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Our best rebounder
Best stealer
Supposed to be best facilitator too
Best scoring machine too
is going to suffer. We lost Timmy and now our best defender the past couple of seasons is our #1 scoring option.
Our best rebounder
Best stealer
Supposed to be best facilitator too
Best scoring machine too
The D will be fine. Held the Rockets to 38 points in the second half. The offense is by far the biggest issue.
And almost 32 in just one quarter.
Do you really think the Spurs don't have a rim-protection issue??
You just can't keep on giving up 30+ point quarters... you can't. Might happen once or twice if a team gets really hot, but this happens too often now.
I said looking at Danny to be the savior on that just won't work. This has to be a collective effort from the team. It's clear that when they really want to, they can play good to very good D.
Pop realized he's got to play small, yet he started Pau in the second half. If Tim Duncan could handle being benched, so should Pau when he's clearly a bad match up.
They also got the LMA on Harden switch whenever they wanted and he carved them with his passing. This game was very much on Pop.
That said, I agree offense is the bigger problem. No one on the team could penetrate consistently and it's not like Houston's defense is even average. Terrible flow offensively throughout the game and not for the first time.
This.Our best rebounder
Best stealer
Supposed to be best facilitator too
Best scoring machine too
The Spurs are going to wear Kawhi out.
Get him a ing pg, Pop.
Gasol is too soft and I don't like too iso play of Kawhi.
Two new lineups. New players at nearly all spots. It'll take time to learn each other. If they play a fill game of defense, they're looking really good. Not worried, as that comes with time.
He calls for the ball. It's his bad decisions,not a coaching decision. There are still plenty of facilitators on the team.
He wants to do everything, that's his call.he needs to learn balance, and he will with time.
Wrong.
Parker and Gino are 5 years past being
consistent play makers for the season and playoffs.
Get the a real pg asap,
Or the Spurs may not make the playoffs.
The Spurs were great defensively when Green on the floor. They allowed a pace of 89pp48. Without him, it was 115pp48. Him being out there did pretty much fix everything. Him only being out there 26 minutes while Manu had 21 mostly abysmal minutes on the other hand.... 110pp48 on versus 94pp48 when off. Simmons was 89pp48 on and 110pp48 off. Kawhi was 105pp48 on and 85pp48 when off.
There was definitely an issue of Pop overplaying Kawhi and underplaying Simmons and Green. Leonard's the MVP of the team, but the rest of the guys scored at a 138pp48 clip when he was on the bench. When he was on the floor, they scored 90pp48. That's definitely a contributing factor here. Offense with Green was 111pp48 on and 94pp48 off. Simmons on offense 110pp48 on and 91pp48 off.
Mitigating factors apply, of course, especially playing with Harden in the game or not. But their minutes didn't align exactly anyway.
Last edited by Chinook; 11-10-2016 at 07:51 AM.
not worried just yet.
Would you say Kawhi ISOs make everyone else worse?
I'm definitely worried about that, and also that his offensive load is too heavy considering they need him to be at his best on defense too.
"Would you say Kawhi ISOs make everyone else worse?"
kills many chances of The Beautiful Game ball movement, and all-player involvement.
Despite what his shills think, yes. I don't think the Spurs should be built on Kawhiso. Not to the extent they are. No one can get into rhythm because their touches completely depend on when Kawhi has to pass or wants to pass. If you contrast that to Parker's heyday, the Zipper Series had plays for all five guys, and it wasn't Parker's decision as to who got the ball. The set leveraged Parker's gravity and gave him opportunities to attack without constantly putting the ball in his hands. That's what the Spurs need: An offense that emphasizes Kawhi but also allows the others to be options and not contingencies.
Despite the dearth of playmakers, the team managed to make it work without Kawhi last night. That's not going to always be the case, because Simmons and Nico are inconsistent. But with guys like Mills and Lee, the Spurs can still play a really nice floor game. They just need to figure out how to do that while not marginalizing Leonard.
I strongly agree. I'm not calling for the "beautiful" game because that isn't realistic with this roster makeup, but the Spurs need to be a little more unpredictable. The Kawhiso doesn't really do anything but get Kawhi going if he is making shots and it doesn't bend the opposition defense enough to open up other options or suck in the defense enough to get them out of position to allow our guys to punish on the offensive boards.
Great stretch of D to bring us from 11 down to tied.
Popped puts Gasoft back in, pulls Danny and Simmons.
Kawhi's defense has been exposed. He's been reaping the same benefits Bowen did, while they're both fine defenders, they looked a lot better having the best rim protector and defensive coordinator of all time behind them. Not only has our rim protection been bad, the communication on D has been horrific to watch night in and night out.
no, because Mills seems to get a lot of open 3's off Kawhi passes because he moves without the ball. Aldridge just wants to camp out 20 feet from the basket a and Gasol and just soft as wet tisue
Since it's still early in the season and there is plenty of time for experimentation, I'd like to see Pop try Simmons-Green-Kawhi together, tbh..
Despite the short length of the stint last night, I enjoyed seeing Simmons and Green on the floor together(which helped lead the Spurs to a run to tie the game), rather than having 1 sub out for the other..
When the will people get this? You can see many players not where they should be and so many unforced turnovers leading to easy points. This will all improve with time. We never see what the team is gonna be till after the ASB.
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