Manu with the random quote
Manu just said the exact same damn thing I said earlier in the thread, that it looks as if the Spurs arent playing their best ball and just going with the flow, while the other teams are playing knowing they need these games more than the Spurs do, so they came out and play lights out...
So the Heat just handed us a 30 pt pumping, but we are just coasting right now, i don't know whether it is a good thing or not, we will go to Dallas now and get slaughtered. Most of the "top" teams in the league are playing their best ball now, while we are pretty much coasting and waiting for the play-offs as we already have HCA wrapped up, but what if we can't just flick the switch and turn it on when the serious games come ?
Anyway, GO SPURS GO !.
Let the Heat -sucking and Spurs-bashing begin on ESPN right now....
Spurs don’t take 3-point talents to South Beach...“It was a mix of us missing wide-open shots and their defense,” said Spurs point guard Tony Parker, who was 2 of 2 from 3-point range. “They played great defense. You have to give them credit.”
...“We didn’t attack well, we didn’t kick it, and when we had the open shots, we didn’t make them,” said Manu Ginobili, who was also 0 for 3 from long distance. “Too many things combined to create this kind of game.”
Jeff McDonald
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...o-south-beach/
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Spurs suffer symmetric smackdown in Miami...“I thought in the first half, we did a good job of hanging in,” Popovich said. “I was optimistic. Then, at the start of the third quarter, they came with the same aggressiveness and energy, and we didn’t match that.”
Jeff McDonald
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...down-in-miami/
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...n-route-spurs/Heat have best defensive game of season, rout Spurs
Kurt Helin
Since the first day of training camp — really, from the first day Miami’s triad of stars aligned — it’s been about the Heat defense. That was the question, the answer would determine how far they could go.
Ten days ago, the Spurs beat the Heat by 30 when Miami’s defense couldn’t stop the Spurs at the arc or in the paint. Miami looked overmatched, like a team destined for second-round trouble in the playoffs.
Monday night, the Heat showed the kind of defense that can make them a threat in May and June. They bodied Tim Duncan off his spots in the post, they hung with the Spurs shooters at the arc, they controlled the paint. Miami dominated this game from the start and won 110-80.
Miami showed a contender-level defender for a night, led by LeBron James and Dwyane Wade (each had two blocked shots). The Heat defense has been good all season (ranked fifth in points allowed per possession), but they took it to another level for a night against the team that will finish the season with the best record in the NBA. Can they do it consistently is the question.
Miami was the aggressor from the outset and that showed up in who was getting to the free throw line — early in the third quarter Chris Bosh had twice as many free throw attempts as the entire Spurs team. No, Spurs fans, that was not on the refs, the aggressor gets the calls in the NBA and the Heat were the aggressors.
Bosh finished with 30 points, Wade had 29 and LeBron an inefficient 21 (on 19 shots, it was not his best offensive night. The Heat continues to take steps that get them moving, like breaking out the occasional James/Wade pick and roll. The James/Bosh pick-and-pop also is working well.
Bosh was really the force — he has started to demand the ball more and when he did in the second quarter is when the Heat really took charge and made it a runaway. He did it against the Spurs subs, who were the ones seeming overwhelmed this night. One other thing the Heat have stopped experimenting with is the smaller lineups, where LeBron is the four. They have gone back to trying to be big. It’s working.
When the Spurs are getting blown out and it is clear they will not make a comeback, they roll the tents up early, something Timothy Varner of the Spurs blog 48 Minutes of noticed before and was certainly true tonight. This is a veteran team that will cede the big loss to save energy for future fights and the playoffs.
But they got a good smackdown by the Lakers recently and lost to the Sixers. The Spurs are not playing their best ball, but that could just be the foot coming off the gas a little as they await the playoffs. San Antonio still has a six-game cushion for the best record in the NBA over Boston and Chicago. Nobody in the West is catching them. They can coast a little. If that’s all this is with the Spurs, than it is nothing to worry about.
Monday’s game was not about the Spurs, though. It’s about the Heat, about them getting their footing, finding their way heading toward the playoffs. Finding their defense. Because if they really find that the rest of the NBA should be nervous.
Why is there no post game video when we get our asses handed to us? That would be good stuff.
No post-game video on road games.
lol you clowns gettin mad over a loss
havnt been on much, but im waiting for the playoffs...fck the remaining games in the season
It's not the losing, it's the way they're losing. No heart, no intensity, no interest. This isn't a team that can just switch it on.
No energy in this game, not even by the younger players with exception of tp. Wonder if pop gave them a tough workout on sunday or something, but even pop really didnt even seem to care about this game.
Especially Pop....anyone else feel like they were being a little patronizing in their humble after game quotes? Not in an insulting way, but in a modest way.
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