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Eh, I don't care at the moment. If we're healthy, then I think we have a chance.
Tough loss.
However, that was the healthiest I've seen the Big Three the entire season. Duncan looked fine, Parker was moving well and Ginobili was able to attack the rim. When it comes down to it, the health of the Big Three is way more important than anything else right now.
*cue the flaming*
Eh, I don't care at the moment. If we're healthy, then I think we have a chance.
thanks for that timvp. i always look forward to hearing your silver lining comments. yea i agree. TP looked like his 08-09 form. Manu was active. Tim was off but we know what we get from him.
But still this team needs more than these 3 to win. RJ needs to play defense better. He gets torched alot by anybody.
They'll be really healthy next year after not having any playoff games.
There is no silver lining here IMO.......
Is that the silver lining here? I actually agree with you there. It's just frustrating seeing how the potential is there, but they just can't put it all together. This team just doesn't have the chemistry we are use to seeing from past teams. Just gotta keep hoping they can get over that hump.
Timmy looked slow in the second half.
Physically they're healthy, mentally these guys need to get over that huge hump in clutch situations.
Turning the ball over when you forced one in the last minute =
we are healthy and we cant beat the Blazers 3rd stringers
It doesn't matter when the players on this team are slow, play with no energy and have low IQ, which results in poor D..the Blazers shot 51% tonight, this seems to be what we expect from teams going up against the Spurs..
Health is important and it's nice, but this team has big problems..
I can't remember the last time the Spurs forced multiple shot clock violations which I'm pretty sure happened in this game.
Not really a silver lining. Just something that should be noted when looking at the big picture. The Spurs could be 50-0 right now or whatever but if the Big Three isn't healthy, it doesn't matter.
Believe.
So much for taking TD out on back-2-backs...
Webster was perfect from the 3-point line. You would think somebody would stay on that guy towards the end.
+1They'll be really healthy next year after not having any playoff games.
I hope anyway...would rather have the lottery balls than the first round exit.
I expected Tony to look fresh tonight after the rest, but I figure it's only a temporary boost for him... Hopefully I'm completely wrong on this one tho, cause he looked great tonight.
Big 3 being healthy is nice but without defense or the ability to stop runs it doesn't mean anything.
Yeah, it was good to see everyone looking healthy. And I'm assuming Mason is gone as of tomorrow or something.
But when it comes down to it, to me, this game is on Pop. He should have called a timeout at 4 minutes to go, 3 minutes to go, etc to stop the bleeding. He sent Tony to the scorer's table with 4 something left and Tony sat there on the ground til 2 minutes (or less). A timeout to re-group was really needed and Pop let them blow the lead. I know it's on the players for not executing/getting stops, but the coach needs to know when they need a little help to re-focus.
I agree with the health assesment. They also played great D for almost two quarters, which is two quarters better than the last few games. I thought this was a game where we took a step in the right direction, despite the loss. That said, we've been on this road before this season and we've managed to regress.
That's another good sign. If Duncan was iffy at all about his knee, Pop would be sitting him.
Don't get me wrong ... this was a very tough loss and the Spurs are long, long, long shots when it comes to winning the championship, but when the Big Three finally all look healthy at the same time -- it's notable.
I thought in the last 5 minutes of the game we should've given the ball to manu on the perimeter and pick and rolled with him, cuz he was killing that earlier. we posted tim up a couple of times and it didn't really work. I mean, I know that's results oriented, and if they had given the ball to manu and he hadn't produced good results i'd be like, "Why didn't we go to tim!?" but I thought manu looked really fresh getting to the basket, and in the past our modus operandi was get the ball to manu and let him make something happen. anyway, I thought we played some solid defense at times. for 3 quarters of this game, I was like, we're putting it together. I think that's what's most disappointing. losing doesn't have to mean that we didn't put something together though. We'll see. I still believe, for the record.
The bodies may be willing and able finally, but the heads and hearts are weak.
The last one he made:
Tony had to go cover Batum in the corner, nobody helped on Tony's man so he got a wide open 3....un- ing-believable this team is right now.
I'm also definitely happier to see Pop going off. Seeing him hitting the media table and really getting after some of the guys was encouraging to see. Hadn't seen it like that in a while.
I get the feeling Pop senses its go time and hopefully he really lights a fire under their ass.
Maybe it's just me but who knows...
IMO, Duncan is not fine. He can't jump. This was his condition late last year as well. He is not able to alter shots, block shots, get critical boards. I know his stats aren't bad tonight but he is not the Timmy of old. He didn't even play a true center tonight, he was played by a washed up has been, 1 on 1, and he scored 15.
Without him playing at the old level, we are in trouble.
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