This team simply wasn't built for a long playoff run

[Natebishop3]

We have no bench.

We play no defense.

Without those two things, you can't go deep in the playoffs. It is beyond me why nobody has learned yet that a team built entirely around offense won't have success in the post season. Phoenix pretty much proved that fact year after year with Nash and D'Antoni.

 

[Spurs Dynasty]

I'm going to have to agree with you whole-heartedly

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Well to be fair this team was built to just make the playoffs. This summer we need to go hard after guys like Shawn Marion, Tony Allen, Paul Pierce, Livingston, etc.

Just some older dudes who can come off the bench and play D... pray it rubs off on the team.

 

[Rhyster66]

The team will be back next year with a better bench(don't know about D.) and will probably put up a lot more of a fight then this.

I know we have 2 games in the RG now, but it's easy to lose faith with how easy the Spurs have owned us.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

"It's a process".

I think if we adjusted the lineup, then it'd be fine. Stotts is so rigid with it, it kind of kills. We have decent bench players but they just don't get enough burn.

 

[B-Roy]

Stotts needs someone who understands defense. We played one scheme the first year he was here. He completely changed it the second year. Both schemes sucked and our defense has been shit his entire tenure.

 

[Natebishop3]

The bench can be improved upon in the offseason, and guys like Barton/Robinson will only get better, but the defense has to be changed with coaching. I'm not sure Terry is the guy to get that done.

We played horrible defense against Houston as well, but they would actually let us back into games. We're doing the same fucking thing against San Antonio, but they are a veteran team and they don't let us make huge runs.

 

[HailBlazers]

30th in the NBA at causing turnovers, Not Gonna Cut It.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

30th in the NBA at causing turnovers, Not Gonna Cut It.

That's mostly coaching... We don't pressure the ball. Bend but don't break defense.

We have the players who can get steals fairly easily...

 

[Natebishop3]

Well to be fair this team was built to just make the playoffs. This summer we need to go hard after guys like Shawn Marion, Tony Allen, Paul Pierce, Livingston, etc.

Just some older dudes who can come off the bench and play D... pray it rubs off on the team.

No, I agree with you. I'm just saying we're running up against our limitations as a team. We have no bench, or at least we have a young bench and Terry only played his shitty veterans all year so the young guys didn't get experience.

 

[PDXFonz]

Stotts needs someone who understands defense. We played one scheme the first year he was here. He completely changed it the second year. Both schemes sucked and our defense has been shit his entire tenure.

 

[HailBlazers]

That's mostly coaching... We don't pressure the ball. Bend but don't break defense.

We have the players who can get steals fairly easily...

Yea that's why it's so frustrating. In honor of Sarge, we need some SCRAP.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

We have no bench.

We play no defense.

Without those two things, you can't go deep in the playoffs. It is beyond me why nobody has learned yet that a team built entirely around offense won't have success in the post season. Phoenix pretty much proved that fact year after year with Nash and D'Antoni.

Is this a rerun thread from February? Because we all knew this already.

Great fucking insight.

 

[Natebishop3]

Welp, I hope we're learning a good lesson right now. The Spurs are certainly schooling us on the ways of the playoffs.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

We have no bench.

We play no defense.

Without those two things, you can't go deep in the playoffs. It is beyond me why nobody has learned yet that a team built entirely around offense won't have success in the post season. Phoenix pretty much proved that fact year after year with Nash and D'Antoni.

Relax, our cake is baking much faster than anyone thought.

 

[Natebishop3]

Is this a rerun thread from February? Because we all knew this already.

Great fucking insight.

Apparently we didn't because many of us thought we had a chance in this series.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Yea that's why it's so frustrating. In honor of Sarge, we need some SCRAP.

We have it in T-Rob and Barton at least.

 

[RoyToy]

Stotts is not good at developing bench talent

He needs talent handed to him in order for it to work

 

[Natebishop3]

Stotts is not good at developing bench talent

He needs talent handed to him in order for it to work

This is true. It was obvious because of how much he leaned on Mo Williams, despite the obvious fact that Mo is horrible.

 

[PDXFonz]

Relax, our cake is baking much faster than anyone thought.

But I want to eat it NOW!

 

[Natebishop3]

Relax, our cake is baking much faster than anyone thought.

That isn't the point. We are in the now, in the second round, and the team (as it is currently constructed) was not built for a deep playoff run. Neil is slowly adding pieces, but it's obvious the bench isn't ready for this kind of thing. It's just becoming painfully obvious as the Spurs are dismantling us.

 

[PDXFonz]

That isn't the point. We are in the now, in the second round, and the team (as it is currently constructed) was not built for a deep playoff run. Neil is slowly adding pieces, but it's obvious the bench isn't ready for this kind of thing. It's just becoming painfully obvious as the Spurs are dismantling us.

I agree, what the fuck does baking have to do with basketball.

 

[PapaG]

I completely expected a thread like this from NB3. Almost every poster here knows this team wasn't going to win a title. Your Internet binge is making you lose touch with reality.

 

[Natebishop3]

I completely expected a thread like this from NB3. Almost every poster here knows this team wasn't going to win a title. Your Internet binge is making you lose touch with reality.

And I completely expected this personal attack post from you. Your consistency as a person who can't talk basketball and only takes shots at other posters remains intact!

 

[RoyToy]

Pops would make Dorell Wright a useful bench player

 

[Natebishop3]

Pops would make Dorell Wright a useful bench player

He would tell him to just sit in the corner and stop putting the ball on the floor.

 

[PapaG]

And I completely expected this personal attack post from you. Your consistency as a person who can't talk basketball and only takes shots at other posters remains intact!

Calm down

 

[PapaG]

NB3, if you felt my post was a personal attack, I apologize for it.

 

[Natebishop3]

Calm down

I'm too tired to fight.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Pops would make Dorell Wright a useful bench player

Probably. However I blame the city of Portland for his woes, Portland is to shooters as Seattle is to Wide Receivers.