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I'm mad. Now I have to deal with Manu possibly retiring? This sucks.
If you had told me that this is what the season after Tim would look like, I would have laughed. It has, in fact, been amazing.
I'm mad
Agreed. Feels awful now and will feel really bad if/when Manu goes too but damn. What an amazing job SA has done building this team out.
Mike Brown saying they're making an effort to keep Patty Mills in check
Ya - that's called being a starting PG in the playoffs vs teams that actually have time to game plan.
Well, clearly. He's one of the few weapons we have from 3...
I couldn't for the life of me make sense of that 4th Q... if not the summer as you say.. then to get ideas for game 4 I guess. That makes more sense.
39yo sg outplaying our 2nd best player
mills is to short with no leonard green is on Thomas mills has to guard curry
Yea. I remember in 2013 they put Klay on Parker and he also struggled the first couple games. The size bothered him until he adjusted and started going left and using screens a bit more.
They should have someone else handle the ball, let Patty run through multiple screens and try and get him free.
His postseason resurgence was great but if you think that people that didn't expect it lacked foresight then you are just a fanboy. He had looked done for years. And yeah, I've never been a big fan of his but if he was healthy I wouldn't fault him for what's transpired in these WCFs. That's just stupid.F*ck you tbh
You sh*t on him and now you cry foul. You can kiss some serious a** in my book. You hated on a legend and you showed a series lack of foresight.
For 20 years the Spurs have been the resting place for soon to retire ex-decent NBA players, and we were able to get by with them because we had the big 3 to lean on and just need specialists for role players who had some poise under pressure and didn't want the entire payroll for themselves, accepting a reduced role from their career norm. Now we don't have a big 3. We have a big 1 and a big ?. You cannot build the Tim/Tony/Manu dynamic again. You have to try to bring real talent into SA if you want to compete - but first PATFO needs to decide if they are serious about competing for a le. We'll know in the off season, if the Spurs stand pat with the guys that are in a downward spiral or if they go hard after players like Ibaka, Butler and Chris Paul. I don't know that all three of those would matter, but it would make me feel that the Spurs haven't accepted their mediocre purgatory.
Before this year, you could rely on the big 3 to pull us back into the fray and make the playoffs. If this team plays the right way they'll make the playoffs again, because there's too little talent on too many teams so the league is top heavy with talent - pretty big gap between the haves and have nots. It's notable that the last 3 years, the two most compe ive teams don't even have good coaches, just guys who basically walked in on day one and had a playoff level team. That goes to show that great coaching cannot make up the gap in talent, most of the time. So we need talent.
Honestly this makes me excited for the offseason/next year. Nothing is better than a motivated, angry Pop. He's definitely still pissed about the Zaza thing and maybe will start "caring a little more" next year. Add to that Kawhichael being even better next season and the continued growth and development of Murray and Bertans.
But if Spurs stand pat, then I have less hope.
I'd like to buy some punctuation Pat...
Naw - your problem and lack of foresight was not thinking TP was done based on regular season, but not knowing basketball enough to understand that Mills was not a starter.
Agree mostly but SA is in the WCF and was whopping GS before the injury. Would they have won? Not sure. But they were right there we know that.
Officiating in 2nd half has been terrible wow.
Sure, but they were in a pinch. Unfortunately the guard rotation was the gamble/weak spot and TP got hurt, Kawhi got hurt and there was not much of a choice.
Manu was too old and not playing well enough to run him out there. Murray had bright spots but that is risky. Just came up empty on the "guard gamble".
I feel like the Spurs will go after one or two players, but they want to keep LMA. I think Pau leaves on his own, maybe ends up somewhere like Houston or riding the bench in Cleveland or GS. I think Mills gets a good offer elsewhere, maybe Detroit since they seem to like our ex-players. I think Simmons gets an offer from SA but not a lot, because he's good when no one else is but he's been playing long enough to be better. I don't think he's going to get much better, if any. He's 27 already. I cannot see Pop investing much in him. Davis looked pretty good even if he didn't his his shots this game. He can put the ball on the floor and has some moves, and we know he can shoot. I think Manu comes back, but maybe not. You never know with that guy. Tony will try to return, and it will be ugly as . He's too egotistical I think to just walk away from the game. You need that in a good PG though.
I'm more interested in Kawhi than the rest. I want to see if he can fully recover, hope his ankle isn't made of glass.
He's a cherry picker, just tries to be a good troll but doesn't understand that either. Now he's stuck between being a contributor and a troll, not a good look.
Yea.. it is what it is. This will be our season of what could've been.
In that regard, we've had decent luck in that dept when it comes to our best players staying healthy. In the last 20 years at least
I think Aldridge deserves a second chance. I know I am solo on this :-/.
For sure. Between luck and great FO choices we have had it great. Just momentary frustration
TP's had some monstrous games against the Warriors and Curry before. I was worried about him matching up defensively, but when he's healthy, he's been able to stay with Curry. I thought he would be OK on offense, just the defense I was worried about.
He's fine overall but I agree he took his stupid schticks too far.
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