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Dallas was supposed to be an easy matchup; Pop and the roleplayers ting the bed is the reason it's gone 7 (and the Spurs very well may get 8'd again).
Our quasi athletic and young players like Leonard, Green, Splitter could play +40 minutes, too. But that never gonna happen -with Pop's rotations-.
Dallas was supposed to be an easy matchup; Pop and the roleplayers ting the bed is the reason it's gone 7 (and the Spurs very well may get 8'd again).
Pop: Beli I want you to get on Lillard, you're our x factorGreen gonna do work on Lillard. If we win sunday.
Ayres on LA because why the not.
Anybody that knows something about this team knows that Memphis would have been the easier matchup.
Aldridge would all over our front line. But first things first, we have to win Sunday.
That was my first reaction but a young rested team versus a Spurs team coming off a Game 7 high bodes well for Game 1, Round 2. Now Game 2 - not so much......
Either was an easy matchup; whose to say the Grizz don't take us to 7 as well? If the Spurs lose this series it's on Pop.
Grizzlies don't have the firepower to take more than 1 game out of the Spurs (maybe 2 with a lot of things going their way). Grizzlies were a way easier matchup, I don't understand how people can't see this.
That's because no one is checking Ellis. Simple as that.
I agree with that, but honestly I would think that most Spurs fans wanted OKC to face the Grizzlies because the Grizz can beat them and we can't.
Duncan wouldn't be a liability against the Grizzlies, they don't have the weapons to exploit his lack of mobility, tbh..if Duncan is on the floor and isn't being exploited in the pick&roll, the Spurs are going to defeat their opponent without any problems..
Mavs have had a lot of go their way too (Vince's GW 3 doesn't go in, Spurs win the series in 5). Miller has shat on the Spurs in the past, and Tony has been getting outplayed by Jose ing Calderon; no idea what Conley would've done to him, but it wouldn't of been pretty. Beno > Harris as well.
I'm not saying the Grizz were a bad matchup, what I'm saying is both Dallas and Memphis should've been 4/5 game series, so the fact Dallas has pushed the Spurs this far is a massive choke job. Pop should own up if they get knocked out early.
QFT.
Spurs would have handled Memphis 4-1. Dallas getting up for a potential upset against their arch-rival. If we even make it to a series against Portland we're going to be going in tired against a young, athletic team.
Pop will never own up man.... He will never own up TBH.I fear that, like LA in 08 after game 7 against NO and the short turnaround. I fear that part there.
The thing is the Mavs had a chance of getting a lot of going their way because they have the firepower (2nd best 3pt shooting team in the NBA and guys that can go insanely hot like Dirk, Monta and Carter) Grizzlies don't have that chance, they have to outplay you to beat you. And they weren't going to outplay the Spurs more than once or twice in a series.
Spurs have been outplayed the entire series and haven't been giving 100% effort until Game 4. The Grizz play harder than the Mavs because they have to and are used to it. Chances are Spurs would've dropped Game 1 had it been the Grizz in a similar situation. Spurs have owned both teams over the past few seasons and they let it get to their heads.
Don't worry guys, if the Spurs can get past the Mavs, expect Jeff Ayres to play a pivotal role against his former team, much like DeJuan Blair has.
POR is Dallas on Steroids tbh...
The Spurs aren't getting outplayed because of lack effort. They're getting outplayed because of styles and bad adjustments. This team knows how to play the Grizzlies, not so much the Mavs.
I actually don't think it's "great news". With Houston, we had Hack a Howard to abuse, we had a guy we can goad into chucking in Harden, and we had terrible ball handlers like Lin to force into turning the ball over a million times. All we really had to worry about was Asik Blairing us or Parsons continuing to dominate the SF matchup as he has been all year.
Portland has multiple guys who we have yet to really contain. Aldridge always kills us. Lillard usually looks like Isiah Thomas against us. And Batum plays us well too.
Then again it doesn't matter if we the bed again against Dallas.
As much as we on dwert, he'd of given the Spurs loads of problems. Harden also plays like MJ against the Spurs, and Lin and Parsons never miss. Portland is a mirror image of Dallas, only younger and more athletic. Throw Green on Lillard, Splitter on LA, and Parker on Matthews/Batum with Leonard doing his thing. Duncan also doesn't struggle against Lopez like he has against Dalembert in the past.
How do you explain games 3,4, 5 and 6 then? Lack of effort too?
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