Kenny "The Jet" Smith: Spurs Don't Sweep

[tmtcsc]

Kenny Smith has made the same misinformed comment twice now: Spurs don't sweep.

C'mon Man! Spurs love them brooms!

2012: Utah & Clippers

2013: Lakers & Grizzlies

2014: Blazers

[Seventyniner]

Spurs didn't sweep the Blazers last year. And you have the Jazz 2013 and Lakers 2012 mixed up.

[tmtcsc]

Spurs didn't sweep the Blazers last year. And you have the Jazz 2013 and Lakers 2012 mixed up.

My mistake on the Blazers last year.

[spurraider21]

Kenny Smith has made the same misinformed comment twice now: Spurs don't sweep.

C'mon Man! Spurs love them brooms!

2012: Utah & Clippers

2013: Lakers & Grizzlies

2014: Blazers
we didn't sweep the blazers dude. 4-1

[SanDiegoSpursFan]

If the Spurs don't sweep, no one sweeps. I'm pretty sure the Spurs have more sweeps than the Lakers since the end of the Jordan era.

[tmtcsc]

I stand corrected. Thanks. My other stuff checks out though.

[DrunkTXLabrat]

i'm glad i'm not the only one who thought Kenny sounded wrong, about the Spurs and sweeps. i totally thought about fact checking the blazers series from last year. and the year we lost to okc.

[MI21]

Kenny Smith is an idiot who just says the same thing over and over, gradually getting louder and louder.

Instead of thinking about Kenny Smith, I recommended spending some quality time looking at OP's avatar which has long provided joy to the SpursTalk masses.

[will_spurs]

The Spurs swept the Cavs in the 07 Finals but hey, they don't sweep. Ever.

[FkLA]

He also said some cliche BS about how the Spurs always play at level 8, rarely a 9 and if you want to beat them you just need to play at level 9 or 10...and that most teams simply can't do that for four games.

Kinda dumb since last year's Spurs in the Finals were like a level 15 on a 10 point scale tbh. :lol

[testies]

He also said some cliche BS about how the Spurs always play at level 8, rarely a 9 and if you want to beat them you just need to play at level 9 or 10...and that most teams simply can't do that for four games.

Kinda dumb since last year's Spurs in the Finals were like a level 15 on a 10 point scale tbh. :lol

he's kinda right though

[moisaenz]

he's kinda right though

He is but in the finals the Spurs did play way above any team, very few past teams would have been able to compete against that. Usually the Spurs are constant, but recently the Spurs have lost because they drop below that constant number not because teams play at a 9 or 10.

[FkLA]

Nah. I would've agreed if he said the team rarely goes lower than an 8 but he also said they rarely go higher. That's just not true, the Spurs have a gear that only another 1-2 teams have.

[MI21]

As mentioned, Kenny is an idiot.

The Spurs have peaks that are borderline unrivalled. You know, the quarters they have where they shoot 80% and hit 6 threes and hold the opposition below 20. This has yet to happen in this series, but it will.

[Horry Hipcheck]

Tim Duncan Era:

1999: Lakers, Blazers
2004: Grizzlies
2007: Cavs
2012: Jazz, Clippers
2013: Lakers, Grizzlies

Spurs also backdoor swept the Nuggets in 2005, 2007.

[Sean Cagney]

The Spurs swept the Cavs in the 07 Finals but hey, they don't sweep. Ever.

99 Lakers and Blazers as well, two in the same playoffs once again.
Nah. I would've agreed if he said the team rarely goes lower than an 8 but he also said they rarely go higher. That's just not true, the Spurs have a gear that only another 1-2 teams have.
Last years playoffs were proof of that.

[FkLA]

As mentioned, Kenny is an idiot.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXfKjByQN0&app=desktop

[Silver&Black]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXfKjByQN0&app=desktop

:lmao

Didn't you make a thread basically comparing Kenny to dumbjohn?

[FkLA]

probably :lol

[Mr. Body]

I do feel the Spurs sometimes sort off toss games, or give up pride games, when a series is in hand. But maybe not more than any others. It's easy to let a team get that one and then let momentum peter out.

[CGD]

His bigger point is that the Spurs don't panic even when down a game, etc. Trite point, but the point nonetheless.

[DarrinS]

Kenny is actually the one on that show worth listening to.

[jsandiego]

Do we have a comparison of other teams/players that have swept their opponents post-Jordan? Would be interesting to compare to LeBron, Kobe, Shaq, Wade, and Dirk.

[hater]

The monkeys at TNT blurt anything that comes to their head. Why is this even threadworthy?

[K...]

He's neither right nor wrong. Are we taking reality as fact? Then false. We have sweeped. Are we talking metaphorically? Then true. 2012 was redacted, stolen by ibaka. Lakers? Not an nba team therefore not applicable.

Some sweeps are not sweeps. The spurs are classy enough to lose at least once every series, but like Monty last night it takes two to tango and just because a team loses it doesn't mean the spurs win. Even if we do sweep, it's a win because it's a teaching. Like a good spank, the spurs both show the right way while punishing the wrong way.

[tmtcsc]

He's neither right nor wrong. Are we taking reality as fact? Then false. We have sweeped. Are we talking metaphorically? Then true. 2012 was redacted, stolen by ibaka. Lakers? Not an nba team therefore not applicable.

Some sweeps are not sweeps. The spurs are classy enough to lose at least once every series, but like Monty last night it takes two to tango and just because a team loses it doesn't mean the spurs win. Even if we do sweep, it's a win because it's a teaching. Like a good spank, the spurs both show the right way while punishing the wrong way.

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[DBMethos]

Tim Duncan Era:

1999: Lakers, Blazers
2004: Grizzlies
2007: Cavs
2012: Jazz, Clippers
2013: Lakers, Grizzlies

Spurs also backdoor swept the Nuggets in 2005, 2007.

"Why we can't get 2? Why we can't get 2?" - The very clairvoyant Marcus Camby.

[The Reckoning]

it's just a backhanded compliment that spurs are consistently great and you have to play at your peak to beat them....see Cavs and Pelicans game for example...

[nowitzkikopf]

https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhctf4nlTt1qg3c85.gif

this

[FromWayDowntown]

The spurs are classy enough to lose at least once every series

Gentleman's Sweep (n.): An NBA playoff series that ends in five games. Defined as "sweeping the opponent, but giving them one, you know, to be polite." Preferably, but not necessarily, a series in which the series-winner wins the first three games, loses the fourth, then closes at home.

[cd98]

It's hard to sweep teams in the west because they have been so good over the years. For example, while San Antonio may have been better than Dallas, OKC, and Portland last year, they weren't so much better that they would sweep them. The west teams are just too good. If the Spurs had a few of those sacrificial lamb 6-8 seeds in the East, then sure, they'd be getting sweeps left and right. It's just hard to do in the ultra-competitive west.

[LongtimeSpursFan]

Kenny is actually the one on that show worth listening to.


I like his basketball insight as well. Kenny always makes that reference that Spurs play smart basketball and they just wait for you to make mistakes. And I think that has been the same mantra with the Spurs organization while Pop has been at the helm.

[pgardn]

Kenny is a genius compared to the guys who sit at that table with him.

But hell, they provide entertainment value by making spontaneous, unjustified claims.

Now on the occasion they actually do their homework... they are still horrible.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I do feel the Spurs sometimes sort off toss games, or give up pride games, when a series is in hand. But maybe not more than any others. It's easy to let a team get that one and then let momentum peter out.

I agree with this. They definitely have a higher gear they can go to when they get determined, but they also tend to give up a game here and there that they shouldn't. Losing games they shouldn't in a series has definitely cost them in the past.

I wouldn't say they're always at an 8. They don't appear to get rattled, and they don't celebrate too much or get overly emotional on the court, and because they win the majority of the time that probably spurred Kenny's comment.