hey timvp, what do you think of my idea?
blair in the starting line-up together with jackson to help duncan. blair is an enforcer, and seems to know how to score inside against okc, ten points by blair in the next game would be an incredible addition
diaw in the second five to help manu facilitate, surround them with three point shooters, coz splitter seems to work best with manu
is this idea meritorious?
love you man!!!
Its not fair to say Tiago got negated by Fisher. For the first time Ever, I saw Tiago try to post up when he had a midget on him and he got called for a bull offensive foul. Then he was the victim of two bull "makeup" calls in a row and had to sit for most of the 1h.
I know. I thought that too. I know Tiago sucked tonight and he's a little foul prone but 2 of those quick 3 fouls were horrible officiating. And the officiating contributed to they getting those 50-50 balls
i didn't even see what he did on that offensive foul on fisher. it didn't even look like fisher flopped. tnt was too ashamed to even show a replay.
It's nice to see the bridge jumping is alive and well.
Turnovers are the #1 absolute killers. That's the first thing that has to be stopped or the Spurs are going to be putting themselves in an impossible hole.
Establishing at least a semblance of low-post scoring would help. Duncan has been at best mediocre against the Thunder all year on offense, Splitter was invisible, and some Manu-to-Blair action might go a ways towards rectifying the situation.
And yeah if Green and Bonner are gonna give you three points, then it needs to be in 15 minutes combined, not 45.
The foul was BS but it shouldn't even take a post move for Splitter to score on Fisher. He should just overpower him to the rim and lay it up like any other bigman would do outside of Bonner. Pulling out a dream shake to score on Fisher and getting called for a foul isn't a positive, IMO.
but to me it looked like that's exactly what splitter started to do, back down the midget. but the refs blew the whistle on first contact, wtf. need to see a replay
Well, I was just happy that he actually went to the post with a PG on him. Several times this season he hasn't done that. Tiago just doesn't have that big man gene or whatever that tells you when you have 100lbs and a foot on the person guarding you all you need to do is go low and turn and go up.
Green has just come back down to earth a bit. He was hitting threes on a pretty good pace before this series. Bonner has just come back down to Bonner.
I agree with the bits about Tiago. He really needs to play better and score the ball when he gets his hands on it and when they switch the guard onto him. No excuses there. All of our bigmen need to play better especially Splitter, Bonner and Diaw.
Yeah I too thought he was going to back him down and then I heard a whistle. At first I thought Fisher had grabbed him or something. I honestly have no idea what the call was. The only thing I can think of is he caught Fisher with an slight elbow or something but I don't even think that was the case.
that missed dunk from harden with a bailout call was fkn stupid, and the stupid stare down from a missed dunk, splitter shouldve just elbowed him to the head
fake tough asses with mohawks
Splitter just needs to bury Fisher under the rim before catching the ball and then go straight up for a layup/dunk. Splitter just made it too difficult. Fisher is going to flop on any type of post move and get the call a lot of the time (although it looks like Fisher got a gift call tonight without needing to flop).
I'm sure Pop will point out what needs to be done ... let's hope Splitter will adjust and we won't even have to discus this heading into Game 5.
It's just too easy to call BS fouls on either the unathletic white guy or the blonde dude from Brazil... refs don't have to justify it, and half the time you're left wondering if they didn't do something stupid, even when then don't. Count me in for giving Blair a shot. I would hand Matt's minutes to him (he's way over his head), and try Splitter for a bit. If he lays another egg, go small with Blair out there, or go Blair/Diaw...
Yeah, I don't get the fake tough guy act from the Thunder so far in this series. Perkins has had it in for TP and keeps talking to him during the game, too.
Tiago's foul on Fisher was absolute bull !! And yes, the Harden missed dunk with the bailout call was ed to. But we played and deserved to lose.
Too much credit to Brooks, IMO.
He got his guys ready to play for a must win game, props.
But he made changes that everybody expected (Sef on TP, Switching PnR) that mostly worked because the Spurs came out after the 2nd qtr thinking it was still the Clippers/Jazz & Pop coached liked he expected a loss and didn't want to show his adjustments for Game 4 too early.
With this in mind, was Pop sending an indirect message to Blair when he put in Anderson before him? What was THAT about?
Yeah, if you had told me the turnover differential would be 21-7 in favor of the Thunder going into Game 3, I'd say the Spurs would have absolutely no chance of winning. That's just insurmountable on the road against a fast, athletic team.
Sefolosha's length caused alot of batted balls that didn't ultimately factor in turnovers but alot of rushed shots, too.
We got pushed around, which was somewhat expected... what I want to see now from this team is a bit of toughness... there's no more RJ out there playing 40 mins, that's why I think they'll respond well...
Good point. The Spurs keep track of deflections. I'm sure the Thunder had an astronomical amount. Probably season-high for an opponent.
WHEN was he ever up or above BONNER in April till now? I didn't see it? He is what he is, he never was way up above BONNER, infact he started his annual fade again before the playoffs began.
playin is one thing, gettin bailed out calls when spurs tried to make a run or anything going is just home cooking....this game is liek the knicks vs heat game, couldnt get done when havin possession, was either a stupid turnover or phantom calls...
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