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Paul's 60% looks exceptional, but he's a 50% FG career. West is 48%.
I did not get to see the entire game from last night yet (I TVoed it), but am I wrong in saying that Paul is allowed at times to carry the ball and get away with traveling?
A couple of those circus shots looked like missed turnovers.
Parker is always getting called for traveling, but not so much with Paul.
CP literally took three full steps to the basket on one of the highlight shots last night. In game two CP had a blatent carry of the basketball while going to the hole.
What do you guys think? Am I missing something here.
Paul's 60% looks exceptional, but he's a 50% FG career. West is 48%.
I'm not saying Paul isn't a good shot and tremendous talent--but nobody shoots 60% for a series unless they are all dunks like Chandler.
It really comes down to which of each team's big three--Duncan, Ginobili, Parker vs. Paul, West, Peja--gets an advantage plus the contributions of the role and bench players.
If one or more of either team's Big Three has a bad game for whatever reason--illness, foul-trouble, shut out by defense--then their team probably loses.
You are delusional. The game was close but the way the Spurs handled the third quarter was instrumental. I saw frustration on both the Hornets faces and Coach Scott. Its just one game but it's a start. The Spurs played solid defense and made better decisions. In the closing minutes the Hornets seemed to implode, a little, and Thomas seems to be figuring out West. This was a solid win.
People are missing the point though. We can beat New Orleans with Paul going for 35 a game.
We can't beat them with him getting 35, Peja 25, West 20, MoPete, 10, etc.
That's why Pop waking the up and moving Bowen over to Peja to take him out of the series is so big.
Take a look at the series so far:
Game 1, Spurs lose by 19, Peja goes for 22, Peterson goes for 8.
Game 2, Spurs lose by 18, Peja goes for 25, Peterson goes for 12.
Game 3, Spurs win by 11, Peja goes for 8, Peterson goes for 3.
Take away Peja and Peterson going off in games 1 and 2 due to Pop's bonehead move of Bowen on Paul (and the resulting Parker on Peterson and Finley on Peja matchups), and it's conceivable the Spurs would have won one of those two games in New Orleans.
The best thing you can do is ignore pooh. He just comes around to start because his Pacers suck donkey balls.
Paul was so hot that he missed 4 of his last 6 shots in the fourth last night...
We'll be okay. Remember, we let Amare get 40 a game against us a couple of years ago and smoked Phoenix in the playoffs.
i concur with letting paul get his.
taking away arguably his strongest asset, his playmaking ability, and turning him into a scorer is a great idea. he's gonne get 7-12 dimes no matter what due to the fact he handles the ball so much for them, but if you can limit those games in which he has 15,16,17 assists then you're looking pretty good.
even though peja can still hit a 3 with bowen in his face, it's a 30% shot as opposed to a 50-60% one. keeping them under 6 made 3's a game would be a huge step forward in taking over this series seeing as how they have quality guys who can hit them at a good clip.
Timmy is feeling better and starting to figure out how to attack this defense. The longer this goes the better he is going to play.
Great game by the Spurs but honestly I wasn't surprised with the W. We just beat a team we were supposed to beat. In fact we should be up 3-0 right now. We've led at halftime in Game 1 and 2, won Game 3 by 11 points. We're in good shape. Bowen on Peja = series victory.
Great recap as usual.
Same game plan for 4 as was in 3. Bowen on Peja is the key. Let the Hornets adjust to the Spurs for a change.
Paul is amazing! As well as TP and Manu. That was a joy to watch last night. Absolutely a great game!
Several have wondered about the Spurs ability to contain this type of play. Admittedly the Hornets are by far the younger team I believe that the extra rest during the playoffs will be beneficial. Spurs playoff/championship experience needs to be a factor and will be when we get the next one at home.
Hornets are young team and Paul admitted to straying from the game plan in game 3 when the pressure was on. Shots in games 5 - 7 get a lot more difficult to make.
Spurs must take game 4 to make this possible.
I believe.
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So expect to see Byron to adjust and run Peja off/behind many screens, both dribble and catch-and-shoot.
CP's career FG% is .456, boosted by shooting .488 this year.
Thats fine, Bowen will adjust.
Bowen won't allow Peja nothing.
I can live with Peja forcing up contested 3's if NO's is that desperate to get him involved. It's better than Paul breaking down the entire defense and either Manu, or Finley bites in the lane and he ends up shooting a wide open 3. Those were absolute daggers in the first 2 games. Then you have that scrub Mo Pete looking like Manu just because he has inches on Parker. The first two games the matchups were awful. And we still led after halftime in both games. Now when we were steady getting spanked by LA, those games were never even close. No matter what we did we had no answer for Shaq and Kobe. Those games were dominated from start to finish. These two losses we had chances to win.
Plus Peja looks to be more of a spot shooter now. Running him off screens doesn;t look to be a strong part of his shooting.
I don't think Scott will change much of anything in his gameplan. The Hornets are still getting very high percentage looks and they are forcing the Spurs to hit their jumpshots. He's playing a percentage game right now and he's winning.
The Hornets are very much a 2nd half team. Rarely have I seen them come out firing at the start. Even DAL managed to hang with them for the 1st half in most of those games. It's all about sustaining energy for 48 minutes, which is what the Spurs did in Game 3 and that's why they won.
I just hope that it eventually backfires on him for leaving our shooters wideass open all the time. Hopefully we will catch fire and force him to change his strategy.
Did you see West pounding on the scorer's table in the 4th? Dude was losing it.
The young Hornets have to be thinking "We got a monster game out of Paul, a good game out of West... and they still won big." And the more Tony slices down the lane and all those outside shots keep falling, the more they'll panic and forget about focusing on Duncan, which lets Tim loose on the inside. I like it, I like it! Pop for Prez!
, catching fire could just mean one easy win in the series. That'd be nice.
Spurs gave all they got and won the extreamly intense game.
That's why I love the spurs - for their heart desire team play, precise. They can't do it every game so I always feel pride when they leave all on the floor.
Where was the effort and adjustments the previous game?
The first two loses could be too much for the spurs.
Hornets looks like they can do anything and they are scoring so easily it's insaine.
Spurs throw everything out there and still NO was in the game
Ginobili played as good as he could. That was the night where he was forceing his body to do more then it's written in dictionary. It was out of the planet Earth showing.
TP had his personal fight with Paul. It was fantastic to watch.
Paul reminds me of smaller version and better passing version of Wade AD 2006. He can shoot he can slash and he can create. Amazing guy. And yes he is pissing me off with his acting and trashtalking, ohh well.
Duncan played good game. One thing the spurs wanted to do is to make Tim pass as soon as double team comes. Plus Oberto did a nice job with his passing to the middle in the traffic and in motion, one of the most effective plays if done correctly.
Still I did not wanted manu to start the game (0-8) but it worked at some point. Well in the point where he and TP were sharing the PG position. So Pop decided to go "vs Detroit 2005" kinda rotation.
How long can spurs keep that intensity with that adjustments?
All in all Scott will have to figure the spurs out. Either he will stay and belive that the surs just can't shoot as good as they are and he will concentrate on offense - how to free Peja and Bonzi.
That passion that desire was what I wanted from the spurs and I got it. And I don't mind spurs losing when they are playing maximum.
how is putting tp on him worse then putting bowen on him
tp did as good job as bowen did on paul
saying you will concide and let paul get his is crazy
because tp does a better job on paul then bowen
Shug, thanks.
But Paul is shooting FG 52% for the playoffs
So Paul was exceptional in Game3 with FG 60%.
Hes gonna lose that.
All the shooters he leaves open are clutch good shooters.
Keep it up shortbus you continue to look like a re .
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