The System vs. The Servant: The Official San Antonio Spurs vs. OKC Thunder Playoff Thread

[baker928]

Going small actually benefits them, the problem we have is when they take bogut and ezeli off the floor . And our bench not producing anything in none of those games. If we make it there luckily it's the post seasons so our starters play more

Kanter played good against them, especially the first game in GS.

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

Steven Adams is the real MVP. Dude has been playing amazing basketball

Him Kanter and don't forget Waiters. ..all three are giving big minutes that's barely getting any attention

people busy shedding tears for the Spurs

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

Westbrook did exactly what Ginobili didn't do at the end of game 2 which was ATTACK the basket...


People just need to give OKC the credit they deserve... they've made the championship plays down the stretch

 

[Mr210]

Middle finger to the thunder and the state the reside in

 

[Regular_P]

There's that defense I been telling you about @Regular_P

Say it long enough and it's bound to be true, right?

Their rotations were really crisp last night and Westbrook played team defense instead of gambling all the time. I don't think it holds up against Golden State.

 

[Bounty]

Spurs

Some dudes on here were saying they're the team that would knock off GS and now on the verge of elimination


Series aint over but theyre in deep shyt

 

[malbaker86]

Low key...Kawhi NEEDS to get to the FT line more.

Only 2 free throws and i believe that came in the 4th

 

[krazykid18]

Waiters was big in this game and POP can't bench Duncan because David West and Diaw are undersized midgets who can't grab defensive rebounds

 

[twan83]

Low key...Kawhi NEEDS to get to the FT line more.

Only 2 free throws and i believe that came in the 4th

Like that matters he goes to the rim and they don't call fouls for him regardless

Pop running plays for Parker in the 4th was just down right stupid how u gonna say kawhi ur best player but not run plays for him

Everybody wanna say he should
Call for the ball more if u seen any Spurs games if parker gets the ball he won't pass it too him half the time he calls for it anyways

From what I saw those were plays pop called strictly for Parker except
1 or 2 for lma but his ass was too scared to shoot cuz he keep
Missing

Waste a game where green killed it on 3s Brehs

 

[twan83]

Kawhi needs to demand the ball. As does Aldridge.

With the whistles being called in the final minute, Leonard would have gotten two FTs

Durant played good defense and Westbrook denied a back door entry pass.

Na breh pop does this shyt where he will not run plays for kawhi and have another big 3 do it
Happened last nite except for like 2 plays for lma where he passed that shyt up instead

shyt not on kawhi cuz he will call for the ball and if Parker has the ball he won't pass it too him half the time where other players will give him the ball

Hell it happened in the Memphis I think series
Parker had the ball pop was screaming at him to give kawhi the ball and not keep it for himself

Pop a lot of times will not let the big 3 go and we can die by that simple as that

We should of had boban in at times for rebounding only ain't gotta have a lot of mins

Should of had Simmons in cuz he attacks the paint not for a lot of mins but he ain't in

Way I see it we ain't gonna see how we really are till Manu or Duncan retire cuz we keep using them
Too much when we shouldn't at times

 

[Brief Keef]

nAH

WARRIORS GOT THIS BREH

LeBron can not win

He owns Durant

who says Cle gon be there

 

[L. Deezy]

So he forfeited 10 million to be a liability

lol...

 

[Mr210]

People in SA are pissed at pop, Parker, and lma

 

[Brief Keef]

Damn this one of the realest TNT segments




Chuck admitting he not religious on tv

he done that many times least he always keep it a buck when it came to that

 

[FAH1223]

With four minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Spurs had a six-point lead and 85.9 percent win probability. That dropped to 39.2 percent three and a half minutes later before becoming 1.2 percent with six seconds left in regulation.

It happened in Game 4, too. San Antonio led by 14 points at the open of the fourth quarter, giving it a 74.4 percent win probability, but the Spurs lost that game as well. Per Elias, San Antonio has already lost as many playoff games when leading by at least 10 points in these playoffs (two such losses) as the team did in the entire 2015-16 regular season.

To say this is a stunning development is underselling it. The Spurs led the league in defensive rating, allowing 96.6 points allowed per 100 possessions, putting them on par with the Bill Russel-led Boston Celtics in the 1960s. Yet the Thunder has taken control of the series, driving the Spurs net rating down from plus-11.4 in the first quarter to minus-31.4 in the fourth. In other words, San Antonio degrades into a version that is three times worse than the Los Angles Lakers were during the regular season in the span of 48 minutes.