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Tony Allen plays in a neck brace.
Pray Pop continues to keep Bonner and Neal in the lineup for extended periods.
Seriously, that's it. They have no shot otherwise.
Tony Allen plays in a neck brace.
Pray Bayless and Pondexter catch fire.. get Duncan into foul trouble again.
What about Pop playing Parker without his typical 2nd half rest?? Parker was dogcrap out there for most of the 2nd half, and was heroballing us into OT before the Manu Foul That Shall Not Be Named.
OV: You still don't think rebounding is a possible concern? Spurs not only were destroyed overall but they gave up double digit offenisve boards. Memphis missed a lot of put backs that you would have to think go in if the rebounding does not sure up. Yes, Tim was in foul trouble, but they were trailing when he went out in the REB department.
They are going to flop a lot because they´ve seen it works.
Also they will hack Parker and Ginobili in the paint because they know they won´t be called.
Manu will kill them from 3.
Yes, i said that.
Memphis is going to hold the Tony Allen drill during the off days, grab something and fall on the floor and act like you've been shot. Then pop up and be okay. Unless the refs hand them another game then we should be fine. I'll say we win game 3 lose game 4 and finish them off here game 5
IF we win game 3 we will bury these ers. They are going to expect the Spurs to let down and give away game 3.. Lets go get it..
Haha then we'll see ESPN jump on the bandwagon for 1 game.
Jokes apart, I think Hollins is getting the message, albeit slowly:
Prince + Allen: 42 mins
Bayless + Pondexter: 71 mins
Next game Prince probably drops out of the starting lineup and plays even fewer minutes
6-7 of those boards came on that one possession, am I wrong?
Grizzlies have to dominate the boards and shoot effectively from the outside or Spurs need to make boneheaded plays down the stretch to lose the game.
ppfFFFFFffFFFFfffFFFFFFF Randolph got a majority of those within a spat of a few plays within a few minutes
I think one of the biggest adjustments they found that worked for them is one I mentioned in my Game 2 adjustment thread: sit TA/Prince and post up ZBo with Pontdexter and Bayless spreading the floor. It worked against our bench guys pretty well. That's what erased a bulk of the big lead. With Prince giving them almost nothing on offense, and very little on defense, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets benched early in Game 3 or doesn't even start.
Had about 6 of those on one non-scoring possession. They get a lot of at the rim rebounds like Blair use to on offense. It's often very deceiving.
No, most of them were vs Diaw/Bonner lineup and 7 straight vs Duncan/Splitter(missed all)
We are going to get blown out in game 3. Memphis gets away with murder at home. They also get massive ref help. I would be absolutely shocked if Tim didn't get into foul trouble early.
If you go back to the game, Memphis at one particular play had 6 straight offensive boards..
Memphis made the most obvious adjustments in the 2nd half of game 2 that should have been made in game 1 and in the first half of game 2: less Prince, more Pondexter/Bayless..
That's the only adjustment they really have, tbh..
The Grizzlies' adjustments in games 3 and 4 isn't technically an adjustment..they are going to receive an egregious officiating advantage, similar to tonight's 2nd half..the Grizzlies are given a pass to murder opposing teams at home, they are the most ref-reliant team in the league, as I've been saying for weeks, tbh..
grizz are capable of shutting down the spurs...
game 3 is gonna be tough as , but the spurs can get that game as long as they rebound and make a couple of open 3s
Subtract 6 - they still have 13 offensive rebounds and still pounded the Spurs overall on the glass. Most of MEM offense comes from OFF REB and they destroyed the Spurs there and it's part of what allowed them to stay in the game: extra possessions. Not to mention drawing a foul from it and they missed some easy ones which would have boosted their scoring.
I'd be shocked if they don't start Poindexter in Prince's place for game 3.
And first team to 70 wins on Saturday.
Randolph adds the suplex to his wrasslin arsenal.
Rebounding was always my biggest concern against Memphis. The Spurs aren't going to out-rebound Memphis often. But if they keep the margin close, and keep the points in the paint close, Memphis can't win this series. Surprisingly, even with the Griz killing them on the offensive glass, the Spurs still outscored them in the paint. The rebounding was pretty much even at the end of the first half. I don't have the numbers for second chance points, but in general the Spurs did a pretty good job of limiting the damage from Memphis' offensive rebounds.
Here's a few other things about the rebounding that sort of ease the sting:
With 50 seconds left in the first half, Randolph had 3 defensive and 1 offensive boards. He got an easy one off Kawhi's missed 3-pointer. Then he got 3 quick offensive rebounds on that one crazy play under the Grizzlies basket, and he finished the half with 4 and 4. In the third quarter he had just 1 defensive and 1 offensive rebound. He picked up another cheap defensive board at the start of the 4th, off another missed 3-pointer. It was that whistle-fest in the 4th, when they gave the fifth foul to Duncan, and two quick ones to Bonner, that really let the dogs out. It changed the way the Spurs were able to defend, and it allowed Randolph a lot more freedom in the blocks. It also meant that Tim wasn't available to contest for a long period of time. That's not meant to about the calls, just to explain what it took for Memphis to get that rebounding margin.
At the end of regulation Randolph had 14 rebounds. We can live with that. He had 9 defensive, and 5 offensive boards - and considering three of the offensive boards came on that one play (where Memphis didn't score), we can live with that too. Gasol finished regulation with 11 defensive and 2 offensive boards. We can live with that, too. We can't live with letting Allen scoop 4 offensive rebounds on a regular basis, like he did tonight. And we can't live with Splitter having just 4 defensive and no offensive rebounds. But I don't think the rebounding was quite as big of a problem as it appears. Still a concern, but no reason to jump ship.
[Edit:] Here it is - the Griz only outscored the Spurs 8-2 in second chance points tonight. Like I said, they did a good job of limiting the damage. Maybe they can't do that every game, but as long as we don't have the same kind of foul trouble, the Griz can't pile up that big of a rebounding edge every night either. They didn't in the regular season.
tony allen should suffer more concussions. that strategy seems to work well for them
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