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Mills and Beli are not earning their playing time against reasonable compe ion.
White needs some more 3s maybe.
There is just not much there.
6-25 and it didn’t even feel like we were shooting below average. Forbes is the only decent shooter and in today’s NBA you’re gonna need at least 3-4 strong shooters and we barely have 2 at the most.
Losing Bertans hurts but hopefully SA can get another pair of shooters asap
Mills and Beli are not earning their playing time against reasonable compe ion.
White needs some more 3s maybe.
There is just not much there.
Trey lyles need to shoot way more later into the season. Otherwise we don't have another shooter except for Forbes
3s? This team can't even shoot 2s
our inability to generate open looks against elite defenses
You're just drinking the Sniffer kool-aid for why Derrick/Dejounte aren't playing together tbh.
I honestly feel like they could be attempting more shots. I've been seeing them pass up open looks just so LA or Demar can do a dumb mid range fadeaway
Rather, Lyles needs to be on the bench. The SL doesn't need a non-shooter who passes the ball and plays okay defense. It never did. That's why I haven't been the fan of him there than other people are. This isn't the type of roster where there are a lot of shooters but no one to set them up. They need pure spacing because their stars can't even space for each other. Yes, had Morris been on the roster and starting, the SL would have everything it needed. But he's not, and merely slipping a much worse player in his place (WITHOUT a compe ion unless you couldn't Poeltl starting, which was never going to be a real thing for the whole year) isn't the solution. And it's weird because the team got Carroll theoretically with a plan for him to be in the rotation, and somehow not having the guy who would have most taken his minutes means DMC has even less of a role. It's bonkers.
I''m not cliff-jumping. The Spurs will figure something out, and Aldridge will likely wake up in a few weeks. Murray will hopefully get off his minutes restriction too. But I am just amazed that Pop can keep a guy like Beli in the rotation because he knows the team needs shooting but then try like Poeltl/Aldridge or playing Lyles or not making guys like LMA, Murray and DMDR shoot more threes. At least try the obvious things first.
Worst constructed spurs team of the last 25 years.
Not true, they absolutely should be playing together
Our defense is rough
You seem like a smart guy. Why would this still amaze you?
Kinda where I’m at with it.
Did you sleep through 2017¿ no point guard, fathead at sf, pau gasol.
Parker green kawhi LA Gasoft. Is a better starting line up than the theyre trotting out now, and that's saying something. Kawhi just quit that year
Bertans was a loss this team couldn't afford and as much as they're better off with Murray and splitting Forbes/Mills, as well as cutting back on Belinelli's minutes, the one downside is it means they're starting 1 shooter and playing 2 off the bench. Last season, they may have only started 1, but they'd play a good amount with 2-3 and sometimes 4.
Exactly. I don't get the crowd that seems to think he's played well. As I've said, they don't need a big man version of fathead; they need a bona fide sniper or at least a gunner willing to attempt to impersonate one. He used to be the latter, but in true Spurs fashion has inexplicably become 3 phobic.
I don't know if they will figure out something this time. Bertans was a massive loss. Maybe this is the year age finally catches up to Aldridge. After the Aldridge fiasco and S bag saga, the genius clearly decided he was too old for this , which is why he's been apathetic and enabled DeRozan's reverting to being 3 phobic.
Unless they trade for a starting caliber PF, they're going to have to start Gay and play him something like 28 mpg at some point, with Carroll primarily backing up.
It's all window dressing though. When your preferred starting 5 features an at best fringe rotation player and DeRozan having to defend the likes of S bag, James and even Davis, that says it all about the construction of the roster.
I've been saying this for a while. This team has zero chance to advance past the second round. Why not move DeRozan for an asset or two and see how these guys can do with no expectations?
Don’t overlook the absolute ty spacing and slow ball movement. Pop correctly preaches not to take contested 3s, but this team doesn’t move the ball quickly and well enough to get great looks. Bryn and Gay are probably the exception here, the former having a quick release and the latter having the size to shoot over people, but in general the offense gums up a lot and it’s hard to see clean looks.
Three point shooting is overrated. Lakers were 6-24 and won with defense. The top 10 3 point percentage teams are not even playoff contenders. Wake me up when a three point shooting team besides GS wins a championship.
We actually are generating looks and getting good shots. What we are not getting is creating a 3 off the dribble. It's not a bad thing (see Sixers, they have not hit a non assist 3 all season). But unless DD and LMA are not getting doubled team frequently,
Player movement is poor, spacing is poor. What do you expect?
can't get consistent 3pt shooting without ball movement and spacing. That's why Pop still tries to salvage Beli's season. The offense is agonizingly static, therefore zero outside shooting threat.
And an inexperienced coaching staff too.
OP stating the obvious ... go back to the Warriors forum ... obviously you are allowed to do game threads there
Even if we attempted more, we don't have the personal to make them. Absolutely terrible roster construction. What handicaps us even more is Pop telling those players that used to be three point threats on their previous teams to ignore that shot all together on the Spurs(LMA and Demar).
After six games, Derrick White leads the team in FG%, 3pt%, TS%, EFG% and PPS. And he's a better defender than DeMar, Patty, Bryn, or Marco.
DeMar's team ranking in those same categories is 5th, 8th, 8th, 8th, and 6th.
Not quite sure what the great mystery is here.
Popovich is going with last year's strategy of trotting out a ty starting lineup and hoping a better than average bench will get some wins against trashy teams.
It's good enough for the regular season, but it's not going to produce anything other than a first round knockout in the playoffs.
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