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Oh, one more thing - we shot waaaaaaaaay too many three pointers tonight. Especially given Rasheed's foul trouble. Take it to the rack damnit!
Yeah, I know, same tired argument from AHF. For those of you that feel that way, so be it, go find another thread.
For those of you who want to talk shop, read on...
First off I do need to call out some players...
Tim Duncan. The Big Fundamental is a Big Pussy. Show some balls man. Christ, two years ago you came two blocks away from a quadruple double in the elimination game of the NBA Finals.
Tonight you let your starting two guard nearly outrebound you. Weak. And don't even get me started on your D the last 5 minutes of the game. I don't know what was worse - Antonio McDyess taking you to the rack for a layup, or Lindsey Freakin' Hunter. Nut up. And while we're at, get your together at the FT line. There is no excuse for being such a choke, it's all in your head.
Tony Parker - how many threes does Billups have to hit before you think about coming OVER the pick? I can give you one, maybe two, but three? four? five? Wake up kid.
Also, how hard is it to step up and take a charge? I have seen Tony get whistled for fouls trying to defend a driving Billups multiple times in this series. He's fast enough to get in front of Chauncey, and then all he needs to do is step up and he'll get the call. All those times Chauncey puts his head down and drives and gets blocking calls on Tony will start turning into charges.
All Spurs big men involved in pick and roll defense. HEDGE DAMNIT. Detroit is killing us on the switch, it's time to start hedging and forcing the guard backwards. I think Detroit's guards hit every jump shot where they ended up with one of Tim, Nazr, or Horry on them tonight. If it's broke.. fix it.
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Now, on to Pop. You got punked tonight by your mentor. Plain and simple. Even the Game Night React crew called it, so I know I'm not alone.
You never adjusted to Detroit running their offense on the perimeter, just let them cut you to pieces. ing weak.
Why were we doubling so much the first half? I've never seen a Spurs offense double as much as I saw tonight in the first 24 minutes. And it got us killed.
Where the was Devin Brown? The Hunter-Billups-Hamilton was just begging to be countered with a Tony-Manu-Devin lineup of our own. But instead San Antonio's favorite road runner was on the wrong end of a DNP-CD.
Number of times Bowen guarded Chauncey tonight: ZERO. Chauncey's line: 19 points, 6 assists. Ugh. You know, it worked in game 5, why the would it ever work again?
And am I the only one who remembers games 1 and 2 Manu absolutely getting into the head of one Rip Hamilton? Hamilton was convulsing like he was in a swarm of mosquitos for those two games when Manu played him. The guy even got T'ed up for it. Like I said, that Hunter-Billups-Rip combo was just begging to have Bowen switched onto Billups and Manu sent out to annoy the out of Rip.
We didn't adjust all night to Detroit's perimeter game.
Psst, Pop, it's the Finals, now is not the time to with your lineups. I saw some truly bazaar combinations out there tonight. When you do that, it looks like you're panicking. Plus, Larry took advantage of some matchup mismatches to get easy hoops off of you.
Now is also not the time to experiment with plays. If I never see Bruce Bowen try to run a pick and roll again it'll be too soon. Dumb play at a point we needed scoring.
Did I mention seeing Devin Brown tonight would have been a good thing?
And finally, I was reminded by a friend tonight of one long-standing problem of Pop's teams - we don't go for blood when a guy's in foul trouble.
Tonight it was Rasheed Wallace playing the last 5 minutes of the game with 5 fouls. Number of times we challenged him defensively: ONE. Rasheed's damage in the last five minutes: 7 points, 1 steal, 1 rebound.
Earlier in the playoffs when Duncan got into foul trouble we saw him continuously attacked, and easily scored on, out of fear of not fouling out.
But we seem to want to uphold the nice guy image and make sure that guys with 4-5 fouls are around at the end of the game. That's nice and all, but it gets you beat. You've GOT to attack someone guarding Duncan with five fouls.
And now for Pop's coupe de grace: writing the "Parade, Thursday afternoon" on the marker board in the locker room. How ing conceited is that? When that's your at ude at the top, it cascades down to the guys out on the court. And it showed. We expected to Detroit to just lay down for us. You're going to have to take it form these guys, they're not just going to give it away. I thought Pop would be above something so stupid, but I guess not.
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Question, where are all the FTs don't matter crowd, who were so vicious in their attacks on me earlier this year? We lost a game earlier in the playoffs because of it, and tonight we bricked 10 freebies. But hey, Tim will figure it out, at least that's what Pop says.
And finally, a big you to the fans up in section 221 who got pissed at me and the ten guys on my row who decided at the 5 minute point we were going to stand and yell our ing guts out for the team the rest of the way.
This isn't piano recital, it's not a Disney movie, it's the mother ing NBA Finals.
If you can't get off your ass and yell for your team for five minutes at a game that could decide the championship, you shouldn't be at the damn game. That is weak, weak, weak with a capital W weak.
When did the rowdy mob at game 6 in 2003 get replaced by a bunch of uptight, pretentious assholes who are too good to make some noise for their team? I see enough of that in Dallas, I don't want to see it in my hometown.
And finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't say it was good meeting some of you finally at the half - Kori, LJ, Sequ, SW, UU666, Spurchick, Ginobiiillli, great to put a face with the name.
All this said, I am putting my faith in Pop making adjustments for game 7, just hope that it will be enough (and wish I had waited until Thursday to try and come down).
Oh, one more thing - we shot waaaaaaaaay too many three pointers tonight. Especially given Rasheed's foul trouble. Take it to the rack damnit!
Pop let Larry win.
Not to piss you off, but Larry Brown wrote that in the Pistons locker room.writing the "Parade, Thursday afternoon" on the marker board in the locker room
Well then I stand corrected on that one. Multiple people at the game (I was travelling all afternoon) around me said it was the Spurs locker room.Not to piss you off, but Larry Brown wrote that in the Pistons locker room.
Strategy and personnel wise I stand by what I said.
Blaming Pop for this loss is like blaming T park for the war in Iraq.
I agree with you again!! WTHeck is goin on??
But, BTW, Pop didnt write the parade thing on the board, LB did.
Opps, yall all ready covered the marker board thing. My bad, didnt see that.
Good Take.
I agree with you on Parker going over the pick, I thought it was pretty funny while he kept going around it and letting Billups shoot. Poor Coaching IMO.
Thats bull . Fortunatly I sit around cool people who actually stand up and cheer but ive been in that position in the past. Theres nothing more annoying than it being a close game, standing up and cheering, and haveing the person behind you tug on your shirt and ask you to sit down. One time someone even got an usher to try and get us to sit. Fortunatly the usher told them to offAnd finally, a big you to the fans up in section 221 who got pissed at me and the ten guys on my row who decided at the 5 minute point we were going to stand and yell our ing guts out for the team the rest of the way
and youd be 100% right.Strategy and personnel wise I stand by what I said
I think the mistake wasn't practicing yesterday, Im suprised you didn't pick up on that.
"I told em to go home and don't think about basketball"
Good job Pop, it showed tonight, ITS THE GODDAMN FINALS YOU IN MORON!!!!
Damn, hadn't heard that, that's un ingbelievable. "Don't worry about it"."
WTF is that? I wish I would have known that before coming down, I wouldn't have bothered. DIdn't Pop learn a damn thing from the Seattle series?
Dont worry about no.
"Dont think about basketball"
Yeah.
What the , you know, its December, weve played 3 in 4...
what,
we are in the finals??
Oh, guess we couldve watched some tape, or practiced, and kept our minds sharp.
Nah.
What the , take tommarow off and dont show up thursday.
Thats what you did monday and today.
Pfft.DIdn't Pop learn a damn thing from the Seattle series?
He doesn't learn .
Hes been around for 9 years, don't we know that by now.
Getting 15 rebounds in a Finals game is pretty huge. But I agree with you on Duncan, he´s playing like a sissy sometimes.
Now. How in the world are you going to put this one on Pop? Prince getting 2 or 3 HUGE offensive rebounds with less then 3 minutes to go and they scored on all off them. Then Manu trying to be a one man show by driving against the whole Pistons team. That´s stupid.
Our players didn´t make the plays that we needed down the stretch, pure and simple. Devin Brown wouldn´t have made any difference at all. Actually Barry was playing well enough to be on the floor for once.
Anyone else see what's wrong here?
Don't take this the wrong way, I'm not trying to be an ass, but can you read?How in the world are you going to put this one on Pop?
And I beg to differ on Devin. Dude locked down Rip in game 5 for a while, and was highly active on the offensive end. He also can matchup with Tayshaun.
Uhhh, your kiddin right.How in the world are you going to put this one on Pop?
Devin Brown wouldn´t have made any difference at all
Of course not, his defense wouldn't have helped at all, his agressive offense wouldn't have at all.
Kinda like it did in games 3 and 4.
Kinda like it did in game 5.
Yeah, your a moron, stay on topic bozo.Anyone else see what's wrong here?
Its called sarcasm dumbass, are you really that in DENSE!?!!?
Or that you're using a possessive form to describe the Spurs. Lsat time I checked, the load on the bandwagon wasn't as wide as it used to be.
You gave up.
So stop pretending to care.
You're implying that he would have helped had he played.
No he wouldn't.
I love how people can diss Pop all the time. Watch the F-ing game and you´ll know what I´m talking about. Devin or no Devin, the Spurs lost the game because we didn´t make plays down the stretch. Billups was making everything at time and Parker wasn´t making the defensive stops. Again would Devin made a world of difference on Billups? Who knows.
So why not switch Bowen over and put Ginobili on Hamilton??Parker wasn´t making the defensive stops
Who does that stuff??
Oh yeah, Pop.....
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