great grading as usual Timvp! Spurs have got to find a way to win these kind of games when the other team takes away everything easy from them with D. They can't just rely on hot shooting especially in the playoffs because teams in playoff mode will contest everything and shut their hot shooting down.
There is no secret that Golden State Warriors have always been a high scoring team yet count how many playoff series that they have won.
NEAL b2b turnovers in the 4th
fck that
this game was winnable until pop decided to go bench on the mavs teams for way longer then expected...
alot of the players were slow on switches
agree manu ran out of gas pop has to stop playing him all these minutes
I tried to quote the Bonner section but I couldn't... anyway, after saying what you said about bonner, why do you think he got major minutes, and was in during crunch time too...?
I have not had a chance to see the Spurs play for any extended time this year until tonight, and I guess I just happened upon a game where they looked just like the Spurs of last season. Manu played well early on before tiring. Tony played poorly and did not seem to care. Jefferson was horrid. Bonner was the first big off the bench, and he was awful. Hill was the bright spot off the bench.
lol @ attributing nowitzski's 12-14 shooting to blair's defense. what a laughable review. the guy played like 10 minutes the whole game and was the only one that even made dirk uncomfortable with the ball.
mcdyess and bonner, on the other hand, got absolutely abused by dirk.
maybe you should consider rebounding in your "grades"?
How's duncan doing? I'm feeling a bit worried about the way he's been playing lately.
Bonner has been getting the same type of minutes in recent games. For whatever reason, Pop never really adjusts based on history of a player versus a team. I doubt he even considered that Bonner almost always sucks against the Mavs.
Read it again. I gave Blair credit for doing some surprisingly good work against Nowitzki. I followed that up by saying that good work didn't slow down Nowitzki. I didn't attribute Nowitzki's shooting to Blair.
Again, I think you need to go back and read. It was all mentioned.
Classic, ploto "not watching" until the Spurs lose
Don't know how Dice can get anything higher than a C-. His game was awful tonight. He seemed out of position on almost every play.
The whole team seemed out of position and cluttered on both offense and defense.
Pop should have also received a D for this game as his lineup was crap. Splitter played well and couldn't crack the lineup in the second half. Blair needs to be a bench player. The passing sucked all game and they did nothing to improve on it.
My take, Spurs needed this loss. They have looked bad the last three games. This loss at home will make them work on ball movement and moving on both ends of the floor. We can't just sit back and watch Manu play.
How about having other priorities and being able on a holiday to sit down for 2 hours and watch TV? I haven't even had time to watch an Olympiakos game in a couple of weeks.Classic, ploto "not watching" until the Spurs lose
Except for Manu, Hill and Neal in a few stretches, I thought the Mavs wanted it more.
I just think we need to do better at home, especially with the early fouls. Chandler got a parade to the line and you can't do that.
Good grades, BTW. I mostly agree.
You know the team isn't focused when Tim gets a rebound taken away by Kidd, and Dice gets one taken away by Barrea. Most of the guys were not completely there.
Watching this game, on a positive note, I can't help but watch these two teams play and feel like the pendulum of the rivalry has swung back into the Spurs' favor. At least, it felt that way before and during the game. We'll see if anything changes.
But the matchups are much better now and the confidence/swagger of both teams has changed quite a bit. The Spurs played like they weren't threatened at all and would eventually turn it on, which hasn't been the case in recent years -- the Mavs seemed to have the upper hand from '06 until last postseason.
Not in 08 though we got them 3-1, but besides that you are right man. We need to take this back and take it back now fully! Tough loss tonight and most played bad as you and others said, but they did not seem like they ever though they could not win this one.
What is the SA Dispatch? Is that a second newspaper in San Antone?
I wanted to punch a hole in my TV on that play near the end where they were up 3, isolated Dirk near the left elbow and no Spur came to give help to Bonner. Then Dirk hit the fallaway off one foot and sealed the game.
descent grades
yes pop had questionable lineups, this is just one instance, dirk is hot, and he puts bonner on him at crunch time, really? does he not care about stops? is bonner going to stop him?
spurs just got outplayed, plain and simple, theyve been playing uninspired ball last couple of games, maybe they tired
whats the point of startign blair if he only plays 10 minutes? might as well start splitter, get him used to the rest of the starters
I know Bonner becomes a scapegoat way too often, even though he has bailed us out these last few weeks. But his defense is simply atrocious. It honestly makes me want to scream when I see his awful rotations.
About splitter
with the high pick, how come his always running away from the high pick quicker then screening the defender, most of the time the dribbler wont pass him the ball on those type of plays the spurs run. Most of the time its high pick and dribble penetrate inside...
and when the ball is dump inside into him, why is he always passing it out when the defender is an inferior player aka IAN BUSTS MAHINMI
Re Splitter and "Being a bigger part of the rotation appears to simply be a matter of time."
Not a safe bet with Pop. 18 points in one game, 10 seconds in the next. A good showing in the first half, pine time in the second. And on and on...
Thanks timvp!
I agree with your grades a comments overall.
For whatever reason (early foul trouble is not enough) TP wasn't agressive offensively, he ended taking a lot of bad/desperates shots, he didn't work on P&R, didn't try to get to the line...
I think Tony was 1 of the reasons RJ had a bad game.
Let's hope he bounces back next game.............against CP3! (he better be at 100%)
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