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Pop needs to get over himself.
Someone better tell Pop that, because he thinks those bench role players can step up and hit enough shots in the stupid ass 4down set to win this series.Because Pop seems to think this is about the Spurs lack of effort and hustle, not bad defensive matchups.
Chuck actually made a great point; After the Spurs big 3, there's such a huge dropoff with the Spurs bench offensively. Hornets aren't afraid of the Spurs bench. Hornets today managed to easily win with West having an off night. The Spurs with Parker/Ginobili struggling can't break 80 points barely.
And Byron's laughing all the way to the conference finals about it.
Pop needs to get over himself.
Maybe we'll do something this off season instead of this bull ride it out till 2012 crap
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Pop said that the reporter that he is accurate young man
This years Hornets Peja is a bit different to the previous years. He has hit clutch shots all year, and hasn't choked in the playoffs. We know he can't score with Bowen on him, so lets take his production away. Not only that. Without Peja's 3's the Hornets are not a good outside shooting team.
Pop should of learnt from Game 1... but as we know, the guy is stubborn. It would not surprise me if he stuck with the same strategy to start Game 3.
I'm seeing some paralells to 2004 Lakers series... for some reason. Everything clicking for the home team, everyone playing there bit. Support players stepping up. The Spurs need to pull an 04 Lakers and start using some veteran savvy. Switch up there defensive strategies and play with a lot more fire. Put someone on the ground. Don't take what the defense is giving you, make THEM adjust. Try a few things for short stretches. Duncan high post to bring Chandler away from the hoop, motion off the ball, backdoor cuts, run off screens, catch the ball on the move. I've seen these things before from the Spurs, they need to show some diversity because what they are doing is not working. First quarter game 3 is going to tell me a lot about this team. I don't think this series is over by any means.
Also, start Barry. Give it a try, it's worked before. Parker on Paul, Barry on Peterson, Bowen on Stojakovic. Pop needs to trust Tony.
Or start Manu...
Pop's rationale, I think, is that he doesn't want to wear out Tony and/or have him pick up a bunch of fouls by putting him on Paul. But that wouldn't make much sense considering that they have a few days off before Game 3. Pop's being his usual stubborn self.
Peja got a few wide open jumpers on Ginobili ups
I watched him die on screens like 3 or 4 times
Minimal effort gettin around em
Offense isn't the problem. The Spurs are getting open shots. It's their defense that is getting abused. The offense can be solved pretty easily -- ballmovement and hit the open threes. I don't think that's going to be the downfall.
Letting fvcking Peja own the series has killed the Spurs more than anything.
It's all about CP3. He is the one that's killing the Spurs. Everything revolves around him.
I still think irregardless who is guarding Peja, the Spurs are simply outmatched. Just like the game plan tonight was to slow West down. They still got burned by MoPete and the rook. Hornets have way too many weapons and the spurs have too few. Our defense has to be perfect for these games to be even close.
They got burned by MoPete because he's 4 inches taller than Tony. He's not 4 inches taller than Finley.
They aren't outmatched at every spot, but Pop's defense is making them be.
The other thing that doesn't make sense is that this strategy has gotten the Spurs beat by 20 in 4 out of 6 games, yet we still keep doing it.
Finley is useless on defense, Parker/Bowen isn't going to slow down CP3, so Pop may as well put Bowen on Peja, although I believe he did at one point and Peja still hit his shots.
Parker looked sick today or completely out of it for some reason.
So you think that Finley, Udoka, Bowen, Manu, and Parker can beat New Orleans four out of seven games with jump shots? Come on LJ....
Duncan had a 103 fever the other day. Tony sounded sick in postgame but I am hoping he's not. Duncan played it off like he wasn't sick, but I'm hoping he didn't pass the flu around.
Finley, Bowen, Manu and Barry can beat you if you leave them open. Those are four of the best postseason three-point shooters in the NBA today.
You aren't confident in those guys hitting wide open threes?
This Spurs team, more than any other Spurs team I can remember, plays good defense when they play good offense. They don't seem to have that lockdown mentality when they aren't scoring like previous Spurs teams. Better offense will lead to better defense from these guys..
Peja is averaging 25 a game against Spurs other than Bowen so far.
Paul is averaging 25 and 13, which is actually slightly above his average during the season.
MoPete is averaging 10 PPG against Parker, which is 2 PPG above his average.
So yeah, Bowen is doing us a lot of good on Paul. Pop is in vintage 2001, 2004 mode.
No....
They had plenty of opportunities today and looked scared to shoot the ball. They've lost confidence in their shooting. Barry's 3 pointers all came in garbage time mostly. I think they can do it for a game or two, but they are so damn inconsistent is the problem. Can you imagine them coming through in 4 of the next 5 games consistently?
Paul is going to get his numbers no matter who's guarding him so yes we need to put Bowen on Peja.
It can't be the personnel card when you have Duncan your team every year.
If Pop doesn't get us to repeat this year, it'll be a valid knock on him, why he didn't get a repeat championship compared to the other great coaches.
(And that's relative to the great championship coaches, of course) It's still pretty annoying to see him get outcoached in '04, '06 and possibly '08. These are equally matched teams we've been eliminated by. Coaching can put us over the top.
I don't know who I'm disappointed in more...the players or the coaches. If I had to choose, I'd choose the coaches.
Now's a good a time as any to kick themselves into gear.
It doesn't matter what it looks like on paper. They're killing us with good old-fashioned, ass-kickin hustle. Yes, I agree move Bowen to Peja, but we aren't going to beat them if we continue let them out-everything us.
Yea, Parker definitely looked like he was sick and sounded like it in the postgame too. No excuse though. MJ dropped 50 when he had the flu and he was a lot older at the time than Parker
When you put Bowen on the 1 then you automatically create a mismatch elsewhere on D. The Spurs can't get away with that against this opponent. Bowen and Manu can take care of Predrag and Peterson. I'm not sure what Pop is smoking but hopefully he quits it before game 3.
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