Game Thread: PLAYOFFS. Rnd 1, Game 2: Spurs @ Nuggets — Tue. (4/16) - 8:00/C (4:00am Riga Time)

[Degoat]

Gay and Bertans were fcking horrible tonight

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Waste of a playoff appearance, should’ve gone for a lottery pick

[Xx_SpursNation_xX]

I'm not one to blame Pop for everything like some you losers but damn this was a poorly managed game on his part.

[Proxy]

I blame Aldridge and Demar. They've never seen a 20ft 2-pointer they didn't absolutely love. So scared to attack the rim it hurts.

Tim and Manu would tear this ty league apart with those bodies.

[LongtimeSpursFan]

No one chokes like the Spurs, no one. these clowns.

Warriors 4-15-19

[SpurPadre]

Warriors 4-15-19

I raise you Game 6, tbh.

[sasaint]

This will give that young Nuggets squad all the confidence in the World. I'm seething mad right now.

Yeah, their adrenaline high won't end until this series is over.

[Capt Bringdown]

If the Spurs got blown out, you might be able to shrug it off.
I gotta feeling this game cannot be shrugged off. Denver goes into game 3 with huge momentum, knowing they can take the Spurs best punch and come back from big deficits.
Spurs have reason to doubt themselves, and I wouldn't be surprised if Denver takes over from here.

[daslicer]

No one chokes like the Spurs, no one. these clowns.

There is a team in the Bay Area that blew a 31 point lead at home the other night.

[El Santo]

No ball novement in the 4th just heroball derozan to it up ... and rudy sucked poetl should of stayed on in the 4th..

[Spurch]

Rudy has too much better if we're to win this series he's supposed to be our third best scorer and leading defender, he's a no show smh

[mexicanjunior]

Waste of a playoff appearance, should’ve gone for a lottery pick

This...

[Budkin]

Only silver lining is we almost did this twice (Game 1) and didn't. I'm fine with the split. But yeah, Pop was out of his ing mind tonight.

[CitizenDwayne]

Why would anybody be discouraged by this game? Obviously the meltdown sucks, but they dominated 3 quarters on the road, it took home biased officials + one of their volume chuckers getting hot to win the game

Denver's flaws were on full display again..

This

In no way is this Denver team scary

Horrible technical+jacker getting hot=den victory. We’re on to game 3

[tim_duncan_fan]

Why would anybody be discouraged by this game? Obviously the meltdown sucks, but they dominated 3 quarters on the road, it took home biased officials + one of their volume chuckers getting hot to win the game

Denver's flaws were on full display again..

We were up as much as we were because they were bricking open shots and missing gimmes.

[FkLA]

Up 20 with little more than a quarter to go and instead of keeping the foot on the pedal Pop went with a Mills, Forbes, Bellinelli perimeter. Any other coach would get murdered for it.

That technical too. What great timing. If any player costs the team a point like that they're subbed out so they can get over themselves.

[emanueldavidginobili]

We just lost the series, tbh.

Lmao because we didn’t go up 2-0 against the best home team in the NBA?

[mclinejr]

I’ve missed these playoff overreactions. We didn’t really go through this last year because we never had a chance against golden state. Everyone, relax. Spurs in 6.

[GigaloGino]

I turned on the game right before they through things away in the late 3rd. I was impressed how aggressive the tempo was. The Pop makes subs utions and those guys, patty, Marco, Gay came in half ass'd. The tempo dropped to that of a regular season game. Us slowing down gave Murry a change to find is shot. I seen so many games go with a lead like this when pop subs in the late 3rd. It destroys the tempo. It reminds me of game 7 finals when pop did the same thing. Then I was screaming No! The starters have to grind it out! Its 15 minutes. Call time outs if they need to get a small breather/foul.

[mexicanjunior]

There is a team in the Bay Area that blew a 31 point lead at home the other night.

No one will remember the Warriors choke since they will win in 5. Spurs just lost this series...

[HankChinaski]

Questionable decisions in the 3rd Quarter. Jamal Murray going nuclear, that 3 ball with white glued on him and that Sprint to the stop 3 ball also we're just ridiculous shots he made.

Murray is the reason they closed out that game. You have to tip your hat when a guy just plays out of his mind.

Missed opportunity to come back home 2-0.

Hopefully some of bench comes back to life

[Capt Bringdown]

They've never seen a 20ft 2-pointer they didn't absolutely love. So scared to attack the rim it hurts.

Not just any 20ft shot, but those soft, soft fadeaways, possibly the worst shot you can take in crunch time.

[Degoat]

Well we did our job to split their home games but that was a momentum killer tonight

[Jay.From.NbTx]

Horrible loss.. we had this series in the palm of our hands with this win. But of course bad rotation choices and dog defense lead us to our doom. Rudy needs to show the up he’s been absolutely terrible idk how many times he’s turned the damn ball over

[SpurPadre]

There is a team in the Bay Area that blew a 31 point lead at home the other night.

There is also a team that blew a game in the highest magnitude possible in Game 6. His point was that our Spurs have a history of blowing big games that doesn't seem to happen as often with other playoff teams.