Thanks to countless hours of film study, a couple years of head-to-head history and four actual NBA Finals games, the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs have probably run out of surprising ways to attack one another. Tim Duncan, for one, thinks his team needs to do something—anything—to break up that familiarity.
According to Matt Moore of CBS Sports, Duncan said Saturday after practice:
You get familiar with what's going on and you get into kind of a rut. Obviously their defense was rotating kind of perfectly and knowing exactly what we were going to do. So you have to change things up.
You have to change the pace of things, the way you do things, and in that way it kind of keeps them on their toes. More than them understanding exactly what they're going to do. I think that's what we have to do coming into this upcoming [Game 5].
There's some sound logic to Duncan's thoughts here. That shouldn't be surprising, as his "reasoning circuitry" was recently serviced by the engineers the Spurs keep on staff to maintain him.
You could see in Game 4 how comfortable the Heat were on defense. I ...
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Tim Duncan Says It’s Time ‘To Change Things Up’ as Spurs Face Crucial Game 5
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