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The East seems to be beating up on the West tonight lol. You can pencil in Golden State for a win though.
I wanna see Simmons too, but he's only going to get garbage minutes save for an injury to Danny or Manu, or rest...
It's what it is, we're going to be rolling with Manu and closing games with him, like we always had... we done well so far, 14-4 is a pretty good record so far...
The East seems to be beating up on the West tonight lol. You can pencil in Golden State for a win though.
Understandably so. We have grown accustom to ball movement galore. Now with LMA we're just figuring out how to best use him in our most basic sets. Behind the scenes I'm sure Pop has something up his sleeve with how to best utilize the talents of LMA and it'll show sometime in the Spring. Tbh what the Warriors are doing is a mesh between small ball and euroball. If done correctly it maximizes the shooting ability and makes the defense scramble which in turn opens lanes and shots. The Spurs will look like that with the bench, and it should appear with the starters eventually. Like I said, Pop is too smart of a coach not to be working on something behind the scenes. If there is no obvious change as to how LMA is being used then yeah, what a ing throwaway waste of a talent.
Meh, loseable game.I prefer to lose these ones that against crappy teams. Still pretty damn good record.
Today was a bad day for the West, I think before today the West actually eked out a small advantage over the East too.
Danny/LMA/Patty are eventually going to start making shots consistently. As long as the defense holds up, all is well.
On another note, it was refreshing to see Lamarcus really aggressive and making shots.
Kawhi had a beast of a game.
Tony played fantastic, considering how athletic and problematic Rose is. He distributed the ball and made timely plays to help in this.
I missed part of the game so maybe its just a partial review.
Going to TD, and Manu in the end I can't understand. If they went to Lamarcus and he failed to score I can live with (which occurred), but it would not be so bitter if we had lost because we went to Kawhi more at the end and he didn't deliver. It was Kawhi who delivered against the Mavs too. Maybe the result is the same, but it was really sad that both TD and Manu looked old there at the end, and TD doesn't post up much anymore for a reason.
Got to enjoy these games regardless. It's all about the journey, not the destination. Some of our best players are old and won't be here much longer anyway.
Jazz have a shot at upsetting the GSW
These forced Boris / West lineups will disappear come the spring. Though Pop may be playing them together to get them reps so they up their rebounding game. Amazingly that pairing is still +6 in 129 minutes, despite how poor it's looked.
Can't believe I'm rooting for the Jazz. They still got a shot to take down the Dubs tonight.
Ian Clark (a dude the Jazz waived) bailing out Curry
Yea Kawhi didn't need to take the shots but at least run the offense through him to help get open shots. Even running through LMA wouldn't have been as bad. Still the bench is the biggest reason why they lost. I really don't like how Pop plays Diaw and West together, especially against a team with a decent big on the bench.
And that's why games like we just witnessed are important.
We beat Atlanta by 20 cruising and then get slapped to reality.
Its gonna take a while. Maybe well past the Allstar game.
Sad to agree with you a little.
We have some projects in the bench but they are not ready to contribute in this kind of environment. Some are too young and inexperienced and you can't afford to bring them along in games like this. Some are truly projects that may or may not pan out.
Some games I have wished that Pop really threw some guys out there, for a couple of minutes to see if the dynamic in the bench changes a little, particularly when they look like , but its Pop, that is not going to happen.
The teams that have given us the most trouble, all had athletic active bigs, except for the Wizards game, which the guys basically and literally threw away.
But Ibaka/Kanter/Adams were worse for us to handle than Westbrook/Durant.
A.Davis/R.Anderson run us out of the gym.
Noah/Gasol/Mirotic/Gibson killed us.
Mavs McGee/Powell ??
Plenty of other games, teams have gotten easy looks at the rim against our bench, they just don't have the talent to convert on those looks.
It has been concerning for awhile. Some games Pop staggered Lamarcus and Tim with Diaw and West, but Pop has been going away from that lately.
Of course when our bench is shooting lights out it doesn't matter as much, but there are too many jumpshooters there, a questionable 4th wing (Anderson too young/inexperienced, Butler ???, Simmons raw/undeveloped). Patty tends to enter a chuck mode at times too. He either saves you or sinks you. The bench still lives and dies with Manu.
NO WE ARE NOT YOU ANUS NOSTRIL SUCKER!
THOSE REFSI want to chainsaw torture them and their families tonight for this, tbh... ruined my ING night... YOU IN THE ASS WITH NO LUBE AND BACK UP YOUR ING NOSTRILS GOTS. YOU'LL GET PAYBACK FOR THIS!!
WHAT A ING HORRIBLE NIGHT
4 GAMES BACK OF THE WARRIORS
Kirby would be like...2-14 from 3...good for 14.3%.
late game execution not been there in close games for the spurs this year (somewhat a remnant of last year...). if they fix that + green gets his stroke back, this is an easy win
the frustrating thing is that we wasted a good efficient Aldridge game even if he disappeared bit in the end...but to be fair Chicago bigs were hacking and pushing the of our guys inside..
Just finished watching the game ... this was the LMA of Portland when he played us tbh ... dominant start but nowhere to be seen in the end.
I really liked how the starters played and perhaps Danny should have finished the game. Manu's fouls were not helpful.
Kawhi once again a beast ... he got his media votes ( kaboom) but how do the Spurs fare in games that I really really wanted them to win? OKC ..no, NO ... no ... MEM yes ... Dallas, yes ... Chicago, no ... that is a ing .400 record
oh and Patty sucks big time this season ... time to ship his ass out IMO
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Play at the end of the game was for Kawhi, with Manu as a second option. Spurs would have taken a quick 2 if it was there
Why you so hard on the fatguy man?
strange game. there were times i thought we were playing good enough to have the lead and then i looked at the score at it was tied or it was their lead. strange play at the end too...
what i saw by kawhi and la is what i wanted to see for the most part.
Rose, Noah, Gasol ... all did not have a good season so far, but left their imprint on the game at least during one stretch ... I hate when they do it against the Spurs
just watched the game, our defense is looking very good at times, offensively seem like we were rushing too many shots esp mills, effort is definitely there. bulls bench play starting of the 4th hurt us the most.
kawhi looks really good, thank god we have this guy.
I could very technically blame the refs for that sh***** reffing in the final two minutes; but why is Aldridge driving to the rim in traffic in a tied game with 1:19? That's not his game at all.
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