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True but I hope your not implying we can get that record.
That makes me think, what teams have gone through a whole season without losing two in a row and how did they do in the playoffs?
That was intense
True but I hope your not implying we can get that record.
That makes me think, what teams have gone through a whole season without losing two in a row and how did they do in the playoffs?
Dirk came close to choking that bike !
I'd say these back-to-back losses are more helpful to the team itself than any 10+ game win streak, as awesome as they are. They need to be battle-tested for the playoffs, and how can you be tested if you never lose?
Hold on, we were at full strength and they were missing their 2 best bigs, Garnett & Perkins. We failed to make them pay for that, amongst other things.
At this point is fluke to say we lost because the other team shot a high FG%. So NY AND BOS had two consecutive good nights?
Spurs D is atrocious, allowing the oponent to shoot at a high clip. Ray Allen doesn't shoot that well...but he does if he shoots uncontested. , even Rondo shot well, doesn't that tell you something? He looked like ing Magic Johnson out there, and he wasn't even at 100%
We can keep saying the other teams had good nights against us, the truth is they do because our defense sucks monkey balls. At times it is painful to watch.
If 12, 10, 22 and 6 isn't 100%, i'm scared to see what is.
Why didn't pass the ball to Manu early in that play?
Later Manu did a bad move for the result.
Exactly. The Spurs defense was DISGUSTING in these last two games. It's even worse that Boston was missing their two best big men.
ING JOKE defense. Spurs need to pick it up, not keep talking about it. PICK IT UP.
This 3x times lol
Maybe he thinks the south beach queens will make the finals and they'll face us. Lol.
Maybe he thinks the south beach queens will make the finals and they'll face us. He might be just trying to show his admiration in another way. Trouble expressing his true feelings
Yes. If either team did it on consecutive nights then your point is valid. I see your point, and in principle I agree. But it's not solely on the D. Both the Knicks and Boston hit some tough shots as well. happens, move along.
Both games were outliers tbh. Spurs won't usually play D that badly and likewise the Knicks and Celts won't shoot lights out like that either.
Last edited by Agloco; 01-07-2011 at 12:51 PM.
Yeah, but you completely glossed over the fact that Ray Allen won't produce 13-16 FGs each and every game, no matter the defense.
Everyone is riding the D, but 62% is still ungodly........that's also some hot shooting mixed in on the other teams part. Lots of contested jumpers found their way into the basket as well (particularly Pierces shots as I recall).
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The Celtics made a better move. Had Manu got that shot off and hit it, same move, we would be talking about how great Manu was in that last quarter.
He is still recovering from the ankle injury. I agree though, he had a monster game even considering the Spurs soft D.
How many fade-aways did Glen Davis make? Oh that's right, more than 1. How the are you suppose to play D on those ridiculous shots? And add in the fact that Ray Allen was going to drain those jumpers no matter who was guarding him because of all the screens they ran. He was on fire unlike any other game this season. I say 55% hot shooting and 45% mediocre defense were reasons for these two losses. Gotta give some credit to that hot shooting.
Hit the link for the whole piece.
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...-him-as-human/Manu’s passion in failure make him even more popular
Tim Griffin
...Maybe it’s because of the way he plays. Or it could be because of his personable, approachable at ude that is so rare for athletes these days. But you don’t have to look at his commercials for groceries, auto dealers or high-speed internet service to see how popular he really is.
And that’s why his actions after losses at New York and Boston resonate so deeply with Spurs fans. It’s been a topic on the sports talk shows and message boards over the last couple of days. Some fans even written me e-mails about how tough the last two losses have been to experience after a record-breaking start to the season.
Ginobili mirrored that at ude Tuesday night in New York when he angrily slammed a towel on the bench when Gregg Popovich pulled his starters near the end of San Antonio’s loss to the Knicks. His coach was conceding the game a little early for Ginobili’s taste and he didn’t like experiencing it.
I'm right there with you. When their big three scorers score 72 to the Spurs top 3 scorers (60) and shoot at such a high percentage, it's no wonder the Spurs lost, even though the Spurs made 8 more FTs.
Allen 13-16 (81.3%)
Pierce 7-10 (70%)
Big Baby 10-18 (55.6%)
manu was ticked on the bench at the knicks
result was him playing bad late in 4 against knicks
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