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Wait a ing minute...how could the Spurs lose this game? They were at home on 3 days rest and the Suns were on the second game of a back to back, on the road. This should have been a blowout win for the Spurs. What happened? Did someone get hurt? What the ?
It was a good game. Both teams played hard.
Spurs looked like the Magic out there in the 4th and overtime. Right up there for worst loss of the season.
Something like that happened in each loss in the playoffs last year. Some bizarre never before seen . It can happen 4 times in a row easy.
One time zone.
Overriding take home message: Spurs regular season coasting is largely due to our awesome FT shooting this year. That goes away? Winnable games become losable games. All the other issues of tonight are non-issues if we hit those FT's at our normal rate. Period.
Duncan's turned back the clock this season to help out. Unfortunately, Ginobili keeps getting worse and worse ever year.
Thats definitely the worst loss of the season. The Suns showed up and the Spurs did not.
That is simply not true. I am not saying I am surprised. I even said it's not a new strategy. The difference is people calling TP "dominant" or "MVP" and my concern is no truly dominant player can be stopped by such a simple strategy so easily. It's very alarming considering the Spurs now rely heavily on TP and he can be quite easily game planned against. It's not on the team entirely, if you are an MVP candidate and dominant, you overcome a simple game plan and get yours anyways.
I hate losing to the Suns. Work is going to suck tomorrow
That's what I saw too. Even Pop was screwing around with weird bench lineups in the 1st half.
We mucked around and it bit us on the arse.
Next game please (I predict we smash the Kings on Friday).
Have the Spurs ever won both games of a home-and-home?
Ginobili is a rotting corpse.
This loss is completely on our "big" 3. The ball stuck with them and they let the defensive pressure get to them.
Tony turned into a brick machine in OT and stopped trusting his treammates
Manu was garbage on offense all night
Timmy couldn't do anything other than hit jumpers, but he missed some critical open ones in OT and got his ass handed to him by Jermaine O'Neal of all people.
WHO THE CARES? WE'VE HAD THE BEST RECORD 2 YEARS IN A ROW AND WE DIDNT WIN THE LE. PLAYOFFS ARE THE ONLY THING THAT MATTER AT THIS POINT
17 turnovers tbh
We almost lost to them last month, too.
I'm not ready to discount the possibility that our guys just played with more fire in a big game like that.
i feel like we spend too much time playing down to our opponents and getting lazily sloppy and letting our record try to intimidate teams so we dont' have to work as hard.
This was one ing painful loss. The Knicks game was bad, but they were hot and it was early in the season. The Suns had an OT game last night and thoroughly outplayed the Spurs at home. Not only that, the bigger defender on Tony deal reared it's ugly head again.
Ah right, Arizona still in Mountain Time Zone. Thanks.
Key point of the night. Suns had a plan and the Spurs couldn't adjust. And hasn't this been the Spurs playoff bugbear the past few years? We don't adjust. A regular season wonder-team who can't take a punch. Pop's glass jaw.
Exactly what I'm taking from this game. It's how OKC beat us last year and it can happen again. Same thing if we face Miami.
And that's why I think Kawhi is the legitimate choice , since Green and Neal are strictly 3 point shooters, to put in our game plan. Also since Timmy and Manu can't be relied on every night anymore to help out Tony.
Yep. And when games get tight someone needs to take over and it looks like Pop is gonna ride TP. Not looking promising.
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