
It realy not look good when a 67 year old Shaq dominates in the paint. NO D at all! And Suns were lobing to Shaq like in the old days.
Why we suck on O? Cause there is nobody who could push the ball up court. Parker is lonley out there running.
Suns were not playing great at all and they dominated. How can you not hold a team in the 4th who is playing in b2b?
Mentaly Tim folded once again. When he is in such mode he is wishing shots to go in and he is forceing the issue which is not good cause it takes away his game concentration, so he is off the game not in the game.
thx
Once again, the man has led the Spurs to 4 les and has 3 finals mvps once again my ass. So he played a ty 4th qtr that is all you are pissed about. Don't make this a bigger issue than it is. If the Spurs lose to the Suns it will hardly be because Tim did not do his part, not going to happen.
So he did his part?
I was just showing the facts. Nothing less nothing more.
Let the Shaq Is Done roll call begin. And go . . .
Not so funny anymore is it Przem.I'm close to that statment.
You can count me in
The funny thing about that game was hat the spurs were not plaing shaq as good as they can, defensivly and ofensivly.
Bump...
Let's thank Mother Nature for aging Steve Nash
Fixed.
Let's thank Mike "one PG on the roster" D'Antoni for aging Steve Nash
blah blah blah
Let's thank Mother Nature for aging Steve Nash
I wanted to bump this up
I do even have it (thread link) on my desktop as a reminder
I don't suppose one of you erstwhile Shaq Trade bashers would care to provide us with the Spurs FG% against the Suns in this series VS our 05 and 07 meetings?
Thanks....in advance.
In particular I'd like you to find our stats VS the Suns in the 05 WCF when...you know, their bigs were Amare and Marion(as they would have again been this year without the Shaq trade)
...I don't anticipate a quick response so how about we play a game?
Let's play match the Spurs Suns playoff series with the Spurs FG%:
A. 496% 1. 2008
B. 417% 2. 2007
C. 474% 3. 2005
The winning Shaq trade basher gets to keep a shred of his board credibility...
PS: I don't know if you guys noticed...but Shaq moved well in this series and outside of the hack a shack(which was effective once IMO), he didn't slow their running offense down at all.
Spurs' FG% against Suns is 46.7% in the 2008 playoff series.
The fast-break points of the Suns this series don't seem to hold that up.
Game 1: 9
Game 2: 4
Game 3: 12
Game 4: 13
Game 5: 11
Their season average for fast-break points was around 17.5.
Of course, that also doesn't take into consideration yet the attention the Spurs paid to transition defense.
...I must have looked up the wrong stats, and does that total include this final game?Spurs' FG% against Suns is 46.7% in the 2008 playoff series.
Anyway...if what you say is true, then this is still the best defensive Suns team against the Spurs, and the worst one against them was 05 team when the Suns didn't have any traditional quality bigs of any kind...which would have been the case again this season if not for trading for Shaq.
Right, the Spurs have always been good limiting their fast break points, especially when they are having a good game offensively, that's why the Suns wanted to get better in the half court.
Yes, it does.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
