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Especially when LeBron is guarding Parker, he has to know that Kawhi most likely has the matchup advantage. In the GS series they killed Parker like that, as a veteran PG how can he no know that is just...
He was covered for game 6 but something tells me he's gonna be open again tomorrow.
Especially when LeBron is guarding Parker, he has to know that Kawhi most likely has the matchup advantage. In the GS series they killed Parker like that, as a veteran PG how can he no know that is just...
I have to point this out about the rebounding and turnovers: only one of our last three games was a good rebounding game and a good turnover game.
And the one good game we had was negated by Ginobili. We were lucky to get game 5 with 60% shooting, and we had all that momentum for game 6. . .and now it's gone.
As always, I want the Spurs to win, BUT. . .being an objective viewer, I have to say the following is the most likely:
The Spurs will turn the ball over more than last night. They have every game except game 1, and the last 2 before that were our worst turnover games of the series.Also our worst two rebounding games.
The Spurs will likely not rebound that well again, but it's possible.
The Spurs will again shoot poorly from three. In fact, most of their jumpers will probably miss because of the increased tension.
Duncan won't play as well (can still play good, but we won't get another efficient 30 from him).
Ginobili actually is more likely to suck again than be good again. I said this after game 5 too (it was an unpopular opinion, but look what happened). Ginobili hadn't posted back to back "good" games since early March, and it was against lottery teams. He's only had an above average game (using GameScore stat) 20% of the time this postseason. . .including game 5, but before game 6. In other words, the odds of Ginobili playing below average is about 80%, and playing above average (not even "good") is less than 20%.
And lastly, the by FAR biggest thing: The refs actually seemed to favor the Spurs at times last night. If I was a Heat fan I would've been pissed. Multiple times I thought "holy I can't believe they didn't call that on us". That will NOT happen again.
I would not be shocked if Timmy lays another 30 on the Heat in game 7. Posters underestimate this guy. I've always said if Pop didnt treat him with kidgloves...he would still be averaging 20 and 10 easily...every year. Pop is just to protective. Timmy had 20 and 14 in game 1...and 30 and 17 in game 6...guy is still the boss.
I saw right away that Miami had shifted to outside coverage and was allowing Tim to go untouched to the rim. That saved them from that extra 1 point a three provides. They shut down everyone and made Tim beat them inside. After Tim's 1st half performance, they decided to cover him so the Spurs had to get something else going but it ended up being Parker trying to get his. Manu gets too cute with his passes time and again and forces things. The results is more often a turnover now since he's not fooling anyone. He'd be better to drive hard to the rim and get to the FT line.
The lack of assists comes mostly from the fact that there was completely too much one on one ball, and that stems from the fact that each player who touched the ball seemed to think they were going to get it done on their own.
There are a lot of missing ingredients from the last game that can be corrected in this one. Hopefully the Heat think they played just fine and fool around during practice. It won't happen but that would be nice.
I don't underestimate Duncan. I've watched his entire career, and before that I watched most of David Robinson's career. I've been watching the Spurs for 21 years dude. It's just the fact that he's old and that was the best first half he's had in. . .honestly I can't even remember the last time he dropped 25 in a half.
I hope Duncan can do it again because Ginobili is an unreliable piece of right now.
You've been watching them for 21 years? Look at my screen name...I've been watching them for far longer than that. My favorite player growing up was James Silas if that tells you anything..you youngsters can look him up.
That's cool. Point is though, that I've watched Duncan's entire career. I don't underestimate him. He's one of the guys I'm least worried about at any given time.
OP is absolutely right about the Spurs not moving the ball last game. The reason we played so poor offensively is because of that. I hate how everyone is focusing on the loss itself rather than how we lost. The Heat beat us guys. Plain and simple. And there are reasons why they did. This is the only thread I've seen that even attempts to break down our flaws schematically rather than mentally.
Getting back to point though, I've noticed that the Spurs simply play that way under pressure. Parker handles the ball the whole possession and tries to do it all himself, or we give it to Tim in the post and let him go to work. Once the game gets tight the ball movement and penetration and kick outs to open shooters stops. It frustrated the out of me during the regular season. Parker is a GREAT player, but he can't try to do it all himself.
Hopefully we can go back to playing team basketball this next game. Because that's what we are. The better team. If we go one on one like we did last game, with Lebron so pumped up like he's gunna be, then it will get ugly. Our only chance is to play like the way we did in game 5. We have to move the DAMN BALL!
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