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That's a brutal schedule, especially for the Sours with all their older players; thankfully SA to Houston is minimal travel. Winning both games in SA will be even more imperative than the first round.
Last edited by spursistan; 04-28-2017 at 04:31 PM.
That's a brutal schedule, especially for the Sours with all their older players; thankfully SA to Houston is minimal travel. Winning both games in SA will be even more imperative than the first round.
Yep..Torn between Spurs in 7 or Rockets in 6. I would have picked the latter without a second thought had the Spurs got taken to a seventh game vs Memphis..It was absolutely huge closing out tonight..
Will the GS/UTA series only have one day in between games too? Not to be whiny, but that's a compe ive advantage for them. They got two days off in between pretty much every game against POR too IIRC.
Gonna pick Rockets in 6..
Toss up at the moment. It depends on which Spurs team shows up. Gotta see if the role players can get going since Memphis defense was more disciplined. This is a series for Verde. He has to make his open 3s.
spurs in 4 games...
they have nobody who can guard kawhi, they don't play physical at all....
ariza aint doing the puny weak human.... same as that undersized midget beverly
not concern with the rockets bench, they don't play a lick of defense, they amount of pts they score, will be negated on the other end anway
now is turnoboli going to play smarter or his going to continue to try pass the ball through 2 defenders for stupid turnovers
Rockets in 7
Spurs sweep
Spurs in 6. Rockets go crazy with 3-pointers and steal a couple of wins.
spurs in 6
split at home
split in houston
win at home and close out on first try
spurs should be able clamp down on D in pivotal moments against a team reliant on a wing player, and i dont know that the rockets can say the same (at least consistently... there's always variance of guys just making/not making shots)
main concern is early in the game, when the spurs always seem content to switch on pick and rolls. we saw in the regular season matchups we'd have aldridge stranded on harden for 3-4 possessions in a row after a simple screen, and harden was burying 3's in his face. there needs to be a more concerted effort to avoid that early on, not just in the 4th
Last edited by spurraider21; 04-28-2017 at 06:30 AM.
Pop owns D'antoni's. Spurs big men don't have to worry about fighting down low every possession. The series will come down to whether or not the Spurs can make open 3s at a decent clip
Spurs in 6 at the most. Rockets won't be able to get away with sloppy possessions and turnovers while shooting 28 percent from 3
oddly, the rockets were the ONLY western conference team that Tim Duncan never had a playoff series against. And of course, the year he retires, we face em
I'll take Spurs in 7, though I could easily see Rockets in 7.
Spurs for sure. Only question is how many fouls harden will draw from behind the arc.
Rockets in 5
Pop will let MDA outcoach him
2005 Bowen on Marion was a genius move. Everyone expected him on Johnson or Nash
Spurs in 5. ets are overrated as .
Spurs in 6 in the WCF over GSW, and 6 again in the Finals over CLE.
That kind of earth shattering home loss would be a franchise breaker. Probably send leonard to the lakers after that one. Just can't happen
Spurs in 5. Both Green and Kawhi can match up with Harden and stop their offensive flow.
The Spurs are one of the best 3-pt defending teams in the league (both % and attempts), and good at defending layups (% wise, not that good in terms of attempts). which is the bread and butter offense of the Rockets.
The Spurs are also great at defending the pick and role.
The Spurs are good to excellent from almost every single range (other than 10 to 16 feet), and the Rockets are at the bottom of the league in defending the rim, but are excellent at defending from 16 out.
The Rockets are not generally a rough team outside of Beverly. Also Beverly is their best defender, but the Spurs offense doesn't really start from the PG, it starts with Kawhi, which nobody on the Rockets can reasonably stop. Caveat though, hope that Ariza doesn't suddenly get a fountain of youth, and that Parker doesn't go all hero mode to prove something.
This is a perfect series for the Spurs to run the pick and roll between Kawhi and Lamarcus/Pau to death with Green, Mills, Bertans camping around the 3. Parker and Ginobili can provide the occasional steady hand, and have Manu run a pick and roll with Kawhi/Pau would also be a solid 2nd unit option. The Rockets have no way of stopping those plays.
I would expect this to be a ridiculously high scoring series (by Spurs standards), and the Spurs winning very comfortably in at least 2 games.
See, you'd think this when you look at it on paper...but I feel like Harden always torches us. Maybe I'm just selectively remembering the times he kills us and forgetting about when he's off, but I don't know.
Anyways, I got Spurs in 6.
Harden will dream shake the out of Kawhi
He has had some great games vs. the Spurs, but last time in the playoffs he was with the OKC and was the third option, the Spurs just didn't have the bodies to match up with all three.
As for regular season, the teams are just not geared up, and he had a few good games here and there, but not earth shattering overall.
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