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Rasual Butler could rediscover his touch & have a Steve Kerr moment.
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Rasual Butler could rediscover his touch & have a Steve Kerr moment.
The Wiz picked him up.
They aren't trading Covington b/c he is on a dirty cheap contract.
If Tony can keep up his play then Kawhi can pick his spots on fastbreaks & attack the rim.
Bonner. Resting the mamba for the finals.
Watch SA get red hot from deep during the playoffs
Ugh, I still cringe when I think about that 04 collapse against LA. 20 game winning streak for nothing...same story against Thunder in 2012
Obviously things are looking great and there's no need to be too worried about this team...but the lack of 3-point shooting is certainly something that I could see becoming a problem down the road. Right now it's manageable because Kawhi/Tony are both shooting great. Manu is also having his best 3-point shooting season in years. But if those guys cool off a bit and others don't step it up, the Spurs could be in trouble.
Just have to hope Patty/Danny get their together at some point. The defense is good enough to potentially win a le even if the offense is lacking, but I don't like our chances against a team like GS/Cleveland if we're not hitting 3s.
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If he isn't a gifted ball handler, he won't improve parking in the corner most of the game.
Some possessions is needed to create space for others, to reserve his energy, but ...much of time? No.
We have a guy in Rasual Butler who can help in that department and he played for a little while at the beginning but there's just too much compe ion for minutes factoring in other aspects of the game so he can't get in there.
He was in uniform in this particular game. Bonner in dress clothes. But I think Pop would just as soon give first dibs to Simmons/Anderson and he did. Rasual ready there though.
Anthony Morrow? Laquon Treadwell?
Yes. Much of the time, when he is the biggest 3 point threat on the team. He may be a good post player, but we hqve lots of those. We don't have lots of three point shooters. It's very simple, really. You are worried about trying to improve him. Stop worrying. He's in good hands.
He's also not going to become a good ball handler. That doesn't happen at this age. He is what he is. He can make some modest improvement, but it will never be his strong suit. You can't wish it true.
We have seen them attempt to force Danny to "work on his ball handling" and "decision making" when he is forced off the three point line. Danny is not a ball-handler, either. Can't put a square peg into a round hole.
Kawhi is just not going to make the leaps in ability some expect. He's already exceeded expectations by a wide margin, offensively. Keep it real.
And, if you are goin to bold , dont change the quote when you comment on it...much and most are not the same word...most has a specific implication...greater than 50%, while much is sufficiently vague enough to leave the quan y to be determined by the coaches and players as necessary in different situations...
Tbh. It has only become a problem now since green has been sucking. It is worrisome but like what I keep saying to td21, who was left in the market and what did we have to offer? Obviously Pop and co thought the team was good enough on shooting, things just havent been turning out the way they are supposed to be with Danny.
I've always had the opinion that Simmons would be critical for playoff basketball. He plugs a gaping hole in defense.
Anderson will depend on the matchups. Against the Cavs, Anderson definitely has a big advantage over guys like Dellevedova, Smith, Shumpert and Irving. Cavs are going to bully guys like Patty. Inserting Anderson reverses the mismatch.
The key attribute though that I like with both Simmons and Anderson is that they can both score with someone covering them tightly. Notice how Aldridge just wittles under the coverage? Contrast that with West who is expecting contact and coverage, day and night. Duncan, Manu and Parker all are comfortable playing with contact, that's something absolutely necessary come playoff basketball.
Green dribbling is a disaster about to happen. I agree that a block is better than him putting it on the floor.
I absoulutely hate the idea the Manu has to play more minutes and carry the team. That's going to be a recipe for disaster. Since when did a championship team lean heavily on the services of a 38 year old shooting guard? Diaw, Anderson and Simmons need to step up to the plate and take those 3 aggresively.
I thought the Wizards signed him up for 2 years.
He won't be an elite ball handler but can become decent, good enough. He's learning, growing, improving fast in the last months...He's a long way away from being a finished product.
Some people said he couldn't improve his jumper...he has developed his mid-range and three point shot so well. Others said he wouldn't have the passing skills to handle and pass out of a double-team...he's doing a nice job finding the open man. People said he couldn't be a 20 ppg...he's one now.
I wouldn't bet against him, at age 24 he still has room to get better.
Also, I wouldn't compare Green to Kawhi. Even if I love Danny, he doesn't have the intensity, talent and ability to improve that Kawhi has.
I do think he can get better. I don't think anything they're doing is hampering that like some seem to believe. But, I do think ball-handling is a uva lot harder to improve than shooting or passing out of double teams, etc. He may improve in that area, but it won't be the improvement we've seen in his 3 point shooting, for example, and expecting that, or gearing your gameplan in that direction is a fool's errand, IMHO. Tim Duncan could have become a better ball-handler, too, but you still wouldn't have wanted him doing much of it even if he had made a 10% improvement. That's not to tAke anything away from Tim Duncan. Let the game come to Kawhi.
Green is actually shooting 50% 3PT for the month of January. So let's just hope he's moving back towards his average. Spurs have no choice but to believe in Green. No one else on the bench can take his place. Anderson and Simmons can't shoot 3's and both need the ball to be effective. Manu needs to stay on the bench to lead the 2nd unit. Butler seems to be buried at the end of the bench and Mills is too short to guard starting SG's. Doubt Pop will make a midseason trade when they are 35-6.
Where is Ray Allen now? hmmmmmm??
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