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

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

"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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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...

 

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.

 

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

 

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

Great fucking insight.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

But I want to eat it NOW!