what's been the biggest event in the current playoffs for the spurs?

[td4mvp3]

1. Dallas knocked out in round 1

2. Best offense in 4-5 years

3. Horry's foul on Nash and its aftermath

4. Duncan' health

5. Parker's jumper

6. three-point shooting

7. Spurs defense

8. Watered-down league

9. Homecourt advantage

10. Other?

[duncan228]

Duncan's health. Everything else would not have mattered if he was hurting like last season.

[Lebowski Brickowski]

Nick Van exel's absence

[Amarelooms]

Number 1 by far

[longrod]

Horry "taking out" Nash with the help of Nash's own acting talent. It made the Spurs bloodthirsty predators. Of course, Bowen has laid all the groundwork. No more pussies.

I bet Nash is still dildoing himself over that little stunt.

[duncan228]

Nick Van exel's absence

:lmao

[Mr. Body]

Dallas getting knocked off. It changed the whole season.

[TampaDude]

Dallas getting knocked off. It changed the whole season.

Yup...it basically opened up the road to the NBA Finals for the Spurs. :toast

[gino>yourlife]

Nick Van exel's absence

winner

although jacque vaughn isn't doing much better

[Phenomanul]

Good thread....

[duncanchick21]

:clap :downspin: :flag: :flag: Duncan's Health

[Sec24Row7]

1. Dallas knocked out in round 1

2. Best offense in 4-5 years

3. Horry's foul on Nash and its aftermath

4. Duncan' health

5. Parker's jumper

6. three-point shooting

7. Spurs defense

8. Watered-down league

9. Homecourt advantage

10. Other?

[longrod]

Is Duncan's *HEALTH* really an event? Isn't that more like business as usual...

[Fillmoe]

horry winning you guys a series from sitting at home

[td4mvp3]

Is Duncan's *HEALTH* really an event? Isn't that more like business as usual...
plantar fascitis, bad ankles, bad knee, van exel ...

[SenorSpur]

Nick Van exel's absence

:clap

[dbreiden83080]

1 and 3 are real close.

[Strike]

I have to go with 1 and 3 as well.

[T Park]

1, 4, 5, 7


The defense is twice what it was last year.

[td4mvp3]

personally, i go with duncan's health and horry's foul. i picked the suns to win that series, mostly because they should have been more tested and horry proved they weren't quite there. and duncan's health has really let him be a beast, i think. here's hoping it continues.

[mikejones99]

Almost everyone underrated how great San Antonio is all year long. Best team ever

[violentkitten]

playoffs aren't over yet, mofo

:smokin

[peskypesky]

4. Duncan' health

[td4mvp3]

playoffs aren't over yet, mofo

:smokin
far from it, but i was just thinking about how much different this post season is going than what i expected and why that was.

[Louie Vega]

Duncan's health. Everything else would not have mattered if he was hurting like last season.


1. Dallas knocked out in round 1

2. Best offense in 4-5 years

3. Horry's foul on Nash and its aftermath

4. Duncan' health

5. Parker's jumper *

6. three-point shooting

7. Spurs defense

8. Watered-down league

9. Homecourt advantage

10. Other?


* This helps too!!!

[Darkwaters]

1) Duncan's health - the guy looks like a beast
2) Dallas' early elimination - the choke fest came early this year
3) Role Players stepping up - Oberto, Finley, nuff said

[picnroll]

Suns trolls leaving the board.

[BreezeHillBill]

Number 1 by far
Spurs beat Warriors, Jazz beat Warriors. Mavs non-factor.

[BreezeHillBill]

horry winning you guys a series from sitting at home
We love that guy!

[Shred]

Suns trolls leaving the board.

*not quite

I vote for Jordin's win on American Idol. :clap

[Jimcs50]

Nick Van exel's absence



Enter TPark

[NBA Junkie]

10) Manu's resurrection since game 5 of the Phoenix series?

They don't get past the Suns if he kept playing like he did prior to the fourth quarter of game 5.

[hater]

Duncan

[ImpartialObserver]

1. Dallas knocked out in round 1

2. Best offense in 4-5 years

3. Horry's foul on Nash and its aftermath

4. Duncan' health

5. Parker's jumper

6. three-point shooting

7. Spurs defense

8. Watered-down league

9. Homecourt advantage

10. Other?
Undoubtedly Horry's foul on Nash. The Suns were the favorites to win the series at full strength after Game 4 no matter what any Spurs fan says.

They didn't release the updated series price (odds of who would win the series when they were tied 2-2) until after the NBA announced the suspensions. That number would have without question favored the Suns without the suspensions meaning the oddsmakers would have predicted the Suns winning the series, which isn't the same thing as the news media or Suns fan predicting a win. Oddsmakers don't give a fuck if you are boring or exciting or whatnot; they are all about money, and the money was on the Suns to win had the suspensions never occured as it was on them to win the series before it even started.

[sprrs]

Coming back from game 5 versus the Suns w/o Amare and Diaw. Huge wake-up call and I've seen inspired play from them since (minus a few fourth quarters)

[SAGambler]

Undoubtedly Horry's foul on Nash. The Suns were the favorites to win the series at full strength after Game 4 no matter what any Spurs fan says.

They didn't release the updated series price (odds of who would win the series when they were tied 2-2) until after the NBA announced the suspensions. That number would have without question favored the Suns without the suspensions meaning the oddsmakers would have predicted the Suns winning the series, which isn't the same thing as the news media or Suns fan predicting a win. Oddsmakers don't give a fuck if you are boring or exciting or whatnot; they are all about money, and the money was on the Suns to win had the suspensions never occured as it was on them to win the series before it even started.

You have to understand the oddsmakers job is to set the points to get money split on both sides. They simply make theirs off the vig. So just because one team is "favored" by the oddsmakers, doesn't necessarily mean they think they will win. They are just trying to split the money out.

[td4mvp3]

You have to understand the oddsmakers job is to set the points to get money split on both sides. They simply make theirs off the vig. So just because one team is "favored" by the oddsmakers, doesn't necessarily mean they think they will win. They are just trying to split the money out.
that and i'm betting the oddsmakers had mavs as a shoo-in against the heat.

[DarrinS]

Undoubtedly Horry's foul on Nash. The Suns were the favorites to win the series at full strength after Game 4 no matter what any Spurs fan says.

They were at full strength in game 6 (with Amare & Diaw having extra rest).
AND, the Spurs were still without Horry. If Suns were vastly superior, they didn't show it.

[td4mvp3]

They were at full strength in game 6 (with Amare & Diaw having extra rest).
AND, the Spurs were still without Horry. If Suns were vastly superior, they didn't show it.
amen. far too few analysts ever bring that up. the series was not over in game seven with those two players out. that was just game 5, they still had 2 more chances and one of those chances in phoenix.

[ImpartialObserver]

You have to understand the oddsmakers job is to set the points to get money split on both sides. They simply make theirs off the vig. So just because one team is "favored" by the oddsmakers, doesn't necessarily mean they think they will win. They are just trying to split the money out.
That is the theoretical ideal yet rarely achieved result of bookmaking. What you said also assumes the book isn't taking a position on an event itself, which happens all of the time as reflected by their odds. The frequency of the betting line movement determines who fans think will win whereas the initial number put out by the bookies is who they think will win.

[ImpartialObserver]

They were at full strength in game 6 (with Amare & Diaw having extra rest).
AND, the Spurs were still without Horry. If Suns were vastly superior, they didn't show it.
You could look at it that way but you could also say they lost a game of momentum by sitting out which hurt their play. The Suns weren't/aren't vastly superior to the Spurs, but I think they had a very good chance of beating the Spurs in 7 had the series had no suspensions.

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

Nick Van exel's absence
oh yeah! :lol

I forgot about that guy. That was a bad move getting him. We already had Horry and Finley. His "mentoring" of Beno really panned out, didn't it?

[timvp]

http://spurstalk.com/nashowned.jpg

[cholo]

http://spurstalk.com/nashowned.jpg

esoooo

[El Westsider]

Los Mavs choking.

[ClingingMars]

horry winning you guys a series from sitting at home

sounds like a disgruntled kings fan who is still reeling from the shot that finished the queens.

-Mars

[td4mvp3]

You could look at it that way but you could also say they lost a game of momentum by sitting out which hurt their play. The Suns weren't/aren't vastly superior to the Spurs, but I think they had a very good chance of beating the Spurs in 7 had the series had no suspensions.
baloney. you could say the spurs lost the game of momentum after that 20 point debacle or after phoenix finally broke through and won in san antonio. momentum is as fluid as the ocean and twice as precarious. it changes 10 or 12 times during the actual game. exhibit 1 was last year's mavs toughening things out once terry got back and eventually beating the spurs.