If the Spurs somehow win the west and matchup with the Raptors...What happens and who wins?

[apalisoc_9]

Do we have enough talent?
Do we matchup well with "rest" and his team?

The problem i see in this matchup is the frontcourt. Leonard-Gasol-Siakam-Ibaka is probably the best in the league in terms of frontcourt depth.

In the backcourt, the spurs have the advantage. Derrick white and derozan are both going to produce more than lowry-Vanfleet and Green

[apalisoc_9]

I think raptors in 5.

But if white can take a step further...

Spurs in 7.

[Mr. Body]

Spurs win. The East is horribly overrated. Give Pop a chance to gameplan and they'll win.

[TheGoatishere]

I don’t find the raptors that impressive tbh. they lack chemistry and i think the Gasol trade made them worst.

[BD24]

So we’re making post about dumb ass hypotheticals I see.

must be a cold slow day up in Canada for the Pinoy faggot tbh

[lmbebo]

> 1% chance of happening ... so yeah, we sweep them ...:rolleyes

[SpurSpike]

The Spurs stomp the Raptors into the ground, would be way too personal. When you have a team with that much motivation, you get the juice.

[Kobe'sAchilles]

Pop goes full godfather mode and tells all his players to put their foot under Kawhi's landing space. Make him have flashbacks and go full PTSD. Probably would end up sitting out of the finals and watch them in his crib back in NYC

[Hoops Czar]

They'll be facing Milluakee.

[ducks]

Well, considering that they haven’t lost a game in March with wins over the Thunder, Nuggets, Bucks, Blazers and Warriors, the answer is pretty much everything. The Spurs scored efficiently in each one of those wins and outside of Milwaukee held all those teams below their usual offensive rating. They’ve won slow games and fast games. They’ve won games shooting well from the perimeter and poorly, though they’ve always shot well from two-point range. And in just about every game outside of one they’ve kept their turnovers down. Essentially, in what has been something off an odd season by San Antonio’s standards, they’ve been playing San Antonio basketball.

[RC_Drunkford]

Raptors are beatable cause Lowry usually doesn't come up big in the first 2 games of every series. DeRozan would probably play the greatest basketball of his career. I think that would be a 7 game series

[spurraider21]

Do we have enough talent?
Do we matchup well with "rest" and his team?

The problem i see in this matchup is the frontcourt. Leonard-Gasol-Siakam-Ibaka is probably the best in the league in terms of frontcourt depth.

In the backcourt, the spurs have the advantage. Derrick white and derozan are both going to produce more than lowry-Vanfleet and Green
i dont think we could ever really put leonard in the same category as ibaka/gasol when referring to "frontcourt" players. the latter two are bigs and exclusively play center (ibaka has played center in 98% of his minutes per bball reference). LMA/Poodle are superior to gasol/ibaka, so i wouldn't worry too much about matching up with their bigs.

siakam would give us fits, we dont have anybody comparable. gay? ideally white gives lowry fits and the onus goes on kawhi to carry the load by himself.

for the spurs to beat any decent team in a series, we're going to need at least 3 of mills/forbes/marco/bertans to contribute on a nightly basis

[spurraider21]

Well, considering that they haven’t lost a game in March with wins over the Thunder, Nuggets, Bucks, Blazers and Warriors, the answer is pretty much everything. The Spurs scored efficiently in each one of those wins and outside of Milwaukee held all those teams below their usual offensive rating. They’ve won slow games and fast games. They’ve won games shooting well from the perimeter and poorly, though they’ve always shot well from two-point range. And in just about every game outside of one they’ve kept their turnovers down. Essentially, in what has been something off an odd season by San Antonio’s standards, they’ve been playing San Antonio basketball.
https://www.nba.com/heat/news/mia-sas-game-preview-190319

lol ducks. always told what to think

[Chucho]

So we’re making post about dumb ass hypotheticals I see.

must be a cold slow day up in Canada for the Pinoy faggot tbh

:lol

[SpurPadre]

https://www.nba.com/heat/news/mia-sas-game-preview-190319

lol ducks. always told what to think

Like a true MAGA, orange devil supporter, tbh.

[RodNIc91]

I think that if somehow the raptors have reached the finals is because Lowry finally was able to overcome his PO struggles

[Millennial_Messiah]

OP is a faggot

[DAF86]

lol at the idea of the Spurs making the finals. :lol

I will play anyway :lol, if the Spurs make the finals, it means they are playing well and somehow found another level. In that case, I would expect the Spurs to completely obliterate the Raptors and the scumbag, given that they matchup pretty well against them already. If the Spurs found another level, the dominance would be even bigger.

[DAF86]

https://www.nba.com/heat/news/mia-sas-game-preview-190319

lol ducks. always told what to think

Did he copypasta? :lol I was about to say that was too elocuent for a ducks post. I thought somebody had forgotten to switch accounts for a moment. :lol

[SpurPadre]

Did he copypasta? :lol I was about to say that was too elocuent for a ducks post. I thought somebody had forgotten to switch accounts for a moment. :lol

I thought Trump supporters only knew how to copy and paste White supremacist quotes so this is technically some progress for ducks, tbh.

[ducks]

You doing what chuck and Nancy say still

[Rosewood]

After a close series, Kawhi will rip his Toronto jersey off revealing the San Antonio Spurs uniform underneath in the final minutes of Game 7 and re-sign the following year. Derrick White wins Finals MVP and Kawhi wins Load Management MVP. Raptors are relocated to Las Vegas.

[gospursgojas]

Don’t let media fool you, the east is still the east.

[HankChinaski]

Narratively speaking it would get fans an casual fans watching.

Hypothetical, Spurs would be completely tuned in to win that series if it happened and I like their chances

[BD24]

OP is a faggot

[phxspurfan]

So we’re making post about dumb ass hypotheticals I see.

must be a cold slow day up in Canada for the Pinoy faggot tbh

[UnWantedTheory]

https://www.nba.com/heat/news/mia-sas-game-preview-190319

lol ducks. always told what to think
Was it the complete sentences that gave him away?

[99 Problems]

Pop over Nurse. But Kawaawaaaa has gears. If he goes ghetto beatdown on us you can only hold onto your chair and see where we crash. It’s a big if but he’s a generational talent right there in our face.

[Down Under]

Spurs win. Kawhi will miss Games 2, 4 & 6 cause of Load Management

[Down Under]

Seriously though, I think the Raptors are going to win it all. The Warriors defense has slid significantly & Durant is more isolated from his team than LeBron.

[monty4329]

So now we win the Conference? :spin

[monty4329]

Who wins the East will get to the Finals with an empty tank. Toronto would have to go through Nets, then Philly, then Milwakee (Boston).

[TheGoatishere]

Seriously though, I think the Raptors are going to win it all. The Warriors defense has slid significantly & Durant is more isolated from his team than LeBron.

Lol their not good enough to win it all

[Roscoe P. Coltrane]

Spurs sweep Toronto by an avg. of 20 points a game and Kawhi comes begging in the off season for the Spurs to let him back on the team.

[sasaint]

Who wins the East will get to the Finals with an empty tank. Toronto would have to go through Nets, then Philly, then Milwakee (Boston).

You think the East gauntlet is more of a drain than the West?

[GusT15]

You think the East gauntlet is more of a drain than the West?

In the regular season the East is easier but this years East playoffs are gonna be a dogfight.

The top 4 teams in the East are so evenly matched in talent that we are talking about 2 potential series going to the 7th in the semis and another 7th game in the ECF.

Whoever comes out of the East will bleed to reach the Finals.

[sasaint]

In the regular season the East is easier but this years East playoffs are gonna be a dogfight.

The top 4 teams in the East are so evenly matched in talent that we are talking about 2 potential series going to the 7th in the semis and another 7th game in the ECF.

Whoever comes out of the East will bleed to reach the Finals.

I am not so sure the West will be much different. I don't think the Dubs are head-and-shoulders above the next 3-4 teams that you can rule out long, tough series in the West, too. The Dubs seem to think they can just hit a switch and blow out the rest of the league. I don't think it works that way.

[GusT15]

I am not so sure the West will be much different. I don't think the Dubs are head-and-shoulders above the next 3-4 teams that you can rule out long, tough series in the West, too. The Dubs seem to think they can just hit a switch and blow out the rest of the league. I don't think it works that way.

I respect your opinion and the standings back you up,but imho only Houston can actually challenge them and that's only if (and this is a big if,like a gigantic IF) Chris Paul manages to stay healthy through the playoffs.

[ZeusWillJudge]

Did he copypasta? :lol I was about to say that was too elocuent for a ducks (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=13) post. I thought somebody had forgotten to switch accounts for a moment. :lol


Trying to decide if that's a masterful use of irony or a literary boomerang.

[TimmyBuckets]

OP is a faggot

[duncan2k5]

Smfh... This is the kinda talk we used to laugh at from other mediocre teams' forums

[monty4329]

You think the East gauntlet is more of a drain than the West?

Oh yes. Celtics-Indiana first round. Miami-Milwaukee a dogfight. Nets too are fighters.
Second round can be Celtics-Milwaukee and Philly-Toronto, good luck to the winners of one or maybe even two consecutive 7-games series...

[monty4329]

Trying to decide if that's a masterful use of irony or a literary boomerang.

I wonder if you know that your avatar is Saturn and not Zeus. Just saying.

[GusT15]

I wonder if you know that your avatar is Saturn and not Zeus. Just saying.

*Poseidon holding his trident,not Saturn.Saturn (Cronus) was Zeus father,Poseidon his brother.

[sasaint]

Oh yes. Celtics-Indiana first round. Miami-Milwaukee a dogfight. Nets too are fighters.
Second round can be Celtics-Milwaukee and Philly-Toronto, good luck to the winners of one or maybe even two consecutive 7-games series...

Interesting idea. I haven't really considered the matter. Your thesis is that there is more parity, albeit rather mediocre, in the East?

[GusT15]

You think the East gauntlet is more of a drain than the West?


In the regular season the East is easier but this years East playoffs are gonna be a dogfight.

The top 4 teams in the East are so evenly matched in talent that we are talking about 2 potential series going to the 7th in the semis and another 7th game in the ECF.

Whoever comes out of the East will bleed to reach the Finals.

sasaint's response


I am not so sure the West will be much different. I don't think the Dubs are head-and-shoulders above the next 3-4 teams that you can rule out long, tough series in the West, too. The Dubs seem to think they can just hit a switch and blow out the rest of the league. I don't think it works that way.

The next morning


Oh yes. Celtics-Indiana first round. Miami-Milwaukee a dogfight. Nets too are fighters.
Second round can be Celtics-Milwaukee and Philly-Toronto, good luck to the winners of one or maybe even two consecutive 7-games series...

sasaint's response


Interesting idea. I haven't really considered the matter. Your thesis is that there is more parity, albeit rather mediocre, in the East?

Let me guess.
Main and alt account stroking his penis once with the left hand and once with the right hand?

Or are you just bipolar and the same argument you tried to dispute yesterday seems like an interesting idea today? :rollin

[monty4329]

*Poseidon holding his trident,not Saturn.Saturn (Cronus) was Zeus father,Poseidon his brother.

Yes, according to old Roman gods tradition transferred to the greek one, Saturn generated Zeus. But what I mean is that statue in the picture is of Saturn (and that statue is actually in a city near Rome, Italy, called Saturnia). I admit it is a very unuseful information, no idea why I still remember it from an exam I took to up my average grades in college. Still.

[GusT15]

Yes, according to old Roman gods tradition transferred to the greek one, Saturn generated Zeus. But what I mean is that statue in the picture is of Saturn (and that statue is actually in a city near Rome, Italy, called Saturnia). I admit it is a very unuseful information, no idea why I still remember it from an exam I took to up my average grades in college. Still.

Monty my friend that statue is the Artemision Bronze,it was and still is in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens,Greece.

The statue in the picture is either Zeus or Poseidon according to Archaeologists,but every Greek knows that's Poseidon.

Also,i'm happy you took these kind of courses in college! But i'm Greek and i live about 2 hours from where they pulled that statue out of the sea and half an hour from it's current location.:toast

(Also forgot to add,the the Ancient Roman Civilization didn't transfer anything to the Ancient Greeks,as the Romans developed their civilization about 500 years after the Greeks-History lesson over)

[monty4329]

(Also forgot to add,the the Ancient Roman Civilization didn't transfer anything to the Ancient Greeks,as the Romans developed their civilization about 500 years after the Greeks-History lesson over)

I am actually pretty sure you are talking about a different statue, but I certainly can be mistaken.

About the latter part: I thought it was a given I wasn't talking chronologically, hopefully everybody knows Rome was founded in Homeric times. What I am talking about is when the Greek intellectuals 'took over' Rome as teachers (after losing to roman armies), they very smartly tried to mix the old roman deities (Lares, Penates etc) with he greek ones they believed were the true ones. Today we would call that asslicking the winners. Hence mixing up Saturn (which existed in the Tuscan gods tradition since centuries before, way before Rome was founded in 753 B.C.) with the greek tradition: they took the idea of the spark that generated Zeus and the Saturn deity which manifested itself as flashes during storms in the tuscan/roman tradition, and put them together, to appease the romans.

History lesson over :)

[GusT15]

Yes, according to old Roman gods tradition transferred to the greek one


I am actually pretty sure you are talking about a different statue, but I certainly can be mistaken.

the Greek intellectuals 'took over' Rome as teachers (after losing to roman armies), they very smartly tried to mix the old roman deities (Lares, Penates etc) with he greek ones they believed were the true ones.

So you actually meant that the Greek tradition/Religion/Deities transferred to the Roman tradition/Deities after the Romans conquered Greece? And you just mistyped it.Okay we can agree with that.

But you shouldn't be too sure i'm talking about a different statue.I am talking about that statue on CumJuiceWillSwallow picture.https://jito.home.xs4all.nl/virgil-finlay/images/artemision-bronze-detail_small.jpg

https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Artemision_Bronze_-_National_Archaeological_Museum%2C_Athens_by_Joy_o f_Museum.jpg/512px-Artemision_Bronze_-_National_Archaeological_Museum%2C_Athens_by_Joy_o f_Museum.jpg?resize=512%2C728&ssl=1

:bobo

[sasaint]

sasaint's response



The next morning



sasaint's response



Let me guess.
Main and alt account stroking his penis once with the left hand and once with the right hand?

Or are you just bipolar and the same argument you tried to dispute yesterday seems like an interesting idea today? :rollin

Actually an odd response from you. You and I were discussing the top +/- 4 teams in each conference. But monty4329 was talking about all 8 East playoff teams being very competitive with each other, I think.

[GusT15]

Actually an odd response from you. You and I were discussing the top +/- 4 teams in each conference. But monty4329 (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=51508) was talking about all 8 East playoff teams being very competitive with each other, I think.

It is the same argument,even if i didn't include detailed match ups of the first round (which was done deliberately,cause i actually think the first round will provide the same amount of game series for both Conferences) it is still the completely same argument.

So i focused on the semis and the ECF,with the same wording,the same points,the same conclusion as Monty.Same argument,same way of thinking.You disputed one argument and found the other interesting,hence my "weird" reaction.

[R. DeMurre]

I am talking about that statue on CumJuiceWillSwallow picture.https://jito.home.xs4all.nl/virgil-finlay/images/artemision-bronze-detail_small.jpg




:lol

[sasaint]

It is the same argument,even if i didn't include detailed match ups of the first round (which was done deliberately,cause i actually think the first round will provide the same amount of game series for both Conferences) it is still the completely same argument.

So i focused on the semis and the ECF,with the same wording,the same points,the same conclusion as Monty.Same argument,same way of thinking.You disputed one argument and found the other interesting,hence my "weird" reaction.

I think it is a slightly different argument. At any rate however he couched his argument focused me on first round series that I hadn't really thought much about in the East. Tbh, I don't follow the East much at all. If I compare teams 5-8 in both conferences to teams 1-4, I frankly don't know whether I think there is more parity in the East, but maybe so. I just hadn't thought about first round matchups in the East. You want credit for the argument - Okay, interesting argument.

[DAF86]

Trying to decide if that's a masterful use of irony or a literary boomerang.

Spanish autocorrect, tbh.