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its not how you start, its how you finish. we good.
And only lose by 16 points. Commence discussion of "if the first quarter had not happened, Spurs would have won the game."
its not how you start, its how you finish. we good.
fakers were motivated.
The first 6 minutes killed us. No hustle, no fight.
It's the truth. We lost the game in the first 12 minutes. If the game were close at the end of the first quarter, the Spurs would probably have won the game.And only lose by 16 points. Commence discussion of "if the first quarter had not happened, Spurs would have won the game."
4th quarter:
Spurs scrubs - 31
Lakers starters - 18
BTW John Basedow is a and loves black ...it's a fact.
Guys there's no way to spin this loss... we flat out sucked. It's not indicative of our team overall or what will happen if we meet in the playoffs. It's a regular season game where we got our asses kicked. They came out with energy and we came out with lethargy. That equals ass kicking.
Spurs got punched in the mouth in the first quarter, and never quite recovered. The Lakers won't have it so easy next time we meet (unless the Spurs have HCA already locked up and are resting the starters).
spurs were tired and lakers weren't period....no biggie spurs will rest and bounce right back...go spurs
The Lakers were motivated... they needed this win more than the Spurs did. The Black and Silver came out with tons of intensity against the Heat... no where near today though. I knew it by the way Manu came out in the beginning.
We were outplayed... it's still one loss though. Once we clinch homecourt, we'll rest, and if all goes right, we'll play a beat up Lakers team in the WCF with homecourt advantage and more rest after they play the Mavs and we get past the OKC.
Size wasn't the problem today, and won't be in the playoffs. Lakes were only +6 RBs.
Spurs 35% vs 60% in the first half was the ENTIRE problem.
Spurs are 3G chuckers? Lakers shot 2 more 3G than Spurs
Both teams played Friday, the Spurs starters rested the fourth quarter Friday, the Lakers flew Saturday. Seems like the Lakers would have had a better excuse for tired.
Every team feels the grind of the season by this point, but the Spurs should have been as rested as they can be, they've been home a few days.
Spurs got their ass kicked today. Simple as that. It happens in the NBA. Even Cleveland wins a few games.
Today we looked like a jumpshooting team and when a jumpshooting team isn't hitting jumpshots they look like complete . In the past when the spurs weren't hitting their jumpshots they could always throw it into Tim to pull them through that doesn't seem available anymore. It didn't seem like the spurs defense was horrible, it just seemed more like the Lakers couldn't miss anything, so the loss looks more to be of the offenses fault than the D's. I still have faith in the Spurs, but today's offensive display makes me think we rely a lot more on making jumpshots than getting easy baskets to win, which makes me nervous against le-contenders in the playoffs.
What do you guys think about today's performance and our le chances going forward? . . . discuss
PS: I would of loved to see Splitter in the 1st half, his lack of use in the spurs regular rotation I think might hurt us down the line in the playoffs.
C'mon, we sucked today. I know we played bad in the first, but still, Spurs got their asses handed to them. Easily the worst performance of the season. But you could say every NBA team has one of these games.
Outhustled and shooting blanks. I credit Lakers defense. Bad game for Spurs. Tiago should have got more PT while there was a chance. Not enough movement on the offense. Blair played horrible.
You could make the case had the game not been played then the spurs would not have lost. Thats about on the same line of thinking like you saying had they not played the first quarter.
Throw out the 4th quarter. Garbage time came early with many starters sitting. The 16 point final point differential is misleading.
No way. The spurs were outplayed today.
You're also not taking into account that the Lakers probably eased off the gas in the 4th, letting the Spurs score 31 while only scoring 16. There's no way to spin it. Lakers flat dominated from start to finish.
Size was problem. Penetraiting Parker and Ginobilii create space for Duncan inside, and all those shooters. Bonner, Neal cant create themselves and hit 3.
Without those bucket in paint, Spurs hadn`t any weapon to compete with Lakers. + they hit almost every basket. Then Spurs showed some energy, but win was way beyond reach.
Some D, easy points on transition offense, early foul trouble by Bynum or Gasol, but neither happend. Pop just have to make switch of gameplan if it ever happend to play Lakers in playoffs.
Last edited by Mal; 03-06-2011 at 08:52 PM.
We'll be in LA in a couple of weeks. That game will tell us if this loss was an outlier.
Failure to show up is still failure. The Lakers were ready for the opening tip, the Spurs weren't. Duncan's scored two points in two of three games against them.
It's not hard to see how the Lakers could impose their will on us in a 7 game series. As others have mentioned, we're kinda stuck against them. They can take away what we do best, inside & out.
What conclusions can be drawn from the Spurs previous 2 wins? That we'll need a monster game from Blair and a tip-in from our oldest player? It's gonna take more than "better energy" to get past them.
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