good one
You really have an over inflated sense of your back court players abilities. Unless, of course, you're joking. In that case, very funny.
Your guys are going to have their hands full chasing Ginobili and Parker on D that they won't have the gas to be a factor on the other end for an entire game. Butler is your best offensive guard and we have at least three guys that can shut him down. Kidd is a non-factor as a scorer if you make him work on D. And Barea and Beaubois? Really? Are you serious?
keep thinking that.
lol pothead asking someone if they have a brain
Spurs should play like they play the Magic.
Take Dwight 1:1 and hope for the best and shut everyone else down. Same with Dirk. Doubling Dirk should be a mistake with Terry and Kidd on the court, it would lead to open threes. Even Roddy and Barea shooting 41 and 36%. Also the last games the ball movement was textbook. Thats one of Butlers advantages over J. Howard, he is such a smarter player and moves the ball very very well.
obvious troll is obvious
Bonner had a huge part in holding Dirk down last playoffs. It was obviously a team effort with lots of help and doubles, but truth be told, Bonner played Dirk just about perfectly for long stretches.
I don't think that this is a good strategy against the Mavs. I've read a statistic somewhere that said the Mavs are at their best when Nowitzki scores a lot.
Spurs should try to shut him down the best they can, hope for the best and make life hard for Terry, Butler, Kidd etc.
Dice and Bonner
I just hope no small ball
All I know is every time he is fouled it needs to be a hard foul. He's going to flop and flail all over the place anyway so give him something to flop and flail about.
But unlike Howard, Butler doesn't turn into Michael freaking Jordan whenever he plays against the Spurs.
We still have Barea for that(doh, i hope he doesnt see the court at all).
Nah, i prefer that well balanced team than to hope the Dirk/Josh combo going nuts at offence.
Probably Bonner since you need a soft player to play against another soft player.
will be on Dirk and vise-versa.
So those mofos are the top 5 league leading scorers then...
Dice will have to do the job. He has a chance to come up big for the Spurs. I see no signs or have no logical reason to believe Dice will flip the switch. But if he could, it would be a huge bonus that could put the Spurs over the top.
wow. A Spurs fan talking about flopping? That is quite an irony
Right, because the Spurs are the ONLY team that "flops". Fans of other teams NEVER use that as an excuse when the Spurs whip their ass. You got us.
Bonner's really the only guy on the roster who can guard dirk, as much as Dirk can even be guarded to begin with, if that ridiculous falling-down-fade-away is going in, good night
The Spurs didn't "stop" Dirk last year. They basically pulled out the same defensive scheme that Houston, Golden State and Miami have used before them. His numbers weren't impressive (19/8) if I recall, but he played a great floor game. The book on Dirk has been to double team him, trap him, send the double from odd angles and from his blind side, force him to put the ball on the floor and drive instead of spotting up, etc. The Rockets, Warriors and Heat had great success with this approach. Dirk has gotten a lot better at dealing with it. He shredded the Spurs last year with his passing and playing the facillitator role. It remains to be seen if Butler, Haywood, Beaubois can match what Bass, Howard and Barea did last year playing off the looks they got from the attention paid to Dirk.
The game in Dallas earlier this year that saw Dirk go off for 41, the Spurs played him straight up mainly with Bonner on him in crunchtime and Dirk destroyed him. That won't work in the playoffs. Even though it didn't work last year, the "Golden State" defense is San Antonio's best chance. We'll find out if that does the job. The Warriors and Heat won with this approach, San Antonio and Houston ultimately failed with it. It's the best chance San Antonio has.
lol im not the one that brought "flopping" up...was responding to Spurs fan complaining about another team "flopping"
jefferson might be the most effective. he's certainly the most mobile of mcdyess and bonner. jefferson doesn't have speed but he will have more than enough to keep up with dirk. he also has a 7 foot wingspan to contest shots.
I just know at some point, Pop's going to try to "centerpiece" Dirk, and things are probably going to get real ugly, real fast.
I've never been nearly as worried about this one dimensional, overrated player, as most. Of course he had his way with the Spurs in '06, he had smalls on him. If McDyess can, for the most part stay out of foul trouble (a near impossible task, since Nowitzki inexplicably get's more calls than almost anyone) and log significant minutes against him, I feel he can do a solid enough job on Nowitzki. What I don't want to see is long stretches of Jefferson or Bogans on him, the Spurs doubling and giving up op three's. They need to play him straight up at virtually all costs and live with the results. This guy isn't so good that he should be able to almost single-handedly drag the Mavs past the Spurs.
You just changed it from Duncan to anyone, because you noticed you were wrong?
Career stats:
Duncan:
FT's per game: 7.1
FT's per 36 minutes: 7.0
Nowitzki:
FT's per game: 6.6
FT's per 36 minutes: 6.4
Nice one, try again.
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