I'd be so grateful if someone can explain me why he plays one of the worst defensive backcourt in the league for long minutes...
They got injured, and they're not in 30+ minute condition except Duncan. Which makes the Spurs even less athletic, and makes every mistake that much worse. Plus they got a championship bullseye on their back. Spurs have played a lot of basketball tbh
Also Messina is probably a huge downgrade for repeating (dem Hawks)
Only reason I can think of is that he's looking for offense but he tried starting marco last season and the results were .
When Parker's been off the floor, the Spurs have an Offensive Rating of 105.4 and a Defensive Rating of 96.3, numbers that would trail only the Warriors. With Parker on the floor however, the Spurs are essentially theSacramento Kings.
stats courtesy an article from Pounding The
Yep. It's a failed experiment, and it's hurting the team now.
Tony Parker: slow, lack of energy, can not set up everything anymore.
Kawai Leanord : lack of confidence, mentally weak, can not play under presure。
Manu Ginoibli: a turnover machine
Aaron Bayne : did his best already but unfortunately a normal player.
Danny Green : Cant shot the 3
Marco Belineli :Cant shot the 3
Cory Joseph : a ball choker
Tigao Spitter: 5 pts 4 rebs per game ,nothing helped.
The only guy still carrying the team is Tim Duncan.
It's called rust.
Something many of you fat s don't understand.... Give it some time guys lets wait at least 1 more month before we throw in the towel.
Tonight Gobert >> Duncan What do you expect ... ?
I agree on most of that there except Kawhi under pressure, he has done pretty well in the last two finals against Lebron James and in the playoffs overall has excelled, I would call that playing under pressure so to speak.
Rust? I don't think it is all just rust at this point. They are all healthy now so to speak and have the team back together and it's near March, if they are all still rusty with 26 games left LORD HELP US. I agree on the month thing though, if they are still playing like this next month then forget it they are a first round exit.
Key players are pressing, trying to be the hero, trying to save the team and the season and it's snowballing through the rest of the team. There's an old cliché you occasionally hear players say which I believe is true, "you gotta let the game come to you". If you don't, you end up trying to do too much. You start playing outside of yourself at the detriment of the team. I still think they can right the ship, but it will be tough, especially as criticism mounts.
1/ Parker's lack of contribution in everything
2/ Kawhi minimal impact on offense
3/ Role players being ty (Splitter and Bobo mainly)
4/ Manu is a legend but he is really 37 years old now
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We are being outplayed in every aspect. The free throws are seemingly a barometer for all our other woes. Tony is looking especially bad. It's encouraging that Boris is playing better. Tiago, Beli, Green, and Patty are looking weak as well.
Hum, did you watch last year playoffs run?
Do not ever try to challenge the all time great just based on him getting blocked " twice" by a young guy luckily.
Certainly. I did
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I'm being French here but this Gobert kid is for real
Hum, so you will then have to agree that Kawhi can play under pressure
Poor fundamentals
Lack of the ability to penetrate to open up the passing game. Opponents are playing the passing lanes because there is really no need to help, we can't break them down man to man. It all starts there. Because we are unable to penetrate we get a lot of contested shots and turnovers, the defense is exposed, and we get behind and force the issue which just gets worse. A team can play through this and win a few games (see Bulls without Rose), but it takes an extraordinary amount of effort on D.
Basketball becomes much simpler for the opponent when your team is no threat to make a layup off of set plays. Pop is really gonna have to work some magic with screens because we can't penetrate, we are working harder on offense than the opponent is on defense. This is where we need to have KL or Green take on a role they cannot yet fill. Parker is not getting it done, for whatever reason, and Manu just in spurts. Patty is a shooting guard and Joseph is way too slow on offense to actually put the team on his dribbling back. Parker looks mud slow and when he does on occasion get by, he has no legs to finish.
Pop has a task ahead.
The entire team has drastically declined apart from Duncan, previously we could count on Parker to do his regular season MVP thing but now no longer.
Nil motivation, lazy fat bench, lack of practice and zilch fitness as well as the rise of unbenchable Porker is killing this team.
all is on parker tbh... Splitter playing like , Leonard unable to hit the side of a barn, Bobo thinking he is playing for the bobcats, Manu playing like he is 37 y/o, even when he is not on the floor this is fault tbh
Shake the starting line-up up and see what happens. Ginobili came off the bench in his prime, pretty much all his career and never cared much. Time to reverse the roles. Maybe try this with Tony and have him get his game back against second string point guards instead of playing mainly against a fantastic bunch of PG's that are in the league.
Splitter
Duncan
Green
Ginobili
Joseph
then bring in
Baynes
Diaw
Leonard
Mills
Parker
Whoever is 'on' can finish off the game depending on a game by game basis.
There was always going to be a drop off in intensity and focus after the run last postseason. You can't reproduce the motivation that came after losing game 6.
1) motivation is lacking
2) injuries throughout the season
3) Tony looks old, out of shape and generally just worn down. He looked bad during the playoffs and looks even worse now
4) overall lack of caring about losses (some of this is on Pop)
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