2014 Playoffs - Round 1, Game 2 - Dallas Mavericks @ San Antonio Spurs

[sexinthatsx]

Manu coming through because he's Manu

[DatBoyGood]

Damn thanks Manu for that 10-0 run...someone else on the bench besides him has got to step up

[TE]

What happen with Mills? I didn't see it

Rolled his ankle

[Hoops Czar]

Manu is going to have to stand on his head to carry the best bench in NBA history.

[Johnny RIngo]

-18 Belinelli

[Sybok]

No different than a regular season game. You have to find the right combination of guys on the floor at the right times. Spurs can drop points on Dallas in a quick hurry, and it's not new that they were down double digits early on. They are shooting lights out, way too high of a shooting percentage for Rick to be remotely happy. Protect the ball, game should be in the bag. Turn it over, might as well start thinking about game 3.

[NASpurs]

Is this Nazi still necessary?

Yes

[Darius Bieber]

So remember how I told you about Patty Mills?

[KaiRMD1]

To be honest, the ol' sports playoff intensity last year didn't hit until the second round against the Warriors thanks to that d-league team we faced in the first round. I fear the Spurs may be taking a similar approach due to their lack luster play. Perhaps they may have become awakened, who knows. But that opening half was atrocious from a ball handling perspective.

[Cry Havoc]

Why is it taking this long to see playoff intensity? It's amazing to me that this team can't get up for a playoff game after that epic choke job last season.

Old team, takes some effort to get those gears spinning up again. Remember, the last 5-10 games of the season we were playing pretty limited minutes. Now the shackles are off and our guys are a little tight.

[crc21209]

So remember how I told you about Patty Mills?

Because Joseph produced so much during last years Playoff run...

[Hoops Czar]

Rolled his ankle

So what. Put in CoJo.

[Mugen]

turnovaaaaaaaaahs

[japre8]

I'll bet the spurs play lights out in Dallas.

[Raven]

i just hope pop got the memo after this half and stops
a) playing belinelli
b) playing mills against fast pgs

[PingPong]

I hope he doesn't come out with the same motivation his German ancestor Adolf had...

Well, Splitter has german-jew roots.

[Sybok]

To be honest, the ol' sports playoff intensity last year didn't hit until the second round against the Warriors thanks to that d-league team we faced in the first round. I fear the Spurs may be taking a similar approach due to their lack luster play. Perhaps they may have become awakened, who knows. But that opening half was atrocious from a ball handling perspective.

I implore you to let that shtick go. It's going to drag you down to Cantthinkofanything levels.

[MI21]

Spurs can get the shots they need against Dallas regardless, so I think it's best to play Cojo over Mills for defensive purposes.

Patty is pre-meditating everything he does.. at the moment he has one thing in his mind, dribble left, step back jumper...

[Malik Hairston]

Missed the first half, how did Tony look, tbh?..

[TampaDude]

Manu coming through because he's Manu

Yeah...Manu will do something really boneheaded, and just when you really want to reach through the TV and slap him, he redeems himself.

Despite a rather sucktastic first half, we're only down by 5. We got this.

[td4mvp21]

Old team, takes some effort to get those gears spinning up again. Remember, the last 5-10 games of the season we were playing pretty limited minutes. Now the shackles are off and our guys are a little tight.

That's true, I expected that in Game 1 (which was the case until the 4th quarter). But not Game 2.

[Sybok]

i just hope pop got the memo after this half and stops
a) playing belinelli
b) playing mills against fast pgs

Because he hasn't seen either of those in the previous 82 games.

[Horse]

If we win this game and I expect we will, it's a sweep. Reminds me of 2012 when we were down more than 20 to the clippers, came back and won series over.

[RD2191]

Because Joseph produced so much during last years Playoff run...

Who said anything about CoJo?

[FlAVaK]

Spurs probably come out a bit overconfident after winning a game they should've lost, and Mavs come out desperate. I think we're down by 5 or so at halftime, then blow it open in the third quarter and win by 10+.

This game is pretty much the series, tbh. No way in Mavs win two at home. I think it comes back to SA 3-1 and we close them out in 5.

Well, so far, so bad...