Reply With Quote
Dude were 1-1 against them and we're without Manu and Leonard right now, chill.
Tim Duncan is too old to contend with a ridiculous number of trees and Tony Parker's "run faster than everybody else" tactic isn't going to get the job done against elite athletes. Guys like Neal, Bonner and Green are likely to shrink away when the games REALLY matter.
So...what do we do? What is/are our trump card(s) against them?
What will be our saving grace against them (and Miami/New York)?
Dude were 1-1 against them and we're without Manu and Leonard right now, chill.
Spurs were missing 2 of their top 5 players, but I would agree for the most part..they are a young team that will probably get homecourt advantage, and the Spurs wouldn't be able to buy a call in their arena..
Last edited by Malik Hairston; 12-17-2012 at 10:18 PM.
thread
We're gonna need Kawhi to get healthy and develop his skills further. He'll have to pllay more aggressively and make opposing athletes account for him and defend him. We have to have another weapon.
Its on Pop to counter what the Thunder are doing to Parker
To be fair, season series is 1-1 without Manu playing either game
Step of the ledge we can still get homecourt against these guys and once we get ginoibili back and kawhi back lets see were we are as a team playing these guys just dont judge things based on this one game man.
OKC is a great team. You're not going to consistently beat great teams. The best you can hope for is to draw even with them.
lets just wait till the spurs get blown out while there healthy to hit the panic button tbh
The BEST you can hope for is to be even with a great team? I would think the best you can hope for is to beat them because you're greater than them.
I'm not talking about the season series, I'm talking about the Thunder's ability to get a 7-10 point lead on us fairly easily. It's like they have another gear we don't have.
I'm thinking we should play De Colo more to see if his passing ability can lead to more easy buckets and really pray for Kawhi to step his game up. Not really worried about Manu. What we get from him will be extra.
The Spurs didn't play their best defender, their secondary playmaker, and play in an arena where it's been notorious for blatant home cooking and unsurprisingly lost.
The Spurs can beat the Thunder if they are 1. fully healthy and 2. they don't play in OKC.
OKC is a great team for a reason. You can't expect the Spurs to beat them every single time they face them. If they can play .500 against a great OKC team, they've done well.
Which he couldn't do against the Grizzlies the year before either.
4 OKC with 19 or more points.
Spurs destroyed on the boards.
Spurs -12 FT pts
Spurs with no player with more than 14.
As we saw WCF, OKC is the better team, esp over 7 games.
Manu needs to be the difference maker against them. If they want Sefelosha on Parker, then Martin will have to be on Manu which should give us a big edge.
The Thunder are undoubtedly the favorites. That's been obvious since last season.
But I'm not sure how much you can take from this game when two of San Antonio's four most important players against OKC didn't play. And Jack, who is either the fifth or sixth most important player against these guys, was returning from injury.
Tbh, that first matchup didn't really count because Martin was new to OKC. I don't think this game told us anything either.
We only got destroyed on the boards because we waived the white flag in the 2nd half. OKC only had 2 offensive boards at the half.
Only the third match this season should tell us anything. Cue bad luck by it being a game which Manu misses again.
I would like to have another dominating big man next to Duncan in the post. It seems that everytime he touches the ball, people swarm all over him from every direction. I like Splitter but he has no jump shot.
In order to do that the Spurs would need to ship out one of their core pieces or Jackson. I'd be okay if Jax were traded for a low post scorer with a J.
I think the Thunder have too much athleticism on the boards and just too much athleticism generally. That is very demoralizing to a disciplined team like the Spurs.
Jax is one of my favorite players but if it means getting Al Jefferson, David West, or KG (really doubt it) I would be for it.
My thing is, even with Kawhi out there, the flow of the game is almost always in favor of OKC. There's never a moment with them where we can say "oh if we can get this next score and a stop afterward, we close them out." There is never a moment when momentum is decidedly on our side and that is more troubling than any stat or injury.
As for Parker, the thing is that he is just straight speed. There are games when his mid-range goes bonkers and he's hard to beat, but when defenses are stout, he finds it near impossible to finish his shots once he's at the rim. This causes him to push harder, outrunning his guys and going 1-on-3 or 4 at the rim, exacerbating the problem.
I'm a natural worrier, but when we play OKC it feels like we have to play perfect ball just to have the slightest chance to finish the game with a lead. Something's got to change and I dunno what it is. Manu being in the game doesn't really change that. That's why I feel like it's on Kawhi.
We were always gonna need exponential growth from our young guys (Kawhi) and a miraculous rebirth from TD. We're getting one of those things.
Kawhi Leonard and maybe De Colo (lord help us) will have to be our trump card (s).
We need to make a move to have a chance against them.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
