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so true, liked the adjustments pop made and the way our team played. Best game so far, let's keep it up! Spurs in Six.
Pop finally realized the value of Danny Green in this series:
-Solid job on Monta + help D
-Took all of Beli's minutes in the 2nd half
-Knocked down his open looks
He's going to make some stupid plays (biting on Dirk's fakes, sagging off Carter) but he's ultimately a plus when he's out there IMO, especially when Beli is giving you nothing.
This series has that GSW feel where Pop finally stops overthinking and makes the obvious moves IMO...hopefully he keeps it up.
so true, liked the adjustments pop made and the way our team played. Best game so far, let's keep it up! Spurs in Six.
Dallas and Spurs run a similar fluid offense, but our D in regular season is what set us apart from them, and they turned it on in 3rd qtr and other periods of this series
When we turn on our D, we are unstoppable
DPG finally grew an inch?
agreed. I'm glad he shortened the rotation. Greens a more consistent defender and perhaps a better 3 point shooter. I don't think Marco matches up well in this series. can't really hide him on anyone and they are playing him tight not to mention he's missing the shots he normally makes.
Still way too few minutes. To play less than 16 minutes, in this series when you are electing to play Beli is silly. But there are varying thoughts to Pops mindset. At the end of the day it's about winning and Danny deserves more minutes IMO. However, Pop is good enough to perhaps win this series while positioning for down the road as well.
pops playing chess and sometimes the other coach is only playing checkers.
I'm ok with how Pop has handled Green this series. Pop knows his players and in order to play well Green needs to be slapped once in a while.
The Green/Leonard combo is the biggest difference between the failed 2009-2011 Spurs and the Spurs of the past 2 years, tbh..
Belinelli's presence is too similar to the ty old Finley, Roger Mason and Richard Jefferson of those years..I thought Pop was finished with the offense-only wing players, but this series has proven otherwise, so far..
Thankfully, he finally cut Belinelli's minutes in the 2nd half, hopefully that continues the rest of this series and the playoffs..
I'm fine with that but Beli seemingly has a longer leash than Danny Green even when both are underperforming...hopefully Pop has come to his senses for the rest of this series tbh.
He'll play again in game 6. I'm also pretty sure that he'll get minutes in a future series.
At least it's good to see Pop recognizing Danny is an option.
Does anybody doubt that the spurs would have lost tonight had pop gone back to Marco for another 10 minutes in the second half?
Danny only played 16 minutes tonight...
I can't understand. The Spurs don't want to develop Leonard-Green as a great defensive combo? And Pop play them together only 10 minutes in playoffs games?
Moving forward, the Spurs still need Belinelli to win games. So it makes perfect sense for Pop to give him some minutes. Plus, IIRC, Belinelli didn't play in the 2nd half.
If and when we get passed the Mavs, I expect at least one of Green/Belinelli/Milles to get hot on 3-pointers.
It's absolutely amazing that it has taken that long.
It's not like he has been chucking (is actually 5/12 on 3's...) or turning the ball over (3 TO's in 75 minutes) or not playing defense (has been ok in isolation, has 5 blocks and 4 steals in 75 minutes as a SG and can do a reasonable job on Dirk/Monta/Vince/Jose when switched to them)... He always creates space for others because of his reputation from range and he is a familiar face and has good chemistry with the Spurs most played lineups which is always important in the playoffs.
I don't understand why Pop has limited his minutes so much, particularly when the alternative is Belinelli who has looked like the whole series.
Green ultimately responds to Pops scolding. Beli is either going to play well or not but not because of anything Pop says or does. If you've spent time in Italy you know they don't give a what anyone has to say to them.
Agreed. This was the first time Pop stopped going to Beli after terrible results which leads me to believe it wasn't so much Pop trying to get him going, vs just not realizing how bad he was for some reason. I don't know how the role players will do next round assuming the Spurs advance. This is a mediocre to bad team being able to take them out and have good results. I am sure HOU or POR will play them similarly. In fact, POR's entire defensive plan is to limit 3's which again might hurt guys like Danny who can't create for themselves. Beli might do better because he can dribble, but I don't know.
However, Carlisle is a way better coach so maybe POR or HOU won't recognize this as much.
First game we have looked like the old Spurs with the bigs passing to each other for layups.
We got some very easy buckets late off of motion and great passing.
This gave us that cushion which allowed us to overcome Dirk and Carter having fantastic shooting games.
Green was a nice addition, but the above makes it so much easier. That block at the rim might return some confidence to his fragile mindset. Dallas is a great shooting team. But they do not get the easy ones that allow a breather to play good D. Dirk had to work his rear off. No big worked harder than he did on either team. And this wears on him defensively.
By far our best game in this series imo. Nice to see some regular season patterns returning.
Now let's get Duncan going. He looked tired to me. Tiago took up the slack.
The problem with Green is he was turning the ball over and could not dribble to save his life. If he can get over that then he should be good to go maybe he was scarred and it took him some time to play relaxed....big lights big show..
He should be playing 25 minutes, at least.
I mean, I don't necessarily think Danny looks shaken. He might get there if Pop continues a guy playing worse in every facet of the game. But it's not like Danny is clanking a bunch of open looks. He's not hesitating at all, he's hitting some 3's when he gets an inch of daylight and is still hustling on defense.
Great point.
Except Terry Stotts worked under Carlisle in Dallas from like 2009-2011. Expect Carlisle to give Stotts the inside info should SA meet Portland in round 2
Perhaps - doesn't mean that he will have the ability of RC to recognize certain things. RC has made very few mistakes in game. Stotts I don't trust to coach as cleanly thus negating this strategy. Keep in mind, while the strategy has worked with Dallas some, the Spurs have played pretty damn poorly overall which makes that strategy look better than it is.
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