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Spurs 3
Suns 0
I'm in China, so I can't watch the game... I just know that 32 out of Parker without him getting in the lane all that much is not gonna happen every game.
NBA les :
Spurs 3
Suns 0
after this year
Spurs 3
Suns 1
after this year
Spurs 3
Suns 1
Daydreaming or wishful thinking?
especially not while the next two games are in SA.
I'm baffled why my fellow Suns fans are here talking smack. o? We had the home seed. We were supposed to be favored in this series. We're going to San Antonio y that we won one of the two games at home?
I thought the Suns showed they can match up with the Spurs OK tonight. I'll be curious to see how this holds up for an entire series, but KT does at the very least make Duncan work for his shots and allows everyone else to play much better defense.
Hey, you got your series now, Spurs. Let's have some fun.
because spurs fans keep saying there going to win in 4 or 5 this is a reality check for them.
A reality check would be the Suns players winning a game in San Antonio next week. The reality check for us is we lost HCA, which we spent most of the second half protecting so we wouldn't have to win a game in San Antonio.
The Suns haven't proven jack###. Period. We got no room to talk.
a 20 pt win is a 20 pt win no matter how spurs fans want to dismiss it.
"all the pressure was on us" and we responded.
Yeah, it was nice to see the Suns step up and take a game convincingly with their backs against the wall.
Hopefully, they don't follow the Spurs' lead and come out flat in Game 3.
I think Kurt Thomas had more of an impact on this game than most of you think.
1. His defense allowed Amare to stay out of foul trouble.
2. They didn't have to double-team Duncan while Thomas was guarding him, which allowed them to cover the shooters at all times. This forced the Spurs to play a one-man game, similar to what the Spurs did to the Suns in '05.
3. He kept Duncan from receiving the ball really close to the hoop. Everytime Amare guards Duncan, Timmy always seems to get the ball an arm's length away from the hoop, which leads to an easy bucket. Thus, it doesn't matter how well Amare defends, Duncan always has a close shot. Thomas denied him that luxury and forced him to shoot tough shots. Since Duncan is such an amazing player, he made most of them.
The point of playing Kurt is to force Duncan to work for his points, keep Amare out of foul trouble, and allow the Suns to single-guard Duncan. This is why we got Kurt Thomas in the first place...so it's good to see that D'Antoni is finally starting to wake the up.
Yeah - Duncan can score in the 30s all he wants if the next closest guy is Bowen/Parker at 13. Parker goes for 32 in Game 1... scores 20 points less in Game 2 and Spurs lose by 20.... hmmm...
As long as Suns can avoid the TD 30 pt, 15 reb, 12 ast, 8 blk performance... then they'll be OK. Hopefully Kurt Thomas making him work hard for 12-20 FG aids the rest of the Suns' attack. Thomas didn't even have a rebound until the 2nd half, but the Suns were +21 with him on the floor, so his impact was more than what showed up in the stat sheet.
Yep. Held him to a mere 29 points!Kurt thomas owns Duncan
Wow. Even after a 20 point beatdown by your team you're at least being realistic.
Nice to see at least some Suns fans can be intelligent.
Yeah the Spurs got worked. Happens to every team once in awhile. But I expect the Spurs to bounce back. Even with the blowout it's shaping up to be a good series.
Fixed it for you.after this year
Spurs 4
Suns 0
Again - Duncan's points don't matter... it's how hard he has to work for them and Thomas makes him work harder than Amare (who pretty much lets TD post up on the block at will).
Still to say KT "owns" Duncan is absurd.
So the Suns lost homecourt, and the Spurs were getting owned at every possible angle? I am not too worried, the Spurs are allowed 3 crappy games in a series, wait, every team is en led to 3 crappy games in a series, they just have to win the other 4.we obviously woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.. you guys are getting owned at every possible angle. i guess its a series again eh?
A new poster coming to the board who talks trash ONLY after a win... geez act like your team won something before..oh wait they haven't.
Starting Thomas was a smart move. He plays serviceable defense and he doesn't hurt you on offense. Marion and Raja played really good defense, pretty much shutting down anything Parker and Ginobili were trying to do. They forced everything to happen through Tim and that just wasn't enough.
Yeah, Detroit had TWO in a row in '05 against the Spurs. How'd that work out for them?
What did you do?
There's a lot to dissect from Game 2. The Suns move to Thomas made them more effective in the defensive halfcourt. The Spurs lack of enthusiasm made it all the easier for the Suns to look effective in that setting. I give the Suns credit, but I also think the Spurs have only themselves to blame.
I don't think that we can expect the norm in this series to be a complete shutdown of the Spurs offense while the Suns shoot 63% over 3 quarters of the game. That shooting percentage in quarters 2-4, as much as anything, gives me solace that Game 2 was more of an anomaly than an omen. As great as the Suns are offensively, they're not going to shoot that well over long stretches of this series. If they do, they'll win the series easily.
I also don't think it's realistic to think that the Spurs are going to turn it over the way they did in Game 2, either. In game 1, there were bunches of offensive fouls that accounted for Spurs turnovers. I can take those, since they tend to suggest aggressiveness. While some of the Spurs turnovers in Game 2 were offensive fouls, a bunch of them were passes to nobody (Parker) and things like that. Those are unforced errors. Again, if the Spurs are going to turn it over like that, they're going to lose; but I don't think they're going to turn it over like that.
I think the Spurs lack of aggression on the offensive end -- and more specifically, the willingness to dump the ball into Duncan and wait for things to happen -- hurt them as the game wore on last night. Hopefully, Popovich will recognize that.
So, Suns fans really expect the Spurs to fold after losing one game?
It's a 5 game series now, with the Spus holding Homecourt. We know we can win in PHX... the question remains, will the Suns be able to win the necessary game in San Antonio?
Spurs in 6.
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