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I agree it was probably the days in a hotel. The Spurs have little experience staying in hotels for road games.
Spurs win Games 3-5 then take the championship!!!!
Okay, so that was depressing as to watch. Simply a pathetic effort by most of our team. That was close to our worst performance this year, which I think was game 1 against the Nuggets. I put that game down to rust, and they proved that it was by playing solid-as-fark Spursball for the rest of the series.
So, tonight Duncan was excellent and the rest of the team non-existent. It wasn't 4-down or smallball that lost us the game - we had already lost it by the 2nd half.
We were tired.
We were slow.
We looked apathetic.
We honestly seemed like we'd rather be sinking beers in a bar somewhere.
In the first quarter I could tell we were going to lose this one and said so a number of times in the game blog. We were breaking down on simple plays, both offensive and defensive, we weren't hustling for loose balls or to make plays, and we were making terrible decisions like JV shooting on 3/5 possessions. We were out of sync from the start, and the only reason it wasn't an early blowout was that our first half D was okay, and they couldn't make a shot.
HOWEVER, I think this is just another "rust" game. They've been living in hotel rooms for 5 nights in a hostile town. They are tired, want to see their own beds and loved ones. These things contribute to flat as f##ck performances like tonight.
They got the split they wanted, felt tired tonight, and thought "what the , we'll beat them at home." I'm pretty sure that's what happened.
WE WILL NOT PLAY LIKE THIS IN GAME 3.
I agree it was probably the days in a hotel. The Spurs have little experience staying in hotels for road games.
Spurs win Games 3-5 then take the championship!!!!
And Kori, don't get pissed at me - this is a legit take, not a whinge - and I so rarely have anything to say or can be bothered to say it...
Whatever helps you sleep at night
How is a rust game when they played 2 days ago?
And just so you know, I don't appreciate your defiance like your take is needed to be posted again when I'm in the middle of cleaning up utter chaos.
Yeah, way to miss the point.
The point is that they're human. They got their split, felt tired and banged-up, and couldn't be bothered, an utterly human trait.
The exceptions were Tim, who is such an ultra-compe or that he can't give up, and Tony, who tried but looked like he was playing hurt.
We'll be fine for game 3. 4 days rest is just what they need right now to re-focus.
Bull . Pop's rotations were off and TD picking up #4 sent him to the bench with about 2:30 left in the 3rd when the Spurs were starting to get a rhythm didn't help. Holt should fine Pop every time Elson takes off his warmups. I think Pop also erred in not getting Barry more involved in this game early.
And they haven't been in a hotel room for five nights. They got there Saturday. Saturday-Sunday-Monday - 3 nights.
Uhhhh, the team stayed in a hotel those days ooooooooo??
you hotel!!!
Wat do you mean ? I'm agreeing with you!Yeah, way to miss the point.
The point is that they're human. They got their split, felt tired and banged-up, and couldn't be bothered, an utterly human trait.
The exceptions were Tim, who is such an ultra-compe or that he can't give up, and Tony, who tried but looked like he was playing hurt.
We'll be fine for game 3. 4 days rest is just what they need right now to re-focus.
Spurs in 5 and then on to the championship!
You mad me laugh out loud.
Totally confused-- 3 whole days in Phoenix and they are so sick of the Four Star hotel they stay in? The guys with kids get more sleep on the road than at home.
Yeah I didn't get the point of the thread either. That's why I merged it into the complaints and excuses thread. To me, saying they are rusty when they played 2 nights before or saying they miss their families and their beds because they stayed in a hotel 3 nights is a b.s. excuse.
That's why I merged the thread the first time. But Ruff felt like re-starting it.
We?
I don't like that, it's not like we're all one with the Spurs. We are the widget checkers scraping in $7 - $40,000 a year to buy 2 $47 upper deck seats from a scalper to watch a group of guys who have no idea who we are. We then sacrifice fancy groceries for a week to get their replica jersey some widget sculptor in korea made.
The Spurs are guys who have or will have millions in the back and live a glamorous life. If they saw us on the streets, we would find out we aren't we by their reluctance to speak to us, let alone sign their name on a napkin.
So I disagree with we.
Anyways, couldn't disagree with you more on the basketball. I think the Suns just beat the Spurs ass.
Duncan was dominate for a stretch and then he let Kurt Thomas just push him around and settled for almost impossible angle bank shots. That's when the dominance was over.
The Spurs were in Detroit in 2005 for like a month before the Game 5 performance. I fail to see how a hotel can make an entire team come out flat.
Unless they were staying at the Elson Inn.
Gee Whiz they just sucked tonight no way they play like this in game 3. The sky is not falling it is 1-1 we still have the advantage and we have proven time and again that we can win big road games in the playoffs. Even if we go 1-1 in the next 2 we can still win this series in 6.
That damn hotel!!!
Now I know what happened!
It was that damn hotel!
They probably bugged their rooms--every word uttered by Tim, Manu, Pop, etc., were secretly tape recorded and delivered to Rat face D and Tony.
He knew everything we were going to do.
He knew what he had to do when he put in Thomas. When Elson was going to go for his dunks, etc.
I knew we couldn't trust those damn bell boys.
Or was it the hookers.
Yeah--that sounds right.
The hookers slipped our players a Mickey and when they went to sleep, secretly grabbed their playbooks.
They put some of that in the wine that Pop slurps at night--knocked his ass out and copied those little plastic 3 by 5 cards that Pop looks at when he's about to call a time out.
I bet those es took those damn cards to D and Tony at the local Subway Shop (he figured the hookers could meet him there since no Spurs would be caught dead in a Subway shop except for Bonner, but they had Suzy with the king size knockers keeping Matt boy busy in Room 222.)
Hookers--Mickeys--and Subs--
Now we need some counter-espionage
They lost it well before that.
They were all over the place, especially on O, from the start of the game. The only thing that kept them in the game in the first half was some decent D and the Suns missing shots.
They never looked like winning this one.
Down 6 or thereabouts late in the 3rd.
Yeah, let's just pick on the hotel bit and miss the point.
The point is, they were mentally weak tonight. They came out with no energy, messing up plays, missing assignments, not hustling for loose balls etc. right from the start of the game.
They defeated themselves before they even started because they were satisfied by the game 1 win and the split.
That's the point.
The fact that we played 80% 4-down in the second half and forgot how to play basketball didn't matter. Their heads were already on the plane home, which I know they are taking tonight and not tomorrow even though it gets them home at 5am, probably because they want to see their families and sleep in their own beds.
They are only human, and the flatness of their performance was a mirror of thier humanity.
Kris - as for "we", I am referring to "We the Spurs Clan" which includes all who love the team (which does not include random bandwagoners). WE are a family. What do you want me to say, "they"?
Yeah, but that was a fluke, and poor Suns shooting.
My whole point - we were NEVER in this game, even when we were leading. The way we played, and the blind schoolgirl mistakes we made ALL NIGHT, told me that.
Anyway, that's why I'm not worried. The REAL Spurs will turn up in game 3. They will be MORTIFIED when they watch the game tape - that's how horrible they were. As a consequence, there will be no lack of effort next game.
You just used we so much.
This is the Spurs job and part of the time they have to sleep on a different raulph lauren silk pillow or talk to their families via their video conference phones.
It's like the luxurious version of when real life people have to do their jobs.
If you're going to make that excuse for them, then I don't know what's next.
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