Pounding The Rock: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Sports blogs for fans, by fans.
Around SBN: Fedor vs Rogers Results and Live Coverage

What price a team that plays Defence?

So we are down 3-1, I am gutted.  It is only now I realise just how spoilt I have been as a spurs fan this past decade.  This is how it feels to be a fan of a mortal NBA franchise. 

We have one more game this season should we continue to play this demented brand of basketball.

No one else is scoring consistently or with anything approaching confidence outside of the all star tandem of Tim & Tony.  They pumped in 68 points between them, accounting for all but 22 of the final 90. 

Can we win with just these two scoring and very limited contributions from various role players?

My thought here, and it is not a terribly original one, is that the spurs move back to what they know.  For the past decade the calling card of the franchise has been outstanding. exemplary defence. 

Does Pop have the minerals to change the starting five from one All NBA Defender & four average/below average defenders, to a beefed up traditional spurs five, with Bowen, Thomas & Hill filling out the numbers.

Live by the old axiom.  Hold em under 80 and let God sort em out.

Can the spurs win with this?  Findog is a reprehensible defender.  Age has robbed him of his speed, and the league is jam packed with superb wings who have all the skills, length and zip to get where they want to regardless of how much he wants to stop them.  Josh Howard is one such player.  Bowen can handle Howard if allowed the time.

Hill can mark up on either Barea or Kidd, he has the length speed and desire to hound people into the dirt. 

Thomas while not the perfect man to defend Dirk rebounds the ball makes smart decisions and is tough as nails.

So what price defence?  Dirk can probably go get 30 regardless of what we do to him, he always has in the past.  Can anyone else on the mavs score enough?  Can we score enough?

I would adore the sight of a hard nosed angry spurs team.  Making great rotations, staying in front of their man funnellilng penetration to the large human with the long arms in the middle.  Getting stops. 

So what of it?

0 recs  |  Comment 3 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Display:

What the hell, now’s as good of a time as any to give it a shot. We’ve got nothing to lose, but one more game, right? Do it.

http://myspace.com/eme0916
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=569220294&ref=profile

by dfjmed on Apr 26, 2009 10:18 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Then and Now

Bushka, your post reminds me of the way Pop used to play Phoenix. He’d let Amare get anything he wanted and then stop everyone else. So he’d get his 38 points but the Suns would still lose. Pop would even goad him with post-game talk about how he was the best power forward in the league, unstoppable, a scoring machine, we were defenseless against him … and Amare being the dullard that he is, would lap it up, come out next game and do the same thing … with the same result. But with Dallas it’s stop Dirk and let everyone else beat us … and they’re obliging.

by agutierrez on Apr 26, 2009 12:04 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Well, I’m sure everyone here remembers ‘06. There are a couple of personnel differences between the ’06 series and this one, but we have to remember that this Mavs team is almost the same one that was built for the sole purpose of beating the Spurs. With that said, there is no excuse for the piss-poor defense we’ve witnessed for long stretches of each game(except for game 2, when we kept the intensity up for most of the game). It’s not Spurs basketball, and everyone out there can see it. Even the Kleenex Suns fans who live around me can tell the Spurs aren’t playing good defense, probably because it reminds them of their team. But I don’t think there’s any way to fix it this year – the series is over.

Free George Hill! (member #2)

by Tim C. on Apr 26, 2009 2:40 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to the SB Nation blog about the San Antonio Spurs.

Community Guidelines
Start posting about the Spurs »

Join SB Nation and dive into communities focused on all your favorite teams.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Black_small
Ginobili vs. Dracula, Chapter 2
Gothicduncan_small
WatchSpurs
Spurromeo_small
George Hill: Tony Parker 0.99?
Black_small
Ginobili vs. Dracula, Part 1
Small
The importance of Tim Kness to the Spurs success in 2009-10

Recent FanPosts

Ginobili_small
Spurs underperform in back-to-backs
Small
The view from the upper bowl of EnergySolutions Arena (game observations)
Sbn-avatar_small
NBA Live 10 Simulation: Week 3 POLL
Sbn-avatar_small
NBA Live 10 Simulation: Regular Season : San Antonio Spurs at Portland Trail Blazers
Bunnycookie_small
Sit Courtside at the Toros Game of Your Choice
Zoe_spurs1_small
Nov. 4th Other Games Thread
Supergino_small
You mean this isn't like ICQ?

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >

Featured Poll

Poll
Who has the best hair in the NBA?

  530 votes | Results

FanShots

Quick hits of video, photos, quotes, chats, links and lists that you find around the web.

Recommended FanShots

Fatal Staples Center Collapse Brings Merciful Early End To Clippers Game (via TheOnion)

So damn good.
It's official.

(via Sam Amick)
BATMAN!!!!

Recent FanShots

POW! Right in the kisser!
The Onion: "40,000 Revenge Seeking Bats Descend Upon Manu Ginobili"
40,000 Revenge Seeking Bats Descend on Manu Ginobili
ESPN> Don't forget Bobcats in Stephen Jackson sweepstakes
Shooting Rampage at Fort Hood, Texas
Free Beer... if you live in SA
TH: DeBeast 10 seconds away from being a Cav
Like School on Christmas
More Sandwich Stories From Matty
Ime Udoka signs with the Queens

+ New FanShot All FanShots >


Coach

Ats_big_small Wayne Vore (ATS)

Player

Supergino_small LatinD

Doas_small jollyrogerwilco

Bunnycookie_small Lauri

Oberto_fab_small silverandblack_davis

Myspace2_small Tim C.

4558041c970_main200_small CapHill

Announcer

Manucrazy_small Aaronstampler

Zoe_spurs1_small BlaseE

Small CECabrera21

Profile_5_small Fred Silva