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[Mal]

They dont need bench, when their starters play 44min

[boutons_deux]

Your 2014 NBA Champions Spurs starters had only 2 players in double figures, 12 pts.

Clips had 4 starters with 15 or more pts.

Clips +10 FT pts. both team missed 9 FTs, but clips had +10 FTA

Spurs starters just flat out sucked.

In spite of the winning streak up to the NOR game, the wins were ugly, not impressive. Spurs just don't have it this year. Clips are the better team, and will finish the Spurs off Sunday.

[GrandeDavid]

Our bench should be our starters, tbh

Exactly! It means our starters, especially Danny Green, Tiago Splitter and Tony Parker have sucked. Kawhi was awful last night. Pop was horrible and misused Duncan even. Throw the bench scoring out the window as a major advantage. Well, they are the reason the Spurs didn't lose by 30 last night.

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

That is how bad the Spurs' bench outscored the Clippers' bench tonight.

So what does this portend? Good sign? Bad sign?

Bench scoring was supposed to be the Spurs' ace in the hole . . .

Great Sign!!!

Now Pop needs to bench Parker's ass for game 7. My goodness, why does he continue to have him out there for 30 minutes a night. He is stagnating the Spurs offense and his defense is atrocious by the 3rd quarter.

Parker trying to tough it doesn't show me he is a fighter but more that he is too proud to let Mills lead the Spurs to victory in this series.

[MateoNeygro]

The starters sucked ass tonight outside of Tim Duncan. Kawhi had one of his worst games offensively. It was beyond frustrating, he has a good offensive skill set but made horrible decisions. Green ing sucked, Tiago was pretty awful. It was terrible.

[MateoNeygro]

It means what I said before the series started: We have a gimpy center and a gimpy PG. Danny Green cannot get his looks because our center isn't a real threat, he cannot even move up and down the court without limping and dragging his ass. Our PG cannot move the ball and cannot attack the rim. That means no one has to collapse on defense so they can stay at home on shooters. That would be Danny. Danny has to be wide open to get going. Miami shut him down on command after Tony dropped a dime on him (only dime he dropped all series as I recall).

Danny has had a literal ton of wide open three pointers.

[MateoNeygro]

And as for the OPs question. It isn't really a sign of anything. It just means the bench played really well this game. Each game has really been it's own en y, there's no momentum or consistency from either team. What happened in games 1-6 really doesn't have much bearing on game 7. It's one game, win or go home. Besides injuries nothing in prior games has an effect. Just my honest opinion.

[DMC]

Danny has had a literal ton of wide open three pointers.

Danny hasn't gotten into a rhythm because he's forcing his shots. He's got that "just get one up" mentality. Still, his shots aren't coming in the normal flow of the offense. Sure some are, but most of them he's trying to create and he cannot even put the ball on the floor without turning it over.

[z0sa]

Our bench has been bailing us out all series.... and it's not only because their bench sucks, because they also play Blake or Paul with their bench...

It's because Tony, Danny and Tiago have had an absolutely putrid series offensively...

[MateoNeygro]

Danny hasn't gotten into a rhythm because he's forcing his shots. He's got that "just get one up" mentality. Still, his shots aren't coming in the normal flow of the offense. Sure some are, but most of them he's trying to create and he cannot even put the ball on the floor without turning it over.

I hear you. I honestly don't think he'd make those in rhythm either. He's been that bad this series.

[MateoNeygro]

I think some teams are just bad matches for certain players and The Clippers just seem to have Danny's number.

[cjw]

paul goes off regardless of who's guarding him. but at least mills and bellineli offers some offense. if he's killing ALL of them and the 2 starters aren't scoring, then why not play the bench players who are actually scoring?

Or properly use Hack-A when the Clips are going off, not when you're up 9 and building momentum at home and then take crowd out of the game. Or use it to extend the game. If Spurs are down with under 2 minutes to go, they're pretty much toast given how good the Clips are at knocking down freebies outside of DJ.

Green is a zero on the offensive end right now and I cringe each time he takes a jumper. While his scoring has improved a bit, the ball stops with Parker and crappy offense can be pointed at him + ISO ball.