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The Suns are a better team with better players/talent.
Too many turnovers
Missed FTs
Weak bench
Poor perimeter defense
Poor shotblocking and rebounding
Suns made a lot of lucky shots
What do you think is the biggest reason the Spurs lost?
The Suns are a better team with better players/talent.
They spent the two years and a half sacrificing good defense and decent offense for ty defense and ty offense.
-free throws
-lack of a good lock down perimeter defender
-rebounds
-3 point shooting
-no one other than tim, manu and tony wanting to win
-free throws
screens
Only Duncan, Manu and Parker showed up--and Duncan was too spent, Manu was probably bothered by the nose, and Parker was dinged up. But I don't think we could have won even if all 3 of them were 100%. We just didn't have enough players who were ready to go. Blair and Hill will get better with another year. Dyess was probably spent. And everyone else was craptastic.
I think the weakness of Bonner, Mason, Bogans, the huge disappointment of RJ, discouraged, even unconsciously, the Big Three. I get the feeling they never relieved believed in this team.
And I think maybe Tim and Manu don't have the legs anymore to win a Mavs series then have enough left to take on just a PHX, and then a Lakers, and then Magic or Cavs, ALL without HCA.
I'm still amazed they beat the Mavs.
Dirk's flailing elbow.
I think the weakness of Bonner, Mason, Bogans, the huge disappointment of RJ, discouraged, even unconsciously, the Big Three. I get the feeling they never relieved believed in this team.
And I think maybe Tim and Manu don't have the legs anymore to win a Mavs series then have enough left to take on just a PHX, and then a Lakers, and then Magic or Cavs, ALL without HCA.
I'm still amazed they beat the Mavs.
The difference was the three point line. Suns certainly are good enough to make those shots. But every game? Very unusual that everyone on your teAm does it 4 straight times.
And Suns hit every big shot in every 4th quarter.
Lucky shots had NOTHING to do with it. They were better period.
Wide open shots = lucky shots?
There are plenty of reasons, just look at the roster..
Duncan carried the team in the 1st half of the season, Manu carried the team in the 2nd half..Parker has been suffering through injuries all year..these guys are too old and have too much mileage to be doing ALL the lifting on this team..
Too much dead weight on the roster, too many holes..no perimeter defenders, no more shooters, no athletic bigs to help Duncan or to defend outside, too many soft players, questionable coaching, no depth, no athleticism. the coach prefers old veterans over young players..
I'm amazed that the Spurs made the 2nd round and beat a #2 seed..
It's the same problem that this team had last year. The core is aging. The bench sucks.
10 v 6
Put me down for all of the first 5.
Write in vote for being out coached.
Pretty much all of the above
The Suns are deeper and more resilient. And the Spurs don't have consistent 3-point shooters to spread the floor, so the spacing was messed up pretty much the whole series.
Perimeter defense, no doubt. There were tons of reasons, but that is the biggest contributor.
Next would be the weak bench, which needs to be scrapped this offseason. But it's important to note that the Spurs managed to score a good amount of points in every game of this series. A better bench would have helped, but the points were there. They just couldn't slow down the Suns offense, primarily out on the perimeter and the pick and roll with Nash and Amare. A stronger bench would have just meant less Parker and Ginobili scoring and more role players, but it would roughly still equate to the same amount of points scored. Defense was just not strong enough to stop Phoenix, and that's why they were swept.
Where's "Lack of 3-point shooting"?
Where's the option Suns is a better team?
there is one obvious reason: the suns are a better team
quicker than me
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