Could the Dubs be heading for a Spur's like 2011-2012 season ending collapse?

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Originally Posted by Benoit

the Spurs have yet to have an impressive W this season which is unreal considering their great record

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I'm trying to figure out who dubs beat in playoffs. Delly took out steph in the first 2 games. Parker in his prime would've destroyed him. Like he did to the cavs in 2007.

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Originally Posted by Benoit

the Spurs have yet to have an impressive W this season which is unreal considering their great record

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ahahahah
what a stupid clown

Not to that extent, but at some point, even though it seems like it'll never happen, their late game luck has to at least somewhat regress to the mean.

To illustrate just how lucky they've been, their expected record is a whopping eight games worse than their actual one. The Spurs, for example, have the same expected as actual.

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Originally Posted by TD 21

Not to that extent, but at some point, even though it seems like it'll never happen, their late game luck has to at least somewhat regress to the mean.

To illustrate just how lucky they've been, their expected record is a whopping eight games worse than their actual one. The Spurs, for example, have the same expected as actual.

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Could you elaborate more on that?

Anything less than a championship will probably be viewed as an epic collapse at this point, tbh.

Considering the state of the East, Spurs or maybe Thunder are the only real challenge they will face, barring unforeseen circumstances.

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Originally Posted by coachmac87

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Could you elaborate more on that?

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http://www.basketball-reference.com/...html#wins_pyth

It's under W Pyth.

This factors into the expected record, but they're 6-0 in overtime.

No.
1. ThunderRef was a key in that series. Remember mega clutch SJackson knocking down a trey and getting wrung up for turning around and looking at the Thunderfag bench?
2016 NBA marketing with Stern Jr. has ordered favoritism or at the very worst even reffing for Warriors.

2. Steve Kerr is not going to play Matt Bonner more minutes (54) then he did an all season starter that led to the #1 seed (Prime Dejuan Blair before knees) and Tiago Splitts. And watch as Bonner shoots .167 along with his signature D and rebounding skills.

No but if they play the Jazz in R1 they could be in for a tougher series than people expect. Utah should've beat them a couple times this season.

1st round exit to the Blazers would be outstanding.

Hilarious justice would be if the Mavs knocked them off in the first round.

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Originally Posted by Benoit

the Spurs have yet to have an impressive W this season which is unreal considering their great record

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Este vato, what do you call that beating on mouthpiece guy and never closes his mouth guy

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Originally Posted by KL2

Been saying they're in danger of fatigue and injuries, tired legs will affect their 3pt shooting, all it takes is a few of their role players to be off and the Spurs can beat them.

Post all star break their 3pt shooters have fallen off quite a bit:
-Green is down from 42% to just 31%
-Barnes is down from 39% to 30%
-Iguodala started off the year shooting around 40%, his % started to decline as the year went on, currently 38%
-Rush 45% down to just 30%
-Barbosa 36% to 28%


Make no doubt about it, GS is slowing down.

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Spurs have slowed down quite a bit too. :lol I don't know why these excuses keep popping up. The NBA regular season is a grind. It's tough to stay up for every game on the schedule especially when your the superior team. It's funny because the Spurs have finished RS's like this before and this forum always had an excuse lined up and ready to go.... Bored and coasting.

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Originally Posted by Brian Windhorst

No but if they play the Jazz in R1 they could be in for a tougher series than people expect. Utah should've beat them a couple times this season.

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Warriors would win in 4.

Lol no. They are one of the greatest teams in NBA history.

They will sweep first round, sweep or lost 1 in the second so they will get plenty of rest. Spurs need to stay focused and do the same so they can be rested for that series but more than likely we will have a 6 or 7 game series in the second round.

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Originally Posted by Hoops Czar

Warriors would win in 4.

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Cool thanks.

It definitely could happen... Relying on jump shots when the pressure gets tighter isn't going to post the best percentages....

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Originally Posted by random21

It definitely could happen... Relying on jump shots when the pressure gets tighter isn't going to post the best percentages....

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90% of the Spurs offense is the mid range J.:lol

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Originally Posted by $pursDynasty

I was watching the Dubs eek out a win against the Jazz last night, they have been pushing hard all this season and though they are young this has to put a strain on them. They are cocky and want the notoriety associated with breaking the Bulls record but could this hubris lead them to a collapse like the Spurs suffered in 2011-12? The season the Spurs won the last 10 games of the regular season as well as the first 10 on the post season only to lose 4 games in a row. That is my dream scenario this season with the Spurs playing the role of the Thunderrefs that season with one small exception, that we go on and win the :lobt2:afterwards. I was called out how unimportant regular season wins and records are (sans a title) in another thread and I must admit that is correct because the 2011-2012 season brings me no joy now but at the time, the idea of winning 6 more games and sweeping the playoffs had me giddy as f and if we would have pulled it off I would be still talking about how incredible that team was forever.

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One big difference: Refs were cheating for the Thunderrefs and will be cheating for the Warrefs, not the Spurs.

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Originally Posted by Hoops Czar

Warriors would win in 4.

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Depth of series will depend on if Jazz can steal one of first two games in Oracle. They won't have any urgency/belief w/o it.

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Originally Posted by Chris

1st round exit to the Blazers would be outstanding.

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Won't happen but I agree.

"Spurs make history where it counts, advance to 7th Finals appearance over historic 73-win Warriors. Rematch with Lebron"

that'd be a nice thing to read

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Originally Posted by Spurtacular

One big difference: Refs were cheating for the Thunderrefs and will be cheating for the Warrefs, not the Spurs.

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Other than the illegal screens issue, which is not unique to the Warriors, the refs don't really go out of their way to help them. Curry got 50 points earlier this season with ONE free throw. Now, if they were in their back pocket, don't you think he could have gone to the line 5-10 times at various stages of the game without anyone batting an eye?

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Originally Posted by Cry Havoc

Other than the illegal screens issue, which is not unique to the Warriors, the refs don't really go out of their way to help them. Curry got 50 points earlier this season with ONE free throw. Now, if they were in their back pocket, don't you think he could have gone to the line 5-10 times at various stages of the game without anyone batting an eye?

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I think FTAs is often an over calibrated stat when measuring cheating; but if you want to zoom in on that, Curry is averaging a career high FTAs. He's up a full attempt from last year. This article, which is old, talks about Curry improving his lay-ups while completely ignoring that he was only get to the line 1.8 times a game at one point: http://www.basketball-reference.com/...curryst01.html

Sure, Curry has improved for what it's worth; and FTAs will follow. And my contention isn't really that Curry is getting a ton of sweetheart calls; though it surely has increased. So, I suppose I revert back to the systematic cheating; the Warriors screening has been quite bad; maybe the worst I've seen; it surpasses the previous Heat teams. Some contend that the 08-12 C's were as bad; but even then, the refs were routinely calling four or five illegal screens a game against them to try and keep them honest. The refs called ONE illegal screen and Kerr had a tirade in that last Spurs game. Now, that game was different though; for some reason, the Warriors were not doing their moving screens; I think they were intentionally avoiding the narrative that they cheat before the playoffs start.