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Parker's first half shouldn't afford him an A. To his credit, he had the entire Pistons squad focusing on him since nobody from the Spurs could buy a shot...
Totally uninspired player and totally uninspired coach ... just a bad game ... with this kind of at ude this road trip will not be succesful. You can also see that on the road it hurts much more not to have Timmy and Manu on the floor ...
Parker's first half shouldn't afford him an A. To his credit, he had the entire Pistons squad focusing on him since nobody from the Spurs could buy a shot...
Sheeeew....pop is glad that win streak is over. He would've given coach bud minutes if he could've just to lose that one.
Blair grade is too high.
TP was by far our best man yesterday.
We obviously could've, should've played better and we didn't even try to defend till the 4th quarter. That said I think it was just one of those nights, they couldn't miss, played way over their heads, any other time 109 points would blow out the pistons. Not only that the ball bounced their way and they sure as got all the calls. So nothing really to see here and nothing to worry about. Every piece of they threw up went in, sun even shines on a dogs ass some days.
Thank you, why would anyone give this game a second thought? The pisstons came out on fire. This game is more about them playing way better than they really are. It happens big . Also at some point not have Tim and Manu is gonna hurt. All the games they missed and we still have the best record in the league and you ers still complain.
Two or three games ago Tony got elbowed in the eye (no call) and had to get three s ches in the eyelid that still has blood in it.
Oh for heaven's sake, people. They lost one game out of the last 12. They didn't play good defense and they were lethargic. It happens.
From the box score, everyone but Mills, Jackson and ...(I forget exactly- Neal?) on the spurs were shooting at a 50% or better clip. We played uninspired defense and they played inspired offense. End of story.
This team has been playing without one or two of its big three for most of the winning streak. This was bound to happen. Tony can't carry both offense and defense night in and night out without losing some intensity occasionally, and tonight he had no intensity in the first half. But without him, we would have been totally blown out.
Damn this game just sucked. Down by 21 in 1st half to such a ty team is WEAK, I don't care who's out. Team came out really sluggish, and that's Tony's fault. But otherwise he had a pretty good game when everyone else struggled. Kawhi was alrite. Diaw just sucked. Neal just can't shoot his way out of his bad play it seems. Basically no one played good consistent ball. I feel that Tiago was underplayed. Blair is ok if he's got it going, but he clearly didn't; Pop overplayed him. Jack looks done tbh. This backup PG situation is really ugly when no one can find a groove. Embarassing loss.
With Duncan out, the Spurs really need Diaw to play big. Thus far, he has not. Hasn't rebounded well, and to compound matters, he fails to box out. In short, he's playing like the SF that he really is. It was very evident versus the Pistons. Very disappointing.
Last edited by SenorSpur; 02-09-2013 at 03:38 PM.
That's not the point. This game was a prototype of the fool's gold scenario: most of the time Tony and Tim can carry the team and hide its deficiencies. On a day like yesterday when scrubs play like scrubs, they get exposed. This team isn't going anywhere with Blair/Bonner getting any PT, or the backup PG situation being as unresolved as it is now. It also shows Pop still has no answers against athletic teams with a couple of talented big men.
So in many ways this game was the canary in the coal mine rather than a mere bump in the road.
Actually I think you overeacting. Spurs missing Duncan, their best defender, and their sixth man Ginoboli. You say Tim and Tony hide the team deficiencies. Really? Imagine taking a teams two best players and the team gets exposed. Who woulda thunk?
Agreed. Take Bosh and Wade off the Heat and they would lose games too.
If anything, we've overperformed in the last few weeks with injuries. An 11 game win streak without Tim, Manu and Pop for stretches is excellent.
spurfan doesn't take losses well.
i was watching the post game interview with Pop after the Minnesota game and he commented on the win streak by saying "i'm sure we'll lay an egg soon."
not saying we threw this game, but I don't think Pop was super motivated to press hard. i'll be more concerned if we play like this the entire RRT, otherwise i'm not concerned. our flaws are pretty well known at this point.
I'm surprised that no one's talked about how Detroit gave us fits with their hedge defense on pick and rolls. We got bogged down over and over again when the opposing big hedged the ball handler and then we didn't know what to do with the ball. Detroit looked like a well-coached team yesterday defense-wise. Their shooting was lights out...just one of those days and I'm not sure it's repeatable.
I doubt that there is any confidence hangover from the olympics. It *is* tough for any player when you get inconsistent minutes and who knows what the coach staff are asking him to concentrate on in each game.
The part Pop can't control how-ever is Danny Green losing concentration constantly on the defensive end.
There sure is a lot of over-reaction to this loss.
Seriously... I mean, wtf Pop ! This is insane !
The most hilarious thing is that Pop took KY out to play small with Green at the 3 and Neal at the 2...............................................
I'd be surprised if the Spurs get through the playoffs without Duncan and Manu being hurt. At this point it's not if, it's when.
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