PG: Fake Win? | San Antonio Spurs (92) vs Oklahoma City Thunder (102)

Thabo Sefolosha · Post #1 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:31 am

SAN ANTONIO SPURS at OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER

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Post #2 » by **bondom34** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:37 am

Might have to catch a replay of this one. I'm confused but from twitter seems VO played well and like Taj to the starters.

InTheSabonus · Post #3 » by **InTheSabonus** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:38 am

THAT was more like it from Adams. Decent bounce back, most importantly playing some really good D. Not sure if Aldridge scored on him at all. And the classic him getting T'd up in a double technical for no real reason other than refs being spineless.

Post #4 » by **Dadouv47** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:39 am

100% real win but all our team played well. We play very well against the spurs with our bigs and Westbrook, but the spurs at home is something else so let's go for the 6th seed :p

Post #5 » by **Dadouv47** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:44 am

I'm definitely more than ok with Taj being a starter. If Sabonis was still shooting 40% from the 3 point line I would not think the same way, but since he's struggling to hit the 3, it's better to put a better defensive player that can also middle range shots.

Our bench line up is becoming crazy good with him, McDermott and Kanter.

Post #6 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:11 am

It was a great game but this need to happen about ten times as often as it's been happening. I'm happy but not going to overrreact.

Ontario · Post #7 » by **Ontario** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:15 am

Kenny the Jet had a great line before the game when asked if the team would succeed more if Russ took a step back... he said now is the time for someone else to step forward.... This game tonight is what it looks like when everyone steps forward.

Osirus89 · Post #8 » by **Osirus89** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:49 am

Dadouv47 wrote:100% real win but all our team played well. We play very well against the spurs with our bigs and Westbrook, but the spurs at home is something else so let's go for the 6th seed :p

We have the 6th seed for now. Let's see if we can hold it.

Great game from pretty much everyone tonight. If Andre had been an option for player of the game, I would have voted for him. His defense tonight was stellar. He made Kawhi work hard tonight for his points and was rotating on defense almost perfectly to block passing lanes. Glad to see Taj finally start and set the tone. Also good to see Domantas didn't really seem affected by coming of the bench. He played every bit as hard. Doug played well and Steven had a good bounce back game. I feel like the 6th seed is a good bet since Memphis has been struggling recently and we still have another game against them. We should avoid the 7th seed at all costs since GS may end up losing the 1st seed while KD is out, and that is the worst possible matchup out of any of the playoff teams. We just don't matchup well against that team and Durant should be back at some point in the first round. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Pillendreher · Post #9 » by **Pillendreher** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:27 am

This might be a massive overreaction, but this game kinda reminded me of our 2nd game versus the Spurs in the Playoffs. We played kinda meh vs the Mavs and got destroyed in the 1st game vs the Spurs. But then suddenly the effort and discipline was there. I also felt like Donovan shed himself of his shackles after that. Gibson finally starting does point to that happening here as well.

Domas having his best game in 3 months was great to see. A very underrated aspect of that whole situation is that with the way Sabonis struggled, still starting him was setting him up to fail game after the game.
Maybe the team felt the same way. Forcing guys to struggle is not the way to go.

I hope they keep this effort up and finish the season strong. If this is just an anomaly and we continue to suck....

Post #10 » by **bondom34** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:47 am

Also now the 6 seed.

oken · Post #11 » by **oken** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:53 am

There's no win such as a fake win. I believe this will be the start of a new 6W1L streak (We lost 4 in a row and Barça lost 0-4 and then they won 6-1 so we gotta do a 6W1L now.)

Bergmaniac · Post #12 » by **Bergmaniac** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 11:24 am

I expected you to win this one, you very rarely have 2 bad games in a row at home and it was time the Spurs stop getting away with mediocre play. Adams playing well and dominating the offensive boards makes a huge difference.

Post #13 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:48 pm

Adams started strong but we kind of went away from him. I'm not even sure if he scored in the second half.

NetsWorld · Post #14 » by **NetsWorld** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:01 pm

I don't like the headline. OKC may have had an inconsistent season but not surprised they beat SA. SA is not at as quick as evidenced by yesterday's game. Westbrook is the best player on the court and you saw how he pushed the ball up court. I said it before and will say it again, I believe OKC can beat SA in a seven game series.

Post #15 » by **ThunderBolt** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:10 pm

Osirus89 wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:100% real win but all our team played well. We play very well against the spurs with our bigs and Westbrook, but the spurs at home is something else so let's go for the 6th seed :p

We have the 6th seed for now. Let's see if we can hold it.

Great game from pretty much everyone tonight. If Andre had been an option for player of the game, I would have voted for him. His defense tonight was stellar. He made Kawhi work hard tonight for his points and was rotating on defense almost perfectly to block passing lanes.

I'm not sure I agree with that. Kawhi had his way with Dre early and often. Kawhi sat the final 15 minutes of the game after getting hit in the face. Had he played, I'm not sure Dre would have even held him below his season averages.

Jstock12 · Post #16 » by **Jstock12** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:53 pm

Pillendreher wrote:Domas having his best game in 3 months was great to see. A very underrated aspect of that whole situation is that with the way Sabonis struggled, still starting him was setting him up to fail game after the game.

I actually think it was a good thing. Because he was a starter, the whole league has scouted him out and that's why he's hit this wall. Now he can figure out what he lacks to translate his game to the NBA and he's forced to adjust/improve his game, and he'll also have the whole off-season for those adjustments as well, instead of doing it during his 2nd season. You can call it setting him up for failure, or you can call it accelerating his development. IMO.

Post #17 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:19 pm

Knrstz wrote:
Osirus89 wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:100% real win but all our team played well. We play very well against the spurs with our bigs and Westbrook, but the spurs at home is something else so let's go for the 6th seed :p

We have the 6th seed for now. Let's see if we can hold it.

Great game from pretty much everyone tonight. If Andre had been an option for player of the game, I would have voted for him. His defense tonight was stellar. He made Kawhi work hard tonight for his points and was rotating on defense almost perfectly to block passing lanes.

I'm not sure I agree with that. Kawhi had his way with Dre early and often. Kawhi sat the final 15 minutes of the game after getting hit in the face. Had he played, I'm not sure Dre would have even held him below his season averages.

When I watched in the first quarter, we had Oladipo on him. Donovan didn't switch to Robes until the first timeout from what I could see. He played him tough, but Kawhi was hitting stepbacks from everywhere like prime Kobe.

Post #18 » by **bondom34** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:36 pm

Andre Roberstan wrote:
Knrstz wrote:
Osirus89 wrote:
We have the 6th seed for now. Let's see if we can hold it.

Great game from pretty much everyone tonight. If Andre had been an option for player of the game, I would have voted for him. His defense tonight was stellar. He made Kawhi work hard tonight for his points and was rotating on defense almost perfectly to block passing lanes.

I'm not sure I agree with that. Kawhi had his way with Dre early and often. Kawhi sat the final 15 minutes of the game after getting hit in the face. Had he played, I'm not sure Dre would have even held him below his season averages.

When I watched in the first quarter, we had Oladipo on him. Donovan didn't switch to Robes until the first timeout from what I could see. He played him tough, but Kawhi was hitting stepbacks from everywhere like prime Kobe.

Even with this, he had 19/2/2 on.525 TS. If you add another 3rd of that he's around 25/3/3, and that's way below his usual efficiency.

Post #19 » by **Andre Roberstan** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:06 pm

bondom34 wrote:
Andre Roberstan wrote:
Knrstz wrote:
I'm not sure I agree with that. Kawhi had his way with Dre early and often. Kawhi sat the final 15 minutes of the game after getting hit in the face. Had he played, I'm not sure Dre would have even held him below his season averages.

When I watched in the first quarter, we had Oladipo on him. Donovan didn't switch to Robes until the first timeout from what I could see. He played him tough, but Kawhi was hitting stepbacks from everywhere like prime Kobe.

Even with this, he had 19/2/2 on.525 TS. If you add another 3rd of that he's around 25/3/3, and that's way below his usual efficiency.

Yeah, Robes definitely held him down a bit. Even with a couple of superstar calls and the tough stepbacks.

NaturalThunder · Post #20 » by **NaturalThunder** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 5:37 pm

On another note, beating that iteration of the Spurs last night wasn't the most satisfying possible iteration of the Spurs to beat. They didn't have Parker or Manu and Kawhi left the game in the third quarter and never returned. Granted, we were up 10 at the time when Leonard left the game and it was late in the third quarter, but the game was definitely still within reach for the Spurs and would have been a lot more within-reachable if he had been able to play the fourth quarter.

Still, the point I made last night still stands: the iteration of the Spurs we beat last night (no Parker, Manu, or Kawhi in the 4th) is still a better basketball team than the four teams we lost to in our four previous games.

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