QuickCap #15 - San Antonio Spurs vs Dallas Mavericks
by Josh Guyer (completely deck) on Nov 26, 2010 9:57 PM CST
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Biggest coach Pop/Tiago Splitter homer on the internet™
by Josh Guyer (completely deck) on Nov 26, 2010 9:58 PM CST reply actions
Manu had a great individual game, but it wasn’t enough. Sucks.
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 9:59 PM CST reply actions
Splitter needs to start
"He was just a young skinny guy who looked like a winner. We didn’t know he was going to be as good as he is."
—Popovich on Manu Ginobili
+1
I think Pops to blame for this loss. Towards the end of the game Dallas went big and Pop countered by going small RJ was playing the four spot. What’s Pops deal? Stop playing small ball already.
I understand why he went small with his shooters but the problem is that they missed their shots. I blame Pop for putting Bonner on Dirk in the 4th when Dirk had been scoring at will on Bonner
"The A-Train deserves to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame damnit. Highest field goal percentage EVER"
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilmoar01.html
by Joe deLarios on Nov 27, 2010 9:26 AM CST up reply actions
And for two consecutive playoff series the past two years. This is why I’ve been griping about Bonner’s playing time, he’s getting the benefit of the doubt, even when it’s hurting the team.
However, this game reeked of a Pop hiding his cards. The match ups and play calling reeked of Pop playing wanting to not enlighten Dallas to anything early in the season. Dallas is the type of team who gets overconfident winning meaningless games only to crash and burn later on. After seeing the Dallas players preen like they won the Championship, my immediate sentiment was that they’re falling prey to CIA Pop’s rope-a-dope.
Watching the game, it was obvious that the Spurs were the more talented team. Their ball movement was horrid, play all around sloppy, and Dallas was getting the benefit of the refs and a lot of lucky BS, yet the Spurs hung in for most of the game.
Had this been a playoff game the Spurs would have taken over in the 4th
Concur on all points. This was exactly how I felt as the game wound down and I thought about it afterward. I wonder if they give out banners for meaningless regular season wins? Mavs’ rafters need something to display.
Thank you SF Giants for an incredible 2010 season and painting the City orange & black!
You gotta bring ass to get ass.
He will eventually. I think Pop knows that once he’s the starter there’s no going back. And both minutes and familiarity within the system are a concern this early in the season. I think Tiago builds toward a huge increase in PT during the RRT, after which he starts next to TD. Which is okay. Championships are not won in December, only seeding can be hurt. With a 13-2 start the latter is not a problem. Pop is building toward this being the best rotation in the spring instead of late fall.
Thank you SF Giants for an incredible 2010 season and painting the City orange & black!
You gotta bring ass to get ass.
tf4e, you’re confusing the Spurs with our other fave team. But while the Titans have to play four good quarters to have a shot at winning, it’s looking more and more like one or two good quarters is enough for the Spurs to win in the regular season.
Shoot, against the Bulls, all they needed was the 3rd!
RJ2.0: vive la différence.
I know, usually the refs bust out the kid gloves when he plays the Spurs.
by ramirezm315 on Nov 26, 2010 10:10 PM CST up reply actions
GO UTAH! GO PORTLAND!
Yo, I’m 6-11, but I just want to dribble through my legs and shoot jumpshots like a guard. - Marc Blucas on Tim Duncan
Take away Manu’s 4 for 8 3 pt shooting and the rest of the team shot 3 for 11 behind the arc. That’s not gonna get it done.
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:00 PM CST reply actions
Thing is, the team can survive two or even three starters having an off night if the team’s making threes.
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:05 PM CST up reply actions
I agree. Just because we can shoot it doesn’t mean it has to be our main option. We were not penetrating enough tonight. Yeah, they have a shotblocker there in Chandler but we should have moved the ball more to at least unbalance their defense..
Well, we got all these shooters so if some have an off night, we can put someone else in. Manu was the only good shooter tonight… Neal passed up a few and tried to drive instead, which I just don’t understand.
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:26 PM CST up reply actions
I didn’t understand it either FT-ROB, Neal had some good looks and then ended up with a TO instead of a 3
"The A-Train deserves to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame damnit. Highest field goal percentage EVER"
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilmoar01.html
by Joe deLarios on Nov 27, 2010 9:28 AM CST up reply actions
Forget the 3’s…I’m looking to score more in the paint.
by titansfan4ever on Nov 27, 2010 9:19 AM CST up reply actions
We played a lot of kobe ball and tried to win and got our butts kicked. I kinda feel that Pop was ok for us to lose this game, just to teach a lesson to the team.
Keep the faith!!
Kobe ball? Title- winning basketball?
I feel the need to respond to this, apologies in advance.
"This is not a game for boys. This is a game for men." - Phil Jackson
by Gil Meriken on Nov 26, 2010 11:21 PM CST up reply actions
Yo, I’m 6-11, but I just want to dribble through my legs and shoot jumpshots like a guard. - Marc Blucas on Tim Duncan
"This is not a game for boys. This is a game for men." - Phil Jackson
by Gil Meriken on Nov 27, 2010 12:07 AM CST up reply actions
I thought Splitz played well when he was on the floor, surprised that he ended up with fewer than 9 minutes. I guess Pop felt he needed Bonner and Dice?
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:02 PM CST reply actions
Outscored 32-21 in the 4th quarter… that’s supposed to be what the Spurs do to the other team.
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:03 PM CST reply actions
Yup, that’s the thing I can’t stomach. You don’t give away the game in the fourth. Late in the fourth, Manu was the only one playing frenetic defense to try salvage a win.
Manu was playing hard til the very end. He just doesn’t give up.
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:28 PM CST up reply actions
And we would have…without the turnovers & missed 3s.
by titansfan4ever on Nov 27, 2010 9:23 AM CST up reply actions
Mavs make one big offensive driven run per game, where they score on 9 of 10 possessions. One key is to make sure that we don’t go dry on offense at the same time. The other key is to have a lead when they make their run. When it happens in the 4th Q it can be more devastating but the big issue wasn’t be outscored 32-21. It was opening the 4th only up 2. After Hill made a 3 for a five point lead, the offense went dry. If the team had entered the 4th with the 6-10 point lead they would’ve had without the turnovers, the Mavs’ run would’ve pulled them to a tie, where the Spurs would have stayed in normal offense to win the game. I can’t believe this team committed 17 TOs and go out-rebounded.
Thank you SF Giants for an incredible 2010 season and painting the City orange & black!
You gotta bring ass to get ass.
I think too much hack-a-Chandler earlier in the game hurt us. Too much stoppage, means we had no flow and bad rhythmn. And since Chandler was making his FT’s it was all negative for us.
It’s kind of hard to stop Chandler. You have to work early and not let him inside. Blair is strong, he could muscle Chandler out, but he gives up too much in height. Tiago or Timmy would have been ideal, but tiring out Timmy would be bad. Why didn’t Pop play Tiago on Chandler more?
by magnuskrauss on Nov 26, 2010 10:19 PM CST up reply actions
I really don’t know about Tiago’s limited minutes, unless it really is to rest him because he had an extended season. I’m surprised we didn’t try to take Chandler out of the equation through early foul trouble. I guess tha’t what they tried with hack-a-Chandler, to take him out if he was seen as a liability on the offensive end.
um, hack-a-Chandler was not actually a tactic to see if he missed free throws it was because he was unstoppable once he had the ball in his hand under the rim. Chandler is an 82% free throw shooter, there is no way that Pop plays that game on purpose – unless it is to take away an easy bucket
"The A-Train deserves to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame damnit. Highest field goal percentage EVER"
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilmoar01.html
by Joe deLarios on Nov 27, 2010 9:30 AM CST up reply actions
I missed the first quarter and part of the second. Was his outside shot not falling?
I smell death... everywhere.
bad first quarter, picked it up in the second, but downhill from there. Also, Tony had only one assist. That’s got to be pretty bad, considering how well he passes this season.
by magnuskrauss on Nov 26, 2010 10:10 PM CST up reply actions
Wow, that wasn’t good at all. It had to end sometime, but we pretty much handed the game away in the 4th. GOT TO beat the NOOCH on Sunday.
by DrumsInTheDeep on Nov 26, 2010 10:04 PM CST reply actions
No, there have been games where TD has scored fewer than 10 points and the rest of the team picks it up and the Spurs win. It’s not about the Big Three. It’s as Sean said, poor ball movement, too much one-on-one iso and drive leading to a very un-Spurs-like result.
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:08 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
oooh, some bad memories there……very true TD21, very true
"The A-Train deserves to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame damnit. Highest field goal percentage EVER"
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilmoar01.html
by Joe deLarios on Nov 27, 2010 9:31 AM CST up reply actions
Two of the big 3 can still get it done…..but not one of the 3.
by titansfan4ever on Nov 27, 2010 9:27 AM CST up reply actions
This game was backwards. We played like we did last year. Something’s not right
Biggest coach Pop/Tiago Splitter homer on the internet™
by Josh Guyer (completely deck) on Nov 26, 2010 10:06 PM CST reply actions
Strangely, I dont feel bad for this loss. We need to lose this game to improve our defense. Can’t rely on scoring 100+ every game. We have gotten used to it and that is the issue. This would help us tighten up our defense.
Keep the faith!!
So you must feel overjoyed when we lose to the Lakers.
What???
Obviously we need better d. How that equals not feeling bad about the loss I have no idea.
This loss fucking blows. We just collapsed the last 4 minutes. Offensively, which led to a lot of their scoring on us.
Dont get me wrong, I’m not happy about the loss. All that I’m saying is, this loss coming from Mavs, will make our team much more stronger because we dislike them and make us tighten up faster.
Keep the faith!!
Agreed, plus we need to understand that we can’t just turn the game into a shoot out especially against quality teams.
by cartoonspurs on Nov 26, 2010 10:12 PM CST up reply actions
That may be, and we know Pop likes to give life lessons to the team, but this is not a new team. Those lessons were given last year. This years is more about tweaking and building from what they learned las year. Early last year, we sacrificed wins over the learning process. Now is the time to implement what they learned. I’d be dissapointed if Pop let this one slip just to give the team another lesson.
There was nothing Pop was doing to teach a lesson. The team just played like dog poop. The team might have played hard, but they played stupid. They played like Beasley a few nights ago.
but true – remember the late TOs? same thing here
"The A-Train deserves to be in the Basketball Hall of Fame damnit. Highest field goal percentage EVER"
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/gilmoar01.html
by Joe deLarios on Nov 27, 2010 9:33 AM CST up reply actions
And it seems our bane is TO’s. We just don’t have good games when we’re not efficient. Against the better teams, it’s too much of a handicap.
Yup, those turnovers cost us a lot. Bad communication all around there.
by magnuskrauss on Nov 26, 2010 10:13 PM CST up reply actions
Last night seemed as though they came from poor ball movement and bass passing. In other games some of them seem to be from different lineups of players adapting to each other mixd with playing a faster pace.I expect the ones from other game to reduce over the course of the season. I expect that last night was just an aberration of bad offense. Once in ten games or so is not bad.
Thank you SF Giants for an incredible 2010 season and painting the City orange & black!
You gotta bring ass to get ass.
Refresh the page, Coach Pop’s post game audio from JRW is up!
Biggest coach Pop/Tiago Splitter homer on the internet™
by Josh Guyer (completely deck) on Nov 26, 2010 10:12 PM CST reply actions
Why does it feel like we just lost a home game in a playoff series? I’m not doing too well right now.
My luck sucks.
Earlier today I bought expensive (to me) tickets for the Warriors game Tuesday. Thought with a little luck we might get through Dallas and then what I thought would be the tougher one in New Orleans, to go into Oakland going for 15 in a row.
Oh well, still looking forward to it, but damn. Now there’s a good chance we will go into Oakland trying to avoid a 3 game skid.
All cos of a bad final couple minutes tonight.
fucking turnovers and some shitty calls! WTF?!
by kicogu on Nov 26, 2010 10:23 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Refresh, Manu’s post game is up from JRW
Biggest coach Pop/Tiago Splitter homer on the internet™
by Josh Guyer (completely deck) on Nov 26, 2010 10:26 PM CST reply actions
Good but, meh I really hate losing to Dallas
"He was just a young skinny guy who looked like a winner. We didn’t know he was going to be as good as he is."
—Popovich on Manu Ginobili
1/4 games. The series is still there for the taking.
They were nearly guaranteed to lose to both Dallas or New Orleans.
both… and? or either… or?
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:32 PM CST up reply actions
They did.
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:31 PM CST up reply actions
Where the hell was RJ tonight? 2pts, 2 turnovers, 0 assists in 22 minutes, seriously?
Shitty time for RJ 1.0 to come back. Of he had done anything tonight we would have won.
And that doesn’t even take into account Tonys dogshit game.
As is I feel like the loss should have been worse than it was. We were unusually great from the foul line, while Dirk didn’t shoot one.
And now my wife tells me shes having an allergic reaction to something tonight and is having trouble breaking.
Ball movement was complete crap. Parker was a big part of that, but even Manu in the second half didn’t get enough going with the team. Some of his passes were to the knees of guys like Duncan for instance.
TP better play his best game against CP3. We’ll be seeing more passes this time for him.
Yo, I’m 6-11, but I just want to dribble through my legs and shoot jumpshots like a guard. - Marc Blucas on Tim Duncan
Well if he plays even close to how he has normally been playing, he should be fine. The problem is no one played smart consistently. Parker was the main culprit, but everyone was pretty bad.
Our starting backcourt playing great has been the key to our wins. If they play great, then it will rub-off to the other guys. It’s like a good infection or something. But if only Manu plays well or TP, then we’ll get the bad infection.
Yo, I’m 6-11, but I just want to dribble through my legs and shoot jumpshots like a guard. - Marc Blucas on Tim Duncan
The problem is neither of them played that well from the floor general aspect. Manu had a nice scoring game, but his floor general game was poor (below normal Manu standards). I think Timmy picked up a few turnovers that weren’t really his from passes from Manu or Tony.
Well said, alot of the second half consisted of us bringing the ball up then running the “spurs last play of the quarter play”, with ginobili taking a outside shot or coming off a pick, and when he did pass alot of them were off the mark. george hill did alot of the same either pulled up for a jumper or tried to get to the line. Bottom line 11 assists as a team is unaccceptable
AKA Anthony Teegarden
M3D, you had better have that looked into, unless she had it before and you have some anti-allergy ready. Internal inflammation of the respiratory tract is not a good thing. RJ didn’t help much tonight. And since he was mostly guarding the fourth option on the Mavs team, his defensive contribution would not have been significant.
Yeah she is feeling a lot better now so whatever happened was pretty temporary. Sorry for the drama. Was just a bit of an emotional moment, right as I was most upset about the loss. Thank you for your concern, TD21.
We will bounce back from this loss. Doesn’t make the loss not suck, but tomorrow is another game..
Spurs will now ban turkey and all tryptophan-containing foods from the players’ diets.
Hey, if posting a sharp, insightful, yet non-sarcastic comment were that easy, even olf would do it.
Mike Monroe: ...the uninformed presume Parker is expendable.
by freshtunarightofftheboat on Nov 26, 2010 10:36 PM CST reply actions
So what in the crap happened?!?! I saw we had the lead through most of 4 quarters. Did the Spurs just run out of gas?
I think “run out of gas” is the most perfect one line description of what happened tonight.
We had to fight so hard to come back and win at Minnesota. Just didn’t quite have enough left in the tank to push through and win the last 4 mins.
George Hill’s post game audio is online. Refresh!
Biggest coach Pop/Tiago Splitter homer on the internet™
by Josh Guyer (completely deck) on Nov 26, 2010 10:49 PM CST reply actions
Crappy game, yummy leftovers… Beat the honey bees Spurs!
by In the 666 on Nov 26, 2010 11:37 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Frak it all…. 80-2 still possible.
Running game?
Where we're going, we don't need a running game.
~Norv Turner
by TecateBoltsFan on Nov 27, 2010 12:26 AM CST reply actions
Tough loss, the Spurs turned it over 17 times and looked like they didnt have an answer for the Ponies offense tonight. There were a couple of bad calls in the game. Still a good game, and the Spurs shouldnt hang their heads.
[ "Duncan, the Spurs' 34-year-old captain, was aghast when Splitter told him he used to watch him as a kid."]
"I didn't enjoy that at all," Duncan said
Ah, I just found out the singular reason this game was lost. Nowitzski shot 86 percent.
[ "Duncan, the Spurs' 34-year-old captain, was aghast when Splitter told him he used to watch him as a kid."]
"I didn't enjoy that at all," Duncan said
Nice find, A.
This was a lot like Game 1 of last year’s Dallas-S.A. series. We could have won it, but when Dirk goes 12-14, the margin for error is so low. It wouldn’t have even been a game in the 4th if the Spurs hadn’t shot an un-Spurslike percentage of their free throws. Yes, their defense did give us problems in the 4th, but the staff will watch the video figure out how to attack them.
What you can guarantee, is that Dirk won’t shoot that % from the field every game.
For now, it is Timmy’s team and Manu’s blog. -swgeek
More anomalies..nevermind that Chandler made 13 free throws….we put him on the line SIXTEEN times …??
[ "Duncan, the Spurs' 34-year-old captain, was aghast when Splitter told him he used to watch him as a kid."]
"I didn't enjoy that at all," Duncan said
I seem to remember a game where Parker was deliberately put on Dirk and bothered him by bodying him up so much that Dirk shot so poorly in that game. I saw a few rotations where Parker was on Dirk, but they gave Dirk so much space that they were practically begging him to shoot. Why, Pop, why?
by magnuskrauss on Nov 27, 2010 2:17 AM CST up reply actions
hah yeah i was thinking when i got home tonight i’d sit down and watch a nice spurs victory on league pass replay. yeah….nah.
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by sleep research facility on Nov 27, 2010 5:58 AM CST up reply actions
Tony was sleep walking thru the whole game. To be outplayed by JK is pathetic. RJ reverted to "09-‘10 form. Why didn’t Pop try Tiago against Dirk in the 4th. Dirk had 4 fouls the entire 4th and we never went at him. Stupid.
great point
I didn’t realize how many fouls he had. I was cheering every time they fouled us, hoping they were going to go into the penalty so we could maybe steal it at the line.
Tony was nowhere to be seen. RJ didn’t do shit, got the ball, stood there with it half a second, and passed it like he didnt know what it was for.
At least Hill did well.
Meditator, after every unfortunate Spurs loss, I must admit that I…..fear for your personal well being. =P
I kid, of course.Its just that you seem take losses so hard.
[ "Duncan, the Spurs' 34-year-old captain, was aghast when Splitter told him he used to watch him as a kid."]
"I didn't enjoy that at all," Duncan said
Lots and lots of stagnant offense. Turning point of the game, if you need one, was that acrobatic play by George Hill down the sideline to get the lay-up. Dallas immediately scored back, nipping any kind of run. The Spurs have been making a lot of those timely fourth quarter plays lately, but Dallas was the one making them last night.
All these GIFs are breaking my browser.
There was a point I think a bit before that where someone I think Manu or Bonner missed a 3 when we were up 4, would have put us up 7. I remember thinking that would have been the biggest shot of the game. Instead I believe Dallas scored, maybe a 3pter or 3pt play and it was back to a 1pt game grind just like that.
And I don’t quibble with the way the Spurs defended Nowitski. It was the scoring of other players, combined with our own bad shooting and decision making, that sunk us last night. Nowitski can score. That’s about as well as he can be expected to be contained on a given night.
Another way of looking at it is that we got out-hustled, really for the second game in a row. We didn’t get enough rebounds, didn’t move the ball enough, didn’t find the open man enough, were timid when shots were even mildly challenged. We looked very uncomfortable on offense. Part of that is certainly their defense getting us into uncomfortable scenarios, but I also think a lot of it was unforced mistakes.
Well, I read a line from Bobby Jones, the golfer, stating that he never learned anything from a win. Maybe there is some truth in that, and these guys need to lose to learn. I’m sure they have plenty to look at on game film today.
All these GIFs are breaking my browser.
All win streaks end and when they do it’s likely because the streaking (better) team has an off night and/or the opponent plays their best. Defense was not up to par but the Mavs shot 53% in large part due to Dirk and Marion having great nights. The former happens. The latter rarely so. So long as we bounce back in NOLA and start a new win streak, Friday night means nothing. Until we play the Mavs next month.
What caught my eye was this Spurs team scoring 94 points on a night that TP and RJ combined for 11 while TD just has his normal 15. Cut the unforced turnovers, play Splitter in the post more often and have Tony play better and they beat a Mavs team having great nights from three players. This tells me they’ll win the future match-ups with Dallas. For now? Hang a banner, Dallas. You ended a second big win streak. The highlights of your season, no doubt.
Thank you SF Giants for an incredible 2010 season and painting the City orange & black!
You gotta bring ass to get ass.
And what happened to Cuban, wonder why he was a no-show? Maybe he got kidnapped by a group of mariachis.
by titansfan4ever on Nov 28, 2010 9:27 AM CST up reply actions
I read that he was spending holiday time with family. My guess is that he too expected a loss and didn’t want it to upset his Thanksgiving meal. We’ll just have to be sure to kick his tail in Dallas next month when he’ll no doubt be in attendance.
Thank you SF Giants for an incredible 2010 season and painting the City orange & black!
You gotta bring ass to get ass.
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