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"Wishing" injury?see this is why the spurs are so unfortunate with injuries. Continue to wish injury on our players, I love it.
Nuh, uh.
Just making a prediction based on available data.
"Wishing" injury?
Nuh, uh.
Just making a prediction based on available data.
It won't happen.
I'm sure the 7 people that were watching were all really impressed.
Your ceiling was lording it over the people across the hallway. You've been on siesta ever since.
There was a time when the whole Mavs krew had Lebron as their avatar (2010 Off season i believe).
It worked out in the end for them as they beat him next June.
because he drools over bones?
Keep beta out of Beverly's way btw. Durant got away with some talking last time but believe me if he thinks that his Alpha gives it to him hard in the ass, just wait till Bev pounds him for his antics. Boogie just learned last night.
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Now convinced thunderup is a troll. His consistency for only showing up when the Thunder are winning is just too meticulous.
Up with the goods tbh.
The one thing that is different and very obvious is the Spurs cannot run their usually crisp sets against a defense that blitzes and denies the initial pass from happening. What happens then? The Spurs are forced to do an improvised pick and roll. As seen tonight, that pick and roll was disrupted by either:
1.) The Spurs ball-handler didn't attack on the pick. To be fair Manu was out but I don't think it would've made that much of a difference. Maybe some, but still.
2.) The defender guarding the pick-player played the two-man game aggressively and disrupted the roll by being both physical and in the right position.
The defensive strategy is to simply disrupt the Spurs initial movement on offense. This blends in to making the broken offensive set a one-on-one game, lowering the Spurs' ability to beat the Thunder as a team.
Taking my homer glasses off, I don't see how the Spurs are going to counter this aggressive perimeter defense. It all started late in the second half of game 2 of the 2012 WCF. Going back, we started defending more aggressively by using our athleticism. If we got beat on the drive, we had Serge or a Collison for help side defense. Also, playing the initial pass aggressively usually lends into using back-cuts and playing off the ball. That doesn't matter a when we have our help side defense to clean up anything going to the basket. Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, has changed. You all are ed if you think your cute little plays are going to work against our defense. The only thing that will beat us is if yall's role players make shots and even then I don't think that'll happen.
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You're lucky I don't charge for every time you quote one of my posts.
You could learn a thing or two.
IMO, our offense wasn't crisp, but it didn't really matter... we didn't shoot that great the open shots, TD and Tony didn't shoot well, had 18 turnovers and still put 94 points on the board. Both teams can make runs, and will make runs. The TOs hurt us the most tonight, in an otherwise winnable game. Outside of Beli, our bench actually shot pretty well, and I expect that to be the norm.
I also think Pop will gameplan different in a potential series, tbh... going at guys like Butler seems like a no-brainer...
Realistically we put about 77 points on the board. The rest was time. Durant playing to pad his worthless streak stats tells me all I need to know about where that team is going. Maybe they can hang the "points streak" banner.
well, we're talking about scrubs making shots too... and the Thunder was pretty much still playing starters or their main minute getters... The Spurs D needs to be more consistent though, but when you turn it over it's obviously hard to defend.
The Spurs have to beat OKC the same way we found success against Miami... through Duncan. Perkins, Ibaka, blablabla. If we slow the tempo down and get some post ups, it will change they way they play defense, and it can set up a lot of opportunities down the stretch. If we continue to emphasize Duncan, it forces them to keep Perkins on the floor, which makes them easier to defend as well.
Even if he's not being very efficient, we have shown we defend them well if we keep them in a half court offense, like in the first half of yesterday's game.
tbh
another thing is I don't think the Spurs can play at OKC's frenetic pace...it feeds into the out of control game they thrive in tbh. Playing a more half court game and limiting their fast break points would do wonders....of course, we gotta limit unforced turnovers...hopefully pop has something up his sleeve to counter the Thunder tbh
4 regular season games to make adjustments and neither of them worked for Pop and the Spurs whether Westbrook was in or out for the Thunder. San Antone still had double-digit leads in the first half. They had a 19-game winning form in their pocket. None of it mattered anyway when the Thunder turned it on in the third. I'm not saying the Thunder will have it easy, because an OKC v SAS WCF series will be a war, but right now I just don't see San Antonio coming out as the victors.
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