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Spurs broadcast said its been trash for 11 games now, Leonard has only missed 3
Can't believe we change from a ~90 oppPPG team into a ~105-110 oppPPG team without KL/Tim together, tbh...
Spurs broadcast said its been trash for 11 games now, Leonard has only missed 3
notice how I put "KL/Tim together" in OP.
Also LMA has been a lazy bum on that end lately...
Yawn
OP dropping nukes.
Spurs D hasn't been good period .....Last couple of weeks the Spurs have been playing awful on D.....
Spurs defense was so good from 03-07 because Bowen never missed any games during that span, tbh.
Didn't see that, good catch
The Spurs defensively, miss the best defender in basketball.
Such a flaming hot taek
LMA and Green coasting arent helping at all.
^ this, in a nuts
Anderson's defense is underrated!!
OP is an alt of the got poster apalisoc
Shocking that the defense would slip, would never have seen that coming for the following reasons -
- Two best defenders basically not being paired up during any of the last 10 games
- Older team during the doldrums of the NBA in January/February
- Pop doing his best job limiting minutes of main cogs
- Guys replacing the two aforementioned defenders not being renowned defenders due to age/size/inexperience
- Defensive numbers put up early in the season inflated due to crappy compe ion
- Opposing teams having had more evidence on which to scout/analyse the Spurs defense
- Opposing teams have been shown some ways to score on the Spurs by the superior teams (Warriors, Clippers etc)
- Playing on the road for like a month
WOW, who would have guessed the Spurs would have slipped a bit defensively?
Yeah, plus Manu is like our 3rd best perimeter defender, after Kawhi/Green...
I'm just glad we seem to have enough to outscore the ty teams...
Plus the Refs doing there thang :P
I mentioned this as soon as Manu got hurt. In addition to everything he does offensively, he's very disruptive defensively and always has an impact on that end even when he's struggling shooting. IMHO it's why a guy like Marco would nit have cut it w/o Manu and why Pop prioritized getting a defensive minded wing. Simmons is obviously not in the same conversation and neither is Anderson who is a forward, different position altogether.
I can't imagine Marco in a game like we had against the Suns. No thank you.
Just going to throw this out there. We needed more rim protection and rebounding but had to go small without Kawhi and Maanu... so it got ugly. Td is possibly still in minutes restriction and it was a B2B.
Edit not B2B, but 3rd game in 4 days.
That's not really saying much when you're compe ion is guys like Mills, KA, Simmons and Parker. He actually might be the second best post defender too. Dat historic defense...
RIP OP..
We're still like top 3 in the league IIRC.... the league just has been much more about offense than defense lately...That's not really saying much when you're compe ion is guys like Mills, KA, Simmons and Parker. He actually might be the second best post defender too. Dat historic defense...
What he got banned for?
They were due some regression.
Without Leonard and Ginobili and with Duncan still not looking right, I'm not concerned with aesthetics right now, even against bottom feeders. They lack depth of perimeter talent (individually, they're all decent enough in limited roles, but collectively, they're underwhelming) and despite this, are still managing minutes, so almost every game is going to be a slog. As long as they keep winning, that's all that matters.
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