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Originally Posted by geerussell
Gee, I hope all the Pistons are feeling this way! They'll never know what hit them...
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Originally Posted by geerussell
Gee, I hope all the Pistons are feeling this way! They'll never know what hit them...
:elephant
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Originally Posted by SequSpur
ROFLAO....Spurs in 4.........LOL :rolleyes
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Originally Posted by DisgruntledLionFan#54,927
I totally agree. It almost seems as tho the league were trying to drag this series out. I can honestly say that game 2 wwas calle dbadly againstthe Pistons, and game 4 was called atrociously against the Spurs.
Watching these 2 games specifically how can Stern say there is no problem with the refs??
All i know is, game4 I saw that Bavetta was on the floor and I knew right then that it was the Piston's game.
Great players win big games.
There is no better player than Tim Duncan on the floor.
Tim Duncan is going to take the team and tell them to ride his back. Great players carry their teams in big games.
There will be big shots made by other players, but in the end, no player will have greater numbers than Tim Duncan tomorrow.
I want Ginobili to go off, but the simple truth is, Tim Duncan is the San Antonio Spurs. We often forget about him in many ways. He is going to show us just how special of a player he is for all the reasons baseline bum said.
Duncan may again approach that quad double of game 6 versus New Jersey. Let the Pistons bring all their thuggish gangster shit to the floor in game 5, along with that zoo of an arena, along with the only announcer to get camera time in NBA history that I can recall. Who cares. Great players win. There will be no Dick Bavetta or Bennett Salvatore tomorrow to assrape the spurs. Its on.
Believe
Couldn't have said it any better myself.....http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smiking.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Das Texan
Go Spurs Go
BELIEVE
What a difference a day makes. Between games 2 and 3 everyone here said the officiating was great (which it wasn't) and the pistons were crybabies (which they were). Now you have spurs fans echoing Rasheed Wallace's conspiracy theories.Quote:
Originally Posted by ObiwanGinobili
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What bugs me the most is that the idiots that are quick to label TD as a "softie" are going to be celebrating with the rest of the Spurs fan in a couple of days.
You "soft" fans should not be allowed to go to the parade. Moreso, you should be forced to root for the Hawks for a year.
Duncan or Ginobili need to dunk on someone EARLY in this game, I think if we can get that done, it will give the spurs confidence, and it will fire the team up.
Okay, baseline, good news, bad news . . .
The bad news is you're probably gonna have to be called Detroit's Bitch.
The good news is that the Spurs may (probably will?) win the championship, anyway.
Would you take that outcome? :)
The Spurs Are Dead! They Were Exposed Last Two Games, Cant Play Physical Ball. 7 Detroit Playes In Double Figures Now Thats Team Ball. Spurs Are A Two Man Team, And If You Take Out Ginobilli Its All Over. Detroit Wins And Wraps Up Title In San Antone.
This is the same Detroit team that barely beat Miami with Dwayne Wade at maybe 50% in game 7 and 0% in game 6. This is the same Spurs team that was on pace for 65 wins before the Duncan injury. This is the team that adapted to the cheap shots of Seattle, the thug-ball and run-and-gun of Denver, and outran the Suns in convincing fashion. This team is just better than the Pistons, and it's going to show Sunday and then again Tuesday. After all the Spurs have fought through to get here there's no way they're dropping this thing to a team that backed into the finals. Detroit isn't the 96 Bulls, and they're not even the 2004 Pistons.
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Originally Posted by baseline bum
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That post doesn't quite have the conviction of Tony Parker you fucking bitch...but I can tell there is a sincere belief in what you say.
This will be the closest game of all the four so far, in my opinion. Detroit has to come out with the same intensity that allowed them to even up the series in order to finish off the Spurs. The Spurs on the other hand, have to re-build their confidence and realize that if they win or lose game five, they can seal the deal at home. If they can't get back their "swagger", they're toast. And Detroit "closes" out series, they don't waste any time either.
A seven game series is a roller coaster of emotion. I think the Pistons played at their pinnacle the last two games. They had to play at their best or the series was over.
It's the Spurs turn to answer the call. I think the Pistons will level off a little and the Spurs will play better.
IMO, the Pistons have the pressure. They haven't won in San Antonio in eight years. I expect them to start the game with great energy but I do not expect them to shoot the lights out like they did in game four.
Also, the law of averages is in play here. It doesn't discriminate. They would have to win their third straight against the Spurs. IMO, the Pistons will have to blow out the Spurs. If it's a close game, I think that favors San Antonio. To blow out the Spurs three games in a row would be incredible.
If the Pistons win on Sunday, they would sweep the three middle games in the Finals for the second straight season. They would be the only team to ever sweep the middle three games going back 18 years of playing the 2-3-2 format in the Finals. I do not see that happening either. There is a reason that no team ever did that before last season. It's freakin' difficult.
The Pistons played arguably the best game ever in Finals history. Are they the greatest team ever? No. Was their performance special? yes. I cannot see anyone duplicating that type of performance two games in a row.
The home team received homer treatment as far as the calls went the first four games. I expect the next three to be officiated in more neutral terms. This favors San Antonio. In game four, we went to the line 24 times. It should have been more like 34. The Pistons do not have guys that can take a defender off the dribble like the Spurs, yet they still went to the line 23 times. The Spurs should always have an advantage at the line because of the way TP and Manu attack the basket along with the calls TD usually draws.
Manu and TD are as great as advertised. I don't care what anyone says about TD's heart or Manu's possible injury. To me, TD plays the best when he's contributing in all facets of the game. I mean, a quadruple double tomorrow would be ideal but I'm not brave enough to predict it. Manu doesn't look hurt to me. I think he will be ready.
Yeah, Detroit has heart. Detroit is playing well. But I didn't dig all that confetti after a game four. That was cheezy, imo. I don't recall the Spurs dropping confetti after any big wins during the reg. season or the playoffs. It's about championships and I think the Pistons are just relieved they are tied up 2-2.
I like the Spurs on Sunday. 91-88
I don't know why, but I keep remembering that Lakers/Spurs series. When the Spurs won the first two, then lost four in a row.
My motto:
Stay humble, expect the worst.
Detroit is a good team, SA is a good team. I have a feeling the next few games will be very closely called, and I have no idea who will win it all.
To the Spurs, the Pistons are not the Lakers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ForestBrain
There is a huge difference in playing a team that has beaten you before and a team that has not.
If you wanna bring up the Lakers bring up the fact that the Spurs were 2-2 against the Lakers the last time we won the title...and we played horribly in LA that year...
Salvatore fouled Drob out in like 12 minutes in one of those games...I'd say we looked about as bad in LA as we do in Detroit...
I think this years team looks a lot more like the 03 team than it does last years team.
Say the pistons come down a little from that high and the spurs come up a little from that low... ok, now you're back to game 3 levels and it's still ugly for the spurs.Quote:
Originally Posted by slayermin
That would be true... except the pistons have closed the lane. TP and Manu looked for penetration but the openings just weren't there. There is an intimidation factor going on here when they try to penetrate that's causing them to bail out because they don't want their shot blocked or to end up on the floor again even if they get the foul call.Quote:
The Spurs should always have an advantage at the line because of the way TP and Manu attack the basket along with the calls TD usually draws.
Confetti? You think the team notices or cares? Seriously, do you? The palace drops it for the fans after every win. Fans get pumped about every victory and celebrate it, players go back to the locker room hungry for the next one. You'd be making a big mistake to confuse the two.Quote:
Yeah, Detroit has heart. Detroit is playing well. But I didn't dig all that confetti after a game four. That was cheezy, imo. I don't recall the Spurs dropping confetti after any big wins during the reg. season or the playoffs. It's about championships and I think the Pistons are just relieved they are tied up 2-2.
Hey, man....GTFO of our Rah!Rah! thread, fucker! :flipoff
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Hm, from the media you would get Spurs fans are great, and Pistons fans are terrible. I'm sick of this holier-than-thou Spurs fans thing. I've been on both boards, and the Pistons fans are about ten times nicer. pff, I'm not going to gloat about my team, I'm not going to be a jerk, I walk with trepidation concerning my team and know that anything can happen. I don't treat the other teams fans meanly or anything when their team wins. The whole Lakers thing sucked. The refs gave them that series.
In all honesty, in this series, the refs have helped the Spurs out a bit. It's because Detroit has the rep of being dirty (which their not, they just play hard). The last game was called fairly, if the rest can be like that (concerning calls) then everything will be fair, no matter who wins or loses.
I think the Spurs are a great team, and I'm being completely honest.
Fuck all you trolls.
You say hear to say absolutely nothing except Pistons good/Spurs bad.
How can you holier-than-thou nit-wits think you're going to convice anybody here over to your side? You know you won't.
You're here with nothing but bad will to get in the face of the Spurs fans here and trash the Spurs and pimp your team.
We're not all choirboys here, so STFU and GTFO.
I KNOW the Pistons are a great team, but I don't go say that on a Pistons board "in all honestly". GMAFB with your pretensions of good will here.
There were some calls against TP & Manu that were not called in game four, that I have a feeling will be called in game five. Pistons got away with some interesting strips. A few calls against Detroit will calm that crap down.Quote:
Originally Posted by geerussell
We flop. They hack.Quote:
There were some calls against TP & Manu that were not called in game four, that I have a feeling will be called in game five. Pistons got away with some interesting strips. A few calls against Detroit will calm that crap down.
Relying on the infinite wisdom of NBA officials is not the way to get things done. Causing more then four turnovers is.
Hacking causes many more turnovers. The Spurs should use the same tactics unless they start calling the game tighter. That is one way to be more physical.Quote:
Originally Posted by jalbre6
I am watching game five from the 2003 Finals and damn, I miss Speedy. Eerily, Lindsay Hunter's play in game four, reminds of the way Speedy played during our '03 title run.