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Spurs caught a break with the 2 seed it seems. Avoided the Rockets in round 1, and the Clippers in round 2. We're likely going to play a joke Denver team in the 2nd round.
The Spurs are not an average team. Pretty silly, actually.
Spurs caught a break with the 2 seed it seems. Avoided the Rockets in round 1, and the Clippers in round 2. We're likely going to play a joke Denver team in the 2nd round.
How people take this game as a bad omen is beyond me. The Spurs role-players were pretty bad and they still managed to win.
What were the question marks coming into this game? Ginobili and Parker. They looked good. Bonner looked good. Green was pretty bad but ended his time on a pretty high note. Splitter didn't have a good game. The Big Three played the way the Spurs need them to play to have a chance at winning. The role-players will be fine. The Spurs ceiling looks a lot higher than it did just a couple of days ago.
Health is all that matters. as long as spurs still healthy they got a chance.
CIA Pop at his finest.
And the defense was great. Defense wins championships, because it's what great teams fall back on when their offense can't get going.
The defense should stick. The Spurs proved they could win ugly; not the case for the previous two seasons.
Yeah other than the defense being fantastic they were horrible
I have low expectations, but I'll take the win just the same.
Nonsense. Lakers were a hot team coming down the stretch. Even without Kobe they were playing well. We beat a team that was playing good basketball. Spurs didn't play their best game but they played well enough to beat a good team; something they have t done in a few weeks.
Gotta hand it to D'Antoni though
The offense should be back soon. The defense was great and should stay great.
Based on western conf playoffs I've seen thus far, I like our chances
C'mon Eric, the defense was fantastic ? I thought it was good but how much of that is the Lakers lacking firepower and us forcing misses? I saw plenty of mistakes on defense that would have been costly against a better team.
I didn't go in to this game looking for negatives and I felt confident we would win. Honestly, the Spurs were in control the whole way but the Lakers hung around and made it more interesting than necessary.
Spurs defense wasn't as elite as the Lakers offense is just bad. They have problems scoring. Spurs should just single cover the bigs, it's not worth giving the Lakers smalls open three point shots. Even if Gasol and Howard combine for 65, the Spurs should still win.
Who can generate points for them? No one. Nash is too injured and old, and none of the other players can consistently get their own shots or for others.
The Spurs defense can't be elite when Green and Neal continually lose their men for open shots while halfheartedly 'doubling' nobody.
Spurs didn't look great, but they still got a double-digit win after looking poor for a few weeks, complaining is stupid..
The Nuggets looked bad for most of yesterday's game, their halfcourt offense was horrible, against a Golden State team that was .500 for most of the year, with Curry missing a ton of open shots, and needed 60-year old Andre Miller to have a career game, tbh..
The Grizzlies looked terrible all game..
I'm not sure how anybody can complain about the Spurs after watching the other West playoff games, tbh..
rotations were crisp, forced uncomfortable jump shots. Yeah I'd say fantastic but hey you want to Waller and go right ahead. Par for the course here.
Also what is reassuring is that the spurs tied lakers front court in terms of rebounds with Marty playing a lot of minutes. That's great. Leonard is helping tremendously in that area. So yeah nothing to complain about.
Having Manu look as healthy as he did, and having TP progress physically, slowly but surely, definitely has me confident in our ability to do some damage this year
The Lakers didn't left the Spurs play well on offense, their defense was good, but the Spurs still managed to win the game. Those Manu's 3's were huge.
Det truth.
I enjoy not losing more. I'm 42 years old and suffered through years of heartbreak before celebrating 4 Championships. With this squad, its Championship or bust. There's no enjoying a win at this point, its looking for improvement from the team.
Here are the positives I took away:
** Corey Joseph did a great job of defending and hassling Blake on defense. He made the guy work. He also made some nice decisions and made a couple of shots.
** Ginobili's shot went in. That's saying something lately and I hope it gives him some more confidence. His issues seemed mental when he was in a funk.
** Leonard didn't do well on offense but I thought he rebounded well and stayed active.
It was a mixed bag. I saw missed assignments on D, too much silly risk taking and stupid fouls. Something this team avoids when playing its best basketball.
Maybe I should save the ing for Jeff McDonald's twitter page huh? I think I'll go Waller over there too.
There are not going to reach the finals, keep your hopes right where they are right now. Just enjoy the games.
I saw a lot of improvement from the last time the spurs played and from the last time they played the lakers...just another dumb fan who expects the world when he should just be enjoying these last runs by this team
Says the guy with # 5 in his Message Board name.Don't get all sanctimonious on here dumbass. I have realistic expectations and want nothing more than to see this team win another Championship. You, on the other hand seem to have no belief in this team and are OK with it.
Spurs finally won, let's see if they can win on the road but man, people were missing shots like crazy.
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