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In case people have short memories, the Spurs have been beaten this badly in championship years.
Awful performance. We're not winning the le this year... You're crazy to think otherwise.
In case people have short memories, the Spurs have been beaten this badly in championship years.
The year game 6 happened we got blown out by the Blazers close to the postseason. Complete overreaction by everyone, when you inflict as much damage on yourself as the Spurs did last night, you arent beating anyone, let alone the Warriors.
Game 3 Miami Heat77,San Antonio Spurs 113
Spurs put on a worse beatdown and still lost the finals. If the Warriors blow us out the next three times we play them, then I will be concerned, but until then I wont be.
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In any othe year the spurs would win. Golden State is just a historic team. The spurs personel outside of Kawhi are all meh meh tbh. Its part of the reason why they have to play slower. They dont have the talent to play differently. Kawhi is essentially the only talent worth a damn and hes utilized poorly as it is.
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Its not a meltdown. Its just realistic observation. The warriors have 3 of the 4 best players in the game..its called talking basketball tey it sometimes.
Look at it this way -- Pop just created a year-long instructional video.
Exactly...this team needed a wake up call; I'm not worried until we get beat by 30 on our court.
Right because of one regular season game in January.
Overreaction it's January.. Unless of course Curry plays like he did last night every time they play us, in which case yea, we're not winning a le. But I'm holding onto the hope that he doesn't shoot lights out every single game.
Curry plays like this almost every game regardless of compe ion. If the Spurs recipe for success is the other team sucking, then I think there's gonna be some problems...
Duncan is 56-10 against warriors
'96 Bulls lost by 30+ to the Knicks that year in March.
We might not be able to beat GS, but
No, we do not suck .... this Spurs incarnation is a great team, but sadly there is another team playing in another stratosphere ...
Sorry but GS team is probably the best team since the 2001 Lakers. Spurs are too timid against them and if our chances rely on Aldridge getting 20-10 on decent efficiency we are screwed. Plus winning in GS will be extremely tough whereas SA has much better chances of losing at Home (see last year's clipper series) than the Warriors do.
I never understand why people bring this up. Were all those wins against THIS GS team? It's meaningless, tbh.
Pop won't blow his load in January, rookies. Parker and Patty guarded Curry most of the night.... That won't happen when it matters
You can't win if Duncan sits and your big shoots 22% scores 5 points and 3 rebounds in 25 minutes of play.
That't just not going to cut it.
Parker might not even be able to play against the Dubs at all. He's a huge defensive liability and the dubs can exploit him at will when he's on the floor. Not his fault really. If he were a little taller and bigger he'd be fine. This is why I believe losing cojo will be costly. A prime Parker made up his bad defense with great offense but we can't expect that for 4 games against the Dubs.
Last night was sort of a perfect storm of crappiness for the Spurs -- a lot of blown coverages on defense (mostly created by GST's weapons, to be frank), a lot of avoidable turnovers (and mostly in live ball cir stances), poor shooting (caused by GST's contests of even good looks), and passive play. I think it's absolutely fair to say that the Warriors are substantially better than the Spurs right now, but last night doesn't mean that the Spurs can't compete with them or ultimately beat them, as others have said.
I thought of the difference between Game 3 and Game 4 of the 2013 Finals last night; a 30-point loss on the road doesn't necessarily mean a lot between elite teams. The other ready-made example was the difference between Game 4 and Game 5 of the 2005 Finals, with the Spurs getting out-everythinged by Detroit in Game 4, only to rally for an epic win in Game 5. Truly, where great teams play and one team plays very poorly (whether caused by the opponent or self-inflicted), the result will most often be a blowout precisely because the other guy is that good.
What remains to be seen in trying to find solace in those past occurrences is whether the DNA of this Spurs team (and perhaps more specifically, LMA) will allow it to bounce back or if they just wallow in this defeat for a while and make the chase for even the #2 seed much more interesting.
Last edited by FromWayDowntown; 01-26-2016 at 02:43 PM.
We'll recover. This is what a veteran team does... it'll light a fire under them, and I'm telling you, we'll only see crisper, better play from this time on. I still think we have the talent to beat the Warriors. We just have to take away their game, make them have mistakes, and make less mistakes on our own.
In Pop we trust.
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