Looks pretty gloomy in Spur land....what are the odds of being down 2-0 in the playoffs. The winning team wins 94% of the time. The lakers did come back on the spurs once....
100% with you timvp.
This team has earnt enough trust from me over the years for me not to get to disheartened. While they are down 2-0, I still have a decent feeling about this series. All it takes is a Game 3 win. 2-1 heading into Game 4 in San Antonio, no ing way the Hornets are heading back up 3-1. I truly think this series will come down to Game 5.
Spurs are not gonna curl up and die but theyve never come back from 2-0 down before.... We'll see though. Im just saying.
Wow, a shorter version of '21 reasons to believe' thread
Spurs now facing the impossibility
I seriously think the Spurs learned all they need to know in these 2 games.
They learned David West is a threat.
They learned Byron Scott is going to double the out of Tim.
They learned that Tony might, just might be able to stay if front of Paul.
Pop did this same defense last year and the Spurs won the championship. Bowen on Deron Williams didn't really work but the Jazz couldn't make the Spurs pay because Parker could guard Fisher and Ginobili could guard Kirilenko. Now the Hornets can make the Spurs pay for going with this gimmick defense.
Before the series, what I was most worried with was Pop putting Bowen on CP3. This is why. It fits into Pop's recent pattern but it's fvcking stupid against the Hornets
THEY NEED TO STOP THIS GUY FROM PENETRATING...
You're crazy.
I appreciate the pep talk you're trying to give Silver & Black Nation, but we may as well get the fork ready.
Also people, this Spurs team has shown it can come back from being down 2 games. I know they didn't end up beating the Mavericks, but without Manu's foul...
This is the Spurs people. They are good. Very good. They aren't going to roll over and die, there will be no 20pt leads for New Orleans in San Antonio.
The difference in this series is that the best player on the court happens to be on the Hornets team. CP3 is litterally willing this Hornets team to victory. When he's playing aggresively, I don't think there's anyone on the Spurs team that can even attempt to stop him. Likewise, you can't count on David West continuing to have such an off shooting night like he did tonight. Sure KT did good defense on him, but West like Paul has the ability to take his game up another notch.
Meanwhile, the Spurs big 3 have looked average at best. Finley looks like he's 80 years old, Udoka's playoff inexperience is more evident than Mo Peterson's, and Brent Barry only attempts shots when it's garbage time.
Spurs need for Duncan, Parker, and Ginobili to be the best players on the court to counter Chris Paul's effectiveness.
believe.
Stick a Spork in the Spurs!
May I please have what you are having? and make it a double...it's gonna be a long week...
Ummmm...didnt the Hornets beat the Spurs by an avg. of 24 points IN S.A. during the regular season?
Yep. It's over!
Its not a matter of Spurs fans believing at this time, its a matter of the Spurs themselves believing. The team I've seen for 2 games in this series has looked lost and ing SCARED. As good as they were in round 1 they've been that bad in round 2.
Unless Pop remembers what won this team a couple of rings defensively, this thing's over.
the hornets have proved time and time again that teams can go on runs, or they can beat up on the hornets. but the next time out the hornets will come out and repay the team what they deserve. notice the dallas series.
I'm totally on board. This is the year we play the role of the 2004 Lakers and how they came back against us when it looked like they had no answers.
i agree. and people can say what they want about the Hornets, but the Spurs have not played well...they just haven't.
Yeah, Phoenix beat the Spurs there easily to. Things happen in the regular season.
It won't happen in the playoffs. Your boys might win, but there will not be any blowouts.
They only beat us once there. There was no average.
Seriously. And I don't even mind the scoring droughts so much as the horrendous defense.
I refuse to believe that this Hornets team is a tougher matchup for the Spurs than the Suns were in the first round.
I don't see scared out of the Spurs. They are standing up and not letting themselves get pushed around by the Hornets. They've matched the physicality.
Scared doesn't have anything to do with letting Peja get 20+ trash points per game. The Spurs shooters aren't scared -- they've been in much bigger situations and have performed.
The Hornets game plan is working and the Pop's game plan has been outed as ineffective and counterproductive. I don't see where scared fits in the equation.
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