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The hustle stats against the Hawks. LMA seems to have wanted this game...
It's much easier to be a 3 with a 4's game if you don't have to share the court with two 5s. Ideally, he'd get minutes at the four with Patty, and two of Green/Manu/Kawhi with either Gasol or LMA as the center.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/.../2017/lineups/
The Kawhi/LMA/Gasol trio has the worst net rating out of the top 20 most used lineups. Anderson starting with that unit was bound to fail, especially with Tony as the fifth guy, because that's just too many players who need the ball. He's fine defensively at either the four or three. But he needs at least Bertans out there as the PF for him to be able to do anything on offense. He's not fast enough to split guys, so he needs space to work if he's going to do anything more than jack up long-twos on O.
The hustle stats against the Hawks. LMA seems to have wanted this game...
The start of the second quarter lineup of Parker-Simmons-Anderon-Lee-Dedmon really had a terrible performance. They managed to go -11 in about 3 minutes of play: http://popcornmachine.net/gf?date=20170101&game=SASATL
It just makes no sense to throw out all those non 3point shooters on the floor together. There was even a timeout in that stretch where Pop didn't bother to make a sub.
To a degree Dedmon's lack of aggression when he got passes on the PnR affected them severely bc the help defense can stay attached to perimeter players...
If you sub out Anderson for Manu, Manu bails out possessions with step back 3s or some of his crazy shots that he's capable of making, when that group doesn't get anything out of their offense. Patty is also capable of bailing possessions out with a simple shot off a screen (not something you want to base their entire offense off, but a perfectly good way to bail out a possession that doesn't end in anything). Lack of chemistry is also bound to affect them. Also of note, Lee got absolutely lit up by perimeter shooters in that stretch.
As an aside, I have seen Tony a few times with the bench guys. It might be Pop testing the waters if he has to switch up Tony and Mills for whatever reason in the playoffs... just a thought.
No interest, yet here you are doing so.Ah...well really
No interest in taking this further.... many guys here noticed a lot of different things... including OP mentioning horrible defense by Lee, Kawhi looking sick, Pau failing to play well on defense and boarding like he should, etc. I saw a shtick and called it... you are so intent on being right all the time that you don't acknowledge your own biases... probably the last I will say about it bc I know you will want to have the last say per par and I will leave you to it.
I didn't say it was the only thing, I said it was the thing that swung the game. I don't have a shtick and I'm not intent on being right all the time; I just usually am.
But keep talking about a game you didn't watch and crying because your school girl crush sucks and you can't face it.
Yeah, because that's the reason for the five rings.
Look at the Spurs roster over the years: you think it's a coincidence that they haven't exactly had many players who look like Simmons? They're the Duke of the NBA, only they never get called on it.
Simmons is a selfish player based on what? This is either stereotyping or you're a closet racist. There was no good reason for Anderson over Simmons in this game; don't bother trying to justify it.
It's all good.
Im saying Pops won 5 rings so anything anybody brings up about Pops in terms of game time decisions must be a compliment. So when you say Pops is bringing dudes down a notch, it seems like you are saying thats a good thing because...look at the results. I think thats racist man...uncool.
Mills screwed up another alley oop!
Bertans might be the best lobber on the team.
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