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7 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

I fully expect Keldon Johnson to score 25-29 points going 9-13. calling my shot

sometimes its just so easy 

If you’ll allow me to be me for a second, does anyone else see Sochan dragging the team down on both sides of the floor? I’m trying to give this dude the benefit of the doubt. 

20 minutes ago, hornfan785 said:

Dylan Harper! I love this kid

yea, and you were like 10th highest odds to get him?

 

No idea why we're face guarding him like hes curry with Conley of all guys. he nice 

4 minutes ago, hornfan785 said:

It's amazing how good other teams shoot the 3 against us... 🤬

They’re wide open. Keep missing assignments and giving them second chances. 

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1 minute ago, Kermit said:

They’re wide open. Keep missing assignments and giving them second chances. 

This. They are getting caught chasing and the rotations are too slow. 

Well, this game is fucking over. Can’t make a goddamn basket, can rebound, can’t guard the three point line. 

Yeah, let's just keep leaving their shooters wide open, maybe it'll work this time.

STOP LEAVING THREE POINT SHOOTERS WIDE OPEN. You don’t need to help. 

Well, great game from Harper tonight. Keldon and Vassell looked good too. The perimeter defense is so bad sometimes, though. Really frustrating.

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8 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

Vassell had the best game of his career in Denver so I expect his chucking to be at an all time high and go 2-14 from three. He’s probably going to put up a Valentines Day stat line tonight.

1-9 from three. I was close. He actually shot a worse percentage than I predicted. 

The old adage, "you are what you emphasize," still true. The Spurs clearly do not emphasize perimeter defense. Ant Fucking Edwards! He should never be wide open! Under any fucking circumstances! At times they appear so easy to solve. The offense also suffers amnesia at least twice in the second halves of games, and completely forgets its identity. That is the most frustrating part of these games, and it almost always results in a lead being erased in a matter of minutes. If we're lucky, we regain control of the game. Eventually the top half of the league is going to figure out how to exploit this even more, and the games will take on the trajectory of what we saw tonight. Wemby hopefully can continue his maturation and in the process of being "the guy" prevent those amnesia spells. But the defensive issues are extremely worrisome. I have not seen it get better and we're approaching December. I would hate to see a team this good swept in the first round.

9 hours ago, Kermit said:

If you’ll allow me to be me for a second, does anyone else see Sochan dragging the team down on both sides of the floor? I’m trying to give this dude the benefit of the doubt. 

Not sure what's going on with him. Feel like he's been missing some intensity and energy this season. 

8 hours ago, hornfan785 said:

The perimeter defense is so bad sometimes, though. Really frustrating.

Castle and Wemby are basically our only plus defenders. Sochan should be but again - not sure what's going on there. Keldon can't cover anyone. Vassell has little IQ on that end. Champagnie is passable I guess? Barnes is crafty and a pretty good post defender but isn't chasing guys off the 3 line. Harper is a rookie. Fox doesn't really play D. 

The communication and coaching could be better but it's not some huge mystery why we're 6th in 3PM allowed and 3rd in 3P% against as a team. We're a good defense when Wemby and Castle play and we're a bad defense when they don't. 

We've had some cute moments without him but we need the big guy back. This is a middling play-in team sans Wemby - although they've done a good job keeping their head above water.

Allow me to grab the lowest-hanging fruit and go with "Sochan's IG is now full of pics of his GF. All offseason and still now part of the season." Maybe he's lost some edge to the undefeated opponent of competitive hunger. That boy is head over heels. 

He looks completely lost out there. He’s missing switches on defense, is poor at rebounding, and seemingly everyone he guards either draws a foul or scores. Offensively, woof. He has the dribble hand off down pat, I’ll give him that. I’ve never seen a player so terrified to be wide open. When he’s open under the basket, he freaks out and either goes up to slow or gets blocked. He’s been dunking more lately, but I think it’s because he’s scared to shoot anything. 
 

I did do some research on his girlfriend, well done Jeremy. Well done. Hopefully she stays with him when he’s on the Hornets.

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5 hours ago, BurdineBandit said:

Allow me to grab the lowest-hanging fruit and go with "Sochan's IG is now full of pics of his GF. All offseason and still now part of the season." Maybe he's lost some edge to the undefeated opponent of competitive hunger. That boy is head over heels. 

That isn’t supposed to be how you do things in a contract year. I’ve always liked Sochan and thought he was the right pick for the spurs in that draft at the time. But he needs to be a demon on defense to justify any minutes because he’s such a liability on offense. Like, he needs to get a black belt from the Bruce Bowen school of kung fu before he sees any sort of consistent minutes. I imagine he’s going to get a ton of DNPs if/when this team ever gets fully healthy. 

18 hours ago, chainsaw said:

The old adage, "you are what you emphasize," still true. The Spurs clearly do not emphasize perimeter defense. Ant Fucking Edwards! He should never be wide open! Under any fucking circumstances! At times they appear so easy to solve. The offense also suffers amnesia at least twice in the second halves of games, and completely forgets its identity. That is the most frustrating part of these games, and it almost always results in a lead being erased in a matter of minutes. If we're lucky, we regain control of the game. Eventually the top half of the league is going to figure out how to exploit this even more, and the games will take on the trajectory of what we saw tonight. Wemby hopefully can continue his maturation and in the process of being "the guy" prevent those amnesia spells. But the defensive issues are extremely worrisome. I have not seen it get better and we're approaching December. I would hate to see a team this good swept in the first round.

An obvious indictment of substandard coaching 

31 minutes ago, Gut Wagon said:

substandard coaching 

To be fair: making the IST, having the record they have, and doing it without their top players for most of the season, is still exceeding expectations by a lot. He's by no means a perfect coach, but he's doing something right. It's just frustrating to know how much better they would be if they could fix these fixable things.

Carter Bryant getting some good minutes tonight. 

Edey is feasting in the paint tonight without Wemby in there, though.

Sochan breathes on someone and they get a trip to the line. 

Cool product, NBA.

This is an awful basketball game.

Let's see if we can eek out another W.

We're like the '96 Bulls when it comes to winning close games against shitty teams at home. 

2-2 over the next four would be a nice result again. 

Fox and Friends has its moments but I'm really ready for Wemby to be back. 

That game winner that Fox missed a few weeks ago, when they didn't give Wemby a look, seems like eons ago. This is why he's paid the money. Harper looked great, Barnes is still Mr. Reliable. I knew we needed vets, but didn't realize they would make this big of a difference. Barnes and Fox have been great stabilizing forces this first half of the season. 

Sochan played much better and didn’t look completely lost. Still passing up wide open shots. Vassell was a train wreck. He and Keldon together on the perimeter defense is a horror movie. Harper was awesome as always. Thank Cthulhu for Luke Kornet.

These are the type of games that, when you win 70% or more of them, you're a good team. Workmanlike performances, not perfect by any means, but for the most part everyone did what they needed to do and they didn't panic when they fell behind in the 4th quarter. This is not the kind of games we were winning last season, even before Pop had to step back from coaching.

I give a lot of credit not only to Mitch but also to veterans like Barnes, Kornet, and Olynyk, and guys who have paid their dues like Keldon and Sochan. I loved seeing that grit from Sochan getting into it with Edey. The young guns are clearly where most of the talent and upside are, but without the right vets and roleplayers the team lacks an identity and underperforms.

 

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9 hours ago, BurdineBandit said:

Barnes is still Mr. Reliable. I knew we needed vets, but didn't realize they would make this big of a difference.

The funny thing about Barnes is that Sacramento was just unloading his contract on the Spurs and gave us an unprotected first round swap in 2031 to do it so they could sign Derozan. He’s been such a fantastic asset to this team.  And the morons didn’t even get the swap back when they traded us for Fox. 

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12 hours ago, Kermit said:

He and Keldon together on the perimeter defense is a horror movie.

Champagnie is really good though. 

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Like I said the other day - this is just a team full of shitty defenders. Not helping is that we don't consistently communicate or display any sort of edge or hustle on that end. We constantly look lost - some of that is guys like Keldon who are low IQ but we aren't even playing to our potential.

One of the reasons you'd like to see Sochan be a little more consistent with what he is bringing (he was good last night).

we're so lucky they've been ice cold from the perimeter. the game would be so much different

4 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

we're so lucky they've been ice cold from the perimeter. the game would be so much different

Meh. They're one of the worst shooting teams in the league. 

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