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First post. Thanks, LJ.
Agree on errrything.
Tiago Splitter A+
He was the main focus in the middle on both ends. His pick-and-roll action keyed the offense.
Boris Diaw A+
Considering expectations, did fantastic work defensive on LeBron. Aggression level high on O.
Nando De Colo A+
His breakout game. Loved, loved his poise running the show. Hit shots. Played damn good D for a rook.
Matt Bonner A+
Fantastic on the boards. Good help-defense. Took the shots he needed to take offensively.
Patrick Mills A+
*struggling to say something positive*.... He hit a big shot in the fourth quarter.
Gary Neal A+
Became the only playmaker when the Heat tightened their D. Valiant effort.
DeJuan Blair A+
He was, um, energetic and, er, hustled.
Cory Joseph A+
Quality ballhandling and defense. Wasn't afraid to shoot.
James Anderson A+
Wow. Really damn good on defense. Helped a lot on offense. Passing was excellent. Tenacious.
Pop A++
Rested his key players. Showed off his coaching skills by almost pulling out this win.
David Stern F--
Don't stick your nose in here. Let coaches coach and STFU. Thank you.
Last edited by timvp; 11-30-2012 at 03:11 AM.
First post. Thanks, LJ.
Agree on errrything.
Best grades of the season to date.
Not sure it was worth the special olympics gold medals for everyone tbh.
good . great game. happy you included Stern as well.
That's all.
boris diaw is a sf ???? he seems to have his best games as a sf.......
I was wondering what you'd say when you got to Blair.
Top notch as always. It'll be interesting to see how/if this game will boosts the team's play moving forward.
Timvp with the pass/fail participation grades. Nice.
It's all good but why are you still crying about Stern?
Go get some sleep and be back with the game thoughts!
Thanks!
Bonner's first ever A+?
Even Timvp took the night off.
David Stern 'F' as in ' you'
The biggest disappointment of the game was Blair. I'm not exactly a Blair fan, but I've defended him here quite a few times. I mention how he eats minutes which helps keep Timmy fresh, etc. However, even I knew that Blair is near unusable in certain matchups like against the Lakers or Grizzlies, where the other team has 2 talented bigs. The Heat game was Blair's perfect opportunity to shine. I don't think he ever needed to guard Bosh, and I don't remember seeing him on James. He got most of his minutes against guys like Haslem, and he faceplanted. Outside of one big play in the 4th where he got an and-1, it was disappointing. Its going to be tough to validate thoughts of him playing crucial minutes in important games, let alone sniffing the playoff rotation. Its a shame, he has seemingly regressed. Before he was at least able to put up numbers as long as he got minutes.
I was, however, impressed by Nando. He made a lot of bad mistakes. Passes at the feet, deferring when he got to the rim, but all that aside, did more good than bad. I like how Mills and Neal always deferred to him and let Nando run the offense. He was able to blow by defenders off the dribble and constantly get penetration. Much like Manu, he doesn't really explode, but he managed to do well against Chalmers or Cole. He reminded me a lot of young Tony. Young Tony could get to the rim at will but couldn't finish too well over bigs. Its why he shot about 42% his rookie year, and it took him until his 4th year to hit that 48-51% we've grown accustomed to. Now, Nando is 25, not nearly as young as Tony was, but I see similarities in that regard. While Tony would take wild attempts at the rim, Nando sort of shied away and kicked it out instead of taking layups, which was frustrating to watch. But he did make several "wow" passes, and knocked down a couple of big 3's. His three pointers need to be like Tony's. Strictly catch and shoot if he is wide open. There was one play he dribbled around a screen and jacked up a three. It missed terribly. But overall he played in control, and I can't stress enough how impressed I was with his ballhanding. The overlooked aspect of De Colo's game was his defense. He was matched up on Wade quite a bit and held his own.
+ performances from Splitter (still misses bunnies at the rim with his soft "palms up" finishes though), Bonner (10 tough boards and some offense), Diaw (guarding LeBron freakin James and somehow not giving up 40 points 15 rebounds 15 assists). Neal did struggle at the end, but he was the only guy I'd trust taking big shots, and he did hit some. He was keyed in by the defense though. That turnover was the big killer, more than any bad shot he took. Not trying to repeat too much of Tim's breakdown, but I liked a lot of what I saw.
Just wasn't impressed with Blair. CoJo seemed comfortable out there, which is new, but wasn't really assertive and he never truly made an impact. I don't remember ever really noticing him out there. That is progress though. Last year I noticed when he was out there, and it was painful. It was also one of the best James Anderson performances I remember seeing. Shot with confidence, made some athletic plays including that nutty reverse layup, and played pretty darn good defense, not including the highlight reel block.
I've said it a bunch on the game thread and some threads since, but this game eerily reminds me of last season's OT loss against Dallas, where Pop benched the starters and the reserves brought us back and Green hit the game winner that didn't count. It was a loss where our bench played big and it turned our season around. After that game we were 12-10, but we blitzed through the remainder of the season. Now this year our record is actually pretty good, but most of us can agree we haven't quite played up to par. We set our expectations pretty high for Kawhi which he wasn't quite hitting, Parker had a rough start to the year, Manu looked really old, Diaw had been overly passive (literally passed up uncontested layups), and Neal's backup point guard skills had improved moderately at best. Pretty much everybody on the forum was loving the game, even after we lost. I'm feeling a resurgence coming up from this bench unit, which we will need because I don't think Tim can continue his MVP pace
Great great read tbh.
if some of you clowns watch the game, barkley adn reggie kept on going on how the heat players were always looking at teh ref every possession trying to bailout calls...fkn pathetic
oh yeh i forgot to add in
danny green making the bus with the big3 to have games off......thats a fkn big step from a nobody, bench, starter..now part of a formation...
I caught that too and found that hilarious. Is that part of the Heatles playbook?
- Make basket
- Look at ref for foul confirmation
- if there is no foul called
Interesting to compare Spurs combined starting salary today to that of 'sweet home Miami'
they remind me of messi barcelonafc, running to refs everytime there is a foul stoppage...
miami cheat are the most overrated team assembled, how come they always get a passed when they get pushed to 6-7 games series in the first round and 2nd round by fodder teams, now they gettin pushed by spurs bench team....
~$14 mil to ~$50 mil.
why did the players went away from splitter, he was killing them down low (i expect heat to be exposed in the playoffs if they dont really have a legit big man down low)....
i could accept 1/2 fts from splitter, is better then watchin blair stink up quick pussy shots
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