Game Thread #5: Spurs @ Wizards -- Wed. (11/4) - 6:00 PM CST (2:00 AM Riga Time)

[tholdren]

tholdren has ty bball takes

yet I said 4th Q meltdowns with no one taking it to the paint. Your take was let KL shoot jumpers... looks like I win

[look_at_g_shred]

That one was on Kawhi Leonard

Shut up got

[milkyway21]

kawhi 4th quarter only had 3fga with 2 of them in the final minute....

someone put up the sequence of enrique turnovers in the 4th quarter that the wiz capitalize from his hero mode

only 3 BECAUSE HE MISSED ALMOST ALL OF THEM..

he was ,8-2 FG in the 2nd half..

[TheDoctor]

So sick and tired of how this team is playing.

Also so damn disappointed with Aldridge. Guy can't make mid range shots and looks completely lost in offense and defense.

West also is a liability, he can't defend anyone at the post.

Actually, LMA played defense and grabbed 11 def rebounds (14 overall). DWest in the other hand is playing like a real 1M dollar contract man.

[pgardn]

Was that supposed to be cool?

Sure.

Whatever.

You are as ty a poster as he is.
If that's cool, then yes, it's cool.

[siraulo23]

what a disappointing lost tbh

its just 1 game but it's the west, hopefully it doesnt cost the spurs at the end of the season

[Venti Quattro]

Shut up got

Leaving Beal wide open

[ElNono]

It's just awful. We really should have gone 10-1. Chemistry or not, these 10 games are easily winnable if we play decent. I mean how many to's did we have? More than 20? Atleast 10 in the 4th? That's not how you play basketball, just frustrating is all.

Of course it's frustrating. Spursfan is spoiled too, tbh... we all knew going into this season it was going to be hard and require patience...

[DarrinS]

yet I said 4th Q meltdowns with no one taking it to the paint. Your take was let KL shoot jumpers... looks like I win

I never said let KL shoot jumpers.

[100%duncan]

Sure.

Whatever.

You are as ty a poster as he is.
If that's cool, then yes, it's cool.

Ohh, Im hurt, old .

[pgardn]

Actually, LMA played defense and grabbed 11 def rebounds (14 overall). DWest in the other hand is playing like a real 1M dollar contract man.

West is hugely disappointing. I knew he was slow, but not to the degree we are witnessing.

[milkyway21]

Geezz. Neal, Gooden, Temple & Blair must be so proud they beat the Spurs

[Kawhitstorm]

Lamarcus for sure had a bad game. He won the Celtics game for us down the stretch. It was a team effort of course, but he rose to the occasion. He was lost here all game. Priority no. 1, we have to get him right and going on. Then work on everyone else, seriously.

Kawhi is ready for his role, but Lamarcus is lost among all the shuffle. Many other guys played terrible. Even as bad as they were they had a shot to win this if they had cleaned up their mistakes. No need to rush this.

Lamarcus and Kawhi both were getting doubled pretty badly, and there were no cutters or others looking for a pass. Their execution was horrible, just horrible.

Danny slumping & Tony playing off the ball is exasperating the problem b/c the spacing is horrible. It was reminiscence of Kawhi getting doubled by the Clippers & nobody being able to hit a shot from outside to keep the defense honest or spread the floor.

[pgardn]

Ohh, Im hurt, old .

No you're just stupid.
It can be fixed.

[100%duncan]

Of course it's frustrating. Spursfan is spoiled too, tbh... we all knew going into this season it was going to be hard and require patience...

We're spoiled but those turnovers, ugh.

[100%duncan]

No you're just stupid.
It can be fixed.

Saltyyyy.


Look everyone here is discussing basketball, even throlden, except for one. Old .

[look_at_g_shred]

Leaving Beal wide open

Yeah..hilarious.

[lofds]

Manu and Bobo were good... but too many mistakes...

Boris is always solid but didn't get much playing time. Manu was good.

So frustrating this game cause if we prevented just one of those stupid turnovers we could've had it.

[DarrinS]

Of course it's frustrating. Spursfan is spoiled too, tbh... we all knew going into this season it was going to be hard and require patience...

Yep. We are spoiled. I expected to lose these types of games (and we'll lose more), but they'll figure it out eventually.

[Ice009]

But you don't, so argument invalid.

I just hate seeing players brick open shots badly with the game on the line. It means they are scared and/or have no confidence in their shot when they miss it that badly. I thought Kawhi was tougher than that. I am nowhere near being a good ball player, but I consider myself a very good shooter. It comes naturally to me though. It's just frustrating seeing guys miss that badly when open. Missing or bricking a tough shot with pressure defense - that is another story, but getting a wide open shots, you just can't brick them as badly as Tony Allen if you want to be a go to guy. Horrible misses from Kawhi.

George Hill lost me when he air balled a wide open 3 with the game on the line against the Grizzles in game 6 of that 2011 series. Had he hit that shot, we still had a chance to win that game and force game 7, but he didn't even hit the rim.

[Venti Quattro]

Yeah..hilarious.

Don't get your ass too hurt, I just pointed out what was glaringly obvious on the play. He hedged on the Wall drive and left LMA out to die

[lofds]

Should have put Diaw in the game to settle the team down when they were throwing the ball away

Everyone was throwing it away and Boris didn't get much time. I would've liked to see it thrown to Kawhi or Aldridge in the post when we were frenetically passing it around. That would've slowed things down and been higher percentage.

We've had good success in previous games going for that.

[Mugen]

I'm honestly pretty stoked on the team thus far tbh. The ceiling is pretty damn high, pretty evident to anybody who understands basketball....

[100%duncan]

Don't get your ass too hurt, I just pointed out what that glaringly obvious on the play

That was clearly on Kawhi. If Pop told them to switch then what did he expect from a 6'11 guy guarding a guard.

[DarrinS]

Oh well, I'm done thinking about this game. Good night.