No shame in losing to the Warriors, tbh..

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Livingston

he outplayed the Spurs back court alone.

[spursreport]

Still an unproven Warriors team who has yet to win a legit championship. 2015 was against injured teams. 2016 they were "close" but that doesn't mean . This year? They are raping the regular season as expected. They still haven't proven anything in the playoffs. Curry/Thompson/Durant wilted under true adversity last season. They are still known as a 73-9 team who blew a 3-1 series lead in the finals and their only proven championship was against Lebron missing his sidekicks. Regular season dominance won't make that go away. Playoffs will always expose your true colors. Those demons are still lurking as well. A mentally weak team of pussies doesn't grt cured by dominating regular seasn games.

[Emperor]

Still won the rebounding battle which is a good sign. Should give the Spurs more opportunities but they just need to relax and hit their damn shots.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Playoffs will always expose your true colors. Those demons are still lurking as well. A mentally weak team of pussies doesn't grt cured by dominating regular seasn games.

But enough about the Spurs.

[Horse]

Ah yes, the fire in the post season... like last year when they got manhandled by OKC in the second round... or the year before that when they got ousted in the first round by the Clippers. This team is trash, everyone knows it.

8 vs 5 sucker

[Joseph Kony]

some posters are just whining gots tbh...spurs win, "its a fluke, fools gold, they didnt have durant," etc, Spurs lose "we're garbage our team sucks, trash team, everyone is horrible"

[r0drig0lac]

Yeah, I mean, they led by 22. That's gotta mean something.

Maybe they're not good enough to beat the Warriors, but at least they're good enough to temporarily build a huge lead before blowing it! Not many teams can do that, even.

yep...only spurs and nets

[313]

There is shame in losing to them at home, no Durant, coming off of a back to back, with a 20+ point lead in the first quarter. But we already know this team is trash anyways so whatever.

[TD 21]

Most predictable thread of the night. I can't decide who the bigger Warriors fan boy is between you and Pop.

You must have been licking your chops at this scenario: Spurs win and you'd have got to say "Warriors were missing Durant and 2nd night of back to back". Spurs lose and you get to regurgitate the same old about the Warriors.

I understand the fun of trolling to an extent, but if you spend copious amounts of time doing so and derive that must pleasure from it, you should probably re-evaluate your life.

You've done what your boy Parker has from '15 on: fallen off a cliff.

[NameLess Scrub]

League-assisted loss?

It's his way of not holding Draymond accountable

[Ice009]

One game guys, holy shyt. Spurs will have much more consistent fire in the postseason. This was a bad game from all but maybe 3 guys. They had great performances with Andre and DWest, meanwhile we have our worst defenders on their all-stars. Calm the frick down. I'd much rather go into the playoffs with this loss than a season sweep of the Warriors. We need more fire and this should give em that.

More fire? This team is known for consistently playing without fire, especially to start games and getting in big holes against lottery teams. Yeah OK, they're just magically going to ramp it up after not doing so for most of the season.

Still won the rebounding battle which is a good sign. Should give the Spurs more opportunities but they just need to relax and hit their damn shots.

Teams fold and miss shots against the Warriors because they get flustered when the Warriors make tough shots. Teams try and keep up and lose focus and put more pressure on themselves trying to make shots to keep up. They start pressing more to make shots and then they start missing (I think that is what happened to Houston the night before, and Houston is a good offensive team, but they couldn't keep up either). The Warriors defense is related to their offense. All the shots they make on offense puts pressure on the other team's offense more so than their actual defense. Spurs did the same thing every other team did trying to keep up and couldn't find an answer offensively. When the Warriors are making shots like they normally do, they can be more aggressive on offense as the other team can't keep up and eventually folds trying to match them basket for basket.

[HarlemHeat37]

I haven't scrolled through the forum yet to see the overreactions post game 2, but I was surprised that the national media was bashing the Spurs' effort, particularly Aldridge, tbh..what did people expect? Aldridge deserves criticism for struggling in the previous rounds(and being a soft player who doesn't come into camp in shape) but I don't know why anybody is pretending that he should be playing well vs. Draymond Green and the Warriors' suffocating defense..

There's no reason to question any Spurs players..they reached their peak, it was a nice season..Warriors have the greatest collection of talent we have ever seen, it's unfair to bash Spurs' players based on this series, tbh..nice season

Just retool around Kawhi and hope something happens to the Warriors personnel..same way teams in the East should be waiting for Lebron's prime to end..

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Just retool around Kawhi and hope something happens to the Warriors personnel..same way teams in the East should be waiting for Lebron's prime to end..

If the goal is to win a championship, and not just be compe ive, this is a very true statement. I'll be curious to see what the future blueprint looks like for the Spurs if they get swept out the door here because at this point it's pretty obvious there's a big disparity between no. 1 and 2 in the West.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

The Spurs can probably compete with the league's other 28 teams, so does the strategy become, keep the status quo and wait for the Warriors run to end, or do you re-tool in an attempt to catch them? If anything, the weaknesses to be addressed on the current roster will be exposed in this series. I'm concerned that Kawhi could cause even more damage to his ankle pushing back to soon. The future of the team is not worth that risk. Not sure a healthy Kawhi will get us back at this point, probably just make the end result more palatable.

[DaBears]

The Spurs can probably compete with the league's other 28 teams, so does the strategy become, keep the status quo and wait for the Warriors run to end, or do you re-tool in an attempt to catch them? If anything, the weaknesses to be addressed on the current roster will be exposed in this series. I'm concerned that Kawhi could cause even more damage to his ankle pushing back to soon. The future of the team is not worth that risk. Not sure a healthy Kawhi will get us back at this point, probably just make the end result more palatable.

As a compe or on any lvl, you never settle for being just good enough to compete. You want to be the best.

[Spursmania]

You know what they should be ashamed of? Game one and blowing the lead so badly. I mean got LA should of stepped it up and calmed the team down. The atrocious rebounding and endless turnovers with the scared look on their faces was the worst part.
That's when we missed Timmy the most. His leadership and his poise no matter what was happening.

[DMC]

The Spurs can probably compete with the league's other 28 teams, so does the strategy become, keep the status quo and wait for the Warriors run to end, or do you re-tool in an attempt to catch them? If anything, the weaknesses to be addressed on the current roster will be exposed in this series. I'm concerned that Kawhi could cause even more damage to his ankle pushing back to soon. The future of the team is not worth that risk. Not sure a healthy Kawhi will get us back at this point, probably just make the end result more palatable.

Spurs cannot catch the GSW. They have to give up the lead through bad decisions on or off the court, including the front office and player chemistry. If they gel even more, only cost is going to hinder their meteoric rise. Right now, the Spurs are headed toward being the bug, not the windshield. You don't have to win a ring every year to be a great team though and all I ask is that we at least have a semblance of a chance to win. There's no fun in knowing the WCF is your ceiling, unless your rivals are worse.

[DMC]

You know what they should be ashamed of? Game one and blowing the lead so badly. I mean got LA should of stepped it up and calmed the team down. The atrocious rebounding and endless turnovers with the scared look on their faces was the worst part.
That's when we missed Timmy the most. His leadership and his poise no matter what was happening.

The team should be practicing with artificial crowd noise that elevates drastically any time they up. It's like training for urban entry under duress instead of being calm because you know you're just training.

[MultiTroll]

I haven't scrolled through the forum yet to see ....but I don't know why anybody is pretending that he should be playing well vs. Draymond Green and the Warriors' suffocating defense..

Nor did you even watch the game?
ffs

[HarlemHeat37]

Nor did you even watch the game?
ffs

I didn't even watch the game, but I made my biggest bet of the year on Warriors -13..it was one of the worst lines I've ever seen from Vegas, tbh..anybody that expected a team full of role players, without Kawhi, to compete in GS(after the Warriors just spent 2 days hearing about how they only won because Leonard got hurt) is a delusional homer..

[HarlemHeat37]

If the goal is to win a championship, and not just be compe ive, this is a very true statement. I'll be curious to see what the future blueprint looks like for the Spurs if they get swept out the door here because at this point it's pretty obvious there's a big disparity between no. 1 and 2 in the West.

It's kind of similar to the position they were in during the 2001 and 2002 seasons IMO..the 2003 team benefited greatly from gathering young players(along with prime players) and letting them play, while also being aided by the Lakers' growing chemistry problems and fatigued from a long stretch of deep playoff runs..

Next year should be similar, if possible(going to be tough if Gasol opts in, though, which is likely)..let the young players get a shot, take fliers, and hope the Warriors' implode for whatever reason(unlikely, but possible with Durant's Free Agency, Draymond being Draymond and Klay Thompson inevitably growing tired of becoming irrelevant)

[apalisoc_9]

If Durant gets injured and the Warriors manage to win the chip...

beside SA or Lebron winning, that would be the third best scenario

[Hoops Czar]

I didn't even watch the game, but I made my biggest bet of the year on Warriors -13..it was one of the worst lines I've ever seen from Vegas, tbh..anybody that expected a team full of role players, without Kawhi, to compete in GS(after the Warriors just spent 2 days hearing about how they only won because Leonard got hurt) is a delusional homer..

The effort put forth by the Spurs against the Warriors wouldn't have been good enough to beat any playoff caliber team. Stop making it about the Warriors.

[HarlemHeat37]

The effort put forth by the Spurs against the Warriors wouldn't have been good enough to beat any playoff caliber team. Stop making it about the Warriors.

Did you watch the 2nd half of game 1 where the same Spurs squad went up against the Warriors without Kawhi? stop..

[MultiTroll]

I didn't even watch the game, but I made my biggest bet of the year on Warriors -13..it was one of the worst lines I've ever seen from Vegas, tbh..anybody that expected a team full of role players, without Kawhi, to compete in GS(after the Warriors just spent 2 days hearing about how they only won because Leonard got hurt) is a delusional homer..

No no no no. You said particulary 2014, 2015, 2016 etc All Pro player LeMarcus Aldridge shouldn't be criticized to do the Golden Flamers *suffocating defense and Donkey's D*.

LMA had so many Unforced turnovers and stupid assed plays it's not even funny.