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If he was a max player he should always be the option no matter who is in the game.
It's weird, Kawhi has been really good in both games statistically, but for some reason I kind of feel like he's been pretty average. I guess that goes to show the standard to which we hold him on now, but I feel like he hasn't had a dominant stretch defensively or offensively in this series yet that we were getting accustomed from seeing so many night late in the season. A lot of the problem, too, is that it looks like he gets frozen out of the offense late in games, I know Tim was great yesterday but if Manu and Tony are both out, the go to option should be Kawhi, not Tim.
If he was a max player he should always be the option no matter who is in the game.
There are a lot of max players who aren't their team's first option on offense.
His DPOY just earned him a max deal.
Mostly says that Duncan is a once in a generation player that continues to do things that few, if any, have or will ever match. Kawhi can have a HOF career and still never approach the standards set by Duncan.
Pop is the one who almost singlehandly brought the Clippers back in the game with the hack-a-Jordan in the 4th...
I'm not going to argue that, I'm just saying that with Manu and Tony in usually, I understand why Pop trusts them to close games. But with both of them out, I'm saying it's a poor coaching decision in my opinion to feed Duncan play after play, especially with someone as athletic as Deandre on him. Yes, Deandre is overrated on that end, but he can certainly take Tim Duncan 1 on 1 most posessions, as was evident by that block he had. I'd like to think Tim would outsmart him most times, but on nights where he doesn't have his legs as the game gets closer to the end, its not a great matchup to exploit. Kawhi vs the clippers wings, on the other hand, should be a mismatch every time down and Pop should see that. Kawhi doesn't demand the ball yet, and that is partially his fault for maybe being too passive, but at this point in his career Pop should still be running plays to get Kawhi going.
KL was scared less with Barnes on him. Totally different aggressiveness when he was defended by JJ. Hence why KL isnt a superstar yet. He shrivels.
No, missing 8 3ft baskets did, which I might add are 65%+ shots as a norm. Spurs missed 8. That is what let the Clips back into the game. Make the norm and Spurs have a 10 point lead at the end like they did at the 6:30 mark of this game.
Spurs got away with nearly folding on the road thanks to man of the hour Patty.
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