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Do I feel better? Yes. Do I feel confident? Yes. Is Dallas still dangerous? Yes.
I feel good about it, but I won't feel great about it until we have a good win in game 5 going into game 6.
Do I feel better? Yes. Do I feel confident? Yes. Is Dallas still dangerous? Yes.
Yes, its b/c the Mavs don't have in' 2 days to rest up. The Spurs have more depth and they should win the next game. Mavs don't play better on the road. They were just playing all out the first 3 games and had 2 days to rest in b/n. Not anymore, and their dismal FG and FT shooting showed that they are starting to wear down, just like I thought they would.
Completely agree. I think Danny is ideally suited to guard Ellis while Leonard can either sag off of Marion and play the passing lanes or get up in Carter's face. Parker will just have to find a way to stay with Calderon.
Chinook is on record saying that Green should be getting 40 MPG if I remember right. He definitely should be matching Ellis minute-for-minute.
About that last line, I was flabbergasted in the early 4th last night. Pop finally put Green in and sics him on Crowder of all people.
My thoughts exactly. Parker needs to get his Mojo back in the 4th quarter, where he looks flat out bad. Timmy should be waxing Dalembert, but he can't. Thank god for Manu and Splitter, tbh.
Just remember we'd have a game 5 at home, to close up the series, if not for the last second Vince Carter shot tbh...
So now we get it done in 6. I don't like a game 7 in the first round, it'd be too up in the air to call.
I think this is why I feel better about the series. Tony is in fact worse each game…it is incredible to me how bad he has consistently been, and Timmy is looking worse and worse also…but in the face of all of that, we won!!! That's why I feel better. The whole team except for Tony and Tim to a lesser extent, won the game.
Pop excoriating Tony multiple times during times out was a a beautiful sight, imo, and long overdue. Tony responds to Pop and only Pop…so he might actually play better.
Tony needs to stop forcing and start passing the ball. He is reverting back to his '05 self where he was a ballhog. 2 of his 3 assist came in the 4th I believe. That's right, only 3 freakin' assist from TP in 30 minutes of play. Pop is just reverting back to his old self where he tore TP a new one for his ball hogging play.
He was also screaming at him for some missed defensive assignments.
As long as he(Pop) screams at him enough to get him to play better, I'm all in favor of it. The ball moved SO much better when Manu was running point (okay so occasionally it moved right off the court - but we all accept that about Manu - he giveth and he taketh away), it seems impossible that someone wouldn't point that out to Tony in a film session.
If it goes 7 the spurs willl lose. Winner of next game takes series in 6 and I expect it to be the Spurs.
This is right. I expect the spurs to get past dallas but they are not getting to the championship unless there are some injuries to other top teams.
This team goes as Tony goes. If spurs are able to get passed Mavs They won't advance much further without Tony playing better.
So they win a close game and a blowout and we win 2 close games. That blowout might end up costing the Spurs like it did in '06. The Spurs spotted them a game.
Dirk has better awareness on D now, butt he just cant move as well as he use to. Diaw 2.0 has finally made his post season debut you're right about Diaw getting it now. He went at Dirk in the post at least 5 times and when the trapped P&Rs, Diaw hit 3 of those 4 attempts from 3.
Pop chewed out Tony forr his D on Calderon Jose didn't seem to be as big of a factor afterwards.
Dallas got to the line 28 times, that probably wont happen in S.A. If we can under 40% from 3 and hold them to about 20-22 FTA attempts, The Spurs can suffocate them.
Yes, because the difference between 2-2 and 3-1 is like night and day.
Now it's a best-of-3 series, with the Spurs having two games at home.
Whoever wins Game 5 will win the series in 6. There will not be a Game 7.
Something else to consider: if it weren't for Vince ing Carter's stupid, flukey ass shot, the Spurs would have taken both games in Dallas, and would have a commanding 3-1 series lead right now.
Yup... happens...just be thankful that was in Game 3 and not Game 7.
Spurs DID lose an 18 pt lead, all the way down to a tie.
As everybody has seen, TP is a huge absence, and now he's got a tender ankle.
I think the elephant in the room is the fact that Green may still be injured. He hasn't really had a good defensive game since he went out in that Nuggets game. If he's still hampered, then he ISN'T a good player to defend Ellis, nor does he provide a ton of general help to the team if he's not being left open. I hope that's not the case, because the team is absolutely dead in the water going forward if Green isn't 100 percent.
Provided that that's not the case, Pop is being absurdly stubborn to the extent that this could really hurt the team outside of this series. Danny was too important to the team going down the stretch for Pop to toss him aside at the first sign of adversity, especially while he continues to allow Mills and Beli (and the Big Three to a lesser extent) to work out of their slumps. I think Pop's convinced that Leonard is a superior defender to Green, even though the stats don't bear that out. He seems to consider Danny to be a secondary perimeter defender who only gets an opportunity to guard the opposing team's first option when Leonard isn't in the game. If the Spurs can win this series and advance to face Portland, Pop could absolutely tank the team by putting Leonard on Lillard (against whom Kawhi's never done well) as opposed to Green (who's probably been the most successful player in the league at defending Lillard).
Offensively, I think Pop is valuing folks getting their own shot seeing as the system is breaking down. As far as I see it, he needs to work harder to get the team to generate good looks for Green and everyone else who's struggling by calling more plays instead of just letting things flow. Or he needs to accept that the Big Three (along with Splitter and now Diaw hopefully) are going to carry the team offensively, which means he needs to let Green and Leonard play as much as possible to slow down Dallas on the other end. What he can't do is waffle in between those two and play glass cannons like Beli significant minutes because he's hoping they can pull more points out of their asses without having plays called for them than they give up on the other end.
Something else to consider - Spurs didn't mail it in after that shot nor after Ray Allen's. You win some and you lose some.
Scary thing looking at the +/- from last night is how negative both Green and Marco are. One of them really needs to step up unless Pop plans on running Patty big minutes with Parker when either Manu / Kawhi hit the pine.
Felt better seeing Kawhi and Patty play aggressively in the first half, matching Manu and Tiago. Not sure why they couldn't bring that tenacity in the second half though. It's frustrating. Danny isn't making jack , but he's still spacing and playing defense as harlem pointed out. Thought the team did a better job on Ellis. Tiago is beasting imo.
Maybe Manu looking to score is taking the open shots Marco is used to getting on the offensive side? I don't know, but he's sucking ass all around. I'll remain optimistic that he'll have an impact in a game this series though.
Parker and Timmy obviously don't look 100 percent so that sucks. Their body language isn't the best. I'm guessing it's mental with Parker by the way Pop has been talking to him. Whatever it is, the team needs them to be leaders.
Thankful that Manu has been great.
Matty BonBon 5 minutes, 0 shots, 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 steals, 0 assists, 0 blocks and has a +/- of +9 How is that possible.
Maybe Carlise will think they lost Game 4 because Blair got ejected and play him big minutes in Game 5.
For 2-10-Whitey! MAN! What a pessimist? "Are we tired and done?" No, the only ones tired and done are the pessimists who visit here. HEY! WAKE THE F>>> up you piss poor Spurs fans. The team goes out & works their butts off and we lose because we play poorly? Don't think so. What about how well the other team plays and what THEY have to do with their victories?
Watch the game again... dude looked like Hakeem out there, defending and . Poor Mavs didn't stand a chance for that 5 minute stretch.
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