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Like Uncle drew said "this game will always be about buckets". At the end of the day they have the better shooters by a long shot. They can go to Curry, Thompson, or Jack at the end of a game. We can go to a 37 year old Tiimy or Tony Parker.
Half full I think this will finally make them give their full effort for 48 min. Pop has figured out how to defend them, I mean how the do you hold them to 84 in reg and lose? Crazy . Anyway We need another early lead, let the 2nd unit play more in the first half so Tony and Timmy are fresh in the 4th. They had no business losing this game and they know it. You could say if we could hit a shot in the 2nd half of game 2 and a free throw in this game we could've swept.
Like Uncle drew said "this game will always be about buckets". At the end of the day they have the better shooters by a long shot. They can go to Curry, Thompson, or Jack at the end of a game. We can go to a 37 year old Tiimy or Tony Parker.
Funny how all the weiners who brazenly picked a spurs sweep are now saying its over at 2-2.
Well we've got Dave Chapelle rooting against us (with David Lee's smokin' hot girlfriend)
And Rainn Wilson.
RainnWilson @rainnwilson21s
And silence fell over the #Spurs fans like a cold wet tortilla...
Duncan and Ginobili getting older surely isn't helping Spurs but I would say that the turning point has been Bruce leaving. Since that, Spurs haven't really been able to find a true and strong iden y (aside of the end of last season).
Hoping it would be different this year, but this is looking more and more like another playoff collapse/meltdown. The 3-point overtime is a very bad sign. The stench of quit and softness is apparent.
Spurs in 7, sadly..
Before the series I predicted Spurs in 6 and said I wouldn't be surprised to see it go 7. This still applies, and I wouldn't be foreshadowing the Grizz series at all except to hope that OKC can extend that series to at least 6 games.
On the flipside, we threw away a golden chance to put the series away today, and that feels pretty awful. On the reverse flipside, we have shown that we can stick with them in their arena.
At the end of the day all we need to do is get out of this series healthy, and a winner obviously, then everything resets against a new challenge, so I'll go with tentatively half-full.
PS Game 5 is scary though - we need to own it from the tip and grind them into dust to set up an ending in Oakland.
I think glass half full. I was very, very concerned after Game 2 but I think their response in Game 3 was very telling. I think if they were gonna lose this series they would have folded in both road games.
It is puzzling to me that they're struggling with a 47-win team still. If the other series go 2-2 as well, I'll feel a little better knowing that no one is really playing elite basketball right now.
70/100 at the FT line isn't going to cut it...
I also think last year spoiled us rotten, for whatever reasons. The Spurs didn't really have a tough series until OKC. They used to have these kinds of series all the time. Championship teams - teams far better than this one and far more tough-minded - would blow 2-0 leads or be tied 2-2 with a team we all thought was inferior.
Glass is full...Spurs have the next two games.
No superstar and a semi-superstar second option (or two), like we see on Miami, a healthy OKC, the Lakers most recent championship teams, etc.
The kind of performance Parker had in game 3 is what a superstar consistently gives you over a series. The Spurs no longer have a guy that you can pencil in for 25-30 points per game.
Manu went vintage and provided that "semi-superstar" performance, but Parker nor Duncan was able to contribute with a star performance of their own.
So yes, basically the Spurs rely too much on scrubs to pick up the slack.
Sorry, meant to emphasize majority of his looks today/friday were contested. If those are the shots he continues to take rest of series, I expect him to shoot a poor %, "normal" or not.
I don't see the glass... while it looks like since Game 3 they have figured out some things to get a certain edge, it's also just as obvious that we're one GS player getting hot away from dropping a game... the general outhustling on the boards, etc is also something that just hasn't changed all series. I'm also still puzzled by Pop still giving burn to players like Bonner or Neal with more defensive-aware players like Diaw, Splitter or CoJo watching from the bench.
My pick before the series started was Spurs in 6. My pick now is still Spurs in 6. They win in San Antonio and then close out on the road. I guess that qualifies as half-full.
3/4 Full....Kawhi's nuts shrinking and Pop's insistence on Neal and/or Bonner not withstanding, the Spurs have made their defensive adjustments. I don't expect any more 62pt halves, which means the Spurs are a pretty good bet to take the next two and close this young squad out.
Half full. We will win Tuesday.....
Half-full, tbh. Yeah, winning today would have been nice, but the reality is that the series is tied at 2-2 and two of the three games left are at home. I hoped the Spurs would split the two games in Oakland and they got it done. I'd say Spurs in six at this point, tbh. Seven is a possibility, as well, but I really don't see the Spurs losing this series now.
Half full. If we get sane Pop for 2 straight games.
Pop's lineup choices: this is a tossup as he might just start Gary Neal in Game 5 just because it's Tuesday.
The every-other-day schedule and the overall health/stamina of the team worries me but it's out of our hands.
The rest, I think, are controllable and fixable. They just have to want it more than GS does.
+1
Good assessment imo. Might seem a bit strange, but I'm secretly hoping that OKC wins their series. I think we would have a better chance with them honestly. MEM is playing very good ball right now.
Half empty, GS played awful and won.
Maybe that shows you how undependable are players like Leonard and Green and how this team desperatelly needs the big three and that Pop 11 man rotation is a joke because none of thm can do when it matters.
Where are all the threads about leonard and green being better than Ginobili?
We needed Jackson and Pop screwed that too.
That said, Spurs in 6. And hope for some rest after it.
I am sure the Spurs esp. Duncan, Manu & Parker are as disappointed as we are.
I just want to win this series to embarrass those people from the media who are against us from the beginning...prove them wrong. Not necessarily to win the le but that we are the better team than the Warriors, that Duncan is still > Bugot
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