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How many of those flat jumpers does Duncan have to make throughout his career for you to approve TS?
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funny you say that...because i was just thinking about how he's trying way to hard to impress lj.
How many of those flat jumpers does Duncan have to make throughout his career for you to approve TS?
If you believe the Lakers are the worst matchup for the Spurs, do you also advocate "resting" Tony and Manu against them Friday? If Spurs beat them, LAL drops to 4th, setting up a 2nd round matchup with the SA. Memphis famously tanked last year to play the Spurs and it worked out for them. Should SA employ the same strategy? Spurs have a game advantage over OKC and the remaining games are very winnable. Can lose the Laker game and still finish 1st.
As far as I'm concerned, the Spurs proved what they needed to prove with the second game since they decided not to show up in the first game. Every game between now and the end of the season should be treated with equal importance and lineups determined situationally. If it's time to sit everyone against the Lakers, so be it.
I understand the argument certainly, but I still think more harm than good would come of it. Our magic number for that #1 overall seed is *only* four, so it's not quite in the bag yet, unless you want them trying hard to win at Phx the second-to-last game of the season and also having to beat the Warriors.
Also, I'm still holding out hope, however misguided, that they'll finish with a better record than Miami, which would obviously come into play should the two meet in the Finals. The Heat own the tiebreaker, so the Spurs would need to finish with one less loss to get it, and I think all things considered you still have to consider Miami the faves to come out of the East.
Looking at the Lakers and Clips schedules, I think there's a decent chance the Lakers can hold on to the 3 seed even if they lose to us on Friday. Clips still have road games left @Phx, @NY and @Atl, so hopefully they'll lose a couple. Lakers own the tiebreaker there, so they just need to finish in a tie with them.
Lakers might want to play us in the second round, but remember, that most likely means they'd get the Grizz in rd 1 and that's not an easy series for them at all.
When it's 3 blowouts in 3 nights, there's no fools gold involved.
I do agree that the Lakers are the worst matchup for the Spurs. But if the Spurs beat them again on Friday, I promise you the Lakers won't be looking to land in the Spurs' half of the bracket.
Spurs don't need to rest the big 3 to lose to the Lakers. That can happen regardless.
Ok so we shoot closer to normal and win by 6 or 7 instead of 21, no big deal.
...You'd think.
The Lakers are really terrible at covering the pick and roll tbh. We'd probably be getting the same looks either way.
"Fool's Gold" is so played out tbh.
For us it is...
I absolutely believe the Fakers - along with the Grizzlies - are the worst matchup for the Spurs. Those teams have the one kyptonite that makes the Spurs appear very mortal - they have big, tall, physical post players, who can score and dominate the glass from the low block . I knew that before opening this thread.
This applies to any season or situation.
Kobe will put up 28 "long 2s" of his own, while rendering Artest irrelevant again. Then you have that giraffe Gasol settling for "long 2s" when he has a huge advantage inside.
Lakers are soft, and Kobe only makes it worse. Welcome (and hurry) back Kobe!
I believe the nature of this season has forced Pop to make more adjustments which has helped him be more flexible. Hopefully he'll pull the plug on Bonner in the playoffs when necessary.
Yeah and he got Gasol a couple of times out on the perimeter and sent him stumbling over his own feet trying to keep Tony from getting a layup, so Tony popped in 15 to 18 foot jumpers on him. If the big comes out on Tony he blows by him. If he stays back, Tony will burn him with a short jumper. It doesn't matter who the big is. Gasol and Bynum both found that out. One other thing that no one is pointing out. Duncan and Bonner out rebounded Gasol and Bynum. Is there something else? YES Our bench outscored the Lakers bench, 45-24, 21 points. Was this game FOOL GOLD? Maybe but if you look at what the TEAM has done over the last 18 games. 16 - 2, one of the losses was a give away game and the other to the Lakers when the team looked like they didnt care. The 18-0 run in the lakers game was no fluke, defense was about as good as the team could play. Even an 80% effort like this and Spurs will dominate any team.
load of fools gold these days.
No one would love to see a 4-0 second round sweep over these guys with four blowouts more than me. I'd love to be wrong. I'm thrilled with how we're playing right now, obviously.
I know it's sort of overdone, but I'm leaning towards, " yo fools gold, clown."
I would say "If the Spurs shoot 61% at home they are going to blow out any team in the NBA" ... but F it, that was too sweet of a win.
I hope Laker Fan is forced to watch that second half on loop for the rest of eternity, tbh.
ElNono right bout dem Lakers
I wonder if the Spurs can average 60% shooting against the Lakers in the playoffs.
If the Lakers want to continue defending the pick and roll the way they have been, I think it could be done (maybe not 60% average but 50%+).
Our shooters are way too good to leave open like that.
Fast break points:
Spurs-22
Lakers-4
Points in the paint:
Spurs-54
Lakers-30
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