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One thing I haven't seen anyone even mention is Parker's defense. Parker played 41 minutes and nobody scored on him. Nothing. No field goals and he didn't send anyone to the line.

But yeah, I guess since he was only guarding Nash and Barbosa, nobody really cares.

More impressive than his offense was his defense. He dominated Nash defensively in the first half and when he switched off onto Barbosa, he stopped Barbosa from producing. Defensively, this goes down as a highlight in Parker's career.

What more really needs to be said? I certainly didn't see anyone take issue with your take on Parker anywhere in the thread, which doesn't happen often.

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I noticed that Parker was sickly effective on the defensive end, but I hadn't realized he was THAT effective.

Yeah, he was amazing. That performance should rank up there with his job on Rip in the Finals.

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...'small ball'? I guess AHF was too drunk to post last night.

-MB

Nope, some of us actually have lives and go out once in a while.

Pop made a good coaching move?

I mean, come on, this is just madness your talking.


Hes not capable of it.

Im sure all of this Aggie will explain was due to the greatness of Manu and PJ on the bench.

You two are a perfect couple. Maybe you can be Spurstalk's next power couple

I expect this kind of ignorant talk from Tpark, but I guess I always expected more out of Marcus.

There is nothing wrong with small ball - in stretches. It's when we play it for a whole game, or when Pop goes to it when the matchups are going to get us smoked (like asking Brent Barry to guard Boris Diaw in the post) that gets us killed.

Small ball is effective in stretches. And it was effective in stretches last night. And I have no problem with that. The problem here is you two clowns are more concerned with attempting to call out other posters than pay attention to what is going on in the damn game.

Small ball doesn't work for 48 minutes. Small ball works in stretches. We saw that last night. We saw that in one of the Denver games where Pop went small to come out in the fourth quarter for a 3-4 minute stretch. That's a big difference from going small for the entirety of quarters and wondering why we get killed in the post and by points in the paint.

Same thing with four down. Go look at our assist numbers last night. Yeah, we ran the offense through Duncan, but the difference between game 2 and game 3 was that in game 2 Pop had all his guys spotting up for the kickout. Last night you had ball movement, and you also had us running plays for other guys not named Tim.

Game 2, for example, Manu was expected to score by setting up on the perimeter waiting for a kickout. Last night, we got him involved in some pick and roll, had him moving around screens to get the ball free of Raja on him with room to operate, etc.

Come on Marcus, I expect better from you. Ah, who am I kidding, you're stuck on Holt is a cheap and calling out other posters without really backing up your case (like your original post).

And the other comical part about all this is the personnel on the court. I called out Pop for having a small ball lineup of Vaughn, Barry, Finley, Manu, and Oberto.

And you two come on here and pat him on the back for running out a small ball lineup of Tony, Barry/Manu, Finley, Bowen, and Duncan?

If you can't see the difference there, I don't have anything else to say to either of you two losers.

Having Duncan and Bowen in there gives the D strength and stability, and that first lineup only required Phoenix to guard two guys - Manu and Finley. The second (from last night) put five guys on the floor that Phoenix had to account for. And their defense suffered accordingly.

Further, Oberto can't hold down the paint in that first small ball lineup, and that's what made it a colossal failure in game 2. If either of you think that Oberto is anywhere near the rebounder of Duncan, not to mention having anything resembling the ability to block shots and close down the lane on defense like Tim Duncan, you need to turn in all your logins to Spurstalk and go join the clowns at Spursreport.

Keep advocating "what got us here" and don't adjust.

Oh the irony. That's what most of us criticize - lack of adjustments by Pop. Going small for an entire series isn't an adjustment. Going small in stretches, and choosing personnel to take advantage of weaknesses of the other team is making adjustments.

Sorry this is lost on you, but I guess that shouldn't be surprising seeings you haven't brought a true basketball x's and o's or personnel take since this site opened.

All you do is bandwagon and gravy train other people's posts to try and appear to have some sort of point. And you picked the wrong post to gravy train on, because you both come off ignorant in this one.

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