Adjustments for Game 2 - Spurs vs. Grizzlies

[Mugen]

It was a great look. RJ's too.

Reminded me of Bowen's 3 to beat the suns in Game 5 and RJ's reminded me of Horry's against Detroit. Except those went in...


confusing Bonner and Bowen

[John Basedow]

Great points all around by timvp!

Thanks for the solid contribution to this thread

[anonoftheinternets]

Thanks for the solid contribution to this thread

thanks for the same ... (forever ... forever ... forever .. )

[John Basedow]

thanks for the same ... (forever ... forever ... forever .. )

I made mine earlier in this thread, where's yours scro?

[anonoftheinternets]

I made mine earlier in this thread, where's yours scro?

Take:

Unfortunately as much as we want the spurs to take care of business in four straight games, pop and the spurs are not going to go all out to win game 1, and its going to involve serious experimentation on their part. Including not giving out critical out of timeout plays and trying to beat them "straight up" without adjustment.

The spurs played their cards, and lost game one, albeit in a extremely close loss. Pop is too arrogant to play chicken little after one game, look for the same in game 2, with minor if any adjustments except with a different result since I expect an 80% ginobili to provide a shot in the arm () for this team to win.

All year long we have won with offense and we should be able to steamroll a grizz team scoring in the high 90s or low 100s.

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0:56 Marc Gasol makes layup (Tony Allen assists) 96-98
0:31 96-98 Tony Parker misses 16-foot jumper
0:28 Zach Randolph defensive rebound 96-98
0:23 Shane Battier makes 25-foot three point jumper (Mike Conley assists) 99-98
0:10 99-98 George Hill misses 23-foot three point jumper
0:10 Marc Gasol defensive rebound 99-98
0:10 99-98 George Hill personal foul (Tony Allen draws the foul)
0:10 Tony Allen makes free throw 1 of 2 100-98
0:10 100-98 Antonio McDyess enters the game for Matt Bonner
0:10 Tony Allen makes free throw 2 of 2 101-98
0:10 San Antonio full timeout
0:10 101-98 Matt Bonner enters the game for Antonio McDyess
0:01 101-98 Richard Jefferson misses three point jumper

I'm so mad that I deleted the game as soon as it ended. I totally forget all that crap without the ability to go back and re-watch.

[roycrikside]

neal is much better then a 50% manu


manu is not that great of a three point shooter
especially with a guy in his face
mem would be wise to force him to drive
if they play as phyisical as last game manu would not drive
how many times did tp hit the ground

Hey re , the reason Manu doesn't shoot as high of a three point percentage as guys like Bonner, Neal and RJ is because Manu doesn't have Manu passing him the ball. EVERYONE shoots better off the catch than the dribble. RJ and Bonner never shoot threes off the dribble and Hill and Neal rarely do. Manu has to fairly often because there aren't other guys creating shots for him. You want his percentage to go up? Here's a crazy idea, have TP pass him the ball more.

And I like that you're basically trying to make an argument that Manu is a bigger pussy than Tony. That's new, even for you. I think Ginobili draws more charges in a week than Parker has his entire career.

[roycrikside]

Looking back, what's the good news and bad news Spurs fans can take from Game 1?

The good news is that many points in the gameplan were executed to perfection. ....


Get Game 2.

1.

Believe.

I think you're too kind to Tony. It wasn't just the missed shots, it was the brain farts at the end.

Bonner swishes a three, he's WIDE OPEN on basically the same play the next time down the floor and Tony ignores him trying to get his own shot. We were fortunate to get the rebound with Tim and he made the right play to get it to Bonner to give us the lead. Then, when it was 98-96, Tony took another shot, not only ignoring open teammates but also leaving 9 seconds on the clock. That, to me, is inexcusable. Then, on defense he let himself get picked easily and they had to switch with Jefferson on Conley which caused all sorts of ups in a domino-like fashion.

As for the Splitter stuff, I don't really understand the criticism about his hands. Yeah, they were weak earlier in the season, but I thought his defensive rebounding improved a lot the last couple months of the year and now he isn't playing like a pussy at all. Blair is a strong offensive rebounder, but at this point I think I would trust Splitter more to grab a defensive board in traffic than the undersized Blair. Also, who cares if the Grizzlies big men are shooting jumpers? Randolph is a good shooter, but he wouldn't be Splitter's man, he'd be Bonner's/Dice's. Splitter would be on Gasol or Arthur. Gasol is a good player, but I'd give him open 18-footers all day long. I'd like to have Splitter as close to the basket as possible to challenge drives to the basket and offer a last line of defense if Randolph beats the first man.

[objective]

Actually, that's kinda the opposite. That season, Pop went almost the whole year with Hill as the backup point guard before inexplicably changing things at the last second and dropping him out of the rotation. Pop gave Hill the needed minutes to be ready for the playoffs ... but then chickened out of actually playing a rookie point guard in the playoffs.

This season, Pop never played Splitter like we all imagined. If Pop actually starts playing Splitter in the playoffs, it'd be the exact opposite situation.

this is a late response, but might as well.

I don't see anything that refutes the main point.

Hill was a Summit League 22-year old who missed his junior year with an injury and was struggling to learn the his position and averaged 16 minutes a game. But he was still a better option to help the Spurs improve their chances than the alternatives that were getting time.

Splitter is a battle tested 26 year old MVP who had loads of domestic and international high level play under his belt and had largely excelled during his 12 minutes a game, as shown by his above average PER and all the other ridiculous stats HarlemHeat pulled up. And he is a better option to help the Spurs improve their chances than the alternatives.