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Game 1 Saturday Peeps!!!

This is going to be an interesting series. Yes the Warriors will be without Curry and yes they haven't exactly looked all that great in the later stages of the regular season. But they're still an extremely dangerous team that still has KD, Klay and Dray.

Controlling the glass, playing some unreal defense (which we are very capable of doing) and LMA dominating the paint are going to be our keys to victory in this series. If we're locked in on both ends and play like we can we can pull off the upset. I really do believe we can pull this off, even without Kawhi.

Go Spurs!!

I dont know.... I really want to believe. Maybe if Kawhi plays. We just haven't looked good in awhile.
Losing the 2 LA games, getting smoked by NO and needing a Manu Miracle to beat Sacramento at home? Now it gets real and the Warriors are going to throw everything at Aldridge. Maybe we steal a game if someone steps up, but no one on this team has stepped up consistently all season besides Aldridge. How are we going to do it 4 times against this team?

I'll be rooting for something crazy.

Rudy Gay and Bertans (whenever he plays) will need to score and be active defensively... Murray will need to make some shots, and not be passive. Defensively, capable of taking them out of their rhythm and slowing them, making it tough, and playing smart.

Not worried about Anderson or Aldridge.. Mills seems to get bothered by their length and quickness, but hopefully his run he's on will continue.

Would love to see Parker play like in the Grizzlies series last year, but this is a different series and off his injury, not sure he has that in him anymore.

SPURS IN SIX!

Spurs get ready for their first playoff game with some unique Fiesta kicks, courtesy of an all-nighter by Sneaker Customizer Jake Danklefs:

The Spurs' Fiesta colors are back – in a way.

In honor the city's signature event held this month, players were presented with personal custom-made sneakers featuring fiesta colors before the Spurs departed for San Francisco to play the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of NBA playoffs on Saturday.

Each player presented a pair of sneakers to local custom sneaker designer Jake Danklefs, who then redesigned the shoes to feature the Fiesta colors the Express-News was informed.

The Spurs reached out to Danklefs on Wednesday evening while in New Orleans to play the Pelicans. Once he agreed to take on the job, Danklefs picked up the sneakers on Thursday morning, begin working on the designs at 9 a.m. and did not finish until 3 a.m. Friday morning.

Danklefs said he usually needs a few weeks to prepare for most projects. Danklefs requests are so long it usually takes six months to a year to complete. But understanding the Spurs were short on time, Danklefs designed 18 pairs of sneakers in 24 hours.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/article/Spurs-to-wear-custom-Fiesta-sneakers-vs-Warriors-12832286.php#photo-6206845

I'm sure they'll double LMA and force the rest of our Spurs to make shots. I'm sure they'll run. And I'm sure we'll be ready. We still ended up with the #1 defense without our best defender, LMA found a new groove, Kyle stepped up in his new starter role, and so has Dejounte. Tony and Bryn have found their jumpers, Patty will work his synergy with LMA, Rudy's back, and Manu with conjure his magic.

Looks like we're going smaller but quicker with our starting line-up: Murray, Patty, Danny, Kyle, LMA

As for who is not on the roster, it's still "... and then there was one."

SPURS IN 6

GO SPURS GO!!!

This series is over if Kawhi doesn't play. Really pisses me off because the Spurs had a real chance both years.

GREY 1769 wrote:I'm sure they'll double LMA and force the rest of our Spurs to make shots. I'm sure they'll run. And I'm sure we'll be ready. We still ended up with the #1 defense without our best defender, LMA found a new groove, Kyle stepped up in his new starter role, and so has Dejounte. Tony and Bryn have found their jumpers, Patty will work his synergy with LMA, Rudy's back, and Manu with conjure his magic.

Looks like we're going smaller but quicker with our starting line-up: Murray, Patty, Danny, Kyle, LMA

As for who is not on the roster, it's still "... and then there was one."

SPURS IN 6

GO SPURS GO!!!

Sorry but this is the PO, Parker is right now worse than White, Mills can't hit anything in a consistent way and he plays dumb. Kyle is a great compliment with some scorers around him but he's completely useless in PO at offense. Dejounte it's too raw still and inexperienced. LMA will somehow put decent numbers but won't dominate for us which is our only real possibility to surpass GSW...so...I don't expect much right now.

Only Ginobili, Gay, and Forbes came to play tonight.

Without Kawhi or a drastic change in the offensive schemes this one is totally over for us.

jptremblay wrote:

GREY 1769 wrote:I'm sure they'll double LMA and force the rest of our Spurs to make shots. I'm sure they'll run. And I'm sure we'll be ready. We still ended up with the #1 defense without our best defender, LMA found a new groove, Kyle stepped up in his new starter role, and so has Dejounte. Tony and Bryn have found their jumpers, Patty will work his synergy with LMA, Rudy's back, and Manu with conjure his magic.

Looks like we're going smaller but quicker with our starting line-up: Murray, Patty, Danny, Kyle, LMA

As for who is not on the roster, it's still "... and then there was one."

SPURS IN 6

GO SPURS GO!!!

Sorry but this is the PO, Parker is right now worse than White, Mills can't hit anything in a consistent way and he plays dumb. Kyle is a great compliment with some scorers around him but he's completely useless in PO at offense. Dejounte it's too raw still and inexperienced. LMA will somehow put decent numbers but won't dominate for us which is our only real possibility to surpass GSW...so...I don't expect much right now.

Only Ginobili, Gay, and Forbes came to play tonight.

Without Kawhi or a drastic change in the offensive schemes this one is totally over for us.

I was going by the last couple of games where Tony found his jumper with his legs under him. Tonight he **** the bed, simple as that. But we all looked tentative and on our heels from the start, almost as if we were surprised that they'd bring their A game.

They did double LMA, but we dribbled around too much and gave them time to recover from the doubling, and didn't pass it quickly enough to take advantage. We rushed our shots, just not our game.

Like you rightly pointed out, Manu and Rudy drove and made shots, Bryn did well in getting into pockets of space for stop & pop jumpers. Murray is green, but how else can he get experience? I thought he did well in driving assertively, something we didn't do enough of, and as a team got pushed into shooting long Js.

LMA (14 points on 5-12, well below his 23 points on 18FGA per game) wasn't even our leading scorer - that was Rudy with 15 (also on 5-12), but there were a couple of troubling - though not unfixable trends this game: one, the other four starters combined for a mere 19 points. So despite a 21-point loss, it actually could have been worse had it not ben for our bench; two, we had ZERO SECOND CHANCE POINTS (at least up until the point of that tweet, which was, I think, half-way through the fourth):

Rudy led us with 6 rebounds, LMA only 2. They outrebounded us 51-30, and our assist-to-turnover ratio was 19 to 12 (8 in the first half, I believe, but oddly enough we got 19 points from their turnovers and gave up 11 on ours), and they bettered us 34-22 points in the paint, and that's because we got many of the in the final Q:


These are more indicative of them taking it to us, rushing us on O and outhustling us on D.

I can't speak for Tony's and Patty's shooting, only to say I hope a game like this lights a fire under them, but the other issues are team D related, and definitely things we can fix. The third time we played the Warriors, we had a lead and KD had a lot of possessions in a row, scoring 14 straight. Getting the ball out of his hands is paramount. Also, we tend to shrink mentally against tall athletic players - KD, McGee, AD, Alphabet - so we have to make a concerted effort to take it to them rather than pull farther away from the basket. The one time we did well was our win against the Pelicans when we kept taking it to the basket aggressively and got AD into foul trouble. So either that or make sure the ball doesn't so easily get into Durant's hands in the first place.

I expect us to come out with a better focus and attention to detail and hustle next game. It was a disappointing effort, but no matter the score, it only counts as one game. I don't love that we came out flat, but we've been resilient all season long, and I love our team for that.

GO SPURS GO!

Pretty sure Ginobili and the old guard are trashing him pretty hard in the locker room. 1) They know he's not there, seeing as he's all cushy in his house playing a video game and still being paid for some stupid reason, and 2) if he was around, they'd probably still be in a shouting match with him. They should've suspended him for conduct detrimental to the team.

Kawhi Leonard is a *****.


'Nuff said. If I'm the Spurs, we're trading his wimp *** and moving on. They already were going to do this with Aldridge, and then he had this nice season. What's next? Kawhi going to suddenly find his nuts again? The Spurs have been burned. I don't even see the appeal for a team to trade for him. You have no guarantee he is going to play ever again at this rate or if he does that he may just be as flaky as this whole saga. Bynum 2.0.

How the hell was this same man the DPOY? Can we confirm he is even a man? Maybe he had corrective surgery with all that money he's made already, and the selfish POS still wants another big contract. He blow it all already?

These were all the same problems we complained about all year only they are magnified in the playoffs. Scoring 92 points no matter how well we play defense(which we didn't play well either) isn't going to fly against GSW.
This is over in 4 games I'm afraid. I honestly dont see how we win a game.
At least we only have to hear "Kawhi Leonard ruled out, injury management" 3 more times...

thankyouKOBE wrote:Pretty sure Ginobili and the old guard are trashing him pretty hard in the locker room. 1) They know he's not there, seeing as he's all cushy in his house playing a video game and still being paid for some stupid reason, and 2) if he was around, they'd probably still be in a shouting match with him. They should've suspended him for conduct detrimental to the team.

Kawhi Leonard is a *****.


'Nuff said. If I'm the Spurs, we're trading his wimp *** and moving on. They already were going to do this with Aldridge, and then he had this nice season. What's next? Kawhi going to suddenly find his nuts again? The Spurs have been burned. I don't even see the appeal for a team to trade for him. You have no guarantee he is going to play ever again at this rate or if he does that he may just be as flaky as this whole saga. Bynum 2.0.

How the hell was this same man the DPOY? Can we confirm he is even a man? Maybe he had corrective surgery with all that money he's made already, and the selfish POS still wants another big contract. He blow it all already?

Chill man. Every report out there says he's in the gym/weight room daily trying to get right. Do not question Kawhi's work ethic.

imagump1313 wrote:These were all the same problems we complained about all year only they are magnified in the playoffs. Scoring 92 points no matter how well we play defense(which we didn't play well either) isn't going to fly against GSW.
This is over in 4 games I'm afraid. I honestly dont see how we win a game.
At least we only have to hear "Kawhi Leonard ruled out, injury management" 3 more times...

If we keep going like this it's definitely going to be a sweep.

We should try out another new starting five in game 2. I'd like to see Pops give Murray, Green, Gay, Anderson, LMA a try. We're longer and Gay gives us the 2nd scoring option in the starting five that we desperately need. When we can't get LMA going we can't score and that's a massive problem.

I still don't know why Mills plays that heavy minutes...I also don't understand why Green didn't guard KD since the 1st minute...and other dumb decisions by Pop. And why Gay don't start? or at least Bertans.
We are paying 30 millions for a guy that plays 10 minutes a game and barely touches the ball, plus a guy like Mills, that only bricks shot after shot while making dumb plays.
And sorry, LA carried us to the PO...but I doubt that he will be able to dominate in this series...PO is a whole different story and his skillset doesn't translate in a great mode against hard defenses.

Nolan wrote:We should try out another new starting five in game 2. I'd like to see Pops give Murray, Green, Gay, Anderson, LMA a try. We're longer and Gay gives us the 2nd scoring option in the starting five that we desperately need. When we can't get LMA going we can't score and that's a massive problem.

I like this idea. I also feel we need more minutes from Bertans and Derrick White. We are on our way to being swept and like Nolan says, we are in desperate need of people who can score. Bertans although still inconsistent, is capable of getting hot. White's confidence should be at an all time high from leading Austin to the championship. I know he probably isnt ready but what do we have to lose at this point other than being jail-sexed the next 3 games anyway?
Something different needs to happen with this team offensively right now. Something that we haven't seen all year. Time to think outside the box.

imagump1313 wrote:

Nolan wrote:We should try out another new starting five in game 2. I'd like to see Pops give Murray, Green, Gay, Anderson, LMA a try. We're longer and Gay gives us the 2nd scoring option in the starting five that we desperately need. When we can't get LMA going we can't score and that's a massive problem.

I like this idea. I also feel we need more minutes from Bertans and Derrick White. We are on our way to being swept and like Nolan says, we are in desperate need of people who can score. Bertans although still inconsistent, is capable of getting hot. White's confidence should be at an all time high from leading Austin to the championship. I know he probably isnt ready but what do we have to lose at this point other than being jail-sexed the next 3 games anyway?
Something different needs to happen with this team offensively right now. Something that we haven't seen all year. Time to think outside the box.

I'm all for more White, i'm a big fan of the kid. You might not like this idea (I know how you feel about him) but even more minutes for Forbes would be a move in the right direction.

jptremblay wrote:I still don't know why Mills plays that heavy minutes...I also don't understand why Green didn't guard KD since the 1st minute...and other dumb decisions by Pop. And why Gay don't start? or at least Bertans.
We are paying 30 millions for a guy that plays 10 minutes a game and barely touches the ball, plus a guy like Mills, that only bricks shot after shot while making dumb plays.
And sorry, LA carried us to the PO...but I doubt that he will be able to dominate in this series...PO is a whole different story and his skillset doesn't translate in a great mode against hard defenses.

It's all about him and LMA's P&R game (the stats are surprisingly good). But I agree he needs to play less, teams are attacking him on the defensive end and they are straight up murdering him. He tries hard but he's too small and gets murdered on switches.

Nolan wrote:

jptremblay wrote:I still don't know why Mills plays that heavy minutes...I also don't understand why Green didn't guard KD since the 1st minute...and other dumb decisions by Pop. And why Gay don't start? or at least Bertans.
We are paying 30 millions for a guy that plays 10 minutes a game and barely touches the ball, plus a guy like Mills, that only bricks shot after shot while making dumb plays.
And sorry, LA carried us to the PO...but I doubt that he will be able to dominate in this series...PO is a whole different story and his skillset doesn't translate in a great mode against hard defenses.

It's all about him and LMA's P&R game (the stats are surprisingly good). But I agree he needs to play less, teams are attacking him on the defensive end and they are straight up murdering him. He tries hard but he's too small and gets murdered on switches.

Really? He averages less than 3 assist per game, and mostly every time he dribbles the ball a bad pass tend to happen...maybe it's my eye test.

jptremblay wrote:

Nolan wrote:

jptremblay wrote:I still don't know why Mills plays that heavy minutes...I also don't understand why Green didn't guard KD since the 1st minute...and other dumb decisions by Pop. And why Gay don't start? or at least Bertans.
We are paying 30 millions for a guy that plays 10 minutes a game and barely touches the ball, plus a guy like Mills, that only bricks shot after shot while making dumb plays.
And sorry, LA carried us to the PO...but I doubt that he will be able to dominate in this series...PO is a whole different story and his skillset doesn't translate in a great mode against hard defenses.

It's all about him and LMA's P&R game (the stats are surprisingly good). But I agree he needs to play less, teams are attacking him on the defensive end and they are straight up murdering him. He tries hard but he's too small and gets murdered on switches.

Really? He averages less than 3 assist per game, and mostly every time he dribbles the ball a bad pass tend to happen...maybe it's my eye test.

Ain't about the assists. It's about the space he creates off the pick, teams respect his jumper and because of that he's one of the few guys we have the teams actually go over the pick for.

If i was pop I’d start length in game 2.

Murray
White
Gay
Anderson
Lma

White on iggy
Murray on clay
Gay/Anderson on KD
Gay/Anderson on green
Lma on McGee

This way we are able to switch pretty well everything on d and won’t have Kd and clay shooting over the top of mills. I think this can get us off to a good start. I like it offensively as well Anderson can playmake, gay in the pnr with Aldridge, gay/Aldridge post ups, white and Murray add athleticism to push and put pressure on the d.

I could be wrong but I’d like to see this lineup start in game 2