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Not a fan of small ball as the norm, but props for the adjustment to win this game. Loved the defense of the 2nd half. We should have played that D against Dallas.
Just a few hours ago, people would have been saying "Pull this against the Hornets, and they'll be buried".
I think a lot of Spurs fans still don't understand that this is a solid, deep Spurs team. And they can win in a number of different ways. The Lakers are still a good team, but they are far from invincible. This Spurs team has the stuff to take them out.
Not a fan of small ball as the norm, but props for the adjustment to win this game. Loved the defense of the 2nd half. We should have played that D against Dallas.
Hornets didnt know what hit them. Mony Williams made no adjustments after they lost the lead and showed his greeness when it comes to head coaching...
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Don Nelson must be beaming right now.
Landry Fields is fits in this team if Pop wants small ball. A guard who can rebound and can shoot threes but not that shooter (31.5%) in 3's.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/...s9_X8UfgKkvLYF
Just sharing. Tee-hee.
Oh and I could hear the soft speech in the locker room at halftime from here.
Worked well.
Correction: Bonner and Blair get benched and spurs dominate.
They started the 3rd and played most of it with West/Okafor. Monty really only tried to match up after we erased the deficit completely.
Honestly I think that stats in New York is illisuon. They're playing terrible defense, their center Mozgov's averages is 2.6 rebounds in a game and they play very tight rotation as usual as all D'antoni's teams.
That's why I think that Larry Fields can not be so productive in a contender team
This means there will be plenty of small ball against the Lakers and Celtics, too, because it worked in November against the Hornets.
Do they start 6'8" jump shooting PFs? No? Probably not, then.
Hopefully not =p. Lakers and Celtics (more Lakers than celtics) have players that are effective in the post. West has an OKAY post game but he doesnt like going down there, Emeka is horrible. Not sure if we can win with small ball against twin tower teams.
Pop stops playing the wrong bigs, the Spurs start taking shots at the rim instead of the three point line, and the Hornets let up in the second half, and now Pop has a reason never to play Splitter again.Pop goes to small ball the entire second half and the Spurs go into obliteration mode.
Props to Pop for the right call.
Props to Don Nelson by connection.
There's nothing like pulling a win from the jaws of defeat so you can absolutely fail to learn your lesson. Or maybe we can hope that Pop faces rookie coaches who played for him when he wasn't an idiot who will counter smallball with smallball and away a big lead.
Congratulations, by the way, to LJ, for successfully trolling his own site.
Small ball definitely works better with no Finley and no Mason.
This.
I'm happy with the win.Not with the way we win.I hate small ball but great D in the second half though
Hill made all the difference. The Spurs actually played a decent first half the ball just didn't fall and NO could not miss.
However, the defense in the second half was what we have all been waiting for. This team looks like they can adapt to play several different styles, small, big, fast, slow.
You really make no sense. So you would have prefered Pop to not make adjustments at halftime and lose so the Spurs could can learn a lesson?
I could care less what "people would have said"; I wouldn't have have said that. As I already stated, I said yesterday they can pull this type of against the Mavs or Hornets and still (potentially) get by on talent, but against the Lakers that won't cut it.
I agree that the Lakers are far from invincible and that the Spurs can take them out, but it's not going to happen starting (or playing at all) Blair, playing foolish lineups in general, coming out sluggish to start games regularly, etc.
A lot has to go right for the Spurs to take out the Lakers. Less has to for the Spurs to take out the second tier teams in the West.
I'm not going to directly disagree, but you rather they learn lessons in November or in April?
When you have players that are actually a threat in the post, small ball becomes significantly less effective. Against the mavs and hornets, theyve got Chandler/Haywood + Dirk is not a big time low post player. Similarly with the Hornets, they have David West, who typically prefers to spot up from the midrange, and Okafor whose low post offense is extremely poor.
Against the lakers, theyre gonna have gasol, bynum, odom.. therefore, smallball is not the ideal match up against the lakers. Im sureknows.. hopefully he wont try it unless were in a desperate situation.
To borrow a quote from Herm Edwards, "you play to win the game". Can you not learn a lesson and win also?
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