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

[100%duncan]

LaFriendzoned Suns

[pgardn]

Maybe its best to be denied a win without really deserving it.
Very early in the season.

[Gibbz]

Shooting the ball felt good ever since I was a kid. It's the easiest part of Basketball for me. Can you actually shoot? Do you play ball at all?

My sides

[da_suns_fan]

Ziro Reengs

Yes. We both have zero championship rings.

[SAGirl]

true, but we have manu replacement Kyle Anderson.

I think you are trolling, but he's not ready for that at all.
The way this game played out, I am sure he could have spelled someone else for a few minutes. Butler played very good though and made some nice shots. This game is on everyone else. If anything, I think we are fine on the 4th wing department, which caused everyone to claim ridiculously that we are not a championship team because those two.

[100%duncan]

Yes. We both have zero championship rings.

Oh, i'm not talking about us bro. Is that how you defend the Suns for being ringless now? Pathetic

[sasaint]

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...

Yeah, t's kind of like the theory vs. the reality. We knew the season would be a work in progress, but watching a sloppy 20 TO game is a hard reality to swallow.

[da_suns_fan]

LaBuyers Remorseage?

[sasaint]

Maybe its best to be denied a win without really deserving it.
Very early in the season.

Kind of the opposite f a moral victory... A Moral Loss!

[Ice009]

It gets harder in the game. Even Tim Duncan chokes sometimes.

If you're talking about being a "shooter" then watch Kawhi warm-up, he rarely ever misses.

Kawhi's not a pure shooter. As they say, most NBA players can hit open shots or shots at practice, but in games it's another story. He's worked hard at it, but he's not a great shooter. He's a good shooter, I'll give him that, but I don't think he's a good enough shooter to use jumpers and his main form of offense. A good shooter has better looking misses when wide open like Kawhi was. Those bricks looked like Lebron's at the end of game 6. Unfortunately for us, Lebron got bailed out by his teammates.

[tholdren]

I think you are trolling, but he's not ready for that at all.
The way this game played out, I am sure he could have spelled someone else for a few minutes. Butler played very good though and made some nice shots. This game is on everyone else. If anything, I think we are fine on the 4th wing department, which caused everyone to claim ridiculously that we are not a championship team because those two.

Im glad you could sense the sarcasm. It was in jest to the 99% of posters who said KA would be Manu 2.0

[100%duncan]

Kawhi's not a pure shooter. As they say, most NBA players can hit open shots or shots at practice, but in games it's another story. He's worked hard at it, but he's not a great shooter. He's a good shooter, I'll give him that, but I don't think he's a good enough shooter to use jumpers and his main form of offense. A good shooter has better looking misses when wide open like Kawhi was. Those bricks looked like Lebron's at the end of game 6. Unfortunately for us, Lebron got bailed out by his teammates.

I never said he was a pure shooter.

[SAGirl]

Im glad you could sense the sarcasm. It was in jest to the 99% of posters who said KA would be Manu 2.0

Manu is irreplaceable for sure.

From watching this game, still not sure what our offense is TBH.

[Kawhitstorm]

Not as sad as that D!

The game was over when Beal was able to square up without anyone in the vicinity. He used LMA's momentum to elude him w/ an escape dribble. That's a play the Hawks run for Korver.....the Wizards played the Hawks in the 2nd last year so I'm pretty sure Wittman stole that play from Bud.

[SAGirl]

Yeah, t's kind of like the theory vs. the reality. We knew the season would be a work in progress, but watching a sloppy 20 TO game is a hard reality to swallow.

This one stings because they really threw this game away, quite literally along with the ball.

[da_suns_fan]

LaHasNo Brakeage?

[100%duncan]

The game was over when Beal was able to square up without anyone in the vicinity. He used LMA's momentum to elude him w/ an escape dribble. That's a play the Hawks run for Korver.....the Wizards played the Hawks in the 2nd last year so I'm pretty sure Wittman stole that play from Bud.

Don't try explaining to him. He thought Dudley was better than Carmelo.

[Kawhitstorm]

Lucky us!

^^ Bitter that he got turned down by the prom queen.

[tholdren]

The game was over when Beal was able to square up without anyone in the vicinity. He used LMA's momentum to elude him w/ an escape dribble. That's a play the Hawks run for Korver.....the Wizards played the Hawks in the 2nd last year so I'm pretty sure Wittman stole that play from Bud.

didn't realize bud invented the fake. Impressive.

[Ice009]

My sides

Can you actually shoot? I'd bet a lot of the posters here couldn't even hit the rim in an open gym

Again, can you actually shoot? Since you don't want to answer that question, I'll assume you can't.

[wildbill2u]

It's gonna be a long year on ST if all we are going to see here is folks choosing up sides on which ONE player lost the game. I saw more than one player make a defensive error or miss a critical shot in the 4th. While we can have differences of opinion about the level of play on players in game grades, I hate to see us getting into the vicious cycle of scapegoating one player in every loss.

[sasaint]

This one stings because they really threw this game away, quite literally along with the ball.

Yeah, I think we have the same take. Give Manu, Rasual and Kyle (and maybe Danny) a "pass" and rip everybody else.

At least Danny may have found the road back to confidently stroking his 3.

[da_suns_fan]

^^ Bitter that he got turned down by the prom queen.

LaCapSpace Wastage?

[loveforthegame]

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.

Nice intelligent post when most the others are busy finger pointing and cliff jumping. Thanks.

[Ice009]

I never said he was a pure shooter.

You didn't, but I was responding to you saying that Kawhi hits most of his shots in warmups. I was just saying that most people know that NBA players (guards/small forwards especially) can hit most of their shots in warm ups. It doesn't mean they are good/great shooters.

btw, I've seen some good filipino shooters, but unfortunately some of those guys got screwed with lack of height and athleticism.