Agreed. We all want to win as much as anybody, but if you didn't enjoy the ride and enjoy being here, then it's your loss.
Miami has played really well, SA has played mediocre, and the Spurs were this close to being up 2-0. For Miami to win this series, Lebron is going to have to play like he did tonight every game. I'm not sure Miami can win without that effort. The problem is, Lebron is more than capable of keeping up level of play. If he does, it will go down as one of the greatest Finals performances of all time.
Spurs vs Miami, a clash of the ans.
Miami has proven they can win in must-win situations. The Spurs have not. Can the Spurs turn the page on past choke jobs?
The 37-20 third quarter of Game Six was about the Spurs' defense forcing so many turnovers. It was very much a defensive movement. If anything it highlights what I'm saying here: The Spurs' defensive unit can still score in bunches. They don't need to play players like Beli and Mills big minutes for them to have enough offense.
The numbers are outrageous through 2 games, I don't know if I've ever seen anything like it:
Miami in these 1st 2 games has a +8.3 net points per/poss when Lebron is on the floor, and a -52.2 net points/per when he's off the floor..
So the Spurs have managed to play decent defense despite not prioritizing it, but they can't seem to score despite playing offensive-minded players big minutes? Doesn't that fly in the face of that line of thinking, then? It suggests the Spurs can get a lot better on defense (like holding Miami in the low 90s, high 80s) without really sacrificing much on offense. Perhaps the Spurs need to stop trying to outscore Miami and play to the strengths of their best players and actually try to defend them to the best of their abilities.
They can't afford to play the defensive black hole Belinelli another second but then again the Duncan-Splitter offensive blackhole shouldn't play much either...
The margin for error is just too small to keep doing anything counter productive for the sake of thing like "keeping guys confident/happy" "not messing with the rotations" or whatever the is used as an excuse... These guys are professionnals and Pop should really trim the fat go with the best possible rotation...
Even if we quabble on the Splitter situation, we can agree on that last part. I don't want Pop to make the obvious moves when the Spurs are down 3-1.
I agree with defense first. Trust our best defenders out there. Beli should only play spot minutes. Amazing a guy who was hitting big shots against the Heat last playoffs has now become scared to shoot. There's something about Pop that turns players soft.
It's a balance. We don't hold them up to under 100 playing all-offense lineups and we don't score 100 with an all-defense lineup. So Pop mixes it up, and you get what we had this season. Last year, Tony was a lot sharper offensively and in better shape, so you could play him more instead of Mills. It's misguided to think that playing the defensive lineup more will hold Miami to lower and lower scoring numbers. At some point, Lebron starts making shots and he's unguardable. The Spurs rarely have that kind of benefit, so the offense has to be there, coming from a lot of guys.
This series is about money and ratings - period. If the Heat go down 0-2, tv's turn off, and the league loses money. They want this series to go 7 games, and they're going to do what they can to insure that happens. Both teams are good, but the NBA loves to push LeBron as the greatest player ever, so they're going to help protect his image and his legacy. After what happened in game 1, is anyone really surprised by what happened tonight? And yet, the Spurs had several chances to win the game, but couldn't seal the deal. However, even after a monster game from LeBron, and tons of help from the refs, the Heat barely won by 2 points. Anyone who thinks the series is over is delusional - Spurs are more than capable of winning in Miami, and I'll be very surprised if they don't come home with the series tied 2-2.
Nothing about this loss was on the refs. LeBron did travel on his play he got fouled on, but that was one of the only few moments that swung the game by the referees (it was still a 3 point game when he made one of them). We lost through mistakes down the stretch and missed freebies... That's it, no ref involvement in this one.
In a (lighter?) note, I'm not sure I see Wade going off this series... as far as I am concerned the main threats are LBJ, Bosh, Lewis, and Allen as the biggest Spurkillers.
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That's great for you. Why don't you leave and stop posting here. No one gives a what you've got to say. What's the point of even posting here? I guess you're a troll.
Deep down Darius Bieber still believes.
I agree with what you've said. Great take. I guess Pop doesn't agree though as he keeps playing ty defenders that are choking shots and giving up points on the other end. Pop needs to wake up. The defensive lineup is always the way to go.
we were already winning before parker's miracle shot
it was great, but it wasn't a game winner. dagger sure, but in theory we could have won without it.
you guys are crazy jumping ship like this. spurs could not win in okc... till they did. now is not the time to cliff jump. remember how you felt in games 3 & 4 of the WCF? fans were hopeless till the spurs came out in 5 & 6 and showed their true colors.
believe in your team.
I can only laugh to those who claim Miami can't be beaten at home in the playoffs.. Yeah and who did they play? Bobcats, Nets, Indy.. All those teams would be a first round exit in West or wouldn't even made the playoffs. Miami hasn't even been tested at home, that's why they haven't lost, YET. Time to change that in 2 days, and Spurs will do it.
And we're the best road team in the league. We'll steal one. No problem.
I keep saying, in order to be Spurs in 6, as I predicted, a loss eventually has to happen.But we're winning game 3!
We got to get those two on a road!
We cannot just think of getting one win and a loss. We need game 3 to win and then game 4 be back home with 3-1 lead
Yeah but that will be kind of hard. I'll be ok with a split, tbh.
Diaw has to be aggressive or we have no advantage he needs to post Lewis is not strong enough to deal with him.
Not too worried. If it had been us up 2-0, guarantee Miami would have won Game 3. But with the split, I can realistically see a Spurs win instead. So we'd get the same result, 2-1 Spurs.
The key is for Kawai to be allowed to stay agressive and out of foul trouble AND contribute something offensively. If that doesn't happen, the Spurs are in big trouble.
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