Zach Lowe: "Parker could be unplayable vs Dubs?" "Pop played fake lineups ..."

[TD 21]

The notion that they'd have a chance without Duncan or Parker, is asinine. 1) Obviously Pop would never do that to them. 2) They're not good enough to beat them without 2 of their 5 best players.

They clearly made it a point of emphasis to attack Parker and Mills and unfortunately the only rotation player they can guard is Barbosa, who plays limited minutes.

Barnes and Iguodala are the best bets, as far as hiding places go. Barnes is the worst passer of the bunch and Iguodala is the worst post up player of the bunch. They're also low usage types, that aren't used to offense running through them consistently, if they so choose to go this way.

They'll obviously physically overwhelm Parker/Mills, but the only help I'd offer is of the marginal variety off of Bogut/Ezeli. Not enough to where an open dunk would be conceded, or to where the skip pass for an open three is opened up. The only exception would be the minutes Livingston plays with either. If he's spotting up around a post up, he can be helped off of, so long as they don't lose him backdoor.

In other words, the Spurs need to mostly live with those post ups and not overreact.

[r0drig0lac]

start with Kyle / Simmons / Kawhi / Butler / Duncan or LMA

[dbestpro]

Defensive minded PGs use to be the norm. When you think about it, there are hardly any defensive minded PGs in today's game.

[sventhedog]

parker could've at least make curry defend him.

[apalisoc_9]

Chris Paul is the only guard that has gone at Curry TWICE & succeed before flaming out in the 4th quarter trying the guard Curry & run the offense. Replace Porker w/ CP3 & LMA would be getting mid-range jumper all day long ala prime D-West along w/ Danny raining 3s. He also doesn't turn the ball over, can guard bigger players & tries to draw a foul when Curry is on him b/c the best defense is to send him to the bench.

As much shyt as Chris Paul gets he would have been 2005 Manu in the Spurs system.

Not fair to paul to compre him to parker

[Sean Cagney]

parker could've at least make curry defend him.

This I agree with 100%.

[J_Paco]

He says it is tempting to throw out the game last night..Spurs were on their heels for first time this season..Parker got decimated on D and could be virtually unplayable vs them..Draymond defended Kawhi pretty well on few possessions.. Pop started to "play fake lineups" when the game started to get a blowout feel to it (too much Simmons/KA) ...

around min 30..

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=14654596

1. Gonna have primarily place Parker on Harrison Barnes while hoping Green (on Curry) and Leonard (on Thompson) can do a much better job on defense. Parker is the obvious weak link, but making Barnes the primary scorer would be to the Spurs advantage.

2. I don't believe that Draymond Green can effectively guard either Leonard or Aldridge without help, but they needed to be more assertive with their moves and not turnover the ball a million times. Terrence Jones (6'9", 252 lbs.) and Draymond Green (6'7", 236 lbs.) are somewhat similarly built, but LaMarcus feasts on one (Jones) whenever he plays him and completely the bed against the other. Although, obviously Draymond is the far superior defensive player.

3. If he can somehow play under control and with focus, then I think Simmons can help in spurts against Golden State's second unit. Manu on Iguodala, Mills on Barbosa and Simmons defending Livingston is how I would match them up.

Golden State would currently be the serious favorite, but if Pop finds some sort of strategy to slow down the other Warrior players (no use in trying to stop/slow down Curry, IMHO) then they have a fighting chance.

[tbdog]

You put Parker and Mills on Barnes, Iggy, and Livingston, then you deal with it. You don't bring in doubles, they just did not work. You just go with what damage they bring.