He said that they didn't miss point blank layups because of San Antonio. He wasn't dissing SA. He was refusing to give his team an easy out of "oh they played better".
True, like I said before the series they played by far the easiest schedule to get to the WCF. The Clippers are athletic but the most undisciplined and worst coached team in the playoffs while OKC was a s of their 2012 team with no Harden and no Westbrook.It's a little more difficult adjusting in this series than it was against Vinny Del Negro and Scott Brooks, tbh..
I think Gay was much more of a problem on offense than defense. The Grizz starting five with Prince had the second-lowest pts allowed per 100 possessions in the league. The Grizz with Gay were the third-lowest, so not a big drop off. (The Spurs starters were the lowest, btw, by a LOT.)
Gay was shipped because A) He was making WAY too much money and B) He was an ineffient scorer. Now his shots are going to Randolph, Gasol and Conley.
He is not a bad defender though. Toronto had the fifth-lowest pts allowed per 100 with him in its lineup. Two top fives for one guy on two separate teams? Can't be a coincidence.
It's hard to say the Spurs didn't have the easiest road to the WCF when they were paired up with the biggest failure in sports history in the first round.
The Grizzlies might have had the easiest road, but the Spurs definitely had a first round bye.
Hollins doing some damage control to save his ass from being fired
Memphis was a mediocre offensive team going into the playoffs. They were losing vs the Clips until Griffin went gimp and beat a thin Thunder squad missing their 2nd option on offense and 2nd best perimeter defender.
We figured out and limited a top offense in GSW. Now Memphis is the second coming? I don't know that there is a more overrated team than the Grizz.
This take is going to be hard to swallow once Memphis closes us out.
This is all correct.
Hope you are not this much of a pussy irl.
I agree with the logic of some of the posts, but I do feel Spur fans are once again over simplifying things. Memphis is a damn good team and there are still a lot of Spurs question marks. Luckily, the Spurs defense is the least of those question marks and with an offensively limited team like MEM, that might be enough to get them through the series. We'll see.
But MEM has easily been one of the most resilient teams in the league, especially in the playoff this year.
Awesome!
'Spurs fans' oversimplify things and then you come back with
1) Memphis is good team
2) Spurs defense doesn't matter
3) Memphis is resilient
Okey dokey.
Spurs did what they had to do today.
Memphis will come back and make this a tough series. I still believe Spurs in 6.
Spurs won't play as well as they did today and the Grizzlies won't play as bad as they did today. Having said that, I still think the Spurs have the Grizzlies number this year. They just seem to match up better this time around than they did last time they faced each other in the playoffs.
You missed the point and I was not going to re-post all of my analysis on the Spurs/Mem match up from previous threads.
I didn't notice them missing too many easy layups tbh, although I saw plenty of great Spurs defence... maybe Hollins was watching a different game?
that was funny, but not as funny as when D'Antoni got bested by a bottle of water in the post game presser after the Spurs beat some Suns ass.This guy couldn't even remember Bayless' name.
How many layups did they even get? How many didn't actually go in? Not a whole lot. They lost by a bunch; missed layups weren't the issue. I can only guess he's trying to charge his troops.
If you say so.
The 'good team' specifically was 18th in offensive efficiency. The Spurs defense not mattering is claptrap considering NBA games typically go for ~95 points. Even low scoring games provide a large potential for variance. This is not baseball where there are ~5 runs scored by a team. With so many possessions ie samples there is more potential for the difference to manifest.
That should be especially evident when the variable that 'doesn't matter as much' resulted in an 83 point output.
And the Grizzlies getting resilient strangely coincided with Griffin being robbed of his athleticism by a high ankle sprain and Del Negro showing a dramatic inability to adjust. I get the correlation with coming back from 2-0 and 1-0 but I very strongly disagree as to cause. Griffin and Westbrook were huge components of their teams and then *poof*. That makes a heck of a lot more sense to me than 'resilience' making a difference.
Huh? I said the defense of the Spurs is the least of concerns. Also, IIRC Memphis was one of the league leaders in come from behind wins this entire season.
Yes thats right Hollins.
Spurs played like Chit, brought their C game, and beat ya ass.
Hollins is an idiot. Memphis was not ready for the bright lights and big stage like the Veteren Spurs
Grizz had more rebounds, more points in the paint and more FTs. They shot 43% which isn't bad but they didn't take a 3 and we did, we shot lights out in that area and were at 52%. We played great all around, Randolph will get into the series but his out put will even out whatever one else did. We'll take this series in 5
Hopefully we do win the series and they can tell him "nice series, Tank." I know that word pissed him off in 2011 because he refused to fess up to it.
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