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You saw their main weakenss today. They let teams back in and prefer to coast as opposed to laying the hammer sometimes.
Very impressive win tonight. You guys play nearly flawless basketball, your experience constantly shows, your offense is patient and deadly, and your defense is like a boa constrictor. I'm just wondering what SA fans think their weaknesses are? The stats so you're only so-so offensive rebounders, but every other stat is off the charts. What teams beat you and how do they do it?
You saw their main weakenss today. They let teams back in and prefer to coast as opposed to laying the hammer sometimes.
weaknesses?? Vaughn getting pt in the 4th.
I feel the biggest weakness is when we start to fall in love with the outside shooting and stop penetrating.
Sometimes free throws in the stretch (Except for Finley) and lackluster play when they've built a big lead (see games 4 and 6 against Phoenix and game 1 against Utah).
As far as so-so offensive rebounding goes, it's because the Spurs are more concerned about getting back on defense to limit fast breaks and easy transition buckets. It's a trade off.
Teams who have multiple players with strong midrange games give us trouble. Our defense is predicated on contesting the 3 point shot and funneling people to the basket up the baseline. When teams can stop and pop from 15-17 feet with regularity that can put a dent in our defensive strategy.
Exactly. They sometimes loaf or lose focus when they are up,instead of stepping on the opponent's throat and burying them.
Rebounding is a problem sometimes. And the Spurs don't usually get consistent play from the center spot - but Fabricio has stepped it up in the postseason.
Letting teams in.
Rebounds.
Lazy defense.
Pretty much how they played in the second half
Duncan falling asleep on defense in the 4th today. Weak rebounding effort.
Rebounding has been a huge weakness all season. The Jazz can beat the Spurs if they concentrate on just destroying the Spurs on the glass while trying to get Duncan into foul trouble.
Defensive rebounding is pretty horrible also. When Vaughn is on the floor, back off him and let him shoot jumpers. For some reason he's extremely confident with it and will brick every time he gets the ball. Phoenix won some games by collapsing the paint and forcing the shooters to shoot nothing but threes. The Spurs are capable of making them, mind you, but when they have a bad shooting night they have a BAD shooting night.
Some of our players struggle with consistency (Manu.)
Parker gets frustrated at times and resorts to Mr. Passive Tony.
Sometimes we can't get a rebound to save our life, and 7 foot jump shooters tend to give us problems because our defense is about matching up. We don't like sticking our bigs out on the wings because we have boarding problems as it is.
Honestly though, if Manu's shot is falling and Duncan is playing like he has been... I don't know how many teams in the history of the league would have a shot at taking us in a 7 game series. Jordan's Bulls, Magic's Lakers, Bird's Celts, Bill's Celts.... that's just about it.
I'd like to play a Kobe and Shaq driven Lakers team right now. I think we'd knock them off in 5. This team is so much better than it was when it won a le in 2003.
Jazz fan is Boozer as bad a defender as he appeaared to be today?
Boozer is a terrible defender which is why he's on Oberto. The Jazz hide him in every game, but they can get away with it when AK plays his game. AK played like tonight so Booze got exposed.
Basically, Booze is fine against immobile big guys. Anyone who runs or cuts gives him trouble and he doesn't block shots.
The flip side is what you didn't see tonight. On offense, Booze is a BEAST in the paint and he can finish with both his right and left hand (especially his left). Jazz defense works best when AK is roaming...you saw a little of this tonight but he was late and goaltended. He blocked 13 shots in the first two games at GS and he's going to have to get untracked for us to win.
Personally, I don't see many weaknesses on the Spurs. On offense, you guys really wait a defense, make the extra pass, and get easy buckets. On D, you just don't stop playing which is the key. Most teams can't sustain 24 seconds of defense and you guys expect to play 24 on every possession.
I think our best chance to beat you guys is to decimate you on the boards. We just have so many rebounders and when we're attacking the glass, we can turn every offensive possession into 2 tries. We'll make it interesting if we can do this, but it's going to be an uphill dogfight.
By the way, what the is my 500 dollars of betting money and how can I do something with it?
look for "vBookie" threads... you dont win for betting correctly, just more vBookie... its a status thing.... hence why I am perpetually at 0... I swear either Kori or the Spurs themselves have something against me
As far as weakness... if it comes down to a game like this in the final minutes, I fully expect the Jazz to keep Finley away from the inbounds. They let him get the ball too much and let him shoot free throws. If it was anyone else we still might have won but it would have been MUCH closer.
other than that you can refer to the first reply.... Spurs just LET people back in it.
The person who has the most vBookie money at the end of the year gets prizes, so that's not exactly but yeah.you dont win for betting correctly, just more vBookie...
Click on vBookie in the black control bar and you'll see which bets are open to bet on. There's new ones every day or so.
Looking at the plus/minus numbers from the Jazz, their two worst defenders are Boozer and Okur.
That's pretty odd.
Weakness is a sign of pussiness.
The Spurs have none.
Spurs in Four.
Okur sucked so bad they played Arujao. Oberto is going to have a big series methinks.
BTW, not trying to take away from the Jazz come back (in regards about Spurs letting teams back in the game) but we see it pretty much all the time...
We're so BORING. Sometimes we're winning and bore ourselves and lose to an inferior team.
Fan Attendance.
-Bad home crowd
-Rebounding
-Foul trouble & reliance on Duncan
-Stretches of very bad shooting
-Stretches of very bad defense
-Free throws
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