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Please reference threads where the majority of our posters think we can "Turn It Up In The Playoffs"....
I've read a lot of the threads on this forum and the majority of the posters believe that the regular season is nothing and the spurs will turn it up in the Playoffs. My question, What makes you think this team will be able to turn it up in the playoffs?
I'm not trying to bash the spurs because as a Lakers Fan we have respect for that organization and their accomplishments in the league. I have my worries about the Lakers as well, will they have enough experience in the playoffs to win it all? The Spurs, imo are not the team of the past that can turn it up a notch in the playoffs. These are not the Spurs of yesteryear. They really only have Horry and Finley on your bench that I would think could turn up their games but they are past their primes now and probably wont do much. Parker has never impressed me as a prime time player in the playoffs. Gino had one good run in the playoffs, and Duncan is definitely on the decline. I just don't see it at this point with the team that you have now. Please enlighten me.
Please reference threads where the majority of our posters think we can "Turn It Up In The Playoffs"....
You should restrict your reading to threads from this season.I've read a lot of the threads on this forum and the majority of the posters believe that the regular season is nothing and the spurs will turn it up in the Playoffs. My question, What makes you think this team will be able to turn it up in the playoffs?
Why even ask? This is one of the busiest sports forums out there...and this isn't even with our international night shift folks.
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Eh. It'd be the same think Laker fans were saying back in 2003, before the Spurs bombed them out of the playoffs. "We can flip the switch anytime." It seems to be the fall-back position of dynasties in decline although, I can say, I don't see much of that philosophy around here.
Do you ever post your own thoughts or just troll leech onto Spur bashing threads? Oh wait I just answered my own question.
Well almost 9pm in here
time to go to sleep
I dont really want to go thru all the threads but it has been several who say that, this is january, les are not won in january, etc..etc.. I've read alot of posts stating that.
The lakers were defending back to back to back champions at the time. There was a reason to think that they would turn it up after doing it for 3 years straight. The spurs were not the Champions last season and were pushed by the 8th seed in the first round, and lost in the 2nd round. Big difference.
Well that is true, les aren't won in January, and that's not even the same as what you said in your original posting....
But the implications are that the spurs can turn on the switch come playoff time.
DYNASTY???????????????????????????????
I wouldn't say we were pushed in the first round, we beat them 4-2 and by an average margin of ninteen points.
Also understand that the Kings were one of, if not the best second half teams last season after they traded for Ron Artest, and we lost to a good team when we played Dallas in the second round (which shouldn't have even happened)...
Unless your name is Shaq Diesel or MJ, maybe Kobe then you can't turn it on for the playoffs and January does matter.
Artest being suspended hurt the kings in that series, not saying they would have won anyway but it was a factor. You did lose to a Good dallas team but your team has changed a lot. imo
I think the implication is not to panic, plenty of Championship teams have played much worse than we have now, including our own Championship teams in the past.
This team certainly can win a Championship, but I think the larger sentiment here is that we need a trade to give us the extra edge we'll need to beat the elite teams in this league...
And some of the other things you've said in your OP were stupid as well, Tim Duncan is still Tim Duncan, whose numbers are still pretty much in line with his career numbers.
Tony Parker has been one of if not the most consistent Spur over the past year, including the Playoffs where he averaged over twenty points per game against Dallas...
Yeah forcing Duncan to play C this year is what really hurt the Spurs.
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Now that's what I'm talking about. It is idiotic to think that Duncan is the same. He's being posterized every night. No one respects his low post defense anymore. He can not defend the paint effectively any more.
This is Tim Duncan's line from game seven of last years Playoffs:
41 Pts / 15 Rbs / 3 Blk / 6 Assts
That loss wasn't on Tim at all, or Tony, or Manu, it was on every other player that didn't show up besides our big three.
You really think that much has changed since the end of last season?
Yes. The supporting cast is significantly weaker. The dropoff on an aging player is fast. Wicked fast.
That was last season against Dallas who at the time had no answer for duncan. This season Tim looks akward, can't jump, and a step slow. His game is definitely in decline.
No way, and his stats don't show that at all.
Yes. They should have gotten him some help.
Nope, again the stats don't show it at all, and neither does his play on the floor.
They should have gotten him more help though, when you score forty one points and grab fifteen boards and still loose it's obvious where the problem lies, and it's obvious where it doesn't...
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