Unfortunately, I think you are right. He might have took off too far from the basket.
I agree.
I had that exact thought during the game "Ok Tony it's not working, get your ass off the floor".
He recovered ok from landing on his ass on a dunk, I think he'll be ok. It's not like he's a superstar. Tim was blocked by Amare a few years back in similar fashion and we won that series.-- Hopefully Splitter can recover psychologically from that block.
TD cant settle for turnaround jumpers or face up jumpers against Haslem and Birdman. He needs to back them down and either get into the lane for a hook or drop step and layup. They cant guard him.
6 turnovers in 5 mins at end of 3rd/start of 4th gave them 5 points when they were hitting shots anyway, as well as costing us shots and gave them all the momentum.
I agree with her!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was grabbing my head many times in this game. What the spurs were doing? The defense was poor except the one on James. Nobody got going on ofense. manu was lost like child in the fog. TD played a bad game. It all seemed like the spurs got satisfied with the 1st game and were sure about their gameplan and that it's gonna win by itself.
We had no use in Neal. His hesitation and falling under pressure was painful to watch. But you needed to expect that as he was not playing much because of his injury. Now in a battlefield he was run of his spots.
Spurs did it wrong. As I said before. We cannot make it a guards game because the Heat are too good at it. Destroy them inside! In game 2 no frickin comment. I was pissed all the times about not making Miami pay for being poor inside team.
gameplan for Miami. James a contributor in 1st half. make everybody play. get some rest and go to work in 2nd half. They've done it. They killed the spurs. They were y . They were chestbumping and they looked like they won the crown already.
Defend THE ALAMO CITY now hit them with 3 straight accurate bullets. Be victorious.
All in all spurs had a 7-0 b4 this game. There needed to be one relief loss.
Ps. Good post LJ
All basketball.
btw. as I mentioned in the 'split' thread of mine
96-79
102-71
According to Varejao, Miami broke the Spurs defense with 3pointers from Miller and others, which opened the paint for Lebron.
This was a case of the Spurs horrible offense to some extent fueling Miami's offense. Miami deserves credit for their defense, but I thought the Spurs offense needed a heavy dose of 4-down when other things weren't going so well offensively. Quite a bit of what the Spurs did was self-inflicted.
2-3-2 format is extremely unfair for the road team. You have to pull off some heroics as the road team to win like the 2004 Pistons or the 2011 Mavs. It makes it nearly impossible to win the series. The Spurs, in all likely hood will have to close this serious out IN Miami. I think this is going to be a 7 game series though.
Cautious optimism is in order. The Heat certainly looked great in defense, but I'm waiting to see how much of it was because of Parker and Ducan having bad games. TP looked scared of committing turnovers.
I disagree with Manu being awful, he was the only one creating good shots. We need to take more risk against a team playing that well in defense. We can't just rely on contested 3s if we want to win the series...
About the 2-3-2 format... people have short memories. Just a few years ago, people were saying it's good for the team with home court advantage, because it's tough to win 3 straight at home. I remember when the Pistons split the first 2 against the Lakers in 04, people were saying they'd lose at least 1 for sure. Since then a couple teams have won all 3 games, and every one is saying it favours the underdog... I'm not convinced.
"close this serious out IN Miami"
Pop and anyone who says HCA doesn't matter in the Finals.
At very best, Spurs will go back to MIA up 3-2. Good luck getting the 5th LOB.
With how the west and east was the spurs had no shot making up the 8 games. They had Orlando and Charlotte for 8 games themselves ALONE
They only got to this point due to health and IMO that was gained through pop's plan the regular season of resting.
Late in the 3rd quarter when the Heat made their run I thought Pop should have gotten more involved with trying to slow their action with more timeouts, calling different plays, trying CJ, Bonner, Blair, anything. In game one the Big 3 looked like they were ready to win this thing. In game two the Big 3 looked like they were looking for someone else on the team to win this thing. Manu looked like he was trying to dribble a football at times. This started as a best of seven with Miami having home court advantage, now it's a best of five and the Spurs have HCA. Game one is again important.
my random thoughts about the stats :
T. Parker, PG 33 min 5-14 = 13 pts
K. Leonard, SF 33min 4-12 = 9 pts
T. Duncan, PF 30min 3-13 = 9 pts
D. Green, SF 30min 6-6 5-5 = 17 pts. could have been Green's big nightperfect FG, perfect from the arc
T. Splitter, C 23min 2-5 0-0 = 4 pts.
Manu - played only 18 min - 5 pts
Neal - 22 min with decent 10 pts
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Spurs 32-78 FG
10-20 3pt
Miami 41-83 FG
10-19 3pt
the 3Pt % are the SAME
the FT Spurs 10-14 Miami 11-14 --- the same
but, THE FG :
besides of the low FG %, the Spurs are keeping the ball way too long.
that's practically a 10-pt differential there. (78-83)
unless they make more 3s they cannot win over Miami if they are not attempting more FGs IMO
Last edited by milkyway21; 06-10-2013 at 09:06 AM.
Actually, the Spurs were 32-78, not 42-78. If the Spurs had hit 42-78, they would have won last night.my random thoughts about the stats :
T. Parker, PG 33 min 5-14 = 13 pts
K. Leonard, SF 33min 4-12 = 9 pts
T. Duncan, PF 30min 3-13 = 9 pts
D. Green, SF 30min 6-6 5-5 = 17 pts. could have been Green's big night
T. Splitter, C 23min 2-5 0-0 = 4 pts.
Manu - played only 18 min - 5 pts
Neal - 22 min with decent 10 pts
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Spurs 42-78 FG
10-20 3pt
Miami 41-83 FG
10-19 3pt
the 3Pt % are the SAME
the FT Spurs 10-14 Miami 11-14 --- the same
but, THE FG :
besides of the low FG %, the Spurs are keeping the ball way too long.
that's practically a 10-pt differential there. (78-83)
unless they make more 3s they cannot win over Miami if they are not attempting more FGs IMO
yeah when I was looking at that it didnt look right. I was thinking, "wait a minute, then how the did we lose."
Heh...same here...that's why I had to look it up. Actually, we could've won by more than 1 point if some of those missed FGs were 3s.
Everyone on the team should apologize to Danny and Kawhi for wasting the opportunity those two players gave them.
typical media bithcing about the 2-3-2 just because Miami lost home court. If Spurs had home court and lost one of the first two games, media would be justifying the format.
yeah TampaDude you are right !
I also think maybe those 10 FG differential are because the Spurs had 10 more turnovers than Miami
Last edited by milkyway21; 06-10-2013 at 09:31 AM.
what a perfect game for Danny
I don't know what game you were watching buddy but Manu looked pathetic out there. Watching him play last night made me wish that he would retire already. He could not dribble the ball at all. He looked like he had wobbling legs or was nervous as f*ck.
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