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How long will you be staying up switching between incognito tabs to talk to yourself, Frizzle?
Kawhi has just been failing in the clutch since 2013 sadly. At this point, it's expected that in the fourth, he will up.
How long will you be staying up switching between incognito tabs to talk to yourself, Frizzle?
Go to sleep David.
Sadly that is what they do.
Look at REDDIT's version of what happened and only one person got it right, Stupid s tbh.
[–][SAS] Matt Bonnermad_regal 90 points 10 hours ago*
Kawhi left Wall, so Green came off of Beal to try and cover wall, which left LaMarcus trying to slide out and cover Beal. Just a really bad recovery by several of our guys.
edit: Kawhi just got flatout stuck and subsequently lost on defense causing a lumbering Lamarcus to leave his shoes on the right wing.
[–]LakersFatalErrorr 72 points 10 hours ago
Kawhi was never on Wall. Green was on Wall the whole time. Kawhi left Beal for some reason. He got stuck trying to help on the Wall drive, which I think was a dumb move.
[–]Spursnortheasy 64 points 10 hours ago
Yeah, it was Kawhi's fault, he got lost on the screen.
[–]boust12 18 points 10 hours ago
It looked like Kawhi thought they were switching and Lamarcus didnt. Somebody messed up. Not sure who.
[–]Trail BlazersOrangejuicefree 13 points 8 hours ago
Kawhi pushed him, looked almost like it was an impromptu decision to switch. Either way, LaMarcus was able to recover decently enough, Beal just put him on skates lol
[–][POR] Arvydas Sabonisewest[��] 1 point 7 hours ago
Don't the Spurs always switch on screens? That's what I read at least.
[–]stevelevets 6 points 9 hours ago
Kawhi got lost but a lot of that was because Beal did an excellent job of disguising where he was ending up and also did a great job coming off the screen.
[–]Celticspstogdon 3 points 8 hours ago
It looked like Kawhi assumed Wall was keeping it. I agree LA interrupted his path a bit but Kawhi is so good navigating screens he could have stuck with Beal if wanted to. Looked like he misread the play as much as got lots. And if Kawhi had followed Beal then Wall may easily have taken it to the hole.
[–][SAS] Danny Greendiabolical-sun 4 points 8 hours ago
Kawhi didn't get lost. Gortat set a screen and Kawhi and LMA should've switched. You don't chase someone around a screen like that during a tie game. That's how you wind up two steps behind them, leaving room for a lay-up. But it's a new team so there are bound to be some miscommunication.
[–]Warriorscomitiatributa 1 point 4 hours ago
It looked like Kawhi was trying to deny Wall the middle, but I could be totally wrong here.
[–]Bullsjkopecky 1 point 8 hours ago
It was, but if he had curled around to pick Beal back up Wall would have had a much bigger lane than he needed to get to the rack. Obviously the wrong call, but if he goes around the screen to take away the Beal three we'd be talking about how the defense broke down and gave Wall and easy layup. It was a well planned and executed play by the Wizards.
[–]Warriorswafino1 1 point 7 hours ago
DPOY making mistakes
[–]Lakersss3happy1 0 points 8 hours ago
Never thought Kawhi's defense would cost you guys a game.
[–]WizardsSonofSonofSpock 4 points 8 hours ago
It's a long season, even great players will up sometimes.
[–]Sunsireaditonredditsir 4 points 10 hours ago
it would have worked fine had Aldrige not been in halloween mode and taking all the candy. I think Kawhi shouoda stuck to Beal though.
[–][SAS] Matt Bonnermad_regal 2 points 10 hours ago
Gosh, yeah, I meant to say Beal.
I don't rally think you can fault LMA for what happened. What people fail to realize is that WAS only needed a two there. Aldridge was trying to cut off a baseline drive by Beal. A big can't stop on a dime when they're running full speed to close out.
Maybe he should have switched faster. Part of why he had to close-out hard.
Please people, stop ing. The Spurs lost yesterday because of PARKER. I knew it to. Parker is struggling against the top PGs in the league right now. And what makes matters worse, when he gets shown up, he wants to get redemption on the offensive end and then he starts to up everything.
Wall yesterday showed Parker EXACTLY how he should be playing this point of his career. PASS FIRST. Wall had the Spurs running around in circle on D with his passing. Parker could do the same thing, but the guy is just to stubborn to change at this point.
Yep.NO EXCUSE
Couldn't Danny go help with Beal, last second?
j/a
No, he is not struggling against scrubs and average PG. Parker is actually on par. Notice how Parker has been playing within himself up to this point. Wall made Parker look like a fool yesterday, and Parker starts to lose it mentally and tries to match. He basically alienated most of the teammates in the 4th because of this. Parker doesn't know how to keep his ego in check. Name the PGs that have owned Parker this season. Thomas and Bradley shot horribly against Parker, same with Williams. Calderon and Galloway were horrible as well. Parker was +18 against the Knicks.
Westbrook and Wall both owned Parker. Luckily for the Spurs, Parker kept his ego in check against OKC or otherwise that would have been a blowout. But he lost in the 4th last night and cost the Spurs the game.
Parker is still a serviceable PG at this point, actually he has the potential to still be great if he would just become a pass first PG. But he needs to realize, his glory days of being a scoring machine ARE OVER. If he played like Wall last night, looking to pass before shooting, the Spurs would have won by Double Digits. Parker hasn't led the Spurs in assists ONE GAME this year. That tells you everything you need to know about him.
I've noticed that, too. The Spurs need a dependable go-to guy for easy buckets down the stretch when things tighten up. Hopefully that will be LMA. Our three point shooting bailed us out in '13 and '14 late in games, but not so much last year or this year so far. We used to be the 4th quarter team, the team that could impose its will on others. That doesn't appear to be the case this season...yet. Too early to say how this thing will unfold.
The Spurs lost because the Wizards beat them. The Spurs were down by 17 points in the first quarter, they came all the way back to lead by 12. That's a huge turn around. Had they started the game off with any intensity that would have been a 20 point lead + by the fourth quarter. It is what it is but its a game of makes, misses and runs.
You guys wanted their office to catch up to their defense, I guess it did.
I was just talking before this game about how it looked like between LMA and Kawhi we could get a basket when we needed one. I still think that's true. Both of those guys missing shots they can normally hit in their sleep hopefully won't happen often. It was a comedy of errors, pun intention, those last few minutes.
I didn't get to watch the game but was keeping track via ESPN mobile feed. For a good part of the 4th quarter, every time I looked down, it said "Tony Parker turnover".
Kawhi left his man trying to play hero. Lost the game instead.
Someone bold this man.
I could have said the same thing without even watching the game.
Turnovers for the game:
Aldridge, 5
Duncan, 4
Leonard, 1
Green, 4
Parker, 3
Only Danny Green, and strangely, Rasual Butler had blocks. One blocked shot for Green, 2 for Butler.
Weird game.
Parker, by the way, was 6-11 from the field, with 1-1 from three, and 4-5 FTs, for 17 pts. He had a steal, to help offset his TOs, for a net of -2. Parker obviously was not the reason the Spurs lost.
Yeah...looking at the feed, I was ready to hate on TP until it showed him hitting the 3 to tie it up.
Most came in the 4th and inopportune times. Parker is not solely to blame but, he needs to learn to use his penetration to get his teammates open as oppose to shooting all the time. That sweet pass he had to Duncan for a layup in the Knicks game, Parker has the ability to do that, but for some reason he still feels like he needs to be a scoring first PG.
Everything in that game seemed to happen at a bad time for the Spurs.
But being down 19 - 2 right off the bat, well, y'gotta know it ain't gonna be pretty. I hope the team has gotten that out of their system, at least for a while.
Charlotte next, at home.
Stop with the stories, pop is just a naive that keep finding ways losing late leads and games in last second...
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