Game Thoughts: Spurs vs. Jazz Apr. 4

[FromWayDowntown]

The fans at the Energy Solutions Center agree that ing about officiating is really, really unseemly. Really.

[timaios]

It is soooo stupid to quote the trolls !!!

[Doctor J]

Thanks for your game thought, timvp.

I think there were two things we may point out as the main reasons of the defeat.

The Spurs' zone defence and small line-up.

We were defeated by their three point shootings and offensive rebounds.

[balli]

The fans at the Energy Solutions Center agree that ing about officiating is really, really unseemly. Really.

Hey. Don't align me with those mormon kooks. You couldn't get me to attend a public event in UT. If there's one fanbase I dislike more than SA's it's UT's (even though they're my team). IMO rapist is better than mormon.

[Brutalis]

I'm not sweating it, a loss was coming just didn't expect a bad one. The Spurs are scary this year for sure. But every year it's like this almost.

We can't end the season with.. preseason games like we usually do, we need to win out and say ello to Dallas.

[TampaDude]

Cool. But the score is now 38-12 Kansas. God, I love being right all the time.

62-55 Kansas...it's a ballgame again...but Kansas will win this one...

[FromWayDowntown]

I'm not sweating it, a loss was coming just didn't expect a bad one. The Spurs are scary this year for sure. But every year it's like this almost.

We can't end the season with.. preseason games like we usually do, we need to win out and say ello to Dallas.

I'm not going to sweat a blowout loss at this point. , the Jazz put just as big of an ass-whooping on the Spurs last May and by the end of Game 4, it meant absolutely nothing. Shoot under 40% in SLC and you're likely to get blown out, and that happened to the Spurs.

The blowout wins over Houston and Golden State were probably a mirage of sorts, but the blowout loss in Utah is equally unlikely to be any sort of long-term indicator.

There are lots of areas that could use improvement, to be sure, but there's still some time to get those things done while being smart about the fact that it's just the regular season.

[balli]

62-55 Kansas...it's a ballgame again...but Kansas will win this one...

Did anyone actually watch this . I tried, but damn if Hawks/Sixers and now SAC/DEN weren't ten times better.

I try and I try to see worth in it, but I always reach the same conclusion; college ball. Here's to the NBA, eh?

[polandprzem]

Wtf Pop did?

He should apoligize to fans for this !

[polandprzem]

Yea, but seriously, that game to me was meaningless as long as spurs know where they are.
I remember when the spurs played in 1998 vs Utah in 2nd round of the playoffs and Spurs demolished Utah in the third game losing the series 1-4.
Adding all the points Utah had one point adventage.

So, as Tim said - preperation.

Not that I'm not worried, but Spurs gave up

[Kori Ellis]

IMO rapist is better than mormon.

Curb this kind of trash.

Thanks.

[timvp]

I have to disagree with you on this LJ. The lineup Pop started the fourth quarter with wa s a strategic failure. We were still in striking distance (11 points) at that point, but that lineup at the start of the fourth was more fitting of garbage time than a game still in doubt.

That was a pretty regular lineup that Pop has gone to in nearly every game recently. Manu surrounding by scrubs is even a lineup Pop used in the playoffs last year a lot. It's supposed to buy about three or four minutes ... problem is this game the Jazz destroyed that lineup.

Also, it's not surprising the offense sucked, we never moved the ball. It was either Parker taking it the whole possession or Duncan posting up and everyone watching.

A Manu homer blaming Parker and Duncan for the loss. Why am I not surprised?

I'm not going to sweat a blowout loss at this point. , the Jazz put just as big of an ass-whooping on the Spurs last May and by the end of Game 4, it meant absolutely nothing. Shoot under 40% in SLC and you're likely to get blown out, and that happened to the Spurs.

The blowout wins over Houston and Golden State were probably a mirage of sorts, but the blowout loss in Utah is equally unlikely to be any sort of long-term indicator.

There are lots of areas that could use improvement, to be sure, but there's still some time to get those things done while being smart about the fact that it's just the regular season.

Well said. That loss doesn't especially bother me. It wasn't as bad as Game 3 last year.

We'll see, though. I'm more interested in how the Spurs bounce back from it. If they go into another tailspin where they dwell on the blowout, then this loss may end up meaning more.

[lrrr]

I know Pop always says he doesn't care who the team plays in the playoffs, so he doesn't try to get a particular seed, but is that REALLY the truth?

Deep down, would he rather play Dallas or Houston?