LOL if you guys make the playoffs you won't escape the first round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Venti Quattro
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LOL if you guys make the playoffs you won't escape the first round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Venti Quattro
Pisspoor offseason for SA. Best front office in the NBA? :lmao What a joke.
I can sympathize with your frustration at our FO's failure to secure a slam-dunk FA signing, but can you name another team with our resources that has done as well, as consistently, as the Spurs have? We have the best winning percentage in sports, man -- hate the FO's decision's all you like, but there ain't much empirical room for the shit you want to talk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russo21
This is all assuming Parker isn't exhausted from bullshit FIBA and if Duncan can have another comeback seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by HarlemHeat37
The F/O is riding on the success of over a decade ago. The winning % is due to drafting a fella by the name of Tim Duncan who was a fucking lock to go number 1 no matter who had the top pick. A fucking retard would have picked him at no.1. Got lucky with Tony and Manu. Hill turned into Leonard who has turned into a machine but what else have they done. Overpayed Tiago and Manu, re-signed Boner more times then you can count, got rid of Scola for Jackie Butler, traded for Richard Jefferson, have a coach who benches Duncan in the final posessions of a closeout championship game. Drafted Javtakos, Karaulov, Sanikidze, Lorbek, Richards, Bertans, Hanga, most of whom will never play for the team. I wouldn't say the precious front office of ours are faultless.
Spurs better have homecourt
IHOP
Miami will not make it in the finals next year tbqh
People get that the series was a toss up. We outscored them in total over 7 games, but they won 4-3, so obviously they're a far superior team.
Toss up again.
1) First of all, your premise is flawed. Parker was excellent all year, but he was clearly NOT a top 3 player in league from the second half of game 3 on. Outside of one minute in Game 6, he rarely looked like the player we saw all year in the final 4.5 games.Quote:
Originally Posted by KL2
2) It's also interesting that you note Green's shooting as likely unrepeatable (probably true), but then seem to lump Manu's performance into what we could expect again. I wholeheartedly agree with anybody who says that we're not going to see many Game 5 type games from him for the rest of his career, but I also think it's unfair to expect the worst game of his career (Game 6) and worst quarter of his career (4th in Game 7) to become the normal of what he will do from here on out.
3) Tiago's a bad matchup for current Miami team, we all know that. His value comes in matchups vs. the other big front lines around the league. In the West, can we get past MEM/HOU without 2 quality post defenders? Indiana was 3 quarters away from winning the East (or possibly even a single play if they hadn't broken down at the end of G1).
4) We all know how close the Spurs were at the end of G6. But, thinking of G7, if Shane Battier just has a *good* game instead of an *amazing* game, Spurs probably get that one as well. And Wade hitting a % of long jumpshots that he hadn't been all playoffs. None of the "lucky" things for the Spurs you note really took place in the final 2 games - and the team was right there (and that is WITH lebron/wade playing at top duo in the world levels).
5) The equation for next year is simple: a) Stay relatively healthy. b) improvements in the games of Kawhi/Green/Splitter must be > decline in games of Duncan/Parker. Anything Spurs get from Manu is gravy.
HEB
Very possible. It's tough to make 4 NBA Finals in a row and their core is mostly old, but I also wouldn't be surprised if they did considering the beast that LeBron is.Quote:
Originally Posted by ffadicted
Why does no one tak about how lucky miami was? You could argue chicago and indy were without their best player. Besides the lucky bounces and Pop losing his mind in the end of game 6 Parker was clearly not right. So I say it's more likely we get back to the finals than the heat. We should've won showed we were the better team. Indy will be better,chicago better and the nets way better.
Spurs make one more FT and win.
Spurs need a SF that can play PF in small ball situations effectively. If we find one somehow, or is Boris quits being a fatass, Spurs will shit on Miami next year, book that shit.
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Originally Posted by Leetonidas
Miami should feel good about the offseason. Not a lot of teams that can compete with them.
true, although the east shouldn't be quite the cakewalk for them that it has the past 3 years. At least not at the top (still envious that the majority of their games will be against a conference where 2/3 of the league is tanking, rather than the dogfights that most WC games will be).Quote:
Originally Posted by cd98
If Rose comes back ~80% of what he was, the Baby Bulls have grown up around him.
Indiana brought everybody of note back. Granger gives them a second quality long wing and/or an intriguing trade chip once he shows he's healthy. CJ Watson was a sneaky good acquisition for this team since he hits open 3s and doesn't turn the ball over - their 2 biggest issues when matching up with the Heat.
Brooklyn is very flawed still. But consolidating the Nets and what was left of the Cs (+AK47) presents more of a challenge than those units apart.
Then the Knicks...okay the Knicks are no threat.
It would be nice if Miami had to go through at least a couple competent 54+ win teams this postseason before hitting the Finals.
We blew them out in game 3. But to me the key figure was the points allowed was under 80. We were pretty good at our best defensively. But we gave that up for small ball from game 4 onwards. You can say we didn't have a choice once they started Mike Miller but the key is without playing our defense our chances to win the series went down dramatically. That doesn't mean we didn't play well defensively with small ball. It's just was not on the same level as before and it takes more out of our players.Quote:
Originally Posted by jesterbobman
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Originally Posted by Venti Quattro
Leonard looks for a trade to chase rings
Green won't hit threes like that again.
TP will more than likely play better. His worst series of the postseason was against the Heat (you can blame injury for that, or just say he choked, but the fact remains he can certainly be better).
I don't think Duncan will have a super game like he did in game 6 again, and he may not be as good as he was throughout this year, but if there's one guy who always gives you 100% when it counts, it's Timmy. Not worried about Mr. Duncan's contributions.
Did our role players knock down shots this year? Neal had a net negative presence besides one game, Manu shat the bed throughout the series, Splitter was a ghost, and outside of a couple games Diaw didn't appear to make an offensive impact at any point. Joseph didn't do much. So yeah I would assume we'd at least get the mediocre performance from them again.
I agree though about Leonard. Sadly, with our lack of additions, we're going to need Leonard to improve to top level immediately and somehow hope Duncan doesn't decline from last year while hoping everyone else stays the same and that Manu not only stops his noticable and swift decline, but that he actually reverses it and plays better. Unlikely scenerio. We needed to add a playmaker and it didn't happen.
If Spurs do get to reach that far again, then they just simply get another chance to beat Miami. I say "simply" because that's not what I'm entirely worried of as of the moment but rather the competition in the west. Aside from OKC, GS, Houston and LAC, with their recent offseason moves, have made themselves serious contenders to represent the west next season. But if next year the Spurs get back to the Finals, that would totally be a more epic playoff run than any year I can remember and winning it all would make that year arguably the best championship year: toughest competition and getting revenge against Miami.