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Miss Stephen Jackson.
Full empty... Horrendous defensive rebounding and FT shooting will continue. Pop has not learned his lesson in not playing Bonner and Neal at crucial times. His decision to cut Jackson will continue to haunt this team, he would have been a perfect defensive matchup for Harrison Barnes, who is killing this team when Curry and Thompson are struggling. Warriors take this series in 6.
Miss Stephen Jackson.
Empty. Spurs look old and tired. Tim and Manu shouldn't have to log this many minutes, in a loss no less. They're just too old to play that much, even with as great as Timmy still performs. Our role players struggles on the road is what really kills this team. Green, Kawhi, Splitter, Neal, Bonner, and Diaw all play ty on the road in big games for some reason. They all miss their shots. Even with all the missed FT's, O-rebounds, and dumb mistakes we make down the stretch, we still could've EASILY won this game if any of those guys make their damn shots, most of which are open looks. But they all fail on the road for some reason. Thus, the Spurs fail, and will continue to do so. I think we'll win this series, but that's it.
Harrison Barnes was 9-26 from the field with 4 turnovers..how is he killing the Spurs?..
And Klay Thompson goes off when he's wide open, it has nothing to do with the location of the games..if you watch game 2 again, about 11 of his 13 makes were open shots..
He hasn't done anything noteworthy since Leonard has been guarding him, tbh..
Yes the 30% shooting Stephen Jackson was missed today when the offense stunk. Brilliant analysis.
Full..
Spurs have played much much better D the last few games and could easily be up 3-1 heading home. They have a chance to succeed where they failed last year and win a big game 5 at home. I expect them to win a close one and close it out in 6 back in GS..
Tbh completely half full. It isn't at all the feeling I had when we lost to Memphis or OKC the last couple years. I predicted we would lose to Memphis before the series because they were just too rugged for us and we were just too banged up overall. OKC had three superstars getting superstar calls and we just had no answer. But to me it is obvious we are the far superior team, we just ran out of gas tonight. I have no doubt we'll win this series unless Curry and Thompson shoot like they did in games 1 and 2 the rest of the way, but I think we'll be fine. Everyone lighten up, it's a best of 3 and we have HCA
Spurs have this series if Pop will stop going small, it kills them everytime because they just stand around and ISO or dump it into Tim and don't rebound if he misses. We had GS in foul trouble with all there bigs in the 1st half and what do we do? We go away from attacking and penetrating to just taking stupid jump shots and ISO. Manu gets on a nice streak and what does Pop do, sits him on the bench. Neal is out there instead of Joseph who can actually play defense, Gary Neal did nothing to earn that spot over Cojo. Parker needs to man up, he played like he was scared to hurt his leg.
3/4's full but we need to put these punks to bed in the next 2 games. I'd love to win in GS just to see the crowd cry, Mark Jackson Cry and Curry cry.
Spurs don't blow anyone out.
I feel like we've got the Warriors figured out - just need to make some open shots on Tuesday. It boils down the Spurs making more open looks than the Warriors hit difficult shots - of course GSW hit so many tough shots in G1 & G2 that they still pose a very legitimate threat. down the stretch of this one they (Jack) were hitting shots with a hand in the face & relying on the Spurs to miss wide open looks or Duncan to fail to take advantage of a size mismatch.
The Spurs the last 2 games have controlled the tempo almost 100% of the time. It is like they needed a few games to get used to playing GS and now they have them figured out. The D is there we just have to make the shots we usually make in game 5. And hit our damn FT's..
glass is shattered
They could just as easily be down 1-3 if Manu doesn't hit that lucky shot (yes it was lucky by the way he has been shooting).
Theyre due for one.
I choose Half Full..
And I am sticking with it..
Well he missed the same exact shot today that would have basically won it. He wasn't supposed to miss BOTH of them.
If any fan felt the Spurs were too old and beat up to even get into a tough series I don't know why they bothered watching? How many teams ever cruise to an NBA final?
Thompson struggled, but Curry was 7-15 from the field and 5-10 from 3. Hardly struggling IMO. The Spurs should be ok though as long as one of them is off.
For all of the talk about Currys injury, it was Parker that played worse....on a supposedly much less significant injury. This is very concerning indeed.
Agree x2, especially with Parkers status in doubt.
Timmys been quite consistent (19,23,23 and 19) with the scoring. What hasn't been consistent is how he's doing it. That said, it was disappointing to see him forcing difficult angle shots late in the fourth. I'm really torn as to whether or not to try getting Bogut into foul trouble early on. It looked for all the world thew Timmy was going to have an open run of the paint when Bogut picked up number three in the first half....but they went away from him.
He was 8-18. Is that what it's come to for Manu being "hot"? Considering his performances of late, I'm inclined to jump on board with that assessment though. That's very worrisome going forward though.
Leonard especially. I've lost count of the open threes he's missed. Going into the final three games, if he and Green can't hit 3's consistently at a 37-40% clip this series will most likely not end well.
The first two games showed us what "rest" does for this team. And the shooting still hasn't come back from that hiatus tbh. I don't think that short series benefit this team very much.
It took quite an improbable stretch of shooting accuracy from Curry in game one to make that happen as well. Likewise from Thompson in game two. These things cancel IMO.
For this series: It's half full. I think they will advance despite they way they are playing. It will probably take 7, but they will survive.
For the playoffs: It's bone dry. I don't see much success beyond this round against either OKC or MEM, especially if they continue this crappy shooting streak and Parker is hobbled.
Home/ away doesn't seem to matter in this series. GS played better in San Antonio and San Antonio played better in GS.
Glass is completely empty. If Curry and Thompson are playing at their normal level on Tuesday, it's game over.
If you hold a team known more for scoring than defense to 84 points at home in regulation, you should win. Period.
We'll win the next game, we will not shoot this bad again from the FT line. If we come out full blaze from the 1st to the 4th, we have it.
Partially agree. Agree the Spurs have been playing pretty poorly for a while now, but how can you not care if they advance? To me, you still have to find joy in watching this team play. I know it's not easy, it's only recently Spurs fans have been used to really easy playoffs then quick burn outs. Before, even in le years, it was a lot of memorable series with up's and downs and doubts.
But lately it's either a sweep or the Spurs getting burnt out. This, while tough at times and not what it used to be from a talent perspective, is still fun because it's a struggle.
Curry still shot above his season % today.
And Thompson's game 2 was more an abberration than 3 & 4. EVERY shot (save 1 or 2) he took was contested. He's not going to make a high percentage of those in most games.
This isn't fun because it shouldn't be nearly this big a struggle against a team this mediocre. If this were a one off, maybe you don't read too much into it, but they've now done this three of the last four playoffs.
The Celtics and Lakers, the other two veteran, savvy, former champions, I don't ever remember doing this in series they were heavily favored in. In fact, the only series I can think of where one almost did, was the Hawks taking the Celtics to 7 in '08. But in fairness, it was the big three's first playoff series together. The Spurs have no such excuse, yet here they are again, hanging on for dear life against a mediocre team, proving all those who constantly insinuate that they're vulnerable, soft and just not that good, right.
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