Lyles is taking over the ballhog role from Rudy Gay. Rudy sucks but at least he sometimes has good games while Lyles has never had a good game in his entire life
kinda like watching Forbes/Marco play over Lonnie/Keldon... or Brandon Paul over Derrick White
or blair/bonner over splitter
Lyles is taking over the ballhog role from Rudy Gay. Rudy sucks but at least he sometimes has good games while Lyles has never had a good game in his entire life
Man, I can't believe Luka is actually this ing good. Grabbing rebounds like a man, gritty defense. Good
Unfortunately, Lyles will prob be back next year since he's cheap and our big rotation is incredibly thin.
Murray has really upped his IQ on offense particularly when an advantage exists to attack the basket or dish it. Good to see. Scrubby Mills still sucks.
LUKA GUARDING ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY
and the amazing thing is he's not getting bullied or he's not fouling. Very impressive
as bad as this game is, whatever strength and conditioning program the spurs have Luka on is working wonders because he is a lot physically stronger this year than last year. His defense is way better than I thought. He is already a much better defender than Aldridge, Derozan, and Gay
Luka defending Randle well.
I feel for Samanic but he'll learn (second offensive foul)
Samanic stop running people over
That was some elite defense from Luka
The Spurs knew what they were doing all along. How many young guys do you see play defense like him against multiple positions? Very few.
Can we just keep Lyles on the bench ?
Luka is already way better than Lyles. Hopefully Trey doesn't get minutes over him when everyone's back.
Pop with an inbound play that isn't terrible? Shocking
We got the lead back when Lyles went to the bench and Samanic came in for him. Just saying.
Last edited by NASpurs; 03-02-2021 at 09:37 PM. Reason: Lost train of thought there for a sec
He is a ing beast!!!! It's actually insane to see him switch on the go, chase after any player who has the ball no matter the size, and stay in front of everyone, forcing tough shots... Randle has been cooking so far regardless, but Luka couldn't have played better D in most of those possessions. He's really looking like a future defensive force right now, and he hasn't even begun to show his offensive side yet...
Vintage Pop inbound play. Great set-up, great execution.
The future is ing bright. All aboard the Luka train. His toolset is amazing
It’s nice to see glimpses of what Luka could be. His size and quickness looks good on defense.
Halftime
1 2 3 4 T NY 23 24 47 SA 25 26 51
Spurs
Starters MIN FG 3PT FT OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF +/- PTS T. Lyles PF 12 2-6 1-3 0-0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 +0 5 D. DeRozan SF 14 1-2 0-0 4-4 0 3 3 4 3 0 0 0 +1 6 J. Poeltl C 18 2-4 0-0 2-4 0 5 5 2 0 1 0 0 +7 6 D. Murray PG 14 2-5 1-2 2-2 0 4 4 2 1 0 1 1 +12 7 L. Walker IV SG 15 1-6 1-5 2-3 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 +4 5 Bench MIN FG 3PT FT OREB DREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF +/- PTS D. Eubanks PF 6 1-3 0-0 1-2 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 -3 3 L. Samanic PF 10 2-4 1-3 0-0 1 2 3 1 1 1 3 2 +6 5 K. Bates-Diop SF 8 0-2 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -5 0 K. Johnson SF 11 4-6 1-2 0-0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 -3 9 P. Mills PG 12 2-5 1-3 0-0 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 +1 5 L. Aldridge C Has not entered game T. Jones PG Has not entered game TEAM 17-43 6-19 11-15 5 20 25 12 6 3 5 5 51 39.5% 31.6% 73.3%
There is absolutely no way that Luka is a negative in this game, he's been playing elite defense. Lyles is ting the bed per par, so I'm not surprised the Spurs got better once he sat... Luka should take every one of his minutes and then some
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