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Harsh on Leonard... i think he needed some more help from his teammates to stop LBJ dominating like he did.
leonard gets an A-, team D gets an F
Which is why I don't see how anyone can honestly expect different results this year - assuming this team makes the playoffs, which I find highly unlikely.
Harsh on Leonard... i think he needed some more help from his teammates to stop LBJ dominating like he did.
leonard gets an A-, team D gets an F
With the young squad we have, it's not surprising that we're not winning on the road. That first half was as good as it gets for this team but NO one in the league would have stopped Lebron from making some of those shots tonight. Not a game to be angry about imo, especially when Lebron lives up to his hype and puts out a performance like that.
Love that swag Green showed in hitting those big shots in the heat's faces. While RJ cowered in the corner in his own puddle of pee.
Ah yes.
As bad as the defense was in the 2nd half versus the Heat, it's quite possible tomorrow night damage could be worse. Howard could conceivably go for 30 & 30 against the porous Spurs interior.
What I said few years back that zone D is a good weapon to have in NBA everybody said I was crazy or something.
Now every team uses it sometimes
Anyway that's not the point.
It was funny that the refs were so anti spurs at the beginning of the game but the spurs were able to keep the game on their own pace.
What we saw in the third got me thinking that there is no chance the spurs will be able to do any damage to any team in the playoffs.
Pointguard started making bad decisions, rookie was trying to take over offensively, starting forward lay on the court and was waiting for everybody to stomp on him.
And all that careless fuel the heat.
There is not much else to say.
btw. lj did you received my pm?
I think Leonard should focus on learning defend pick and roll better. He was good at one on one against Lebron. But when Lebron started to play pick and roll, Leonard was defeated.
I'm amazed he's as good as he is considering he's a rookie. No one comes out of college playing elite level defense so we shouldn't expect that out of Leonard.
For real? Well, that changes everything ...
Never disagreed with a grade more than this, tbh.
3 and 6 in 21 minutes and Matt Bonner gets a C+??????
holy , how much is Matt Bonner paying you?
he was not only useless, but the main guy that got Bosh hot. Not only Bosh but other scrubs, their eyes would light up when they saw the Red Turd in front of them.
I watched the game, start to finish. The 1st half was as good an offensive display as I have seen from the Spurs this year. I liked the defensive aggressiveness as well. The worse part of the entire game came when Tim got his second foul for almost nothing and had to go to the bench. Tiago comes in and the whistles in less than 2 minutes had 3 fouls on him. The 1st 9 fouls were called against the Spurs. The team that prides itself on fouling the LEAST of all the teams in the NBA. That was the start of the 3rd quarter problems. We had no interior play after that. Then LBJ goes nuts in the second half. The defense was there. But when you stop one there is always someone who gets hot as well. All we have heard is RJ and Bonner, who was supposed to stop Mike Miller 6 for 6 from 3. How about Chalmers 4 of 6? How about 30 pt Bosh? Give them credit they hit the shots we didnt.
Leonards spacing was a bit off guarding LeBron in the second half. He chould have pressured a bit more.
I know he is good enough as a rookie. I just say that defense against pick and roll is what Leonard should improve so that he could be a better defender.
I would like to see scores based on defense only. Trying to adjust for a few baskets does not do justice to what really ails this team.
The Spurs offense was terrible in the third. They couldn't run a play or get their motion offense in gear. As a result they were pressing and threw the ball away time after time. I think the majority of their huge number of turnovers from steals and bad passes came in that quarter.
The newbies/rookies were clearly in over their heads but even Parker kept getting trapped and in trouble he'd lose the ball.
Add to that the easy looks the Heat got on threes which they knocked down at an unbelieveable percentage (61.5%) and the rout was on. The 3rd quarter was 39-12 Heat.
Drop the Heat 3pt percentage to a very good 40% and the Heat score drops by 18 pts to 102 vs. 98.
Just one of those games where one team went cold and the other team got hot.
Nice selective memory. Just last week we didn't even play all that well and blew out your mighty trailblazers !That's a lot of B's in a blowout loss!
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