Game 2 adjustments thread.

[timtonymanu]

Play Patty.

I hate Beli but he could be useful in this series if Manu is struggling. Just don't give him Danny Green's minutes.

Splitter being healthy is the biggest adjustment our team needs. tholdren

[DPG21920]

Maybe it would have. Playoffs are ugly.

That type of assesment isn't good enough to me. That seems like a cop out. When really watching this game & re-watching a few portions/possessions, there was way more wrong than making your FT's. Just simple math tells you if they made their normal % of FT's and their road 3PT % and a few of those bunnies, it wouldn't have made up the spread.

Hence, there is still a gap even with all of those things hypothetically added back into the score. How do you fill the gap? That's the disussion in this thread. That's the adjustments. Making FT's and bunnies isn't an adjustment. How you handle Kawhi getting doubled in the post is. How the ball handlers handle getting hedged on nearly every PnR with their bigs is an adjustment. How they handle defensive assignments is an adjustment.

I don't think they need major overhaul, but there are some definite concerns.

[spurraider21]

[Arc]

he did late, small sample but it didnt help, cp3 did whatever he wanted

iirc, cp3 only scored once on green. green shuts quick little guards down. i don't know why, but he does.

[ErnestLynch]

Does anyone seriously think the Spurs will shoot 32% again ? Miss that many free throws ? F'in please. Spurs got this. I'm actually more confident now than I was before game one. We were actually looking like we were going to get back in that game, PLAYING TERRIBLE. Seriously, this is the Clippers, man. We own these assclowns and they know it. A game 2 loss wouldn't be the end of the world. We'll crush them in SA. Just have to win one on the road this series. That's all we need.

[ChumpDumper]

That type of assesment isn't good enough to me.

Good for you.

[UZER]

I have a feeling the clippers blew their load tonight. Paul always starts like this, then fades at the end of the series.

[Arc]

omfg

[coachmac87]

Shoot better than 37%.

Hope they don't shoot 52%

Play Mills over CoJo

Make FT's

[DPG21920]

Good for you.

Thanks for your continued contribution to the topic. You have been a hero in defending TP. Now perhaps you will work your way to contributing to one of the few actual basketball discussions going on

[marinoman]

iirc, cp3 only scored once on green. green shuts quick little guards down. i don't know why, but he does.

I gotta look again (I wont tbh) but it looked like he could easily lose him on screens

[PingPong]

Spurs played like dog and the Clippers didn't blow out. It's only the clippers kids.

[TheGreatYacht]

Mother ers...

[cjw]

Hey, on the bright side Green may have cost himself some green this offseason!

[ElNono]

Pop didn't sound too worried. Simply said their defense played better than our offense. Mentioned Kawhi didn't handle well getting double-teamed.

Also mentioned transition D needing to get better.

[ErnestLynch]

Shoot better than 37%.

Hope they don't shoot 52%

Play Mills over CoJo

Make FT's

Exactly. Spurs won't shoot that bad again.

[ChumpDumper]

Thanks for your continued contribution to the topic. You have been a hero in defending TP. Now perhaps you will work your way to contributing to one of the few actual basketball discussions going on

Already did.

Make FTs and bunnies.

Hope Splitter gets well.

These will help more than anything else.

It's not like the Spurs are going to address your personal concerns, dude. You're a little delusional.

[Malik Hairston]

I gotta look again (I wont tbh) but it looked like he could easily lose him on screens

He did, but it was also with Duncan on the floor, which makes it impossible to defend the perimeter, tbh..

[gameFACE]

Spurs decision making will be better in Game 2. The Clips played a great game and the Spurs the bed. Ball movement, please.

[ElNono]

Tim saying the gameplan was ok, will adjust it, we couldn't hit shots and we need to be more consistent.

[DMC]

Put your best defenders on the players they'll be most suited to guard. Doesn't seem like a hard concept.

Give Messina control of subs utions.

Send Cory back to Austin.

Maybe have Diaw as your third big and not Baynes.

IF ONE AND ONLY ONE OF YOUR PLAYERS IS FORCING THEIR DEFENSE TO DOUBLE TEAM HIM, MAYBE FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET HIM THE BALL WITH SHOOTERS AROUND HIM.

Leonard doesn't pass well out of the double team. Tim Duncan had that same issue for a long time, now they don't double him. There's no more room under the radar for the Spurs, everyone knows what they do because so many other teams are doing it as well. You stop them by stopping a couple guys, Kawhi and Danny. Danny just has to be picked up as he crosses half court, and Leonard has to be swarmed when he touches the ball because he's not a great ball handler and isn't tall enough to see over the DT.

How the Spurs address that is small ball. They run the out of the tempo, keeping Chris Paul as the primary scorer for the Clippers and making Blake and Jordan run all over the place. Spurs are in the front court, they need to run small ball with Tony, Marco, Patty, Danny and Boris, and put KL in there now and again to spell one of them and get some steals.

Also, hit the free throws. You won't win many games shooting 50% from the FT line.

Hack-a-Jordan won't work if you cannot secure the rebound or if you turn the ball over at the other end of the floor. Still, I don't think employing it before the half is a good idea. You get your guys unnecessary fouls and the opponent is about to go into the lockerrooms anyhow, so they'll not have momentum regardless.

The problem I see is that Pop makes a mental assessment of their chances playing head to head and he doesn't see the Spurs as being where they need to be, so he does everything he can do to put his fingerprints on the game to alter it somehow. That's bad and good. It's bad because it writes the team off before they get a chance to win, and it's good because it shakes up what Pop sees as a losing situation otherwise. Not because of the game delaying, but when he started that in the 2nd quarter, that intentional fouling, I felt like Pop thought the game was over already, and that turned me off to the game. I didn't care if they lost after that. That sucks, but that's how it is.

[DPG21920]

Already did.

Make FTs and bunnies.

Hope Splitter gets well.

These will help more than anything else.

It's not like the Spurs are going to address your personal concerns, dude. You're a little delusional.

That's just a random internet throw away line. No one thinks what they type on here will be implemented by the actual Spurs. This is a Spurs board and this is a basketball discussion thread. Making FT's isnt an adjustment. That's just something every team tries to do. Requires no actual planning.

Not sure why you are more interested in arguing than contributing something of substance and random throw away lines?? It's the same value as the Parker bashing threads.

[Nathan89]

Simple, bench Parker.

Especially considering they double Kawhi every time he goes in the post. The offense needs to include whatever necessary for Kawhi to succeed. That's the only way we will succeed. You don't play a non-shooter next to someone that demands a double team.

[z0sa]

Hit free throws.

Play Patty Mills more.

Danny Green needs to shoot mid range jumpers if he gets ran off the line. If I was the coaching staff, Id tell him: Dont dribble more than twice and never ask for screens at all.

[benstanfield]

Parker/Green/Ginobili/Diaw a combined 11/44

Maybe call some plays to get some open looks. "Tony Dribble" isn't working.