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WTF...where did peja circa 2002 come from???
Bowen owns Stojakovic dude. Parker's a solid defender at the PG; I don't understand why he's not on Paul. Finley on Stojakovic is a ing joke.
WTF...where did peja circa 2002 come from???
He's weaving that second-half magic against the Hornets again. Another sub-20-point quarter.
Brian McNamee
I agree. It's to late in this game, they have dug themselves a 2-0 hole, but the next game, I want Parker on Paul.
That and 4down are doing us in. But Pop won't adjust, we just need more "heart". Stupid son of a .
Peja's averaging about 25 a game so far with the various other Spurs checking him, Paul is going off for about 30 and 13 every game, so tell me exactly how this Bowen thing is working out again?
As to the offense, we ran pick and roll five straight trips in the 3rd quarter and got four buckets and a pair of FTs. So we go back to 4down. Oh, and the Spurs are now 15-55 on threes in this series, playing right into the teeth of Byron's defense that is coming with the hard double on Tim.
This team can't hit enough outside jumpers to win 4 of 7 (let alone 4 of 5) against New Orleans. But Pop is going to try his damnedest to make them try, and this team is going to probably get swept due to his stupidity.
And to head it off, the Pop apologists like Tpark can kiss my ass. This is vintage Lakers defense - pack in the D on Duncan when we run 4down and make us beat them from outside.
We can't, and any of you stupid SOBs (and you, P_p_ ) who think we can have two blowouts to show for it. And are going to get two more if we keep it up.
It's awesome watching us piss away another year of Duncan's prime, all because Pop foolishly accepted Byron's sucker bet that Finley, Bowen, Udoka, Parker, Manu, and Horry can hit enough outside jumpers to beat the Hornets 4 out of 7.
AHF, do you think Pop may have "deteriorated" as a coach?
Or does he just not have the right personnel to beat the Hornets
This is exactly what I feared coming into this series. Pop wasting Bowen on Paul and then Stojakovic going off on the weak azz perimeter defenders on the Spurs outside of Bowen. And then Parker can't fvcking guard Mo Pete. You create three mismatches instead of one by putting Bowen on CP3.
Bowen on Peja
Parker on CP3
Ginobili on Mo Pete
Got damn it
Psst, join us.....
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Pop being stubborn on the defensive matchups is going to kill the Spurs.
Bowen on Paul, Tony on MoPete and Manu/Fin on Peja doesn't work. Paul is going to get his anyway. MoPete is too tall for Tony. And Manu/Fin can't guard Peja.
Just slide Bowen to Peja. Let Tony do what he can on Paul. And then Manu/Fin can use some length on MoPete.
It's simple to me to make the switch. I have no idea why he didn't.
lol... looks like the hornets are gonna whiz past the spurs
paul abuses parker so easily
It would help if the Spurs played 48 minutes, showed some heart and hustle, and made wide open damn shots.
Not really. Parker guarded him better in Game 1 than Bowen did.
So we are supposed to drive into the paint, I take it. We are supposed to push the ball and drive on misses. I must say, the way we lost these 2 games makes it hard to imagine adjustments.
Nevertheless, Detroit did come back and took us to 7 after losing 2, so we are by no means done if we win the next 2 at home. this is going to be hard though.
Parker and Bowen do about the same job on CP3. Put fvkcing Peja on Bowen to take that soft b!tch out of the series. Anyone else can guard Mo Pete.
West isn't the difference maker. It's Peja and Mo Pete that are killing the Spurs.
man pop just owned that reporter.. that was hilarious.
CIA Pop
honestly if they're going to coach and play like this then why bother even showing up? Save the Spurs fans in attendance some money and the rest of us 2 1/2 hours of our time...
What'd he do?
Because Pop seems to think this is about the Spurs lack of effort and hustle, not bad defensive matchups.
Chuck actually made a great point; After the Spurs big 3, there's such a huge dropoff with the Spurs bench offensively. Hornets aren't afraid of the Spurs bench. Hornets today managed to easily win with West having an off night. The Spurs with Parker/Ginobili struggling can't break 80 points barely.
How the did Peja get so many wide open 3 pointers??? That's what I'd like to know. Where's the defense, Bowen or no Bowen on him...
I don't think Pop has deteriorated. He's always loved the idea of feeding it into Duncan and surrounding him with shooters. Byron has just suckered him into doing it every play.
That's what's killing our offense. Again, we can't win this series with Tim having 10-15 points a game and being a non-factor. But that's the bet Byron has made, and Pop has been suckered into.
The Spurs are now 18-60 on threes in two games. SIXTY threes! Sixty!!!! And we're less than 33% shooting on them.
It pisses me off watching Byron Scott in the post-game tonight. They asked him how they shut down our offense, and he said he can't comment on that, but that they didn't change anything from game 1.
That should send chills down the back of every Spurs fan out there, because we heard it once before, in 2001, when Phil did the same to us with the Lakers and Robert Horry of all people was the one to make the same comment.
We went to the pick and roll for a 3 minute stretch tonight in the third, and got points every time down. Then at the start of the fourth when we pulled all the big three and started all bench players, they were running pick and roll and motion and sliced and diced the New Orleans D. Think about that for a minute.
Vaughn, Barry, Oberto, Horry, and Udoka trimmed a 16 point lead to 9 against three of the five NO starters in there. Why? Because we weren't running that stupid ass set.
And unless we change that, and significantly, we won't score enough to have a shot at winning.
My biggest fear right now is that Pop won't change for game 3, our guys will come out comfortable in game 3 and hitting at home, and we'll win that one due to something ridiculous like 60% on threes for the game.
Then he won't adjust, the bottom will fall out in game 4 and NO wins in game 5.
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To the defense, I think everyone has hit it on the nose. Pop is so in love with the idea of Bowen being on the alpha threat for the other team that he's stuck on stupid and putting Bowen on Paul, which has allowed ALL the NO perimeter players to go off.
It's even more maddening because the last regular season game we won against them we had Bowen on Peja, Tony on Paul, and beat them. But Pop is stuck on his stupid playoff formula of heavy doses of Duncan on the low block on offense and trotting out Bowen on the other team's best perimeter player, and we've created this mess that is getting us blown out in two straight so far (with more on the way unless that stubborn SOB changes things up).
I'm not normally against Pop. But not switching this is ridiculous.
He got a lot of them in transition. But Bowen is probably the only one on the roster that can guard him. So they need to switch it.
So like you said before, it's 2004 all over again
Except, we're down 2-0 this time
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