What does beating Golden State and the Knicks in November have to do with beating the Mavs in a 7-game series? They split with the Mavs during the regular season, which makes the other 61 wins pretty irrelevant for the series.The Spurs won a CLUB RECORD, 63 games with the center-PF offense and defense, they won game 1, then, they lost game 2(like the Spurs have never lost a game in playoffs before with a stinker game) and Pop throws out all what they have done to win 3 championships and 63 games this year and he decides to put his players in a defense that they have never played before for a whole game, much less a series. That, IMO is what cost them the le this year.
Center or not, they played a of a lot more "run and gun" against the Suns last year than they did this year against the Mavs. Was that a complete up as well?
They played their same defense last year. Nazr was huge in that series, the Spurs won the series because of rebounding, not because of running and gunning.
The Spurs LOST this series because of lack of rebounding, not because of the refs.
The Mavs out rebounded the Spurs in 6 games
Had SA gotten 2 defensive rebounds in games 3 and 4....they would be playing the Suns right now.
OK then mr "lets get in our time machine"....lets go back and change that blocked shot at the end of game 5 to a foul on Bowen. I know Mouse posted a million pictures here of it. Bowen fouled Dirk. Lets call that a foul and give Dirk 2 free points at the line and see who wins the series. Idiot.
So you think the tempo was completely incidental last year -- it had no affect on the strategy of either team?
Lineup changes are strategy that should never be changed, but tempo has no affect on the outcome of a game, so it can go however it goes?
And if they had replaced Finley's 12 point performance in Game 5 with 4 points and 3 turnovers from Nazr (to say nothing of the weaker perimeter defense), they would lave lost in 5 games.
Who said np Finley??? Finley played in the reg season you know. We could have had a little less Brent and NVE and we would have won the series.
And if they had replaced Finley's 12 point performance in Game 5 with 4 points and 3 turnovers from Nazr (to say nothing of the weaker perimeter defense), they would lave lost in 5 games
you "Spurs Fan". If you bothered to read the post, you'd see I was playing "what if" to deflect criticism of Pop.
Mavs deserved to win. Bottom line. Lots of factors, Pop's coaching included, but you can't put a Game 7 overtime loss on just one thing.
That's my ing point, re .
Fin got the start and played 43 minutes. Barry and Nick didn't play all that many minutes, and nearly half of them were at the point, so you can't subs ute Fin there, right?
And don't forget that a lot of Duncan's 36 were thanks to him not being doubled. Do you think he goes for that many if Dallas is doubling off Nazr or Rasho all night?
And if my left nut could guess the right six numbers I'd be pushing a Panoz convertible. What the does that have to do with them losing?
The Spurs lost this series because of the following reasons:
1) BENCH PRODUCTION WAS SO PISS POOR THAT EVEN STEVIE WONDER KNEW WE MIGHT LOSE!
2) The Spurs executed very poorly down the stretch of the tight games they lost.
3) Poor decisions…BOTTOM LINE. MANU LISTENS AND FOLLOWS ORDERS AFTER HITTING THE THREE, WE'RE ALL HAPPY AS PIGS IN .
That's what it boils down to. Those three things. Spurs implement those three things, we're still playing. But again, if my left nut could talk to my right nut, I'd be like Penny Marshall…I'D BUY MYSELF A CHAMPIONSHIP RING!!
Damn. I actually agree with you. Definitely the lack of bench production. In all 3 Spurs championship seasons, at least ONE bench player came up HUGE!!! , I was surprised that the series was so close, given that we had Nick Van Helsing in there. It also doesn't help when your starting PG starts fading away in important games.
It wasn't a foul.
Bowen didn't foul David Hasselhoff. He got his hand on the ball. Dirk shoots from behind his head a lot. He just didn't see Bowen.
Spurs lost because Pop didn't trust in Rasho. This will change soon.
because they are getting rid of rasho?
Flip Saunders is more like the Vinny Del Negro of coaching.
Vinny was never supposed to be any good.
Did anyone really expect Flip to be any good? 24 years in a row of being unable to get out of the first round should have clued someone in.
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