In Kings history, they have never won a playoff series after being down 0-2...
In Spurs history, after being up 2-0 and going on the road, they have always been at 2-2 going into game 5.....
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In Kings history, they have never won a playoff series after being down 0-2...
In Spurs history, after being up 2-0 and going on the road, they have always been at 2-2 going into game 5.....
thers a first time for everything. we will just have to see. im sick of predicting shit. sports is very hard to predict.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcornelio
"up 2-0 and going on the road, they have always been at 2-2 going into game 5"
False.
Spurs were 2-0 @SBC and then 2-0 @MEM, to swip the 04 Grizz 4-0.
Good try, boutons, but the fact is still correct; if the Spurs go up 2-0 on a team at home AND end up playing Game 5 (meaning they don't sweep), that game has always been played with the series tied 2-2.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_
It's a bit obscure, but it's a fact.
Not to mention the Lakers and Blazers in 99.
Unless you mean if there's a game 5 . . .
Also note that in a best of seven playoff series in NBA History, the team down 0-2 only won the series 10 times, the last three occurrances actually happening the past two seasons; those last three occurrances being in 2004, when the Lakers won 4 straight after being down 0-2 (a memory us Spurs fans are still haunted by; and that's the ONLY series the Spurs have ever lost when they were up 2-0), and last season, when the Mavs lost the first two at home, evened up the series on the Road, won game 5 at home, dropped game 6 on the road, and plunged the dagger in the Rockets' hearts in Game 7 at home, becoming the third team to win a playoff series after having the first two games stolen from them at HOME, and when the Washington Wizards bounced the Chicago Bulls in 6 games, I think it was, after the Wizards lost the first two games. And according to sports analysts, the team that goes up 2-0 in a best-of-seven playoff series wins the series 95% of the time. Again, I stress that the other 5% of the time happened three times in the previous two years.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcornelio
Another interesting fact: Mike Bibby was separated at birth from that hairy lawyer in Sex and the City (Harry Goldenblatt).
"Also note that in a best of seven playoff series in NBA History, the team down 0-2 only won the series 10 times,"
.... including the 04 Lakers .... vs Spurs.
That same series put the Spurs into a tiny group of teams that went up 2-0, and then got swept 0-4.
And all those stats amount to a tub of shit as it relates to this series.
There is absolutely nothing "normal" or predictable about this Kings team. They are crazed and no longer soft. They don't "expect" anything (unlike our Spurs), so they figure they have to earn it all. They are working harder in every facet of the game. They view themselves as the underdogs, and that is very, very dangerous. They have absolutely no alter-ego.
Yeah...well said. This isn't some Peja/Webber pussy Kings team.Quote:
Originally Posted by redman
thank god. everyone knew that soft team wasnt going anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
Trends are irrelevant. Ask the Red Sox about the trend of being down 3-0 in games and trailing in the 8th inning. All it takes is one.
I still believe Artest and Wells are losers and they'll find a way to NOT win this series. There are truisms that are safe to predict. Both players will find a way to blow this thing for Sacramento. I think it's called being a creature of habit. Both have to play with Bibby and whoever is left of the Kings team of just a few months ago, for a while longer to make this team a winner. Both are new to the team. Miller is as surprised as any NBA player I've seen to be on a team that has won two playoff games. This is his thrill for the year.
And as happened a year ago with both the Sonics and the Pistons, the Spurs have to be beaten at home.
Won't happen.
This is certainly forum fodder in my opinion. The Kings were playing nice on the News 10 sports report this evening. I expect plenty of fightback from our team tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by mcornelio
uhh memphis??? we swept them
Yeah, but who hasn't? :lol
So what you are saying, is that when the Spurs head on the road up 2-0, and lose game 3, they always lose game 4 too.
:lol
Bingo. It's the Noah's Ark progression.Quote:
Originally Posted by MI21
Spurs have never lost to the Kings in a playoff series.
:smokin
kings have all the momentum right now, they're confident in each other and they know they can and have beaten the spurs at home. now all they have to do is show it on the court. however, if they lose game 5, it isn't the end of the world and can actually benefit the kings. they always play extremely well after a loss since Artest came, so i can see them winning 2 straight. go kings!
And we know the Kings are money when the chips are down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sacramental
:lmao qftQuote:
Originally Posted by ShoogarBear
Agree. Trends are irrelevant. And yes, there is always a first time for everything.
Just believe.
kings have never lost to the spurs in a playoff series.Quote:
Originally Posted by timvp
Duh...that's cuz this is the first time the Kings and Spurs have ever faced each other in the Playoffs. (though the closest they've ever come to facing each other in the playoffs up until now was in 2003, when the Spurs whooped the Lakers in 6 games, and Sacramento had a golden opportunity to face the Spurs in the WCF, but lost to Dallas in Game 7).Quote:
Originally Posted by RON ARTEST
Yeah, that was a shitty year. :depressedQuote:
Originally Posted by Bloodline666