I'm starting to think the Cavs might be a worse matchup for The spurs than the warriors. If they miraculosuly win against the warriors a tougher matchup is ahead.
Their dribble/drive penetration offense tonight looked unstoppable. Kyrie and Lebron is are both going to overkill the spurs.
Kyrie/Lebron Duo is a massive matchup nightmare considering our Rim protection is non-existant...
The spursbare going to get pick and rolled massacared to death..
Not going to happen. Pop loves his international "cultured" players.
Even if they played 20mpg that should be enough to massacare the spurs.
He played 2015 Porker like prime Tony while he had patty shooting 70%TS.
Pq0
Spurs need a miracle
Talking about our bench carrying porker.
Seriously I'm going to start a #FirePop movement on the net (website/twitter/sponsored facebook page etc..) if Pop does go down with the Gasoft/Porker ship in the playoffs..
They can't be hidden... hopefully Pop "managing" minutes, using his discretion, etc.
Imo gasol and dedmon are a better fit together than LMA and Dedmon because Lee and Gasol would be just as bad defensively.
Moving LMA to the bench would be the ideal but just won't happen. He could fill the ginobili role where he is a obviously a "starter" but fills a gap in the bench
Also this, you can't hide both a big and a guard at the same time. Hiding schemes on defense rely on the idea of a big filling a gap or a guard stopping penetration and forcing things to the baseline.
Kyle Anderson os a better rim protector than Gasol, tbh.
Play them less. He benched TD against the Warriors last year. Says all you need to know. He is well aware of the issues everyone here complains about
Well, we're not getting to the Finals honestly so it doesn't matter
Gasol and Parker are going to start and play within a certain range of minutes, no matter the match-up or their performance. It's just a question of whether they skew towards the high or low end of it. Against these two, it's likely to be the low end, particularly in Gasol's case.
The questions are: do they have one player good and suited enough to soak up significantly more minutes or do they do it by committee? Who's the fifth finisher in close games? Do they stay big or go small?
I know it might sound blasphemous to say, but I think the Spurs need to move on fromPopovich, because his bull almost cost us the game today. The game was over in the first quarter. Leonard and Aldridge couldn't miss . What does he do? Benches them.. wtf. It's like he doesn't want us to blow teams out. Then they stuck with us the rest of the game until the 4th.
I made a thread or post about this before the season started saying does he own it to kawhi to bench Parker and Manu of they are absolutely hurting the team in the playoffs, or is he ok waisting another year.
But what has he ever done in his coaching career to make you think he won't go do this again. He is notorious for waiting until it's too late to make changes...like the second half of the elimination game kinda late. Then he can say, see I told you it wouldn't work.
Duncan had a 25 point first half in game 6. The 2nd half, the ball was taken out of his hands. That's all you need to know abut popovich the past few years. It's like he covering a point spread against the spurs.
How will Leonard defend cavs without Duncan behind him?
Pop called a time out in 2014 game 6 and kept tiago instead of putting in Duncan.
Defensively, I'm more worried about Gasol than Parker in this potential match up. Parker can be hidden a bit on JR Smith as he is basically a spot up shooter these days and if Cleveland want to isolate JR to take advantage of Tony, I would welcome that vs there ball movement getting the D scrambling.
Gasol can not chase Love out to the 3pt line and I doubt he can handle the defensive board against Thompson and Love...
I will never forget this. He let the Heat but a 10 point lead and when he does call a timeout, he keeps tiago.Pop called a time out in 2014 game 6 and kept tiago instead of putting in Duncan.
I just wanted to add to this.
Yes, bench Parker because Mills can definitely guard Irving. You won't need to hide him at all.
Keep Lebron on Earth and let Kyrie get his. Unfortunately, Love is also a match-up problem and Lebron being on “earth” is probably a 23 pt 8 reb 8 assists 2 blocks performance.
Except Patty actually gives the team something unlike just being a POS every ing possession.
Yeah Patty was doing a lot for us against OKC last year, including playing awesome defense against Westbrook. Again, I like Patty and he has a nice role, but he can't guard anyone and if he isn't making threes, he's close to worthless.Except Patty actually gives the team something unlike just being a POS every ing possession.
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