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Ian Thomsen
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I have to qualify my statements with the fact that I am a Mavs fan. But I still do not understand your reasoning that a healthy Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili would have driven the Spurs past Dallas. Even without Ginobili for much of the season and with a hobbled Duncan, the Spurs won enough games to earn the No. 3 seed. Based on that logic, they should have at least had the capability to beat the No. 6 seed in the playoffs with the players they had. Look back to when these teams played each other in the playoffs and were healthy: The Mavs beat the Spurs on their home court with the same core group of players, albeit in a different year and with different role players. I don't agree with your statements implying it was a given that the healthy Spurs would have won the series, and also that nobody had any interest in this series besides fans of the teams.
-- Aaron K., Dallas
I understand why you cared about your series in Texas, and you should understand why the rest of the country didn't. At their best, the Spurs haven't drawn a large national audience (as proven by their low ratings in NBA Finals), and they became less intriguing when Ginobili's season-ending injury took them out of le contention.
The Mavs were deeper and far more promising three years ago, when they edged past San Antonio in the conference semifinals. I don't think I'm being reckless when I draw on years of ac ulated evidence to say that if Ginobili, Duncan and Tony Parker were healthy, then the Spurs would be the No. 2 contender in the West. I credit the Mavericks for exploiting the Spurs' weaknesses, but this simply was not a provocative series.
Just the first few sentences show how much of a moron this guy is. The spurs had ginobili for 44 games which is over half the seaon, and only lost a few games when all of the big 3 played. Pretty sure if ginobili was out the whole 82 games we wouldnt even make the playoffs.
The Metroplex is a hole full of fing idiots.
Of course they would have. No team with Matt Bonner starting at center is going to win a playoff series.
Funny considering this is coming from some who voluntary roots for the aggies.
phobic insults!!!!!
More D/FW brilliance on display.
dampier aint much better. Atleast bonner isnt getting 11 mill a year...
yes which is why the spurs with manu were called le contenders even by the so called mav fans on this forum, and they spent most of the year spitting on their team, and now suddenly once manu got injured, and dallas beat the spurs, dallas is powerful 6th seed, and not a team that jus scraped through to the PO.
Would it complete the circle if I call you a fatass?
Our starting C actually bothered to show up.
At least the football team in Dallas is still trash.
ya he shows up once in a while. wouldnt count on it much going forward
lol utsa
With so many injuries in the west, anybody could have gotten the 2nd seed this year. It is funny how he is trying to prop up the Spurs as a 3rd seed, yet there really is no difference 2-8. The Spurs would have lost to the Jazz with no Manu and half a Duncan. Lets see how the mavs fare against a healthy playoff team in Denver.
I'm sorry, what is this thread about again? We have the Denver Nuggets to worry about now.
You know Mike we can play the what if game all day but the bottom line is the Mavs beat the Spurs. The Spurs can say Ginobili was out and Duncan wasn't 100%, but then the Mavs can turn around and say Jerry Stackhouse and Devean George were out too. At the end of the day, it's about execution, and the Mavs did that.
dead enders forum.
This troll is so full of win. +1
I don't think that's the argument he's making at all - mav fan wanted to know how some could say that a healthy Spurs team would have won and he laid it out for him based on history. Sorry, but it's mav fan that yearns for respect for a team that has underacheived and until they win a le they won't get it.
I wish Stackhouse and George were healthy and playing. The Spurs might have won the series.
yhbt. Hand.
We have insults, you have bean burritos. I call it a draw.
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