2014 Spurs vs 2023 nuggets ?

[InRareForm]

Spurs in 6.

Thoughts ?

[JPB]

Jokic dominates but spurs team ball prevails, with Bobo still doing a great job with Tim to limit the joker and no one for the Nuggets to stop Nephew.

[Robz4000]

Jokic dominates but spurs team ball prevails, with Bobo still doing a great job with Tim to limit the joker and no one for the Nuggets to stop Nephew.

Aaron Gordon can slow Nephew tbh. Bobo would be a problem for them, and the Spurs have multiple elite defensive bigs to make Jokic work. Think this Nuggets team would take the 2014 Spurs to 6.

[RC_Drunkford]

nobody is beating the 2014 Spurs

[KobesAchilles]

Nuggets in 5. Porker tries to out duel Jamal and causes us to lose Kobestyle circa04

[Dex]

I think there are many comparisons to be drawn between the two teams, and this series in general...

But yeah, Spurs win in 5. Denver has won some chaotic games against a lesser Miami team.

Spurs completely schooled a Miami team with LeBron, Wade, Bosh, and a solid supporting cast.

[Obstructed_View]

lol The Heat are an 8 seed. 2014 Spurs in 3.

[SpursFan86]

I think that Spurs team matches up pretty well with the current Nuggets squad. Duncan/Splitter are as well equipped as any to handle Jokic, with Diaw able to give spot minutes as well. Stick Green or Kawhi on Murray as much as possible and just hide TP on guys like KCP or Bruce Brown.

I’d take Spurs in 5 or 6.

[benefactor]

That Heat team the Spurs fucking mopped might have beaten the Nuggets. There is nothing to discuss here.

[paperboy77]

Kinda get it with all the assists but our defense was pretty great. Also, kinda feels like Denver didn't have to play the best either.

Denver is a different kinda 2014-Spurs with a offensively dominant great player in Jokic.

[JPB]

Don't believe indeed anyone was stopping the Beautiful Game.

Lebron was in his prime but spurs just totally anihilated the Heat with the their team play and chemistry... Tiago, Tim and Boris making Jokic earn his points and Nephew disgusting Murray like he did with Bronbron.

[gilmor]

Key difference maker - Manu Ginobilli

[mo7888]

Spurs in 5... there are very few teams in history that could beat the 2014 Spurs in a seven game series... Michael's Bulls...86 Celtics... very few..

[baseline bum]

That Heat team the Spurs fucking mopped would have beaten the Nuggets. There is nothing to discuss here.

Fify. 38 year old LeBron kept the Lakers in striking distance 3 of the WCF games vs Denver while the 2014 Spurs skullfucked 29 year old LeBron in 3 of the games.

[Obstructed_View]

The Nuggets played a Lebron team that wasn't nearly as good as the Lebron team the Spurs played.

EDIT: LMAO BB literally said what I said a post before me. Great minds.

[timtonymanu]

For the starters, put LDN on Murray. Put Parker on the weakest scorer (someone like KCP). MPJ is already looking like a choker so I have no doubt Kawhi would have shut him down. Take turns using Splitter/Diaw against their Gordon/Jokic duo.

Jokic would still be a handful but Spurs would have been able to neutralize the others.

Spurs could match their bench easily. Ginobili, Mills, Diaw or Splitter >>>> Braun, Brown, Jeff Green.

Spurs in 6.

[Obstructed_View]

What the fuck is this 6 shit? The Nuggets barely escaped Lebron with an absolute shit team. They couldn't stop Rui Hachimura and Austin Reeves. The 2014 Heat would sweep them.

Jesus.

[timtonymanu]

"Dwight Howard is the black Kevin Love." we all have our bad takes, tbh.

[cd98]

2014 Spurs team would have won because of supreme depth and more veteran experience. That said, the Nugget team could beat Spurs 2007 and likely would beat them and certainly could be competitive with 2005 and probably slightly better than 2003. Spurs 1999 team is a little hard to compare because that was an extreme reflection of 90s bruise and defense that just hasn't existed in the 2000s. Not sure how bruise and defense would fair in today's game.

[cd98]

Nuggets are what, closing in on 16-3. That's a dominant run.

[Obstructed_View]

"Dwight Howard is the black Kevin Love." we all have our bad takes, tbh.

That was a response to people saying Dwight Howard was better than Tim Duncan in, what, 2008? My statement is an infinitely better take than that. In fact, how did that statement age? Duncan went to the finals twice and captained a 67-win team in his final year. What did Dwight Howard do? Kevin Love is contributing to a finals team and Howard is in Taiwan.

[Obstructed_View]

By the way, I apologized to Kevin Love for that years ago.

[timtonymanu]

Nuggets are what, closing in on 16-3. That's a dominant run.

It’s a great run led by an all time great player. But the league is mediocre otherwise. Okc would have won it all in this current league. Hell I’m convinced even the 2014 Clippers would have had a shot at ringing today.

[Obstructed_View]

It’s a great run led by an all time great player. But the league is mediocre otherwise. Okc would have won it all in this current league. Hell I’m convinced even the 2014 Clippers would have had a shot at ringing today.

Yeah, I agree. Again, I don't like to take away from what Denver is doing, because they definitely will deserve their rings.

[spurraider21]

Nuggets could get away with Porter on Splitter. Not sure where the spurs hide their second big. Duncan on Jokic and Splitter on Gordon?

[talkspurs]

When Denver wins this they will be the first western conference team not In Texas or Cali to win the NBA title Since the Sonics in 1979.

[paperboy77]

Spurs in 5... there are very few teams in history that could beat the 2014 Spurs in a seven game series... Michael's Bulls...86 Celtics... very few..

05 Spurs were the best. 05 team would destroy 2014 spurs.

[Seventyniner]

When Denver wins this they will be the first western conference team not In Texas or Cali to win the NBA title Since the Sonics in 1979.

That's an insane stat. Especially considering that it only includes two of the four Cali teams.

[Old School 44]

When Denver wins this they will be the first western conference team not In Texas or Cali to win the NBA title Since the Sonics in 1979.
And ONLY the second former ABA franchise to win an NBA title since the 1976 merge (Spurs 5-1, Nets 0-2, Pacers 0-1, Nuggets 1-0 after this run)

[timtonymanu]

Congrats Nuggets.

That being said. After watching Game 5 today, I say Spurs would have beaten the Nuggets in 5.

[Arcadian]

That Heat team the Spurs fucking mopped might have beaten the Nuggets. There is nothing to discuss here.

This. Both teams in the 14 Finals were better than both teams in this Finals. And the Spurs won by much larger margin (the largest in history, I believe).

There was no "what an avalanche from San Antonio!" moment in this series.

[thiste]

Nuggets were clearly the better team in these Finals but my god they couldn't make a shot if their lives depended on it in this game 5. Their very first Finals and it clearly showed tonight. The 2014 veteran Spurs team would wipe the floor with them mentally.

[Donald Sterling.]

The 2014 spurs were on a mission specifically against the heat, because of the all time choke job from the previous season.

Let's not forget that they went to 7 against a mavs team starting Samuel Dalembert and Jose Calderon :lol

The Nuggets outclassed and dominated every single matchup that was presented to them since the start of the playoffs.

14 spurs vs 23 Nuggets goes to 7 and it can go either way imho tbh ngl.

[MultiTroll]

The 2014 spurs were on a mission specifically against the heat, because of the all time choke job from the previous season.

Let's not forget that they went to 7 against a mavs team starting Samuel Dalembert and Jose Calderon :lol
Good point that must be factored in.

[CorrectCrusader]

The 2014 spurs were on a mission specifically against the heat, because of the all time choke job from the previous season.

Let's not forget that they went to 7 against a mavs team starting Samuel Dalembert and Jose Calderon :lol

The Nuggets outclassed and dominated every single matchup that was presented to them since the start of the playoffs.

14 spurs vs 23 Nuggets goes to 7 and it can go either way imho tbh ngl.

The change in the lineup with Diaw in the finals changed everything

[lefty]

Nuggets in 5. Porker tries to out duel Jamal and causes us to lose Kobestyle circa04

[Cry Havoc]

Denver's run:

A Twolves team that wasn't even close a playoff level squad.

A banged up Suns team that had just mortgaged their chemistry to chase the gutless wonder of Kevin Durant.

An aging Lakers team that defaulted into the WCF as Memphis was in full explosion mode and the Warriors barely wanted to be playing basketball (and have no one outside of Curry at this point).

Quality of WC playoff opponents, charitably, is a D+. That's charitable.

Then in the Finals they get an 8 seed that outscrapped the Celtics who almost lost to the biggest choke artists in the NBA? Teams shouldn't be able to "gut it out" to the Finals. The Celtics are absolutely terrible, 2 full echelons below how they've been billed by the media. Almost any other year and the Heat don't get out of the 2nd round regardless of what seed they have.

Lordy. Denver gets *full* credit for how dominant of a run that was, but they were arguably the only great team in the entire postseason.

[Dex]

This shit cracks me up....dude just wants to go home and be with his family and horses:

1668472366236614657

"Nobody likes their job" :lol

I love Jokic as a player, but imagine Timmy or Manu saying this.

[BatManu20]

Jokic would’ve got his for sure, but the rest of his team was rather unimpressive outside of 2 games for Jamal Murray. The Nuggets shot 33% from 3 for the series, and that barrage of 3’s at the end of Game 4 when the game was already out of reach skewed those numbers. It was really like 29% with the garbage time 3’s that game. Their role players looked nervous for the better part of the Finals. Spurs would beat them in 5 imo.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Nuggets were trying to lose game 5 and the Heat wouldn't let them. 2014 Spurs weren't going to be stopped short of the title and this Nuggets team wouldn't have stood in their way.

Prime '03 Duncan would have been an interesting Denver matchup.

[talkspurs]

The 2014 spurs were on a mission specifically against the heat, because of the all time choke job from the previous season.

Let's not forget that they went to 7 against a mavs team starting Samuel Dalembert and Jose Calderon :lol

The Nuggets outclassed and dominated every single matchup that was presented to them since the start of the playoffs.

14 spurs vs 23 Nuggets goes to 7 and it can go either way imho tbh ngl.

Calderon was a decent player back then. He was even talked about as an all star a few years. Dalembert did not even avg 24 min or half the game. He was more of the Defense player to go up against the good bigs. Ever team has had their weak players. No team has had a starting 5 of MVP caliber players.

[tbdog]

I think 2014 finals team would be any finals team. And the WCF team would be most too. But that round one team would lose to nuggets round one team in 5.

[Obstructed_View]

I think 2014 finals team would be any finals team. And the WCF team would be most too. But that round one team would lose to nuggets round one team in 5.

Lol ain't that the truth. The Spurs didn't field their starting lineup the last several games of the season. Rust combined with Vince Carter's game winner made that series look closer than it was.