GT: Spurs vs. Warriors

Post #1 » by **Nolan** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:47 pm

When: 10:30 PM ET, March 22, 2014
Where: ORACLE Arena, Oakland, CA

The Warriors have been playing well lately so tonight should be a tough one.

Go Spurs!!

Donald Kaufman · Post #2 » by **Donald Kaufman** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 3:50 pm

B2B against a decent team, plus in their house...I don't have a good feeling. I feel the streak might end against GS. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

SPURt · Post #3 » by **SPURt** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:11 pm

Pop played Tim (33 minutes) almost ten minutes more than Tony and Manu last night. I wonder if Pop will sit Tim against a team that will likely go small for most of the game. I felt like we had kind of an off night last night (38% from the field and 20% from downtown). I think that we play closer to our high standards and take the game tonight. I'm just glad we picked the kings to shoot poorly.

co_laper · Post #4 » by **co_laper** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 6:32 pm

SPURt wrote:Pop played Tim (33 minutes) almost ten minutes more than Tony and Manu last night. I wonder if Pop will sit Tim against a team that will likely go small for most of the game. I felt like we had kind of an off night last night (38% from the field and 20% from downtown). I think that we play closer to our high standards and take the game tonight. I'm just glad we picked the kings to shoot poorly.

My gut feeling say TD is out againts the Warriors. Not sure who else will join him, but I feel like TD is out for this game.

SPURt · Post #5 » by **SPURt** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:16 am

Tiago looks good! Not a great game so far, but at least it's still winnable.

imagump1313 · Post #6 » by **imagump1313** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:40 am

Looking good, just need to finish this out.

SPURt · Post #7 » by **SPURt** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:42 am

Daye sighting!! Looked good on D, that layup that got blocked was pretty bad though. Interesting stat, if we win tonight it'd be our longest win streak since 2007. One of the most dominant finals ever and Lebron was on the losing end.

imagump1313 · Post #8 » by **imagump1313** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:49 am

Our inside out ball movement looks so good compared to other team's 3-or-nothing offense.....

imagump1313 · Post #9 » by **imagump1313** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:53 am

Leonard with the finisher!

imagump1313 · Post #10 » by **imagump1313** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:58 am

I don't think it's coincidence that we tore it up early in the year when we had a full roster and we are tearing it up now. I'm just hoping we stay healthy.

SPURt · Post #11 » by **SPURt** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:02 am

Great win! I agree imagump1313, health is our biggest opponent. I think we are the best at resting players, but we even need all our role players to ring. Nice to see Green be an ex factor this game plus Tiago with 17/14. Glad we got the W!

BooReal · Post #12 » by **BooReal** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:07 am

Great win tonight with Duncan and Manu resting

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Phreak50 · Post #13 » by **Phreak50** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 6:04 am

Splitter is so hard to watch. At times he has some really nice moves (looked like Hakeem once or twice tonight) but his finishes are just terrible. He can't jump and he goes up so soft.

And I agree with the comment of us needing all the role players healthy as well. Even someone like Mills, when his shots aren't dropping, he is running around like a headless chicken and getting a bunch of steals.

imagump1313 · Post #14 » by **imagump1313** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 6:58 am

Phreak50 wrote:Splitter is so hard to watch. At times he has some really nice moves (looked like Hakeem once or twice tonight) but his finishes are just terrible. He can't jump and he goes up so soft.

And I agree with the comment of us needing all the role players healthy as well. Even someone like Mills, when his shots aren't dropping, he is running around like a headless chicken and getting a bunch of steals.

Splitter drives me insane sometimes. I wish there was a way to piss him off so that he would play aggressive for once. He played well tonight but I'd rather have him play 20 aggressive minutes and foul out than watch him tip-toe around for 30...

Donald Kaufman · Post #15 » by **Donald Kaufman** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 12:55 pm

Yeah, he is too passive. He goes up like he's going to get blocked, and lo and behold that happens a lot of the time.

co_laper · Post #16 » by **co_laper** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:42 am

Phreak50 wrote:Splitter is so hard to watch. At times he has some really nice moves (looked like Hakeem once or twice tonight) but his finishes are just terrible. He can't jump and he goes up so soft.

And I agree with the comment of us needing all the role players healthy as well. Even someone like Mills, when his shots aren't dropping, he is running around like a headless chicken and getting a bunch of steals.

Can you blame him though? You said it yourself that he can't jump and he's really not that big nor that long.

For someone who can't jump, isn't overwhelmingly big, and has short arms, I think he's a very good finisher around the basket. I wouldn't expect him going up like Shaq now.

What I would like to see more from Tiago is aggresiveness, but on the defensive end. Rebounding, in particular, is about hustle. I find Tiago to be a very average rebounder.

Phreak50 · Post #17 » by **Phreak50** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:25 am

Fair enough, but it's more these weak dunk attempts that he needs to get rid of. The one against James in the Finals and the one here against the Warriors, if you watch the slow-mo replay, it looks like he would never have dunked them anyway (if there was no defender) and yet it ends up looking like he simply makes a deal with the defender to meet him halfway for a hand off o.O

co_laper · Post #18 » by **co_laper** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:35 am

Phreak50 wrote:Fair enough, but it's more these weak dunk attempts that he needs to get rid of. The one against James in the Finals and the one here against the Warriors, if you watch the slow-mo replay, it looks like he would never have dunked them anyway (if there was no defender) and yet it ends up looking like he simply makes a deal with the defender to meet him halfway for a hand off o.O

Yup.. I'm kinda in the middle with that Dunk on Lebron for example.

Most of the time, Splitter doesn't even dunk it in that situation. He'll go up for a layup instead, right? So yeah I feel like it's stupid for him to try to dunk it on Lebron. It's not like he's Vince Carter out there that can out jump people. Lebron was surely going to block that lame attempt.

At the same time, that "Dunk Attempt" is actually Tiago being aggresive won't you say? That's him trying to shove it down Miami's throat and put an exclamation mark on the game and even to get the crowd up. It's just that he's not a leaper and he's never going to make any highlight reel dunks if anybody is challenging his dunk attempt. Tiago's not going to go all Vince and double pump a dunk or even change his shot mid air.

So I'm in the middle here. Trying to dunk it on Lebron or any other shotblocker with that type of lame dunk attempt is stupid. but if that was Kevin Love instead of Lebron, then hell yeah dunk it. Don't just lay it up like he always does.

Phreak50 · Post #19 » by **Phreak50** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:23 pm

Yeah that makes sense. I guess I'd be praising him for showing some toughness if the dunk succeeds

It's just, he needs to know his limits

I remember back when Luc Longley joined the Bulls and Phil Jackson was saying they were working on increasing his vertical, saying he had the strength but actually had the wrong technique (strange I know). I think the Spurs should find some training for Tiago and Kawhi in that area.