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He took 15 shots. He made 5 of them.
That's about 33%.
That's not efficient offense.
It's not good.
I just can't get over that.Where is Bowen's grade? Oh yeah...he didn't play.
He took 15 shots. He made 5 of them.
That's about 33%.
That's not efficient offense.
It's not good.
one of the top 5 most difficult games to watch this season
Perhaps he would have done better against Durant.
But we'll never know since Pop never game him the chance.
Man, I don't know about you but what is making more mad then anything is how good our team really is but how poorly they are playing. I can't help but see most of the blame being warranted toward POP.I can't give grades to the players of that team because Pop is killing that team.
Ginobili had a good game, but with him in the starting line-up Parker never found rhythm in offense.
Finley vs Durant was a great idea. Finley vs Durant... Finley vs Durant... Finley vs Durant... I mean ......
No Bowen.
No KT in 1st half.
No Hill... but Vaughn !!!
And what is Pop doing with Gooden ?????????
In march, Pop is the worst coach of the league !
Pop is totally out of control.
And i think the Spurs players have absolutely no clue what is going on in his mind.
Pop is killing the chemistry of the team.
I am so ing mad at him.
And here we are....
im pissed that pop didnt play bowen but i thought ime did an okay job on durant after he got switched on him.
its not fins fault he sucks at D and cant guard Durant.
im more pissed at starting manu, what pop has done to mase, goodens lack of playing time in the 2nd half, and vaughn over hill.
It should be a better team, but it's not. Just because you have a good team composition in terms of the players does not mean that you have a good team.
Playing them at the right positions and the right teams, with the right matchups and with the right lineups and calling timeouts is important. And not killing the confidence of your players is also important.
And this can't be turned on and off.
Quite possibly the dumbest lineups I've seen trotted out all season. And that's a pretty large in' statement, if you know what I mean.
Starting Ginobili?
12 minute 1st quarter for Tim, while resting Tony and Manu extensively?
No Bowen?
No Hill?
No Fab?
No Kurt Thomas until the 4th?
Duncan sits more than half the fourth quarter? (Maybe he was gassed for some reason)
No timeout at the end?
And throughout all that, we somehow have a chance to win, and put it all on the line on a leaning 19-footer from Brickhouse Finley?
Well earned F by Pop. I started to question if he was actually ing with the team at points.
At least here the truth is making an appearance.
Part of the reality based community, I see.
We're a large and growing community, it appears.
Spurs lost another game they should've won?? Why am I not surprised?
I can usually sleep losses off...but I have a feeling this one is gonna have a hangover.
He was 5-16 overall this game (31%)... and only Duncan and Parker (barely) played more minutes than him...
I do agree that Pop set him up, but why reward him with more and more minutes when he's giving up more than what he can produce at the other end?
He also took more shots than Timmy or Tony. Almost as many as both of them combined.
Tim was quite efficient and Tony while not up to his normally standards beat Finely's play by a country mile in terms of shooting.
I said he hit 40% of his 3's, not shot 40% for the game. He hit a timely 3 and got good looks. If everyone else hit their 3's like Fin there would be no problem.
Don't bring up his defense, it was piss poor from everyone and asking him to guard Durant, a guy averaging 26 points per game, that is silky, smooth, athletic and long is just asking for trouble. It is not like Finley was not trying, he was just over matched.
I have no idea what Pop is doing with this team. Spurs look befuddled and flat. I give JV a D.
Did I mention how humiliating it is that the worst team in the league, the OKC Thunder (well, the second worst anyways) owns us in our own gym, apparently.
Also, Pop cornered Finley into the game. If he would have played Bowen at the beginning, Finley would not have had to play so much. But since the Spurs were trailing by so much you have to go with offense. Then Finley rewarded him by hitting that 3.
I am not saying Finley was amazing, but you cannot blame him for shooting when he is wide open, hitting 40% of his 3's including a big one at the end, and having to guard Durant.
You could at least *try* playing Bowen a bit and see how he does on Durant. 10 freaking minutes. Bruce will shoot about the same clip as Finley lately, and we don't have to complain how overmatched Finley was.
So bricking everything inside the 3 pt line is ok, especially with Durant going for 31 against him? It would be nice to toss his defensive performance aside as being bad coaching but he can't be subbed out every time the Spurs don't have the ball. Finley was as much to blame for the last 2 losses as anyone on this team, regardless of him making a couple of 3's at the end of the games to make them look respectable.
I agree, but as I already explained, Pop kept digging a hole, because the more the Spurs got down, the more offense you need. And to say Bowen could score at the same clip as Finley, who has played very well overall and carried our offense in stretches is silly, especially bc he has not been in games lately and not shooting.
No one was saying this the first time the Spurs played OKC where Finley did a good job on him.
Well it is easy to say it now, that is for sure...
Hopefully this will put to bed any notions of the Spurs being championship contenders.
They're not. Not even close.
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