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what's the fluke?
I no longer watch the games with this board on because there are too many naysayers parading as fans.
Having said that, however, I think we just saw the team to beat to get out of the West. The OKC team played beautiful basketball tonight, and let's face it, they beat us fair and square. They were smooth in their plays, they made our guys look out-of-sync too often, and they are far more athletic than we are. Franky, I thought they looked a lot like we did last year.
I don't know if we can get good enough to beat them in a series by the end of they season, but I know we need to be able to figure it out in order for us to get back to the finals. It is not gonna be easy. It may even be impossible. But we CAN play better than we did tonight.
I would like to see us start playing better really soon.
what's the fluke?
same here....spurs been on the road playing b2b.....spurs just looked slow and tired.....spurs need to refresh
the worst is knowing that there are people who really believe that
Tbh, this team just needs a dose of hero ball chuckers that make all of their shots from chucking e.g. Westbrook, Curry, Ellis. What a team.
Really embarrassed for the Spurs tonight, no reason why we can't play defense. Danny Green is worthless, Boris dose pump fakes way too much on open shots. Kawhi or no kawhi Durant didn't kill us it was Westbrook and Reggie Jackson. No athletic guys who can stay in front of scorers who have length. Tiago as a defensive stalwart as he can be is useless on offense. Portland will fall off but OKC barring injury is our biggest task and I don't see a formula for winning.
Josh Howard will be our savior.
huh, Jeff Ayers?
Solid Basketball take diaz. Educated by ESPN types are the worst
I don't think you're a cliff jumper if you're concerned about overcoming the Thunderefs. They're more athletic than us, get a lot more help from officiating, plus if they play smarter team ball will be tough to beat. There is also a good chance they get homefield over us, and when their fans are foaming at the mouth after their evening bump of meth, it will add another obstacle.
I'm not saying Spurs cant overcome them, but it's going to be a challenge.
Let's face it...Spurs and Pacers in the Finals. Deal with it.
Barring any significant injuries
Spurs will be fine.
We can look at whatever stats right now and say this or that but in the end, it means absolutely nothing as far as going into the playoffs goes.
Season is just too damn long to be laying down and calling it quits because you just got beat by a good team.
Still got 2 more games against these guys to see how we measure up this year.
scratch that. Doesn't matter either as Memphis taugh us real good.
Matchup wise, I'm more concerned with the Rockets than the Thunder in the long run
Tonight's loss alone is not reason for worries. But if you add that we lost by 20+ to mediocre Clippers, we were being blown out by Houston and Pacers at home, and we lost to the other elite team Portland fairly, then we have immense reasons for being worried. Playoffs won't make everything change
I do think that right now the Spurs don't look like a championship contender, but it's still early in the season.
They do need to make a trade. Let the Thunderef have their regular season win. Its all they have going for them.
Trade Splitter + some pieces for JaVaLe McGee...
Like Memphis, Who was 3rd in defense last season
Two years ago this was a completely different OKC team. With Harden we would have had no chance against them, without him they are beatable.
Since they lost Harden we have gone 2-4 against them (including tonight) and in only ONE of those games did we have all four of Parker/Timmy/Manu/Kawhi. And they are even weaker than last year with the loss of Kevin Martin.
After the 2012 playoffs I couldn't see how we would ever beat them. Since they traded Harden I fancy our chances.
I cant post smiles. wtf?
Kawhi being out affects this team more than I think some realize-
1. Kawhi guarding Durant allows Green (bigger defender) to guard Westbrook. Westbrook may have had just as much success, but against a smaller Parker, he got him in foul trouble and we couldn't even really throw a bigger guy on him.
2. Kawhi is obviously a great rebounder, and we had issues rebounding the ball tonight.
3. Marco starting gave us a great scoring boost. But then what happens when the 2nd unit comes in? Their bench scored 44 while we had 30. Marco coming off the bench is vital to our 2nd unit's performance. Instead many times Green was out there with the 2nd unit guys and we saw what happened when he put the ball on the floor.
4. Having Kawhi enables us to have the option to play small. Yes it's not our biggest strength but it just an added element that we didn't really have the option for. Duncan, Leonard, Belli, Manu, Parker could be effective.
5. Leonard also plays the passing lanes extremely well. We don't have someone who can deflect the ball like he does, and come up with steals.
I don't want to be "that" guy, but let's face it. Come playoff time, who is really going to remember those games in November & December? Why assume we can't beat this team in the playoffs? We had a very important piece out of the game tonight, and in our first matchup held them to 94 points while having one of our worst shooting performances of the season 39% and shooting 25% from 3.
We lost to the Clips last year 2x, 1 in a blowout, and another in a closer contest. Both before January. After the all star break, we came back in their home and won by 26. No need to overreact to stuff that's happening in November/December.
Most games were pretty close and Memphis had one of the tiest offenses to make the WCF in awhile. Who's gonna stop Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka, and now Jackson? I'll wait for it got.Like Memphis, Who was 3rd in defense last season
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