The "How are Aldridge, Batum, Lopez, and Matthews Doing?" Thread

Tony Parker did a great job guarding Curry in that game..you could tell he took it seriously. Lamarcus doesn't get double teamed playing with Kawai Leonard like he did with the Blazers. 26 and 13 was a very Blazeresque stat line for him. The Spurs are ridiculously deep.

 

Rolo had 23 and 20 last night in a loss last night..career stats for him. Melo was out with a headache and Afflalo did nothing for the Knicks.

 

Looks like Batum handily outplayed Young Batum

 

I think Aldridge and the Spurs knock off the Warriors this year in the WCF.

 

Look who messed around and got a triple double...

Basically he's their PG and allows Walker to be a pure scorer.

 

Called it earlier this year. Their defense is tops.

 

Yeah! I was impressed by Aldridge's play against the Warriors. Aldridge came out on Curry, the guy was out there tap dancing with Curry's gyrations. It worked too.

 

I've moved on from the LaMarcus hate; really don't care if he wins a title or not. Kind of would like to see the cocky Warriors put in their place by a bunch of old men.

 

I think it's 60% the Warriors take it in 6 games, 30% the Spurs take it in 7 games.
I don't think that GSW@SAS loss means anything, really.

I think Jeff Van Gundy described it well when he said: "Outstanding loss by the Warriors". Curry and (i think) Klay were caught on a very rare bad shooting night, the Warriors missed players,it was a home game for the Spurs and the Warriors still had a shot at winning.

You might say the Spurs shut Curry down, but we all know he usually hit ridicules shots at a great percentage so i'm not buying it yet.

And also, we all know what happens in a night when Lamarcus can't shoot that mid range shot

 

Spurs couldn't hit anything from three in that game either. They missed something like 14 of their first 15. It wasn't Golden State's defense either their three's were great wide open looks. Spurs made the game very physical for Curry which was a big reason he missed so many shots. Yeah he probably makes more in other games but they still can throw defenders at him as no other team in the league can.

Your prediction is odd because you think the road team is winning the final game? I think the Iggy injury is huge; the Spurs already have better depth. Bogut and Ezeli have injuries. If Golden State's bench is depleted the Warriors won't be able to run as they like to. It could end up similar to the second SAS-MIA finals where the Spurs just hit them with waves of players and eventually the Heat got totally exhaustion after a few quarters.

Thats of course if the Warriors can survive us once we beat the Clips.

 

I'm looking at the stats now, SAS has hit 8-21(38.1%) from deep and the Whorriors hit 9-36(25%), That's a big difference.
I heard about the theory that the Spurs can "rough" Curry up, but i honestly think that if it was that simple then we'd see more teams doing it with similar success.

I know my game 7 prediction is kinda out there, i just think the Spurs have a better chance at winning a game 7 because of experience,Popovich and a slightly better mental toughness.

 

Yeah Spurs made a bunch at the end. You also have to consider the quality of the attempts; Golden States were much more difficult shots while the Spurs got easy open looks. Now normally the Warriors won't be so tired from a back to back so the game will be different.

Spurs have the tools to make Golden State uncomfortable in a way no other team can. It's not as simple as just being rough with Curry. They can make him work on defense defending Parker/Mills and running through screens. They have elite defenders in Kawhi and Danny Green. All their players play great high IQ team defense. They have a full wave of players on the bench who've been quality starters. Others teams don't have those players, coaches, or depth. I'm excited to watch a series between the teams could be one of the all time historic series.

 

Fixed.

 

Looks like LaMarcus assimilated pretty well. Batum is playing great. Rolo has been pretty much vintage Rolo. Only Matthews has declined and for obvious reasons.

 

http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nba/61618/458/show-me-the-money-statistics

 

Same ole

Charlotte Hornets forward Nicolas Batum expected to miss remainder of series against Miami Heat

 

Claver's and Freeland's teams have made the Euro Final Four (and Sergio-and-Rudy's did not).
(Freeland didn't help CSKA much, though - he's been injured most of the time and will not return next season.)