If you're Pop, what's your plan tomorrow against the Lakers?

[DPG21920]

Mike D = Koolaid = Confirmed

[TampaDude]

Mike D = Koolaid = Confirmed

Cully = Slug trail = Confirmed

[Giuseppe]

Kobe= 5

Duncan= 4

[TampaDude]

Kobe= 5

Duncan= 4

Spurs = #1 seed

Cully = Pole smoker

[DJ Mbenga]

wtf steve blake has the chicken pox

[duncan228]

Should the Spurs take a dive tonight in L.A.?
Jeff McDonald

...As of this morning’s shootaround at Santa Monica College, Popovich still didn’t have a definitive answer.

“We’re trying to figure that out right now, to see what might be best for us,” Popovich said after the walk-through. “We change our minds like every 10 minutes. Hopefully, by the time we get to the arena, we’ll know what the heck we’re doing.”

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...onight-in-l-a/

[dunkman]

Kobe= 5

Duncan= 4

[Daddy_Of_All_Trolls]

I'm not Pop, but all the Spurs need is a split in their last two game and then it's at worst a random drawing for HCA against Chicago (tiebreaks are even, right?); if that series happens. Chicago still has to play 2 games as well.

As far as giving LA momentum, even if both teams play to win with normal minutes for starters, one team has to lose. Then the victim thinks of payback, in the playoffs. Example, if Spurs and Heat play in finals, neither team wants to lose by 30 on the road again, and that's why each will win a game, at least, on the road.

Too bad it was scheduled for now. It would have been great right before or after the Lakers/Mavs game. Then again, maybe even earlier, before Lakers got on win streak and Spurs started losing streak.

[Daddy_Of_All_Trolls]

Oh, I saw recently somewhere the Lakers have staggered ticket prices for home games. The better the opponent, the more the tickets cost. I'd hate to s out big bucks for this to see Tim, Manu, and Tony sit on the bench, and I'd really be pissed if they didn't make the plane trip or sat in the lockerroom. In Major League baseball, if you go to a game after about September 15 and both teams are out of the pennant race, you can usually expect to see nothing but minor league prospects who were just called up to play. Only thing good about that is you may see a future superstar when he was 19 or 20. you just won't know it yet.

[DMC]

My plan, if I am Pop, is to get Matt involved early. He needs minutes. He's only been in the league a few years. He stretches the floor as well. I would not play Tiago unless the game is out of reach one way or the other, because his faux points and rebounds are annoying my facial blemishes.

[duncan228]

Doesn't always mean anything, but no game jerseys hanging in lockers for duncan, parker, manu, mcdyess at staples center.

spurs starters: hill, neal, rj, blair, splitter. expect regulars to return in PHX.

[DPG21920]

Practice. Watch laker fan show their collective asses tonight boy

[Ghazi]

bye bye 2 seed I guess

[Cane]

At least the big 3 and Dice won't run the risk of getting chicken pox if another Laker is infected.

[DPG21920]

bye bye 2 seed I guess

Butta Iya alreadyah tellu this

[ManuBalboa]

Pop throwing in the white towel; he's good at that.

[TD 21]

If I'm him, I play the starters no more than 15 minutes and let the bench get some burn. Overall homecourt is not important at this point, because the Lakers, not the Bulls, are the more immediate threat, and the last thing I want to do is give the Lakers confidence after the 0 and Fiver. By keeping the starters on a short leash, the Lakers gain nothing more than a empty win, other than ostensibly securing the 2nd seed.

If the Lakers beat a motivated Spurs team with the starters playing heavy minutes, the 0 and Fiver might as well have never happened, and the Lakers have renewed momentum going into the playoffs.

Pop needs to go into mind game mode and take the importance of this game out of the equation and tank it. Nothing to play for, really.

What the are you talking about? As if it's even possible for the Lakers to gain more confidence, especially against the Spurs. Don't kid yourself, this is not about rest. This is the last team that needs rest, seeing as how they're the most rested playoff team far and away. This is about Pop being terrified of the Lakers and having no confidence in his team. Why else would he risk handing away home court in the Finals (which is particularly huge because of the format), especially when his team has had it in their grasp virtually the entire season?

And this notion about "avoiding the Lakers until the Conference Finals". Who the cares? The Mavs, their likely 2nd round opponent, aren't capable of beating them. Guess what that means? If the Spurs have designs on returning to the Finals, they'll have to go through the Lakers anyway. So why does it matter when they do it? How about stop acting like a bunch of scared little es and instead of running from the Lakers, running through them?

[LkrFan]

Pop is making a mistake in not playing TD/TP/Beak. I understand you guys don't have anything to play for. I also understand that he wants to get some experience for his bench against the Lakers because he will need them if they meet in the playoffs. Problem with all of that is there is no way this Spurs bench will beat the Lakers. The Lakers are not rolling offensively. This game could take the lid off the basket for the Lakers per se. Why not kick them when they are down (if they win)? Despite the 5 game losing streak, sans about 3 games, the Lakers' defense has been there since the ASB.

This move will come back to bite Pop in the ass.

[DPG21920]

This move is meaningless for all involved you cuckold.