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takeaways: my life
There are some important things to be learned from tonights game.
1. The spurs defense can hold the Warriors offense in check...
2. Driving and posting Curry will get him in foul trouble but the refs will swallow their whistles... This is an advantage for the spurs.
3. We can generate open looks.
4. Moving picks and reaching swipes at the ball are fine.
5. Kahwi can defend and score with the best in the league but isn't ready to lead a team yet.
6.Manu and Tim are the teams heart and soul....(I think Tim comes back I think Many doesn't dependent on Tim recovering fully from his leg injury)
7. Parker isn't really transitioning his game as he ages... This is bad.
8. Mills is a decent backup offensive minded Point Guard. He can't hold his own against top point guards though....
9. Aldridge is a skilled big who can play big and physical but doesn't like to.
10. Diaw is a good player to take pressure off of the spurs weak back court.
Is there a good way for the spurs to keep Duncan on the floor in a series against the Dubs? I think Cortisone in the knees is a good start immediately after the last game of the second round. Put him on Bogut whenever he is on the floor. He will be limited in minutes against super small line-ups. Someone needs to fix Danny quick.... Not sure how maybe just put a hundred on the court under balls around the three point line give him time on an open catch and shoot. Every ball he makes he keeps a $ everyone he misses he looses one of that hundred.... With the time and the practice he should get his mechanics and confidence back.
takeaways: my life
I don't take anything away from this game.
My take away is the Spurs are going to need LDN to get hot to beat this Warriors team 4 out of 7. Or a monster series from Manu. Or Curry or Thompson is going to have to be banged up for a couple of games. I take away that the Warriors are the perfect roster for beating the Spurs. They have lots of long wings to throw on Kawhi and completely take him out of the offense. Parker is borderline unplayable against them and Duncan is probably over that border unless Bogut is in. You gotta hammer them inside with Aldridge and Diaw and hope it gets Green, Leonard, Mills, and Ginobili open threes. I know mid is hammering on the Spurs needing to attack the basket with their guards, but they don't have anyone like that since Parker got old, so it's gotta be the post.
#1 this team completely owns us.
And I also take away that this Warriors team is probably the best I have ever seen. The only team I have seen that I'd put in their class is the 85-86 Celtics, who could cause some real matchup nightmares for them.
Takeaway: Pop just rolled the ball out today. No strategy involved at all.
Takeaway: Must find a way to punish Raymond's ridiculous cheating off his man when Curry gets switched on a big and is getting posted. Dude just completely ignores his man from anywhere on the court and goes to stand by curry, even before the big gets the ball in the post.
Gotta run a play that causes the curry switch to the big, but that is actually the decoy to set up the guy Green is gonna help off of.
Or Kawhi (or a throwback Manu). He was developing that dribble-drive game all year. Kobe/Jordan style mid-range posting/jumpers won't work against the Warriors over a series, because like you said, too much length.
Hammering them inside will work for a game or two, and then the Warriors will just go '04 Phil Jackson, pack and swarm the paint, and force Danny (Hedo), Patty (Horry) to make 3s.
At home especially. Either way, the offense needs to be more consistent. Guys need to stop waiting for the next guy to make a shot. You can see guys shooting as a last second choice, and that is always a recipe for a miss.
Man, how pussy are today's big men that no one can seem to all over their midget ball center/pf? ing prime Tim would destroy these gots. Robinson, Hakeem, Shaq, man, I miss beast centers/pf.
Kawhi isn't Westbrook and this isn't 05 Ginobili.
And the Spurs have to hit them. Green's going to have to get hot for the series to be winnable.Hammering them inside will work for a game or two, and then the Warriors will just go '04 Phil Jackson, pack and swarm the paint, and force Danny (Hedo), Patty (Horry) to make 3s.
GS is constantly getting away with moving picks on the weak side to open up Curry after the strong side option has failed. Spurs either need to complain or pro-actively push the picks into the roller.
He's developed the tools to do it and has done so. You can tell when he is not confident though. He is too afraid to fail.
Shaq vs Draymondwill make him his wife
Even worse, is Hakeem! lol
But Tim can't be getting the ball slapped away like in Oakland. Tim unfortunately is not a great option vs. GS. He'll be pivotal in every other series though.
It's not that simple. Yes, the Warriors get beaten up inside one-on-one, but since they have a wealth of long, athletic wing defenders, they can swarm/double the post and still recover in time to defend kickouts to 3 point shooters. It's not that today's bigs can't whip Raymond's ass one-on-one, they can't whip 3 or 4 guys smothering them.
http://www.goldenstateofmind.com/201...draymond-green
Or both.
Another takeaway: this is an incredible Spurs team, at worst the third best team in franchise history, and yet the Warriors can take them out of everything they want to do offensively. These Warriors are just an unbelievable two way team. The only team I have ever seen that could take the Spurs out of their offense like this was the 01 Lakers, and that Spurs team was nowhere close to as good as this one even with a prime Duncan.
Bad shot selection and a lack of penetration. He and Kawhi need to be more aggressive. But none of this fading left early in the shot clock shooting up 20 footers sh** from Parker.
Mills is instant can of offense. Overplaying can backfire. He's good in a 25 minute per game scenario.
A prime Duncan could take the team on his back on stretches or entire games.
This spursteam has NOBODY that can do that. Kawhi is an overrated role player and Lamar is a choker.
I'll take the 01 Spurs team 101 times out of 100 over this soft ass team.
Because that's not his wheelhouse on offense. But he's been doing well. I don't think we can expect him to be so independently great. As I said, others need to step up.
Catch the ball deeper in back jabstep to get a hip around then pivot while dribbling.... Either green fouls or the help is to late.... Getting the pass and moving decisively is key... The problem is the swipe across the wrist as your going up with the ball rarely gets called on green.
On defense as well. Having to play Parker and Mills at the same time was leaving Thompson, Barnes, Livingston with easy 1 v 1 post ups. Diaw allows the Spurs to play bigger. Playing Simmons some can eradicate much of that as well. Even Martin isn't as much of a sitting duck; and if he can get more comfortable in the Spurs offense, we'll have more flexibility.
Takeaway: Shoot the open shot you're given with confidence. Stop pump faking and driving into the sagging defense, or pump faking and taking one dribble then picking up the ball.
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