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Pop fell into the "everyone guard Steph" trap. It's how GS got to 70.
He played some defense and Golden State didn't even guard him outside of 16 feet.... so that will be good for spacing.
Pop fell into the "everyone guard Steph" trap. It's how GS got to 70.
KA needs to put his big boy pants on and take shots. He's overpassing.
they aren't gonna double aldridge in the post when greens on him until he starts scoring. He's playing right into greens hands when he does the slows pound the ball back down because green ain't gonna budge. He needs to be quick and decisive with the ball. Dribble pull up. Dribble fadeaway. Not dribble dribble dribble dribble weeny shot.
Well it was still a dumbass move for him to do that there is no way of spinning it. Re ed response to cover up Pop's inep ude.
why is that just like the other game in the GS, Pop doesn't call many plays. I never saw our normal plays except for the occasional zipper loop.
Weird play. As you mentioned he had the clear shot. Overthank, brought the ball back down, tried to get cutsie.
Bogus didn't block his shot. Self inflicted brain fart.
Oh, and Raymond Screen gets away with a ton of . Not just illegal picks, but pushing, grabbing, knocking into guys coming off of our picks when his man is the screener. He's my new Kobe (role player that I hate)
Need to stop switching everything every defensive possession also, makes things too obvious and too many easy baskets also.
Good summary, OP
I think you can see how a game would have to go for the Spurs to steal one at Oracle. That Green was able to show up offensively for this game is huge to the Spurs' chances. In addition to that, Curry didn't have his swagger at all, even when the Warriors were up big. Draymond had it, but I don't think Steph feels comfortable playing the Spurs. To site what I'm sure Mid will soon, Leonard and Aldridge only scored one fewer point than the Splash Bros. And that's with LMA's injury. That's the second game in a row that those two were contained. I think this game was good for Pop to get film on how GS was going to respond to the Spurs' switching strategy. Also, Anderson showed more evidence that he could be part of the rotation against the Warriors, and it was great to see Martin play decisively.
Bad news is that Duncan and Manu looked done. Just toast. If they can bring it for one last run, it would definitely be huge for the team. But tonight was awful. I do think the Warriors' adjustments are good enough to warrant counter-adjustments. Having a healthy LMA and Diaw would be nice for keeping the score low. But the team got the break of the Warriors making some STUPID turnovers. So it's probably a wash. I'd say Tim should be benched against GS from here on out. Let Diaw and LMA start. Manu's minutes may have to be limited even further unless he's having a great game.
I still think that Pop has a strategy that he's yet to show. However, the current strategy is fine so long as it has a few tweaks. The Spurs are just going to have to man up and make their layups. Would have been a completely different game had even a couple of those fallen in.
I still think the Spurs need to play slow to beat the Warriors. If the game is too fast for Duncan they're gonna lose anyway; the only thing they have to worry about is Duncan switching out onto Curry and that didn't even happen in the 1st quarter, it only happened once in the third quarter when the Spurs were sputtering and the Warriors were rolling.
Until someone mans the up against him and gets in his face, the refs aren't ever gonna be forced to call against him and will continue to just swallow the whistle.
My kawhi-hating tbh
Yup. Like I said, moral victory imho.
I think Tim is not done. But he's just not the guy you go to for this match-up.
My main takeaway is that no team can beat this team at the Oracle in a game 7. If we're to beat them, it has to be in 6.
Holy fck.Good:
-Parker is ok for this matchup. He has proven he can guard the post-ups against thompson and barnes. He's also our best bet aside from Diaw to control the tempo.
-Danny Green caught fire, somewhat. His defense was always there, some steals here, deflections, we just need him catching fire like twice in 7 games tbh.
-Kawhi can play in Oracle. LMA also can, just sad that he got injured. Actually looked like a slow-paced game before the injury. Keep posting Kawhi and LMA and we'll be fine.
-We showed some heartcliche as . But I expect to win in a blow-out on Sunday. Hope Bobo plays.
-Pop showed some nice coaching. Refusing to give up and actually trying to learn something from the game unlike the first game in January.
-When Barnes beats you, it's usually a good thing.
Bad:
-Tim is a bad fit against this team.
-West seemed to be lost. Layup drills in the 3rd all cause of him.
-Mills looked like absolute dog .
Basically agree.
Well, yah.
Damn.
No energy to argue/fight. I'm happy with how the game went honestly.
My kawhi-hating tbh
Gonna open up a new tab and check out clutchfans,
IDK...
-In two consecutive plays we saw Parker trying to run P&Rs with Tim even with Kawhi and LMA on the court.
-The only reason that Kawhi got some touches in the 3rd quarter was because of LMA's injury. Pop sacrifices Kawhi's offense in the 3 games against the Warriors for...not sure why.
I wouldn't say that Parker and LMA have the favorable matchups against them over Kawhi's, but they're still taking a lot more shots than him per possessions.
-He put Patty on Curry too much...Pop has been very reluctant to change our 2nd unit backcourt but Patty-Manu can't play together against Warriors, especially when Keer plays Curry the entire 1st and 3rd quarter.
Last edited by YGWHI; 04-08-2016 at 12:39 AM.
5 fewer points.
That's an acceptable deficit. Problem is, the Warriors have other guys who are threats to score 15-20 any given night (consistently. Not this 20 point game followed by 5 to 7 single digit games ) while we have none.
More Kevin Martin, less ginobili. I like Manu but not in this series,same with Tim
I think running plays for TD goes on to all games tbh. But big factor is that Bobo was out. The 2nd game showed us Pop knows how and this game showed us he's trying to mix something up/learn/ not give up too early.
If we want to win, we need to run a lot of plays for LMA. And some on Parker. It can't be all Kawhi.
Mills on Curry was BAD. But that wasnt the case the 2nd game. Maybe Pop just wanted to see where Patty is at? It's not in a good place though. Gonna be tough to play him if he doesnt make shots. But to be fair to Patty, they lay-up drill during the 3rd was because of West and Bonner.
Just pray that a bunch of tech geeks buy up all the tickets to impress girls who will never sleep with them and price the real fans out.
He'll never understand that. He wants Kawhi eating like Kobe.
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