Game Thread: PLAYOFFS. Rnd 1, Game 4: Spurs vs Nuggets — 4:30/C (12:30am Riga Time)

[808]

White starting to carve em up

[r0drig0lac]

this is a good start

[ZeusWillJudge]

White is not a star player. Likely to have an off night with added defensive pressure on him.

Well he's torched Jokic twice now. If they come that hard and he still makes them pay, it will take the heart out of them.

[KDKSpurs24]

Murray doesn’t even want the ball back when White is on him.

[Ron Swanson]

Sparty

[sasaint]

Bryn 2/2! Good for us!

[Leetonidas]

Man, Forbes has really been automatic this series. Gotta give him props

[808]

Great start

[tonight...you]

Whoo!

[Dverde]

Loaded mag going off

[smaka]

Great start, Forbes has confidence through the roof

[Millennial_Messiah]

Double digit lead!!!!!!!!

[Rummpd]

Wow Spurs outpacing Nuggets and canning shots

[BatManu20]

Sparty! Boy is ballin

[emanueldavidginobili]

Step on their ing throats!!

[Fusternino]

Sort of want to keep Forbes now over trading him for 2-5 better draft spots.

[tonight...you]

Well he's torched Jokic twice now. If they come that hard and he still makes them pay, it will take the heart out of them.

White's star is rising. That kid has it.

I'm happy you blessed him with the thunder.

[Strategic]

Bury these farts

[KDKSpurs24]

I definitely wish we would keep Forbes and unload Patty. Team would be great next year. But I understand the culture Patty brings won’t allow it haha

[bklynspursfan]

Please bench play with this type of energy

[tholdren]

Lol u scrubs now on forbes wagon.... spurstalk full of dummies. Forbes always been better than you give credit for

[Millennial_Messiah]

Damn Chris Weber calling the game for TNT. He sux.

It's the 1st round. Why not use the Bill/Sean stream?

[Trainwreck2100]

Outside of Murray getting hot for one quarter in Game 2, the Spurs have dominated thus far. But, then again, there's a thin line between this Spurs team playing well and it playing at a lottery level. All it would take is something like White going cold or DeRozan going into iso mode or Forbes reverting to his scared ways for this series to flip the other way.

The good news is the Spurs still could theoretically play better. They haven't gotten a strong game from Aldridge or Gay yet. They haven't had positive production from the bench at all, really. The Spurs can shoot much better from three-point land than they did in Game 3, while the Nuggets can't shoot much better from deep than they did in Game 3.

Keys tonight:

1) Poeltl stay out of foul trouble. Unless the Spurs fall behind, the gameplan tonight probably has him in line to play 30+ minutes. If he's in foul trouble, Gay will need to bring his hard had and play Millsap better. Bertans is probably a lost cause in that regard.

2) Gotta figure out a way to hide Mills and Belinelli. Easiest way to do that is to not play them together. But at the very least, Pop can't put Belinelli on Beasley or Harris like he did last game. There aren't adjectives to describe that level of mismatch.

3) White has to just keep playing smart. If the Nuggets adjust to him, don't force the issue. Stay aggressive but there's no need to force it. Thankfully, White has off the charts basketball IQ so this isn't much of a worry. The bigger danger is White reverts to that timid/tired/rookie-wall/unassertive version of himself that we witnessed at the beginning and end of the regular season.

we saw some of that in the 2nd half last game, Pop had white and derozen in except for like 1 minute in the 4th

[spursparker9]

Who else beside Forbes got the green light for fast break 3?

Patty and Beli?

[KDKSpurs24]

Sort of want to keep Forbes now over trading him for 2-5 better draft spots.

Agreed.