Game Thread Spurs (33-16) vs Thunder (40-11) (Wed 2/04/26) [8:30 PM CST]

[ird80]

It'll make u gladder?

 

[Splits]

the city of San Antonio couldn't be fatter

 

[Floyd Pac]

Spurs
Blowing another 20pt lead
Going life and death with 3 nba players & G Leaguers
Bitch Johnson
Devin vASSell
Steph cASStle
HarASSon Barnes
French Shitnilla

 

[ird80]

That makes me sadder. Think I'll go party with the mad hatter

 

[Robz4000]

 

[Snake Eyes]

Just got home from the game a few minutes ago. They played like ass. It seemed like Victor got caught in the paint leaving his man wide open several times. Hell that was a theme of the game. I’ve never seen so many open threes. Shit there’s five decent players + three Tulsa YMCA players. Just piss poor strategy, leaving these dudes open. That’s on the coaching staff.

The block by Castle was ridiculous, but Vic could not finish again. He missed several of those tonight. Castle did not play great until the mid fourth but I thought he was pretty damn good w/ great defense, and he made three clutch baskets in the last four or five minutes.

Devon and Jules were a 2 at best. I think this game they should’ve started Barnes so you could stagger Vassell and Champ. I thought that lineup with Jordan out there was atrocious in the 2nd half. I don’t know what Mitchell was thinking playing Fox and JM together. Keldon was incredible through 2 1/2 and then they stopped going to him. Fox was too passive. Like wtf. We’re paying this guy the max and the coaching staff is not telling him to go get buckets.

Glad to get the W, but what a poorly played game by us. To add insult to injury, we got stuck getting out of the Frost Center by a damn train.

 

[OK Computer]

Just got home from the game a few minutes ago. They played like ass. It seemed like Victor got caught in the paint leaving his man wide open several times. Hell that was a theme of the game. I’ve never seen so many open threes. Shit there’s five decent players + three Tulsa YMCA players. Just piss poor strategy, leaving these dudes open. That’s on the coaching staff.

The block by Castle was ridiculous, but Vic could not finish again. He missed several of those tonight. Castle did not play great until the mid fourth but I thought he was pretty damn good w/ great defense, and he made three clutch baskets in the last four or five minutes.

Devon and Jules were a 2 at best. I think this game they should’ve started Barnes so you could stagger Vassell and Champ. I thought that lineup with Jordan out there was atrocious in the 2nd half. I don’t know what Mitchell was thinking playing Fox and JM together. Keldon was incredible through 2 1/2 and then they stopped going to him. Fox was too passive. Like wtf. We’re paying this guy the max and the coaching staff is not telling him to go get buckets.

Glad to get the W, but what a poorly played game by us. To add insult to injury, we got stuck getting out of the Frost Center by a damn train.

Vic is precisely why we have open 3s by opposing teams at least half the time and that’s a tough pill to swallow for many. Of course he’s still an all time defender despite that, and saying he’s the reason for a major flaw on team defense doesn’t take away from that.

You need players to get to the space of the shooter as quick as possible and this is why I say that the best kind of players to surround Vic with are players who have optimal speed while having versatility. We do have a problem with shooting, but people are too far willing to ignore the other side of the basketball.

 

[Robz4000]

Vic is precisely why we have open 3s by opposing teams at least half the time and that’s a tough pill to swallow for many. Of course he’s still an all time defender despite that, and saying he’s the reason for a major flaw on team defense doesn’t take away from that.

You need players to get to the space of the shooter as quick as possible and this is why I say that the best kind of players to surround Vic with are players who have optimal speed while having versatility. We do have a problem with shooting, but people are too far willing to ignore the other side of the basketball.

Spurs allow most of those open 3s off of offensive rebounds that result from players ball-watching off misses tbh. If they cleaned that up the 3-pt defense would improve drastically. That said, I don't disagree with the overarching point.

 

[100%Duncan]

Vic leaving 3 pt shooters is by design/by limitation.


What irks me about him is when he gets lazy on guys shooting floaters. Diabetes killed him on those.