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Great. So he lost his health AND his hatred-fueled drive to win.
I got a C- in french but this is incredibly accurate:
I twisted my ankle in Game 4 of the first round against Dallas. I continued to play with the pain and I again twisted his ankle in Game 4 of the conference finals against Oklahoma City. I gritted my teeth, I did not want to abandon my teammates. But the pain was too strong in the sixth game , I could not really play anymore.
Today, I spend my days treat me. But the good news is that I will play the first match of the final Thursday against the Heat. I may not be 100% but I 'll be there. In 13 years , I played seven conference finals and I have the chance to play my final fifth with Spurs. This is really great. I continue my dream , this is really something sick .
We are happy to be back in the NBA Finals . It's hard to get there, or very rare. I can not wait to start . San Antonio -Miami is a little dream final . We often talk to me about our lost last year's final but for me , I think no more . That is why this final has no taste for revenge on me . This is a new season with a new finish. This is nothing to me.
It is expected a final hanging with two very good teams . I think it'll play anything. Victory will switch to small details . "
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http://www.tp9.net/spurs/je-jouerai-jeudi-face-au-heat/
Great. So he lost his health AND his hatred-fueled drive to win.
Won't matter, everyone else's will make up for it.
I was thinking pretty much the exact same thing. He sounds like he's glad they're back but it wont be too big of a deal if they can't seal the deal this year.
Well, honestly, it wouldn't be the end of the world if we couldn't do it. I will be distraught, but I will be really satisfied with our guys and their abilities to come back from that brutal loss last year... nothing that happens this year will hurt more than that one did, that's for sure.
Good translations, Amused, good to see that he's going to play and put it all out there for us.
he needs to play 20-22 mins a game. No more.
I just think he's not talking about it as much. Last year he sounded very motivated, kept saying "do it for Timmy" etc... This year, he probably is just being low-key about it. Though Miami will probably spin it to mean something else.
This.
As I have said elsewhere also, Pop has to limit his minutes in order for him to be effective. He can't be playing as many minutes as he did last year or earlier in these playoffs or that thing will get worse again and then he is ineffective, and people will claim that he is just choking.
Just hold him out for Game 4.
Not being 100% is probably not going to get it done. CJ, Manu, and Patty won the OKC game in his place. The Heat will smell blood and attack him. Especially now that he's made public he's not well. Wonder if another week would make a difference?
I'm with you. The second it was announced that Parker was out for the second half in game 6 vs OKC I knew we had an even better chance to win. And it's not Parker's fault so much---it's just that Manu is a far better play-maker, through and through. Mills and Joseph get all the credit, which is ridiculous, because it's all Manu playing point.
Parker is the best PG in the NBA. But he doesn't involve anyone else when he's on the floor except Timmy. And his dribble, dribble kills whatever rhythm our offense has. He seems to have this arrogant at ude when he's on the court. Like he doesn't respect certain players...Danny Green, Kawhi, Splitter, to name a few.
I almost wish he would sit out game 1 so we could see how we do without him with Manu playing point and 35+ mins a game.
manu can not play 35 minutes a game anymore
manu hardly plays well now 2 games in a row
tp is not that bad yes he misses some people sometimes when open
but pop also has told him to shot 25 times in a game
If we win the first three for sure! Then close it out at home. I'm being delusional I know, but I actually felt with a healthy TP we had this. Now we are in for more of a dogfight and I hope we can hang in there.
GWS Tony...
Man, just reading the translation comes off as so buzz-killing and worrying about our chances to win. We need TP at least 90% to beat them but this almost looks like he's in much worse shape than he's letting on. I hope it's all smoke screen and he's taking a page out of the Presti-Ibaka book of lying.
Just say that he is out for the rest of the season, Spurs will win at home without him, then bring him out in game 3...
Yeah this blog was not advisable unless he's lying....which I doubt. He probably is telling it like it is.
^^^^Thing is, Manu can't play that many minutes every other night these days either.
Manu has ALWAYS been the best passer with the most superior court vision on our team. At this point, the second best on both those skills is Boris.
Tony has never had the essential skill set that Manu came with when he got here. Tony is 100% a product of Pop's development. He had speed and a decent shot when he got here. That was it. Pop developed him into an effective jump shooter, and a good ball distributor within the motion offense. But no one can develop court vision and/or the kind of passing skills that Manu and Boris have. Tony has his strengths, and when healthy, they include an ability to drive to the paint fearlessly (which he does better than any other pg in the league) and score, which draws the defenders to him, allowing our wing players to take open shots. Without that paint penetration, the defense can stay on our wings and take them out of the offense entirely. Tony also is super fast at getting around so many screens on the loop play that he gets his own defender and all the screened defenders out of position, which helps both TIm and our wings.
Pop told TP that he wanted a 50-50 scorer/passer combination, and he taught him to do just exactly that. When Tony was first here all he did was give the ball to Tim in the low post, because that was our offense at the time. As Tim aged, Pop switched to a motion offense that relies on heavy duty Tony running farther and faster than anyone on the court at all times in order to facilitate our offensive set. When Tony is slowed, he can't cut and he can't drive past people, so he is stuck on the dribble trying to find an opening that he can exploit, and it simply ruins our offensive set.
The reason that Tony passes so often to Tim is that that pass is the first option offensive set for us, and has been for a long time. Tony gives the ball to Tim and begins running the loop or driving and cutting back, and then depending on what play has been called and what Tim sees on the floor, Tim either gives it back to Tony or passes to one of the wing men, all of whom are moving while Tim is surveying the court.
Tony is never doing something that Pop doesn't want done, or he would be on the bench just like anyone else on the team would be - like Pop sat him in the second half against OKC in game 6. Tony is out there running exactly what Pop wants run, wether we like it or not.
TP is not arrogant - although he is quite capable of getting egotistical when he thinks another pg is showing him up…but Pop will curtail that if necessary.
We are better this year without Tony than we were last year, and I think that means that we should rely on him less. But we need him - we just need him at full speed in order to do what he does best.
He's been banged up all season, tbh... I thought Pop also made it a priority all season to make sure the team could at least remain compe ive when Tony struggled, and you can see the fruit of that labor in reaching these NBA Finals...
Obviously the Spurs are a better team with MVParker, but on other years, we wouldn't have survived the bad hammy or twisted ankle... Lots of merit should also go to Patty and Cojo, both of whom have stepped up big when their number was called.
Hopefully they can step up for 4 more games, and finish off one of the most improbable runs to a championship in a while.
boris according to steve kerr is the best passer
manu is a great passer but sometimes his passes are risky and they result in a turnover!
You know it...
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