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pretty interesting website there! high effort with youtube clips provided and everything.
From NBA Playbook -
The Three Defensive Errors That Had Coach Popovich Waiving The White Flag
In an interesting move, Spurs’ coach Gregg Popovich pulled his best players, essentially waiving the white flag, with just about three minutes left and the Spurs down 10 points. Sure, the Spurs have the Celtics tonight in the second game of a back to back, and he probably wanted to rest the starters, but I think this move had more to do with Popovich being upset at his guys, and if you watch the three defensive possessions before coach Popovice pulls his starters, you will understand why.
Possession 1: A Failed Zone
After Tim Duncan made a hook shot to cut the Knicks’ lead to five points, they retreat back into their zone:
The zone doesn’t surprise the Knicks at all, and they calmly get the ball to the middle of the court, and then swing it quickly around the perimeter and get an open three pointer out of it.
The key to this play, which is broken down in a fantastic post by Gian Casimiro, is a late rotation from Manu Ginobili as the ball goes from one wing to another:
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pretty interesting website there! high effort with youtube clips provided and everything.
very nice website indeed, there are some pretty smart fans there, if I were a knicks fan I'd love this site.
Oh..this guy Sebastian Pruiti is actually a Nets fan who used to run the Nets blog on ESPN Truehoop called "Nets are Scorching". He started off "NBA playbook" - awesome site that does daily analysis on various plays in the NBA, mostly end-game ones. And now does a weekly analysis on that hoops geek site basketballprospectus.com as well. Last week he did an analysis on the Spurs as well on BBP, but that comes under a pay-wall.
just filter using san antonio spurs
http://nbaplaybook.com/category/san-antonio-spurs/
lots of articles
nice thanks a lot !
First rule of Pops' Spurs, if you don't play defense, then you don't play! Period!
And it looks like Pop is getting back to enforcing that rule, thankfully.
So people needed a video evidence to figure out why Pop pulled his best players?
It was obvious he did it because of the ty D ..........
Hard to say it was zone D
Overall spurs D was bad. They gave Knicks no challenge.
the Knicks were a step faster all night, every rotation would be late even if they played their best defense (IMO).
By challenging I meant to improve the step to be a bit faster and aggressiveness as well [to be more aggressive]
And Spurs can't play zone
They never learned it and done it properly
The only success spurs playing zone was G7 vs Pistons in a stretch
you can't out-d'antoni d'ntoni himself. We need the old Pop back.
When was the last time a true contender allowed its opponent to score 100+ points in 3 quarters?
WTF Manu???????????????
I can't believe Pop drew such a ty play (if that's what he did) ...
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