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Can't even choose tbh. Entire team is scrubbing it up. Never seen every single player on a team turn into in just 1 season. It's crazy.
- Parker going from a good player to a below average, fat PG
- Diaw's overall game
- Splitter's mysterious decline from an elite defender/solid pick&roll big to a below average defender with Kwame Brown's hands
- Patty Mills going from carrying the Spurs through key injury stretches last year, to being largely irrelevant
- Kawhi and Green each declining by roughly 5% from 3
- Other(specify)
Can't even choose tbh. Entire team is scrubbing it up. Never seen every single player on a team turn into in just 1 season. It's crazy.
Splitter. His defense the last couple of seasons covered Tim's regression on D.
You could pick a bunch of those and you wouldn't be wrong...
If the Spurs finish in 7th they will have the worst ranking of a defending champ since the 2011 Mavs but in the Mavs defense they gutted the majority of their roster. Never seen a defending champ struggling this much since the '03 Lakers who finished the season with 50 wins.
Splitter IMO. And Parker a close 2nd....
I'd go with Splitter, too..
This team has a number of non-defenders(Parker, Beli, Manu, Mills, current Diaw), they can't afford for one of the defensive anchors to fall off a cliff like this..
Should be an All option tbh. Seems like only Duncan gives a damn.
It's a legitimate question and the fact that they are so many potential answers to this question sucks.
I'm going to with the combo of Splitter/Diaw turning into players.
Tbh though the starters even last season were pretty ty on offense and defense. The bench really worked wonders the past couple of seasons.
From last year? If so, Diaw. Otherwise Parker.
It's a domino's effect.
I'd have to go with Parker and Tiago a close 2nd.
the offense is way worse than it was last year. Parker's inability to penetrate the basket has really forced so many broken plays and ISOs not to mention it's harder to move the ball with the defenses committed to all the shooters..Looks like teams know Parker can't penetrate for now. Losing Tiago is basically losing your best defensive big. Tiago was the spurs best defensive big last year.Tim is having an OK year and he's one of the GOAT but reality is that he's always been poor on the PnR ( last three years) and it's a nightmare seeing him there close to the perimeter.
I'm not worried about Leonard or Green.
Boris is so disappointing this season, but I do believe Parker and Tiago are the biggest culprits.
Tiago playing with the 2nd unit has absolutely fuxked up the rotation...
Statistically the spurs are doing OK defensively but are below average offensively.
Have to go with Diaw, I believe he made so much happen last year in our offense ball movement.
i'd say parker.. he really fell off the everest. He was kinda bad last year too, but this is just pathetic. It all starts with Cancernelli however, the team just can't guard for him too, also he's been disgusting on offense too, creatin tournovers out of nothing.
TP becoming a D-league bench player.
TP tbh. He sucks on offense. He sucks on defense. Cory and patty don't really know if and when and how long they are going to play so they never get a rhythm. This is the simplified version of course.
I'm going to vote other for Pop tbh. Dude shouldn't even be playing parker this much. I blame everything on him.
I think Diaw is just coasting. Splitter is much more concerning tbh. He is certainly necessary for the Spurs to make the Finals. He and Tim are 1a/1b in terms of big defense but Tiago is much more versatile, can switch pick and rolls much better, can guard players like LMA and Dirk and he covers up a lot of Duncan's oldness.
I think the shooting woes are just slumps that will end eventually, I'm not worried about Green or Mills or Leonard from 3, they'll get into a rhythm at some point imo. But Splitter's decline is very worrying. Spurs have proven they can play fine without MVParker.
Everything, but Parker playing like is probably the most problematic... The Splitter thing is also not good.
They got their championship and key players got extensions = lol who gives a about this season. That's pretty much the mindset of the Sperms right now. Tony got the RJ extension and has multiple rings; why bother playing hard anymore? Same with Boris and ter getting a ring and extensions. RC is gonna have to stay sober this offseason if he's gonna try and unload those dead weight contracts.
Teams have adjusted to the spurs offense. They know the spurs are a drive and kick pass first team and play defense with that in mind now.
Teams used to closed hard in the paint on penetration. Now they just show in the lane but play the pass out and know where the spurs players are gonna be. They may not steal all the passes, but they make them tougher and recover to contest the shot. The shots are just not as open they used to be.
This is partly why Manu turns the ball over so much. Teams play the pass on him and let him hang himself when he jumps to pass.
I don't know about that..Pop himself has said that teams generally don't watch tape or game plan during the regular season, which seems like a given, as there isn't much time to strategize thoroughly for regular season games, anyways..
Also, in basketball, most things are predictable, anyways..
Gotta wonder if Mills was just playing way over his head last year, and has regressed to the mean again. It's amazing the rest of the Spurs team got old while Duncan is still putting up a really strong season at age 39.
Of course they are predictable. everything in basketball is, which is why teams are playing the spurs differently now. Also, remember, these are you bodies flying around the court and the spurs are a year older and still relying heavily on those older guys.
Curry was doing this a lot last night.
tiago more worried about looking like GQ on instagram then working on BBALL.
https://instagram.com/p/zX36Hss_mp/
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