RealGM

When: 8:30 PM ET, March 7, 2012
Where: AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX



VS



Starting Lineups:

Knicks:
PG - Jeremy Lin
SG - Landry Fields
SF - Carmelo Anthony
PF - Amare Stoudemire
C - Tyson Chandler

We haven't exactly been playing our best basketball lately so we're going to have to do our best to turn things around against the Knicks tonight.

The key to winning this one is going to be our pick and roll defense. The Knicks live off the pick and roll and if we can stop Stat from getting to the rim we can easily win this game.

Go Spurs!!

I feel this one is going to be a blowout. Go Oilers !!!! Flames!! Jet !!

TP is killing Lin on the offensive end, no way Lin can keep up with him.

Ford just went down hard and it looks like its his back. Not good, not good at all.

The Knicks D is just horrible.

Nolan wrote:The Knicks D is just horrible.

Seriously, lol. Knicks are lucky SA doesn't have 70+ right now. We've bricked so many wide open 3s. I think all 8 of our 3s were WIDE open. They're just not falling. But god damn, do they even have to with the Knicks' horrible D'? It's like a feast in the paint. Spurs are practically fighting over the ball to see who gets to score on the Knicks next.

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Yep the only reason they're still kinda in this is because of all the three's we've missed. Parker is torching Lin and Stat off the pick and roll and no one on the Knicks is rotating to help. I mean at least put Jared Jeffries in the game to try and stop Duncan from getting wide open layups in the paint.

Kawhi goes coast to coast.

This game is basically over.

Nolan wrote:The Knicks D is just horrible.

That's what happens when you get a team on the 2nd of a back to back without their 2 top defenders in Chandler and Jeffries.

(Not that it matters as you'd still be beating us, just not by THIS bad)

Nolan wrote:^
Yep the only reason they're still kinda in this is because of all the three's we've missed. Parker is torching Lin and Stat off the pick and roll and no one on the Knicks is rotating to help. I mean at least put Jared Jeffries in the game to try and stop Duncan from getting wide open layups in the paint.

Jeffries got hurt last night, hence why Harrelson of all the big men got the start.

You guys caught the Knicks at a good time with the 2 big guys who can play D out.

Clincher wrote:

Nolan wrote:^
Yep the only reason they're still kinda in this is because of all the three's we've missed. Parker is torching Lin and Stat off the pick and roll and no one on the Knicks is rotating to help. I mean at least put Jared Jeffries in the game to try and stop Duncan from getting wide open layups in the paint.

Jeffries got hurt last night, hence why Harrelson of all the big men got the start.

You guys caught the Knicks at a good time with the 2 big guys who can play D out.

Knicks would've lost anyway imo, and probably by double figs. Not by 20 sure. . .but 12-15ish, I think so. Especially if Baron Davis didn't slam TJ Ford in the back to knock him out of the game in the first half.

Everyone plays b2bs. Let's not forget, the Spurs just got finished playing 9 straight road games including 3 b2bs thrown in there. Lost 1 game (the one Popovich sat Duncan and Parker for rest purposes). The b2b really isn't an excuse this year since everyone has to play tons. . .unless you guys had a really long flight into SA from like Boston or something, then I'd grant you the b2b being tough and a "scheduling loss". . .but you guys just came from Dallas. That didn't hurt you guys man. That's barely a 1 hour flight.

Spurs and other western conference teams have to deal with far worse travel schedules for their road games. The teams in the west are a lot tougher, so seeing Dallas then SA b2b is commonplace. In the east only @Miami then @Chicago even measures up to that. But there are several combinations that lead to those "tough b2bs". Especially this year, jesus. . .look at SA's schedule for March and April. You'll puke in your soup at how difficult it is. And the kicker? Spurs have had one of the top 3 toughest schedules all season already (in terms of opponent win%).

Playing the Knicks was literally like a break for the Spurs. Our average opponent has been much tougher. I don't mean to be insulting by saying that either, so I apologize if I did offend by saying it. That's a fact though. Average opponent: .528% win %, and that's mostly west teams who have nerfed win%s because they don't get to play the weak eastern confernce teams very much.