Particularly offensively
a small preview of hopefully what we'll see in the POs
Everyone on the floor live and a threat, recognizing mismatches and attacking the basket with purpose. Spurs decisive and quick to their sets, like they've been playing for years.
LMA has looked more and more comfortable in the offense the past 5 games or so but tonight especially there was no hesitation, the best LMA has looked in terms of when be aggressive and take shots, when to pass etc...
Agreed. This is probably the first time the entire team played well. Green hit some shots, Kawhi looked like he did pre stomach issues, manu hit shots, patty went off, simmons was solid, Tim was tim, tony not bad either. And the defense was amazing. Spurs seem very close to playing to their potential.
Christ no..
Did you watch the game?Or did you just skim the stat sheet and miss the little tidbit about us having 23 ing turnovers?
Defense wasn't even that great, either. They missed a lot of open shots and the turd towers weren't even trying to guard guys like Millsap when they attacked the rim. Spurs were much more lucky than good tonight, but we did shoot pretty well when we did get opportunities and that helped. Still, as Sean suggested towards the end, Pop would probably be best to burn the tape.
I thought parker was amazing tonight ^ good on defense, and ran the offense really well. He just made great decisions all night tbh
Id rather they be aggressive and turn it over than be passive tbh. Thats the only way this team can get to the next level, and tonight i thought was a big leap to where this team wants to be come playoff time
Forgot about the turnovers. Spurs had a ton of them. Need to cut down on those for sure.
Duncan and aldridge were amazing on defense. On the pick and roll and protecting the rim. David West, i agree he did not do a good job on millsapChrist no..
Did you watch the game?
Defense wasn't even that great, either. They missed a lot of open shots and the turd towers weren't even trying to guard guys like Millsap when they attacked the rim. Spurs were much more lucky than good tonight, but we did shoot pretty well when we did get opportunities and that helped. Still, as Sean suggested towards the end, Pop would probably be best to burn the tape.
Agreed. He played like a real compe or who's tired of playing like the past season and a half. Glad to see him have such a strong start to the season considering his mileage.
Spurs' D was really good. We know that Bobo and DWest contested very few shots but we can live with it if our shots are falling.
Spurs have literally had the easiest schedule in the NBA lol
2nd half was awful just awful
Spurs arent gonna hold the hawks to 50 points tbh ^
Spacing, angles, and timing on offense still seem way off with the starters. Aldridge ed up horns again. It takes too long to get into the offense and more postups being entered with 7 seconds on the clock and the like. Teams are still funneling the ball to Green helping off him early in the possession and he cannot make them pay. He is starting to get more open looks in the offense. I wish he had that midrange jumper like Kawhi.
We are milking the high low for a steady stream of layups though. LMA in particular has been great setting up and moving without the ball to get those looks.
Like the last games, the Spurs were force-feed LMA in the first half, but this time it resulted in some bad passes and turned the ball over too much.
Danny's TO? Well, someone should tell him he isn't an offensive machine driving to the hoop
We're gonna smash GS.
Good defense, but they were way too lose on offense but didn't seem to care, probably knowing they could beat the Hawks at the other end.
I have to say this. Why the did Duncan have 31 minutes?
Being able to sag off Green also lets them up more passing angles, force wider passes, and create more TO's. Plus it gives teams a place to hide a weak defender. And they're going to start doing it more and more, until Danny proves he can hurt them for it.
I think the Spurs got by with an awful lot tonight, because the Hawks were sloppy as . They (the Spurs) went without a score in the first half (not without a FG, but without even a FT) for over six minutes, and only lost 4 points of their lead. And it wasn't all because they played flawless defense. The Hawks just played almost as crappy as the Spurs did in that stretch.
If nothing else, people should have noticed that the Spurs had 23 freaking turnovers! That will lose the game about 90% of the time. If you turn the ball over 23 times and win in a blowout, it means the other team played like absolute . That's about all you can take from it.
I didn't catch the game til it was well in hand; but I'm happy to see the end of the bench guys playing well. That wasn't happening at all in the early going.
Don't tell Sean Elliott that, he was very critical of the Spurs after the game saying it was one of the ugliest 25 point wins he's ever seen. I think he was just cranky from lack of sleep tbh
Props to this comment and I fully agree.
Pop had a super strict 8 man rotation that I thought would kill us in the long run.
Now he's using everyone depending on what he feels we need and what is encouraging is that those guys playing at the end sometimes are able to even expand leads.
The one area of concern remains the same as we have always had Diaw/West, and really WEst in particular. He's no rim protector, and what is worse for me, he doesnt box out and rebound. He's a veteran, I guess he is what he is and we will live with that for the RS. In the postseason, we probably won't see them together much.
Patty PnR D with D.West is terrible.
i agree with GSH WE played poorly for long stretches in this game, but ATL didn't show up until Millsap tried to rally their team in the 3rd and they made a run. Luckily for us everyone was on fire.
If this was one of those games where we don't make 3s like the Raptors game, forget it. Very different outcome.
Lmao lakers
I agree 23 turnovers is way too much but i think this team needs to go through this stretch, be overaggressive and take advantage of mismatches. Force feed LMA, let kawhi go to work when has a smaller defender on him
I just liked how the whole team was aggressive tonight, no wasted motion, they were attacking the paint and kicking out to the open shooter and it seemed like everyone was on the same page in terms what they wanted to run. Now, was the execution flawless? no at all, but with i saw tonight i think they'll get there soon
I watched Hawks broadcast tbh
Sean Elliott: "This team is making mistakes and getting rewarded for it."
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