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Mills should've played more for sure.
...On a specific night.
Tony is bricking left and right, Mills going almost perfect from the field. Sticks with Tony.
And even weirded: Green can't make a ing shot, Manu is having a good game and he ends the game with Danny. WTF? Almost cost us the game.
Edit: *Insist on le thread
Mills should've played more for sure.
Because pop doesn't want to hurt smush parkers feelings. ing arrogant asshole
Called it the moment I saw it, tbh. After Green's missed that wide ass open three I lost it. Thank God we pulled it off.
Pop is old school.
He rides the horse that got him to the dance. Hard to critique because most of the time it works.
Tonight is the rare occasion that I think Pop was dead in the wrong.
But hey, get got dat dubya.
The Spurs are leading this series with half of their players playing absolutely terrble.....
Pop's been rough but I gotta give ol Potface credit tbh
He has 5 rings. He's bored. Trying to make things interesting ...Why does Pop insts on making life difficult for him by not playing his best players?
How do you explain Green and Manu then? Green is his whipping boy and Manu is a member of his precious "Big 3". Manu is giving him a good game and Danny can't hit and still sticks with Green. Is it because of Green's defense on Paul? Because Pop has already decided to not play Manu more than 20 minutes no matter what? I found that odd, tbh.
Yeah, Green has played Paul better than Kawhi has this series IMO. Plus it only takes Danny 1 or 2 shots and suddenly he's 7 of 10 from 3 and the game is over in the 3rd quarter because he's hitting every time they give him a foot of space.
Manu is just Manu. He and Pop are probably close enough that it supercedes his current uneven play. Plus, the Clips are absolutely PACKING the paint, so Pop wants as many bombers out there who are a legitimate 3 point threat as possible.
My biggest beef with Pop was not calling a timeout to set up a play after Barnes made his freethrows and we were up 1... we still had 3 timeouts.
(We ended up playing Kawhi at the top of the key and the missed 3 by Danny).
Yeah, you turn it over there and that's a layup for the Clippers. Mine was the letting Patty hack a DJ for his 4th foul when there were 2 or 3 other guys with less fouls....
That was a pretty good look though.
Definitely was... Just think the way Danny has been shooting, maybe go for a safer play...
I agree with Patty hacking DJ. I was concerned about Mills fouling out but Pop, apparently, wasn't because he was gonna play Parker till the end.
Pop has taken a lot of bad decisions this series, imho.
Yup, I run that play over 10 times out of 10.
Mills maybe. But Manu ed us in the end of 3rd and Danny provided much needed D.
I would take that shot by danny a million times over. Hard to get a better look than that. He rushed it a bit but great look and great job by kawhi on that play. Very encouraging to see us put it in his hands down the stretch.
Meh, he had a couple of typical Manu turnovers but he was still playing well on pretty much every facet of the game. Green on the other hand couldn't hit and on defense he wasn't making much of a difference either, Paul killed him in the 4th.
Besides, if you play Patty you have to play Manu to have a ball handler. We wouldn't have needed DeMonkey to make a monkey play if Patty and Manu had been there to close the game.
Pop tried to bench Parker in the playoffs back in the goddamn Goran Drag Suns series, didn't work out too well
I admit it, I'm really shocked as to why Pop refuses to take more minutes from Parker and play Mills more. Mills is playing better and has the hot hand. Pop is absolutely making this harder than it should be. If Parker is too proud to sit and would rather hurt the team, then he is a problem to this team.
Maybe he was trying to get Green going after he made a 3 earlier in the quarter, Spurs aren't going far if he can't make his 3s, tbh..maybe he needs the boost in confident/rhythm..
Manu doesn't need to get going, obviously..
It worked pretty well last year, tbh.
Either way, don't turn this into a hater's thread. I'm not taling about an specific player, I'm talking about Pop not going with the best players on the night. It's something I noticed a lot during this series.
I think the best players need to play at the end of the game. This isn't a time for CIA Pop mind games. That means Parker, Manu, Kawhi, Duncan, and Diaw need to be on the floor at the end (and maybe Tiago when healthy in place of Diaw, but he obviously isn't). I was kind of puzzled by the decision by Pop tonight. It wasn't like Danny was going off tonight, either; he was not playing well at all.
I really don't like Patty in late in games because he's not a good ball-handler. At least Tony isn't generally turnover-prone, even if he is having a bad game.
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