Manu: "We relied a lot on Kawhi and LaMarcus

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Manu: "We relied a lot on Kawhi and LaMarcus making jumpers. It’s not exactly who we want to be."

[apalisoc_9]

Lamarcus was unconcious in tue first half and Kawhi was the only player worth going to the whole game. I think Manu is having trouble understading that the game hes trying to vizualise is completely unsustainable.

Lamarcus barely shot the ball in the 2nd half and Kawhi barely had any touches the last 4 minutes. It was actually when when Manu decided to move away from that game that the spurs lost.

I pointed this in the game thread, Manu tried to play a completly different game from what they were playing and the result was atrocious.

I respect manu a lot, but he'll have to understand the personel. Pop will probably talk to him about it.

[SAGirl]

I wonder what Manu had in mind instead.

Maybe that instead of shooting jumpers Kawhi and Lamarcus had to make plays for their teammates?

[apalisoc_9]

I wonder what Manu had in mind instead.

Maybe that instead of shooting jumpers Kawhi and Lamarcus had to make plays for their teammates?

Like with many others, I dont think manu realizes the changes that needs to happen with a declining parker and him being 38. You cant play spurs 2014 with this personel. Its not possible.

[YGWHI]

Maybe that instead of shooting jumpers Kawhi and Lamarcus had to make plays for their teammates?

Make plays for guys who weren't scoring efficiently...1-5 2-8 1-4 3-10...doesn't make sense.

[kawhidoyoudothistome]

I think Manu's wrong. We played our defensive style and should have closed them out like we do other teams, IF we actually did rely on Kawhi and LMA to close it out.

[spurtech09]

Spurs need to play spur ball.....and that's ball movement.....share the ball..

[SAGirl]

Like with many others, I dont think manu realizes the changes that needs to happen with a declining parker and him being 38. You cant play spurs 2014 with this personel. Its not possible.

They most definitely need to move to feature the young studs they have, but still the fact that he said that the team doesn't want to rely on them making jumpers makes me wander what he meant.

I think he meant that if these two get the ball, its not always for a shot for themselves, but for them to make a play to improve their teammates quality of play.

If that is the plan, we might be in trouble, bc Lamarcus is not a playmaker (he tries, give him credit, maybe too much which ends up in hesitation). Kawhi has improved by leaps and bounds, but he's an efficient scorer at this point, I don't think you want him passing up shots unless he absolutely doesn't get a good look.

I am not sure what Manu meant.

[loveforthegame]

I don't mind LMA taking jumpers when he's hitting like he was tonight. The defense gave him that all night long. He really struggled when trying to go inside though.

Leonard did most his damage inside. They needed to clear out and let him go to work more.

If anyone was settling for jumpers it was the bench.

[Escawun3]

Kawhi was clearly tired in the last minutes, Manu was talking a lot with him on those last plays, so maybe that's what happened. the bench played very bad and Timmy really struggled against Pau. This things happens, is a long season, but I'm really upset because is not a coincidence no more that we have bad looks on the last possessions , I blame Pop because I got the sense that he doesn´t like to make crunch plays, is like just shoot it and let see what happens, but then he says that we lost because we played bad on the second quarter. he is the best, but he has been really bad on last possessions plays. ( sorry if my english is bad)

[Kikoluna]

I think he was talking about the beautiful game, spurs ball movement, not hero ball (although Leonard is awesome tbh)

[apalisoc_9]

I think he was talking about the beautiful game, spurs ball movement, not hero ball (although Leonard is awesome tbh)

Not possible with Tony and Manu.decline. probably something he does not understand

[Spurtacular]

I'll take Manu's analysis over some idiot troll every day of the week.

[ceperez]

Absolutely does not make sense. If Pop intentionally shortened the lineup, then it is obvious that he wanted the best players on the court most of the time. Look at the disparity in minutes between starters and bench. Starters played twice as long as bench but have positive +/- vs negative.

[will_spurs]

He simply means that the Spurs aren't designed to funnel the offense through 2 volume jump shooters. And that'd obviously be a recipe for disaster.

For the Spurs to be "who they want to be" there need to be a better performance (offensively) by Green + the whole bench, as well as more post game from our bigs. Basically a more balanced offensive game.

[Fireball]

the problem is obvious ... the starters played more minutes than usual and did not have enough in the tank to finish the game ... they dominated the Bulls starters, but the Spurs bench just gave up every lead

[TrainOfThought5]

the problem is obvious ... the starters played more minutes than usual and did not have enough in the tank to finish the game ... they dominated the Bulls starters, but the Spurs bench just gave up every lead

The starters played more minutes BECAUSE the bench was sucking ass all game long. Two positive runs by the bench and this game isnt even close. Smfh i dont know what the Manu is talking about.

[TrainOfThought5]

Make plays for guys who weren't scoring efficiently...1-5 2-8 1-4 3-10...doesn't make sense.

This. A million times, this. The game was in crunch time and our two best players shouldve been playing a two man game surrounding their strengths.

[Fireball]

The starters played more minutes BECAUSE the bench was sucking ass all game long. Two positive runs by the bench and this game isnt even close. Smfh i dont know what the Manu is talking about.

I think we both agree ...

[eDizzle20]

I think Manu's wrong. We played our defensive style and should have closed them out like we do other teams, IF we actually did rely on Kawhi and LMA to close it out.

This. There's no point to having 2 max money players if you're not going to feed them the ball down the stretch.

[DarrinS]

He simply means that the Spurs aren't designed to funnel the offense through 2 volume jump shooters. And that'd obviously be a recipe for disaster.

For the Spurs to be "who they want to be" there need to be a better performance (offensively) by Green + the whole bench, as well as more post game from our bigs. Basically a more balanced offensive game.

This, pretty much. Bulls had 5 players in double figures-- Spurs had 3

[Brian Windhorst]

Green 3-10
Ginobili 1-4
Mills 2-8
West 1-5

[will_spurs]

This. There's no point to having 2 max money players if you're not going to feed them the ball down the stretch.

It doesn't mean they have to settle for a (contested) jump shot.

[DarrinS]

Green 3-10
Ginobili 1-4
Mills 2-8
West 1-5

With those numbers, I'm surprised it was compe ive

[Brazil]

There is nothing wrong relying on Kawhi and LMA but he is right about jumpers.

Spurs have had a terrible last minutes of the game against Bulls. Bulls late in the game were going inside to the rim to get easy lay ups or draw fools that's what happened instead Spurs settled on the perimeter with no FTs.