Spurs (37-14) at Celtics (30-22) 4/4

[Meadowlark_Scal]

small ball with one center maybe..but not full small...when duncan is out there...who would do that...really....

Can you argue with the results...it cut 6 points off the lead.

at one point..but when i turned it on the game was closer...was it always this lead....was steamer always in...?

[rayallen1934]

for the record, Bradley is finding his game now,

now all he has to do is build more confidence which he has already done, he hesitates on jumpers because there giving him the shot, he will build that and become a pretty [dang] good undersized SG

[Who]

Bradley was terrific in the first half. I'd like to see him start the second half.

Use him on Tony Parker to begin with and see if Bradley can slow down this fast tempo.

[snively]

small ball with one center maybe..but not full small...when duncan is out there...who would do that...really....

Can you argue with the results...it cut 6 points off the lead.

I would have preferred we went small when KG was on the floor.  At least then we would have had a rebounder/rim protector in there. 

Bass did do a nice job though (except on the boards).  Some nice defense on Duncan, a great steal and good rotation speed. 

[Tai]

small ball with one center maybe..but not full small...when duncan is out there...who would do that...really....

Can you argue with the results...it cut 6 points off the lead.

I would have preferred we went small when KG was on the floor.  At least then we would have had a rebounder/rim protector in there. 

Bass did do a nice job though (except on the boards).  Some nice defense on Duncan, a great steal and good rotation speed. 

The main problem with wanting KG to play in our small ball lineup is that with JO and Wilcox out, KG didn't get that much time to rest as he usually would have. Oh well. :\

[rayallen1934]

Garnett finished 1-8 to after being 3-3

[Meadowlark_Scal]

Ry needs to be an "off the bench" guy....he is more of a specialist, it was good to have him and peitrus in there....when ray hits a few, and peitrus slashes...it really is good..but ray is maybe a D liability..or close....

[snively]

Bradley was terrific in the first half. I'd like to see him start the second half.

Use him on Tony Parker to begin with and see if Bradley can slow down this fast tempo.

I like that idea.  That way Tony can't run off of Rondo's deep penetration.

[hpantazo]

small ball with one center maybe..but not full small...when duncan is out there...who would do that...really....

Can you argue with the results...it cut 6 points off the lead.

I would have preferred we went small when KG was on the floor.  At least then we would have had a rebounder/rim protector in there. 

Bass did do a nice job though (except on the boards).  Some nice defense on Duncan, a great steal and good rotation speed. 

I would have preferred if just for once, we tried going big instead of small, with Steimsma and KG both out there.

[tenn_smoothie]

where did our defense from the past two weeks go to ?

i don't have the tv broadcast - what happened ?

[snively]

Garnett finished 1-8 to after being 3-3

Started after he hesitated/turned down that wide-open look for no reason.  Got himself out of rhythm.

[curacha]

the C's will pick it up in the 2nd half...

(i've been telling myself since the start of the 2nd quarter...)

lezzgo~!

[Tai]

Ry needs to be an "off the bench" guy....he is more of a specialist, it was good to have him and peitrus in there....when ray hits a few, and peitrus slashes...it really is good..but ray is maybe a D liability..or close....

The only lapse I saw was Ray not closing out on a weakside 3. Outta that, I'm not sure what more he could've done. If Rondo can't guard the pick and roll and our bigs are getting easy hoops, is that really Ray's fault?

[clover]

Why are people complaining about/blaming Ray? He started, yeah, and hasn't played well, but Avery's played more minutes than him so far so what's the problem?

Its because we get off to very slow starts when Ray is starting because our lineup is too slow, old and weaker defensively.

Our biggest problem has been getting off to slow starts, with Bradley starting, it fixed that.

Now you see what happens when he isnt starting, we have to play catch up because our first half sucked.

You're just telling any lie you can to get your point across.

We started off old and slow because Ray started...yet we started off with the lead.  It was actually in the 5 minute mark when Bradley came in that everything started to go downhill.

I'm fine with Bradley starting but you don't need to try to blame Ray for things that have nothing to do with him just to make that point

Bradley came in with 3:34 left in the 1st and SAS ahead 21-18.

[hpantazo]

at least the sixers are losing...