Spurs vs. Cavaliers April 5 - Game Blog

[SanAntonioSpurs23]

LeBron's hitting his jumpers, you just gotta live with it because he's usually more like a 30% shooter on Jumpers.

The Cavs open outside shots are coming off the LeBron double-teams.

Pop's just gotta stick to his gameplan, let LeBron beat you and stop the rest of the team. Manu, Tim and Finley gotta hit their shots. Tim's somewhat contested, Manu and Finley are just missing easy looks.

Manu 1-6
Tim 2-6
Finley 0-2

It's not the Cavs defense making them miss, they're just off.

Just say no to JV, bring in Hill, and the Spurs will be fine.

If only Pop had that logic

[alchemist]

I would understand this argument but the whole team is out of sync and not ready to play, and that falls on the coaches responsibility.

so because of rotations the top 2 players of the Spurs all of sudden cannot hit their shots?

[Allanon]

So when are they going to play the Tim Duncan interview?

They decided Mo Williams deserved the halftime after Timmy's 1st half performance.

[Mugen]

Looks like we're gonna end up with the third seed.

with the way pops coaching, doesnt matter what seed we are cuz we are getting bounced in the 1st round.

[AceProfits]

the NBA is so annoying.. they keep on shoving teams and players down our throats. They have an interview with Mo Williams and they talk LeBron. How many times have they said the name Lebron James? Stop talking about the lakers, celtics and Lebron James....
Let the people just watch and enjoy whoever is playing and winning. From the corrupt refs to the fixed league all about marketing and money please shut up already!

Be like MLB, or the NFL. Leagues where it doesnt matter where the teams are from, we just enjoy watching.

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

LeBron's hitting his jumpers, you just gotta live with it because he's usually more like a 30% shooter on Jumpers.

The Cavs open outside shots are coming off the LeBron double-teams.

Pop's just gotta stick to his gameplan, let LeBron beat you and stop the rest of the team. Manu, Tim and Finley gotta hit their shots. Tim's somewhat contested, Manu and Finley are just missing easy looks.

Manu 1-6
Tim 2-6
Finley 0-2

It's not the Cavs defense making them miss, they're just off.

Just say no to JV, bring in Hill, and the Spurs will be fine.

It isn't hte defense, Tim missed an easy one from Manu and Manu just is off. Also he got fouled on one shot and the refs sucked...and one of the blocks was questionable.

[ElNono]

Pop's just gotta stick to his gameplan, let LeBron beat you and stop the rest of the team.

We don't have the personnel to do that. Not when guys like JV get rotation minutes. Did you see what the Cavs did as soon as he went in? Everybody he was guarding got hot...

And even if Tim and Manu start hitting shots, we can't let them shoot 50+% from the field. We're not winning if we don't cool them down.

[sammy]

Let's see who he brings back in the 3rd! If he brings

Bonner worthless
Finley another worthles
Duncan
Manu
Parker

with the two worthless es we might as well call this game over! The bring three can't do it by themselves!

It should be:

Timmy
Parker
Thomas
Bowen
Manu or Mason (Mason get your head out of your ass and score, we need you or stay on the bench!

Let's see what happens!

[kace]

TP and Gooden: 9-14
rest of the team:6-23

and that's not taking in account that they got 12 out of the 14 FT (8 for tp and 4 for gooden) we obtained. (i'm not counting the two ones from fin who were a 3 second violation one's)

[Brazil]

LeBron's hitting his jumpers, you just gotta live with it because he's usually more like a 30% shooter on Jumpers.

The Cavs open outside shots are coming off the LeBron double-teams.

Pop's just gotta stick to his gameplan, let LeBron beat you and stop the rest of the team. Manu, Tim and Finley gotta hit their shots. Tim's somewhat contested, Manu and Finley are just missing easy looks.

Manu 1-6
Tim 2-6
Finley 0-2

It's not the Cavs defense making them miss, they're just off.

Just say no to JV, bring in Hill, and the Spurs will be fine.

exactly just i'm not sure about the bring in Hill and the spurs will be fine

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

They decided Mo Williams deserved the halftime after Timmy's 1st half performance.

yeah with creepy music. What a gyp. I don't give a about that guy.

[Obstructed_View]

Some halftime thoughts:

When Finley's allowing Lebron to score 16 straight points, why is the solution to insert Roger Mason into the game, go small and have Manu guard Lebron?

When Pop says at the end of the first quarter, "we're happy with the way the game's going because nobody else is involved", why would we then insert JV into the game to get completely dismantled?

When Pop says at the end of the first quarter, "we're not going to make any changes", why are Bowen and Udoka brought in as soon as Lebron pulls off his sweats?

When Pop inserts JV into the game, why is Manu running the point from what is now a small-forward position, considering Mason is also on the floor?

When JV is getting completely dismantled and the Cavs' guards are hot, and the Spurs call timeout, why is Finley brought back in for Manu? What part of not running the point is Vaughn capable of that George Hill is not?

Roger Mason has been completely ruined. Sorry, Rog. It was fun while it lasted.

The Spurs have more than enough talent to win against the Cavs. Unfortunately, as in 2006, it isn't going to matter.

[TheMACHINE]

man..just do what teh Lakers do..smother Lebron and let someone esle try to be the hero

[ElNono]

Wow... Two Hall of Famers or Mo Williams???... Hmmm... ESPN sucks

[Chomag]

What do you guys think of Bowne's play so far tonight? I think he was able to slow LBJ down a bit and make him work for his shots. LBJ is a scorer and is hot so is going to get his points no matter the D but at least bowen is making him think twice about his shots.

I really feel that Bowen should have been on Lebron before he heated up, that might have made alot of difference.

[Allanon]

We don't have the personnel to do that. Not when guys like JV get rotation minutes. Did you see what the Cavs did as soon as he went in? Everybody he was guarding got hot...

And even if Tim and Manu start hitting shots, we can't let them shoot 50+% from the field. We're not winning if we don't cool them down.

I agree that JV was a huge part of the problem...that was horrible.

Tim and Manu will wake up. Finley's hot and cold, hope he heats up.

[kace]

Let's see who he brings back in the 3rd! If he brings

Bonner worthless
Finley another worthles
Duncan
Manu
Parker

with the two worthless es we might as well call this game over! The bring three can't do it by themselves!

It should be:

Timmy
Parker
Thomas
Bowen
Manu or Mason (Mason get your head out of your ass and score, we need you or stay on the bench!

Let's see what happens!

Parker-Hill
Manu-Mason
Bowen-Fin
Gooden-KT
Tim-Bonner

that's all. with TP-Manu-Bowen-Gooden-KT and Tim having most of the minutes

[dirk4mvp]

lol spurs

[Mugen]

haha told ya

pop: "we are just missing shots"

[Spurs Brazil]

We're just missing shots

That's BS Pop

Coach this team

[Chomag]

News flash: We are losing because we are not making shots. According to Pop.

Well duh... lol

[holcs50]

Are you one of these guys that says this every game? And then we lose or win by 2 and keep saying keep the faith. We are done, we have no young talent that pops wants to develop, we have no slashers, we have no great one on one defenders.........

We need major moves this off season, and we need to draft well and hope we find a gem in the second round. We need to lock up gooden, deal Hill and Mase for RJ and try to trade for another SG/SF like a rodney Carney.
If not TD has his last ring...book it.

Right on

[Brazil]

Let's see who he brings back in the 3rd! If he brings

Bonner worthless
Finley another worthles
Duncan
Manu
Parker

with the two worthless es we might as well call this game over! The bring three can't do it by themselves!

It should be:

Timmy
Parker
Thomas
Bowen
Manu or Mason (Mason get your head out of your ass and score, we need you or stay on the bench!

Let's see what happens!

well you have your answer

[quentin_compson]

Ugly first half, and it will get even uglier if Pop continues making Finley the primary defender for LeBron.

[Spurs Brazil]

Stupid foul