babyKnicks wrote:I am extremely encouraged by the spurs beating up the heat with team ball...ball movement, hit the open man, team defense...Definitely the brand of basketball Phil and fish are talking about constantly.
If the spurs pull it out, the league will take notice...beat the "big any number" with ball movement and team play.
No more isolations, no dunk contests, no celebrating wins in the 7th game of the season.
Get to the playoffs, get to the finals, one game at a time.
Knicks win 52 games next year.
That's fine and dandy, and it's what I want too, but do you think the bums on this team are even capable of that? What's getting lost in all of this Spurs love fest is the fact that Popovich has international players and young, hungry players that are willing to play system basketball. He loves international players because they have fundamentals and passing skills. It's why he rarely drafts kids out of the American system, he thinks the NCAA and the U.S. athletic system is a sham, used to take advantage and profit off of these kids, not to develop and nurture them.
Phil ran the triangle all his life, but he had guys who still took plays off and went iso-ham. After the game 2 loss, the first words out of Popovich's mouth was that the ball stuck. So even his smart, savvy, fundamental team players are prone to this. But we see what they can do when they stick to the plan, but the first step was for these smart players to admit that, and then go back to it.
Is JR "LateNightTweet" Smith this player? Is Iman "15 Cent" Shumpert that player? Dude can't even hit a layup. Is Tyson "CapriPant" Chandler this player? He's been in the league for over a decade and doesn't have a SINGLE post move...let me not even get into the gun packing guy, the knee guy who doesn't know what a defensive rotation is or the savior who never saw a shot he didn't like.
So yes, we can rebuild that way and eventually play that way, but let's stop with this winning 50 plus games and going to the ECF NEXT YEAR.
6/13/2014 3:51 PM
