A Solution to the Team: Stay Away from Old Style Play

[AFMadison]

Ok Pop. Time to fix this offense, obviously this doesn't work

[AFMadison]

Two options, iso in the post or midrange jumper

[UZER]

Two options, iso in the post or midrange jumper

Standing two feet away from the guy that was just Iso-ing in the post

[AFMadison]

That's what you call moving the ball.....
39 assists

[AFMadison]

Pop asking other players to get involved and step up then runs ISO after ISO.
I kind of wish the Spurs would have lost by 30 tonight so Pop would play some other players. This offense is ing laughable. Play Boban, play Kevin Martin. Move the ball.

[AFMadison]

Bumpity bump bump. You guys wouldn't listen, and laughed when I was advocating for ball movement. This one is for the few of you. You know who you are.

I saw glimpses last night of the Spurs actually letting more than 3 people touch it on a possession, and guess what... We scored. 31 points at half

[AFMadison]

Get away from old style traditional basketball and bring back the fluid ball movement. I think winning against scrub teams will help with seeding, but not against elite teams in the playoffs. Any team that has a decent offense is going to give the Spurs trouble unless the Spurs play lockdown defense, which will not happen against offensive juggernauts in a 7 game series.

Against the Warriors and Cavs (the blowout games) San Antonio did not make either team work on the defensive end which allowed each opponent to run some high stamina offense. The Spurs also continue these post ups that the shooter has either a hit or miss opportunity, there is no open man to swing it to, it's hit or miss. It allows the defense to just stand there, and if we miss we are screwed in transition.

In the game we won against the Cavs, the Spurs had to rely on Kevin Love playing terribly, and a huge defensive route in the 3rd. Still didn't look like a promising win despite playing a pretty game overall.

in the game we lost against the Warriors, typically Steph will guard Tony. In past years this was the same situation, but our offense against Steph played well into our hands on the defensive end. This year Tony simply kept trying to attack the basket, all Curry really has to do is stick with Tony and keep his hands in the air. I'm not saying that Tony attacking the rim is a bad thing, it's a great thing, just not in the manner in which he is doing it. In past years, Tony would bring up the ball, pass to a big, run Curry through a few off ball screens before ever getting back to the ball, THEN he would attack (same game plan against Westbrook). In this years game it seemed like Curry had to give minor effort on the defensive end allowing him to show off on the other.

I think this old school style of play completely limits all of the talent on the team. We have too many players on this team to simply come down the floor and run a post up for LMA and Kawhi. I don't think it will win 6. The few years prior we only ran these post ups after ball movement and finding mismatches. This year we only rely on a PnR to create a mismatch, and if the defense doesn't switch, we run it anyways. The Spurs still need LMA and Kawhi post ups, but does not need to be our key sets. I want the "everybody is only allowed two dribbles then pass" practices brought back.

Sigh

[AFMadison]

Tired of bumping this tbh. Watching the spurs come down the floor and run post ups makes me cringe

[dabom]

That's porker for you.