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Official NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread
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RIP to Robert Pera's mentions on Twitter. 
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Can't nobody save Bismack
Still can't believe Dwight had so much time with him and still couldn't develop
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Over? Come on lol. Miami gonna take all 3 in SA? lol whatever you say man.
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Over for the Spurs?
It's tied at 1 with 3 games in San Antonio. I don't like them MF's but I doubt they're gonna lay down and give up.
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Bosh shut Duncan down?
No the spurs offense couldn't get their pick and rolls going and its because the first half they were lighting it up from 3 and went stagnant on the second half once the shot stop sinking in. Kawhi is playing really good defense on lebron so I will say this, their is no way the heat can win with lebron avg. 17.5 points. Those role players aren't gonna carry them through the finals, hell watch em freeze up in San Antonio tonight. Spurs in 5 and it starts tonight
P.S. the heat's second option, you know that guy D. Wade? 10 pts on 5/13 shooting in game 2. Liability??? Or reason the heat lose???
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Wade barley played on the second half cause we went on the run without him. He'll go for at least 18 tonightBosh shut Duncan down?
No the spurs offense couldn't get their pick and rolls going and its because the first half they were lighting it up from 3 and went stagnant on the second half once the shot stop sinking in. Kawhi is playing really good defense on lebron so I will say this, their is no way the heat can win with lebron avg. 17.5 points. Those role players aren't gonna carry them through the finals, hell watch em freeze up in San Antonio tonight. Spurs in 5 and it starts tonight
P.S. the heat's second option, you know that guy D. Wade? 10 pts on 5/13 shooting in game 2. Liability??? Or reason the heat lose???
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What happened to Tyreke Evans?
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haven't read through here but the heat using lebron as the roll man on the PnR destroyed SA's gameplan. they planned for him to isolate and attack and just crowd the paint, but when he's involved in the PnR his defender has to hesitate on whether to stay with bron or give chalmers/wade a clean drive to the rim. him rolling also makes the perimeter defenders hesitate because they don't want to crash if he doesn't receive the pass, but if he does get the pass he's already within 10 feet of the basket with the defense completely spread out, and not packed in like they'd want to. a couple of times he caught the pass on the roll and the spurs doubled allowing him to hit miller for wide open 3s. im interested to see what Pop does differently from game 2 to 3.
i didn't watch the spurs offense operate as closely, but i did notice that defensively between games 1 and 2 the heat altered their PnR coverage. in game 1, haslem or bosh or whoever was covering the screener was back on their heels as parker came around a screen. in game 2, they hedged hard and pushed him further away from the basket, allowing chalmers/cole to recover on parker and have the big rotate back to the screener. IMO the spurs can still run that PnR but if miami continues the hard hedge, parker is gonna need to swing cross court to the weak side to force miami to help less defensively as it would put them out of position.
i didn't watch the spurs offense operate as closely, but i did notice that defensively between games 1 and 2 the heat altered their PnR coverage. in game 1, haslem or bosh or whoever was covering the screener was back on their heels as parker came around a screen. in game 2, they hedged hard and pushed him further away from the basket, allowing chalmers/cole to recover on parker and have the big rotate back to the screener. IMO the spurs can still run that PnR but if miami continues the hard hedge, parker is gonna need to swing cross court to the weak side to force miami to help less defensively as it would put them out of position.
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Can't nobody save Bismack
Still can't believe Dwight had so much time with him and still couldn't develop
You're completely forgetting the defensive side of the ball. Dwight was the elite defensive big man in the league and Ewing's coaching was a great help. If he can help Biyombo to get easy dunks and put backs, that's all you need from him offensively. It's the defensive that he can be a real game changer.
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I think Miami would live with 3's late in the clock, coming from Green or Leonard. The 3's kept them within reach for the majority of the game. Same as Miami in G1.Bosh shut Duncan down?
No the spurs offense couldn't get their pick and rolls going and its because the first half they were lighting it up from 3 and went stagnant on the second half once the shot stop sinking in.
Only thing they can do is back off him and make him shoot a midrange jumper. Problem is that he can actually hit that one.
Or they could trap Chalmers and hope that when he kicks it out, they will have recovered. With some of the lineups Spoelstra uses when he goes small, virtually impossible for Splitter/Duncan/Diaw/Bonner to recover defensively.
They got more into his chest, rather than giving him breathing room and they extended the defense by bumping hard cuts as well. Parker still got open on that baseline loop with the staggered screens, but Miami was pushing up on the ball handler the entire game. Weakside rotation was better, but not as good as it needed to be for Miami(i.e. Danny Green).
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Can't nobody save Bismack
Still can't believe Dwight had so much time with him and still couldn't develop
You're completely forgetting the defensive side of the ball. Dwight was the elite defensive big man in the league and Ewing's coaching was a great help. If he can help Biyombo to get easy dunks and put backs, that's all you need from him offensively. It's the defensive that he can be a real game changer.
agreed. in today's NBA teams like to push tempo and having a big man who can protect the rim, rebound, catch around the rim and finish effectively is at a premium. bismack is pretty raw but it's not like you need to turn him into hakeem. he can be pretty productive if he finishes around the basket and plays stout defense
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Yeah I hated how some of the articles were saying he was "held" to 10 points or whatever. He had a good first half and was on the bench for rest, then the lineup that was on the floor went on that 33-5 run. When a lineup is hot you ride it.
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lets go Spurs
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That step by on Duncan was nice he had
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i dont think even he knows what happened
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time for Tmac
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why is chalmers still out there?
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these finals have been basura
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Mano E Manu
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just sit lebron until game 3
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Bring in lazy eyes POP!
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