Well, that went absolutely as it was declared to go. The Spurs jumped out to a bifold chiffre advance aboriginal and kept an undermanned Warriors aggregation at bay for a lot of of the game. The acceptable guys didn't accede to arrogance by adverse a aggregation that started 4 rookies and Dorell Wright and did their job early, acceptance Gregg Popovich to blow the Big Three the absolute additional half.
The Warriors are authoritative it appealing bright that they are tanking to get their aces aback from Utah by shutting down both of their best players, David Lee and Stephen Curry, for the blow of the division afterwards trading Monta Ellis for an afflicted Andrew Bogut. Former Spur Richard Jefferson is aswell accepting captivated out, which leaves Golden State with an array of journeymen, abrupt rookies and D-Leaguers to application abroad for the endure half-dozen games. An aristocratic team, such as our Spurs, should not attempt adjoin such a band and they didn't. Afterwards the jump some absurd observations of a appealing bush game.
Star-divide
The Warriors started Charles Jenkins, Klay Thompson, Dorell Wright, Jeremy Tyler and Mickell Gladness. Other than Thompson and maybe Wright, none of those guys are declared to see circling account next season. It's not attenuate to see teams aggravating to catchbasin this backward in the division (hello there Sacramento Kings) but few teams are fielding a calendar as untalented and not-yet-ready as the Warriors. You can't accusation Mark Jackson for aggravating to get his young'uns some acquaintance out of this absent season, but even the accumulating of who's who of journeymen that comprise their bank (Mikki Moore still is in the NBA, you guys) would be better. Whenever I see teams accomplishing what the Warriors are accomplishing and accept to apprehend announcers badly aggravating to acquisition capacity to altercate instead of address the game, I adjure to the FSM the Spurs don't accept to go through a connected rebuilding process. Not aggregate is bad in Golden State, though. Adding a advantageous Bogut to their Curry-Lee-Thompson amount should about-face them into a playoff adversary as anon as next division if they administer to body a bench.
But abundant about the Warriors. How did the Spurs do? Like I said, aggregate went like it was declared to. The aces and cycle was working, the 3s were falling and the defense, while inconsistent, managed to attract the amateur Warriors into bad shots. The 24-point (at the time) best advance the Spurs got in the additional division seemed abundantly adapted and it was bright anybody on the cloister just capital the activity to end, even afore halftime. Pop started Neal, Bonner and Splitter in abode of Parker, Blair and Duncan and that unit, with appearances from Jackson, DeJuan, Diaw and even Anderson and Mills connected to body and again administer the lead. Splitter and Neal were the a lot of advancing and able of the bunch, cutting able-bodied from the acreage and finishing in bifold figures. All in all, the Spurs played 13 players and not one of them played ailing abundant to be singled out (no, not even James Anderson).
I could accord you a abundant division by division assay or a added all-embracing breakdown, if alone to absolve blockage up backward watching this game, but I don't abhorrence you abundant for that. Instead...
Let's yield a minute to allocution about...defense.
To be a abundant apostle at the NBA level, a absolute aberration maker, you allegation aristocratic concrete tools. All of the abundant ones--Pippen, Russell, Robinson, forth with the new ones like Iguodala, Garnett or Duncan are freaks of nature. Accepting long, able and able-bodied is not enough, though. Aristocratic defenders aswell accept the bold and accept absurd fundamentals. Guys like Jeremy Tyler or Milwaukee's Larry Sanders accept added arresting abeyant that guys like DeJuan Blair or Matt Bonner because, physically, they are on addition level. Why, then, the Spurs ability assiduously accord to a acceptable arresting aggregation that is traveling to the playoffs and Tyler and Sanders can't get off the bank for their mediocre-to-bad teams? Fundamentals and compassionate of the game. Bonner knows if to go for the allegation if arena advice D and if to abstain acquaintance and just accession his arms; don't bandy a apathetic access canyon at Blair's man because he's accepting a steal.
The aforementioned goes for aggregation defense. The Spurs apparently don't accept the players to be a ascendant arresting band like they were in the past, but the arrangement ability and top BBIQ of the players accomplish it absolute accessible to play aloft boilerplate defense, even afterwards that ambit admiration or able-bodied shot-blocker we all crave.
Random observations
There's not a lot to yield abroad from this bold from the Spurs perspective, but at atomic the Big Three got some rest. As I mentioned, Ginobili, Duncan and Parker didn't acknowledgment afterwards the aboriginal bisected and they all played beneath than 15 minutes. We ability not see a white banderole bold tomorrow!
If I was to nitpick, I would acknowledgment a brace of abhorrent boards the Spurs gave up in the aboriginal quarter, if the account was close. But in a bold like this, all is forgiven. That can't appear adjoin the Lakers, though.
Klay Thompson seems like the absolute deal. He can catch-and-shoot, actualize his own attempt and actualize for others in a pinch. The Warriors don't amount to be a adversary until they advance their addition circling (sorry RJ), but drafting Thompson was a footfall in the appropriate direction.
Speaking of which, afterwards years of drafting angrily in the action (hi there, Patrick O'Bryant) the Warriors ability be axis it around. Curry and Thompson could be their back-court for years to appear and they got them with the 7th and 11th aces respectively. Not too shabby. Tyler has the abeyant to about-face into a poor man's Derrick Favors but it's up to him to be coachable and aggressive abundant to get there.
Three Stars
3 - Anyone who backward up and watched the accomplished game.
I'm abiding you were tempted to about-face in aboriginal afterwards that aboriginal half. Acceptable for you (us) to accumulate watching. The ones who went to beddy-bye absent out on that animating moment if the Warriors cut the advance to 16 with 6 account to go. Exciting stuff.
2 - The Big Three.
In a accumulated 40 minutes, Duncan, Ginobili and Parker contributed 33 points, 7 boards and 9 assists. They did their plan aboriginal and becoming their rest. Hopefully they'll be accessible to go tomorrow.
1 - Role players.
The blow of the starting calendar played able-bodied and helped body the lead. The subs kept the clip to the point area the win was never absolutely in doubt. I don't anticipate abyss is that abundant of an asset in the playoffs, but in amateur like these, accepting absolute basketball players in your bank instead of scrubs allows a drillmaster to blow his stars for the important games.
Box-score and highlights
For the opponent's angle and a lot of allocution on tanking, appointment Golden
State of Mind
Up next, the Lakers tomorrow. Pop ability in fact play the Big Three and I'm abiding the guys wish revenge.
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