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worst defense in league history ... its the rules, but whatever ... we are just missing too many important players
This season could fall into complete disarray in a hurry. Mills is craptastic. Rather have travel scrub DJ Augustin, he's only 30. Or just about anyone. So glad I did not watch this game. Feel bad for the fans to have to choke down such garbage.
Thank you for game summary and grades. Expecting bad reports the entire season.
worst defense in league history ... its the rules, but whatever ... we are just missing too many important players
Trading away draft picks makes no sense unless we are getting a young prospect in return. The reality is this team lost any hope of truly competing when Murray went down. It didn't help that Walker and White also got hurt. I actually prefer for this team to struggle so it forces a change in strategy in terms of roster construction. It will also help our draft position.
We are not contending with Aldridge and DeRozan as our best players. We had a chance if Murray & White made a leap this year and Walker forced his way into the rotation but now, I can't see it. On the bright side, I really like Metu and he should be given consistent minutes in order to speed up his development. It made sense to sit young players when we were contending but now we need to think about the future.
But do they all get participation trophies?
Better get used to Mills because after this contract is up, he's definitely getting the Parker/Ginobli treatment.
Thanks for the review Timvp. I thought you were honest. I hope the coaching staff rethinks minutes and rotations. As you said they need to bench Patty if he’s sucking, just like anyone else on the roster would get out of the game if they are being awful. I get the injuries but call a Gleague player at this point. Paddy was worse than a Gleague prospect.
One other takeaway from the game:
The Pacers just provided other teams the blueprint for throwing a wrench into the Spurs offense, and that is to cut off the head of the snake (Demar).
They were swarming Demar every time he got the ball, throwing double teams at him and cutting off his passing lanes. Without DeRozan scoring and being able to facilitate the others, the entire offense sputtered.
Yes, LaMarcus put up a dud himself, Gay needed to be more aggressive, and the rest of the team couldn't hit the broad side of a barn...but the Spurs aren't going to win many games by relying solely on LMA and Gay for offense.
Last night made it look like this offense ride & dies on DeRozan, and if other teams figure that out, it's going to make for a lot more games that look like last night.
Absolutely, which is why Pau and Lamarcus also look worse than last season on that end too.
this is what we can expect from SA for the season. we will be around .500 for most of the season unless there is another injury to a key player and then we could sink below that mark. the loss of murray on the perimeter and the loss of white and murray in addition to white just killed our depth. it's going to be a hit and miss season which is fine given the cir stances as long as eventually there is some development here and there.
Can the Spurs, seriously not find a defensive wing player at all, even if he cant dribble or shoot.
They did. One busted his ACL, another tore a ligament in his heel, and the last has a broken foot.
They also lost two of the best perimeter defenders in the league thanks to ing Uncle Dennis.
Theyll be closer to a .400 to .450 win team.
This x 1,000,000,
There's your blue print. Make life difficult on Demar. He has controlled everything on the offense so far this year, he penetrates then dishes, he penetrates to score, he can score in iso and so forth.
But if you make life hard on him, who's going to pick up the slack? It has to be Aldridge. At least until the Spurs can figure out how to put Demar in a position to succeed when he is being doubled. But if Aldridge is struggling as well then we're screwed like last night. Aldridge has to be ready.
Right now, the only way to win games is to play extremely well on offense. We aint beating anyone on the defensive side. We gotta go full blown Pringles mode right now to win games. and then once walker and white come back, make your defensive adjustments.
And Cunningham needs to start at the 4. We scored 40 in the 1st with him in the starting lineup. Gotta see it again to see if it can work again.
This was clearly a trap game. Coming off the OT classic win -- one of the best Spurs games ever, besting King James -- the Spurs were due for a let-down. Especially with the rematch up next.
No worries here. Move on.
Last edited by SAGirl; 10-25-2018 at 12:20 PM.
Welp after watching a couple games a completely HEALTHY Lonnie Walker should get major minutes no matter how many times he s up.
Sounds like Huestis. But we def ijnitely need him sooner. We probably need another one too.
That is frightening
Zion sweepstakes, he we come!
Is there something lower than F we can give Patty.
sadly this team is like the Lost Years teams we had with Bonner and Blair. Opposing teams know who to attack pretty easily. It's Mills/Forbes, and DeRozan since he's the only ball handler. Doesn't take a genius to scheme that up. This team is rice paper thin.
Mills is the far better player due to his Corporate Knowledge and character.
Blossomgame just got called back to Austin. He has defensive ability.
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