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gotta hope he gets cancer
Man, isn't Kawhi supposed to be an elite defender? Why was he sagging off so hard on Monta the whole game.
gotta hope he gets cancer
That sounds familiar
Not that surprising. Tony was having a career year in the playoffs in 2013 - the Heat turned him into a 15 ppg player on awful efficiency.
He cant defend guards well, that's why. Green is much better at defending guards and thats why i don't get why Pop didn't let him guard Monta. Kawhi is a lot better at guarding SFs.
That foul on DIaw was such bs
I never liked the spurs going under ellis screen, ellis is a good enough shooter to make the spurs pay
and if u look at the highlights, ellis is still getting to the paint with ease, going under actually gives him the space and momentum to get to the rim, once he gets his first step, you are at his mercy
spurs HAVE TO change their defensive gameplan on him
Spurs should match up with them on the defensive end and see how that goes. It should look like this imo with the players who have played this series:
Duncan on Dalembert or Wright
Splitter on Dirk
Kawhi on Marion or Carter
Diaw on Marion or Blair
Green or Manu on Ellis
Parker on Calderon or Harris
Marco on Crowder
Cory Joseph should be given a shot with his defense over Patty. I believe his defense made a difference in game two in that short comeback, and match up on Harris and possibly Ellis.
Considering how pathetically Patty has been playing this series, I don't really know what we'd be losing by giving CoJo playing time over Patty.
Well, you'd get absolute nothing on offense. Keep in mind, any point guard who plays with Manu is forced to be a catch and shoot 2 guard (because Manu loves to do ALL the playmaking), and Cojo is an abysmal shooter from long range.
Its not like Mills has done anything positive in this series.
The question is how do you stop Calderon/Harris/<insert scrub> from going off on us... once you keep those guys in check, then you can start worrying about the actual scorers...
I thought those guys were the actual scorers?
they're scrubs allowed to play way above their head.... heck Rick had to bench Calderon when Game 1 started because he couldn't play him. Now we're worrying too much about the other guys and they're burning us up.
The Spurs can survive a good Monta game, and possibly a good Monta/Dirk game... they can't survive if Calderon/Harris/Wright/Marion/Dalembert are all going on off on top of Monta and Dirk...
Dalembert had like 13 pts today. It's crazy.
Its funny how in this series one of their guys has always stepped up big, where as our guys, eh not so much.
Play Joseph and Green more. Pop is desperate to play Marco and Patty because he wants players who can get their own shots, but he's gonna have to rely on the Big Three carrying the offense. He needs to play to Green's strength of on-ball defense and not pull him for every mistake. Joseph is a much better defender than Mills and can get his own shot when he's aggressive.
This is a rude awakening for the Spurs. They need to go back to their playoff rotation from last year and forget their glass-cannon approach toward the perimeter during this regular season.
There's two sides to every coin. They're stepping up, but the Spurs are also defending poorly. Poor P&R defense, poor rotations, poor transition defense. We need to defend better as a team first, then you can move on to how contain actual threats...
For the Spurs, it's about making shots. I don't think Patty or Boris are taking any better or worse shots that they've taken during the regular season. Some of them are wide open, and just not falling.
Keep postin Kawhi on him bangin him down!
He kept followin the ball the whole night leavin his man open!
This, unfortunately.
It's hard to stop these guys when you're putting guys incapable of defending quick guards like Kawhi, Patty, Parker, and Belinelli on the floor, tbh. Ellis should probably be primarily guarded by Green and Manu, IMO. Kawhi was just embarrassing as he got torched over and over in the fourth quarter of last game by Ellis.
Parker needs to stop getting torched by Calderon.
Kawhi is no Bruce. He's not athletic enough to guard quick guards.
Yet another reason to get Leonard the damn ball, most of his offense last night came from his defense. Leonard can get his shot ANY time against him in the post, or shoot a jumper over him, even if he gets doubled all he's gotta do is pass to the wide open man.
Instead he gets ignored. It's not rocket science, give Leonard the ball more and the Spurs win
Can't go under the screen anymore; letting their guards have too much room on the perimeter.
Spurs need to close up the spaces on defense and live with guys like Marion/Harris shooting. Don't need to double other guys all the time, but crowd up the painted area and bait those guys into shooting more than they are comfortable with. It's just odd that with this Mavs strategy of sticking to Spurs shooters that Pop wouldn't go with Danny more. If Beli/Patty aren't going to be able to get their usual shots off, why not have the best defensive players on the court so you aren't losing on both ends?
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