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Im telling you bro..its getting on Pakrers head. Kawhi is slowly getting relegated to stay in the corner im going to run a set for me
and becoming more Enrique-centered. I know he's been playing better but is this a good thing? I kinda miss the days when people were complaining that the offense was too iso-oriented with Kawhi/LMA tbh.
I'd rather go down on the backs of two stars in their prime instead of overelying on a 33 yr old PG.
Im telling you bro..its getting on Pakrers head. Kawhi is slowly getting relegated to stay in the corner im going to run a set for me
Marg Bar PARKER!
Marg BAR.
POS needs to be tossed at a river or something.
We ain't going to win without Kawhi ISOs. Someone tell Pop Kawhi is money from there.
Kawhi played limited minutes tonight... unfortunately, Tony had a down game, which is odd, he was playing great until tonight...
Kawhi took 1 shot in 14 minutes. Playing limited minute.does.not mean you end.up with 1 shot.
Parker is heavy responsible for.not getting leonard in a rhytem.
He barely touched the.ball.at.all the first 6 minutes of the game
I wouldn't say the offense is shifting away from the KL post up, I think Kawhi actually had not fully shaken off his stomach bug.
Its not a stomach bug...kawhi is barely averaging 13 shots a game in the last something games.
Parker is almost Veraging the same shots.
I better not see Green with more shots than Kawhi ever again.
It's not one bad night that's the problem, it's the apparent change in offensive philosophy. Since Enrique started playing better it looks like Pop has made him the focal point again. Kawhi has been getting most of his points as a spot up shooter for the past 1-1.5 weeks.
imo kawhi wasn't being assertive until too late in the 4th. he looked tentative out there... one of his turnovers he went up for a shot and decided to try to pass last second instead of being decisive. i think he's still ailed by whatever was bothering him last game. he'll be fine
This is true man. I can see Kawhi involved less in the offense. Anyone saying anything else is a ing moron.
If you look his last five games, his role on offense has dramatically changed. He barely touched the ball in the first half of those games, now he's just a spot up shooter.
Jordan wouldn't have ever let the Mc s stop him from dropping at least 20 on a team like the Raptors. Kawhi just doesn't have it, period.
We just have to hope LMA gets it together soon.
Trolling aside, I think Enrique should have a bigger role if he continues to play well but not to the extent that Kawhi is reduced to standing in the corner. I can't believe some of you have no problem with a Top 5 player being wasted like that.
It's not as simple as being assertive or FGAs either. How about running plays for him? Running the offense through him? Couple of weeks ago we were discussing his evolution of dealing with double teams in the post, now we're lucky if he gets more than a couple of post-ups per game. He had like two today.
Trolling aside, you have to wonder what the train of thought is when Pop is doing his playcalling, or if some nights he just lets them freelance the basic motions of the offense and calls plays sparingly, when he feels like it.
Not an excuse, but the rotation tonight was all ed up... Pop pulled Kawhi really early in the 1st, and then he played some with the bench...
I wanna see what this looks like once he plays his usual minutes, tbh
Wait...Kawhi isn't Jordan? He isn't the best player in the history?? No way.
This opportunistic didn't post the same when Kawhi was averaging 24 ppg in 5 games in a row...now when his offense has been reduced to be a spot up shooter, he casually remembers "Kawhi just doesn't have it"
I was at the game and sitting close enough to notice(), Kawhi was visibly lethargic, tbh..
You just need to rewatch his last 4 games. Barely touched the ball in the first half and most of his points were from three-point range...
He's just a 3 spot up shooter. What a waste.
This game. What's Pop excuse for letting Kawhi parking in the corner the last 4?I was at the game and sitting close enough to notice(
I'm going to start keeping track of Kawhi post-ups. I don't think this is one game/sickness things. His touches in the post have been going down steadily for a while now.
You should keep track of the.touches in general relative to.parker
Finding it hard to complain about Parker huh?
GAME REVIEW:
I would not take too much out from this game as it concerns the offense and Kawhiso's.
Kawhi was not 100% (even those who witnessed it live said he looked a bit listless and lacking energy, very unusual for him), so I think Spurs probably didn't want to exhaust him to start off and maybe it was a game where he should have sat, but probably didn't want to.
Tony struggled against Cojo and Lowry.
Lowry is playing super elite at the moment, even getting elite Drtg numbers, so he's doing something right. Cojo's calling card has always been his defensive effort.
Patty struggled too, so its not surprise.
This was a game our bigs needed to dominate, where we were supposed to have the advantage, and they could not do it. TD looked old, slow and struggled bad.
Lamarcus was nowhere to be found.
Diaw and West did their thing offesively, but defensively they were exposed, which is no surprise to fans.
Our bench tried to bring us back led by Manu, who tried to take over and did for most of the game. We got surprising contributions from Simmons and Anderson.
With as bad as we played, we could not get stops at the end and our offensive execution went to .
Pop had a hand in this one, perhaps in not stemming the tide early and leaving the adjustments for later in the game, when it was almost out of reach with all the momentum in Raptor's favor, but to be fair to Pop, he did bench guys, unlike the past. In this game he went to, and stayed with the guys that were making the required effort. Problem was that there were too few of those guys. Kawhi didn't show up until the end, and even then, he looked gassed. It just wasn't enough, and it doesn't all have to rely on him or Manu either.
Guys like Danny and LMA also needed to show up.
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