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The Spurs would kill the Thunder inside with that lineup. Either with Duncan or with constant layups. Half of which would be goaltended.
Serge
Durant
Thabo
Harden
Westbrook
That gave spurs in gm2 and if the thunder use that lineup and go small ball for extended periods of time that spurs could be in deep
The Spurs would kill the Thunder inside with that lineup. Either with Duncan or with constant layups. Half of which would be goaltended.
Duncan had a lot of trouble going one on one with serge
Um, when was this?
Meh, Thabo played 31 minutes in game 1, and Ibaka played only 6.5 less minutes than Perkins. Thunder still lost. The Thunder didn't "discover" anything in game two that they didn't already try in game 1. Just the media looking for something to say when the Spurs are shutting up all the doubters, and making a sweep look more than possible.
It's kind of a push...they are better defensively with Perkins out but they will miss his screens on offense.
Game 2 -- but I think he can adjust a bit and if he's able to play a lot with Diaw against small ball, they could dominate. Plenty of lineup options if they don't.
Duncan will eat them up if they run that lineup longer than 8 min in the 4th like in game 2.
That would mean Diaw guarding Durant which he can't do
OKC switching on the PnR is what gave them fits. They figured it out late in the fourth though.
Eh, we'll see. It's not like the Spurs went exclusively small to counter them. Your takes are usually pretty bad anyway tbh.
You thinking Diaw could guard Durant exposes your lack of knowledge
ginobili killing this small 5.
The success of our pick and roll offense had a lot to do with how terrible Perkins is in guarding it
Well, he was out there last night and they won. What does that say about your knowledge?
That line up got OKC back in the game. They were content with having Duncan beat them as opposed to death by pick and roll. Because TD isnt the post player he was back in the day, its actually a good approach.
The obvious counter is for the Spurs to play Boris, and beat the out of Durant on the offensive end with some good old high-low action. On D Spurs can hide Boris on the wildly overrated Thabo. Boris is just too talented of a passer to worry about the flow of the offense being disrupted tbh. The problem is when Boris picks up dumb fouls as was the case yesterday.
I honestly think this strategy dangerous considering OKC's amazing length at seemingly each position. However, it plays into the Spurs' hand since it taxes Durant, and encourages Westbrook and Harden a higher percentage of the shots.
Diaw wasn't guarding Durant, are you truly this stupid or are you just trolling me?
You not knowing that Diaw could guard Thabo exposes your lack of knowledge.
I don't get all the Perkins hate from the media. Tim was coming off a red-hot series vs the Clippers and yet Perkins has held him to 31% shooting. I honestly think Perkins has been amazing this series in keeping Tim from being any kind of reasonable option in the offense these first two games. If Thunder fans get what they wish with Perkins on the bench I think Tim is going to really go off. And Perkins is such a great screener. You take Perkins away and you're going to see lots of Westbrook isos.
Who said he was?
He was out there alongside Duncan against the small ball lineup and the Spurs won.
Did you watch the game, or was the basketball power out?
Diaw is too slow to guard thabo
Tim Duncan's one on one low post scoring is the least of OKC's worries. I'm not diminishing his importance and I realize he contributes in other ways, but he hasn't scored more than 16 pts in a game against OKC all season and went 2-11 last night, with at least a fair amount of trouble scoring on Ibaka one-on-one. Having said that, I think if you're OKC you stick with this lineup and see if you can reproduce the good stretch you had in Game 2.
Knowledge exposed.
Yes the spurs won, I'm glad you saw the final box score, but the spurs lead was built on Perkins being in the lineup
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