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What do you think Pop's going to do?
Will he throw the game by either benching key players so they don't get to see us at full strength? Will he throw the game by having Parker guard Curry for 3 quarters allowing him to score 50pts. Or will he go all out and just beat the out of them like he did last season twice?
What do you think Pop's going to do?
that, all hands on deck.
Steph Curry is more meat for the grinder to Kawhi Leonard.
It's gonna be an amazing display. Both are at the top of their game and confidence.
But Curry better not get too cute with the ball or the Claw gonna get a triple double with 10 steals.
And Lma is gonna take a massive dump on Draymond Green.
... We made all these offseason moves with them in mind, so now time to toss the dice.
Surely he's going to play them straight up. No point in playing games here. Beat them and give them (the Warriors) something to think about. With the strength in the west, every win is important for playoff seeding.
i don't know. I really think he's gonna experiment and not show everything. He's done it before. I know they can't beat us, but this is popovich we're talking about here.
none of the 4 games are back to back, but the last three (2 at home) are compressed in like 3 weeks from March 19th on, which is good for us as by then we are basically who we are heading to the playoff barring injuries..
I agree. He's going to try and win them. Seeding is important. Now, will he try creative combinations game to game. to see what works against GSW, probably?
Pop seems to be going all in all the time.
The last couple of years he's even cut down on strict rest for the big three. Not sure why his approach changed (especially after if yielded a championship).
Yeah...that's a good point. Some will see that as CIA Pop but you're probably right. Just trying to find what works and what doesn't.
he probably has been reading Spurstalk
when's the first game against the warriors?
Pop will do what he did the last time they met. Parker will guard Curry the first two quarters, while Kawhi is on Barnes and Green is on Klay. Then when Curry starts to go off, Pop will have Kawhi guard him, maybe...idk. After watching Curry last night and after his 53pt explosion against the Pels, I won't be surprised if he torches the spurs. He is just such a good shooter. He is unstoppable at times.
jan 25th
i think parker should come off the bench on this one. have ginobli guard thompson, green on curry, and leonard on barnes or iggy. We all know parker WILL NOT go over a screen so I can see curry having a 30 point 1st quarter
Man I'd start hounding Curry from the jump.
Don't give him even one easy glimpse at the basket.
That whole squad feeds off their MVP, rightfully so.
KL doesn't need to have an offensive burst for this game, just sic him on Curry.
Use that new found muscle mass and body Curry up, wear him down. Take his legs.
Make him spit out that mouthpiece.
Take the Piss out of them and then rub their noses in it.
Man I dislike the warriors.
As you must know, the Spurs were the only team to beat twice Golden State pansies last year. In the first game of the Series, Pop rested the Big Three and still beat them AT the Oracle. But last year Pop couldn't rest players as he wished due to injuries and probably a nasty Championship Hangover to start the season. The Spurs never really recovered from their first losing December (7-9) in Tim Duncan's era. By the end of the month the Spurs had fallen to the #7 seed.
Seems a little early to plan/speculate about a game that is almost three months away.
I don't think it changed at all last year, Tim and Manu were run ragged during December. The team just hit a very bad snag last season with so many key players injured (Tiago, Tony, Kawhi, Patty). Those were 4 significant rotation players. After that, inevitably they fell in the standings and were never able to recover because: (1) Tony apparently really never fully recovered/or age took him; (2) Tiago returned from illness but wasn't in good conditioning, in minutes restrictions, and really not playing well, except for a few games in March, then he got injured again; (3) Patty was never really Patty Thrills last season, besides the injury, he wasn't 100%; (4) Kawhi's development got stunted by the eye infection, affecting his shooting %, and he really wasn't dominating all around in a consistent basis when he returned from the hand injury. It was an uneven year for him, as expected with the role change/adaptation, combined with the injuries.
Pop tried to win, we were just ragged. When you have to start and play Bonner about 20 games in a season due to injuries, its not looking good. By the way, low year for Bonner shooting 36%, and then Boris % were also down. It was just too much to overcome.
Why is no one here mentioning putting Green on Curry, like it worked in '13 in the playoffs? I know Curry wasn't 100% then but Green has proven since that series that he can guard him. Leonard has also shown he can shut down Thompson.
If we could answer this question correctly then he wouldn't be CIA Pop.
Too far down the road to worry about. Spurs need to go to 13-1 for that meeting against NOP; we'll go from there.
Bold this man.
true. Parker could have dieded by then
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