The Official Do Not Panic Thread

[dav4463]

This type of loss is the reason you have to win four. It's not the NCAA playoffs where a couple of fluke wins gets you a championship. In the NBA, you have to earn it.

[HFFL]

This type of loss is the reason you have to win four. It's not the NCAA playoffs where a couple of fluke wins gets you a championship. In the NBA, you have to earn it.

Who wants to insert the Captain Obvious photo?

[tmtcsc]

We had plenty of rest for this game.
We made our outside shots early.
We had a lead at halftime.
We got offensive production from Bruce Bowen.

What more could you ask for ? The Hornets don't lay down for anyone. They knew we couldn't keep hitting our jumpers and they just kept playing their game.

I felt the game was lost when the Hornets finished the second half by outscoring by 7 pts.
We were up 48-37 with 2:46 to go and didn't play smart ball. WTF is up with the hack-a-Tyson ? That bull needs to stop. It was fine with Shaq and just plain stupid and a bit desperate against the Hornets.

We finished 3rd in the conference to them and for good reason. We should be the underdogs in this series, they have proven to be the better team.

No matter how we got there, we were in a great position to win but the Hornets took the game in the second half. I saw nothing tonight from our guys to expect the results to be different. In order for us to win, we will have to play extraordinarily good.

The Hornets have owned us in the second half in 3 blowouts:

Regular Season Game 2 : Outscored by 25 pts

Regular Season Game 3: Outscored by 18 pts

Playoff blowout Game 1: Outscored by 23 pts

We can't seem to hang with them or drag them into a tight game in the second half. I'm sure the Hornets won't be trailing by 20 something ing pts when they play us on our court. WE NEED TO CONTROL THE 2nd HALF and play 48 - smart, efficient minutes.

[tmtcsc]

why would anyone ever panic after one game..is beyond me? So if the Spurs had won this game hypothetically everyone would be saying that the Spurs would Sweep?

This may have been game 1 of the series but this was the 3rd blowout and 2nd half collapse to them.Same old ....except for the added bonus of Tim playing like . I thought he got decent looks, he just didn't make his shots OR his FT's. Totally outplayed by West. -- That was the biggest difference. , if it wasn't for our 3's, we would have lost by 30 tonight.

[DAF86]

We had plenty of rest for this game.
We made our outside shots early.
We had a lead at halftime.
We got offensive production from Bruce Bowen.

What more could you ask for ?

Hmm, I don't know... What about more than 5 freaking points by Tim Duncan?

[xtremesteven33]

Put Duncan on West for a couple possesions, and put Ginobili on Peja......pop will figure something out...he always does....

[urunobili]

Thanks dude the forum definitely needed one of these. Hoping for a great start at game 2.

i a more hoping for a better finish than a good start... Timmy getting owned by chandler won;t happen all the time...

[tmtcsc]

Hmm, I don't know... What about more than 5 freaking points by Tim Duncan?

I forgot to add the "and tim is playing like crap" to the We had a lead at halftime point.

Good catch, yeah more than 5 pts from Tim is going to have to happen.

[nikegirl]

No need to panic. What's the point? , at least they got out of round 1. And honestly now, they didn't play all that damn great against the Suns either. Nothing I saw in the first round made me think the Spurs had figured their out and were ready to win another championship. Quite the opposite actually; game 5 was another example of how much the Spurs DON'T have their together yet. Tonight was indeed PROOF of that. If they lose this series, which is a real damn good possibility, then oh well. At least they didn't get tossed in the first round, right?

I do agree with you about the Spurs not really turning the corner. I think they still lack some things they had when they won their championships. Like a more potent offense? I think that is what they are severely lacking. If they want to win against the Hornets, the bench better be there coz championship teams have a steady and consistent bench.

[m33p0]

you giving out chill pills? hand me some, will yah.

[WalterBenitez]

Panic? WFT was that coaching stuff POP bring yesterday??

Stats demands that we need to win 3 games in a row!!

[Avitus1]

[Man of Steel]

I'm kinda down today.

If we go down 2-0, I think we're going fishing...

[csaenz]

Going fishing? no. I'm not going to sit here and say I'm happy with that loss, but blowouts are the best types of losses in a series. You never want to lose a really close game. Look at the Suns last round. The most important game was the first, a ridiculously close heartbreaker for the Suns. The least important game was game four, where they stomped us. Sure, we were already up three, and a break was slightly expected. Right now, I'm thinking about last year, where we lost the Game 1 of the first series -- at home, even -- to Denver. The Hornets have to win the first games at home just to stay in contention, so this blowout is fine. We may have gotten the same amount of rest days, but we came off a much more emotional series. None of the Hornets games against Dallas were very close.

That being said -- and remember who told you -- we'll win the next three games. Yes, the next three. We'll lose game 5 in NO, and finish it off in San Antonio. (When we lost to Denver, we won four in a row right after, and that was the same Denver team Stephen A(Hole) Smith picked to win it all this year. So, there you go.)

[TampaDude]

I'm not too worried right now...it was a road game and the Spurs just played like , especially TD...hopefully they will get it together for Game 2 and take the split back to SA.

Spurs in 6. Book it.

[oski1000]

I´ll be in panic mode if we lose game2 with TD playing the same way...