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My expectation is that we win.
Hornets are a much better team at home, not least of the reasons is that they are young.
However, I am very confident that we will execute in Game 5. I expect a great game out of the Spurs!
I think it will be close, but I believe that we will take the w.
This is a great Spurs team. This is the team that won it all last year.
We're the defending champs. We have won 3 of the last 5, 4 of the last 9.
We know how to get it done in important games.
My expectation is that we win.
I expect something in the middle of games 3 and 4.
The Hornets took one of a punch to the mouth tonight and their reaction to it in the third quarter was NOT good.
Byron Scott's reaction to the third quarter run also was just shocking.
Spurs win it in the 4th, and cruise easily in game 6.
We need to try to limit their easy baskets. Transition defense is important and so are defensive boards.
Paul and West may get big numbers, but if we shut down everybody else, then Paul and West aren't enough for the Hornets to win.
Push the ball.
Both teams will play hard.
He's seen this freight train before!
Remember 2003!
I do. Tim was a monster in Game 6!
Always count on Sheed for some unusual insight and wisdom!
It is almost as enlightened as my thread (that's a low bar!). Didn't stop me from posting though.
I think alot of Byron Scott's problem is, with his personnel, he can't make many adjustments.
I mean he could run Peja off some screens to free him up, but other than that, the Spurs defense has totally taken them out of their comfort zone's.
This series reminds me VERY VERY much of the Jazz series last year and the Spurs are just starting to take advantage of some things finally.
i expect the spurs to take game 5. could very well be a tight game but when we get the lead and hold it for a bit, i expect NO to start pressing and fall apart. further, scott appears to be out of strategy. the SA train is rolling right now.
Go SPURS Go
I expect a tough game. Hornets are going to be frantic with the double teams on Timmy now that he just owned them tonight. Our shooters are going to be wide open. If Tony and Manu are aggressive and the ball movement is what it was tonight we will win a hard fought game. NO better win game 5, no way Spurs let them come into SA in game 6 and take it, Spurs will end it.
scott said at halftime the team is to tense we have to loose then up
hornets are done if they can not relax and just play ball
With the Jazz, that pick and roll with Deron and Boozer just killed us.
That's was hard to stop.
(Nash / Stoudamire same thing- ).
Game 5 of that series (at home) was a massacre!
We had to win ugly in Utah last year! Crowd was mad. Physical!
I hate the quick turnaround between the games. We could use fresher legs, especially in NO.
Byron Scott might actually have done us a favor by pulling the starters so early.
with Bowen now shutting Peja down, and a healthy Duncan, i expect a Spurs win...by 6-8 pts.
You can't jackhammer a pin up the Hornet's asses right now.
You could see it in their face in the 2nd and 3rd quarters.
If the Spurs come out, and smack em in the mouth again in the first half in New Orleans, that team will fold it up, just like they did tonight.
Their mental toughness is absolutely hot butter soft.
I think that's why we didn't shoot very well in game 1.
Tim was so sick that he couldn't create space for our shooters the way that he normally does.
Now that Tim is healthy again, we can get good open looks for our shooters!
That's always been how we win.
That's why we are such a great 3 point shooting team: It's Tim Duncan!
I expect either West or Paul to throw a punch at some point this series.
Ginobili won that game 4 single handidly practically.
Game 5 was a slap of monumental purportions.
If game 5 against New Orleans goes like I think it will, game 6 will be QUITE similar.
Trailing all game and taking the lead under 2 mins.
I want a game 5 performance like like 3 against suns
get the hornet crowd out of it at the start and never let up
Oh if Kurt Thomas would be left on him, West will throw down. Kurt Thomas in that 3rd quarter in the small time he was in had him so pissed it was hilarious.
I think Peja looks like hes ready to explode.
Like a Cheap suit!
Young team, pressure situation against the defending world champs after having been hammered and knowing that if they lose game5, the series is pretty much over!
if spurs can get a lead early and get crowd of it it
the inexperience will rear its ugly head and doubt will creep in
and west was almost did someting he would have regretted in game 5
Agreed. And I think the biggest odds right now are on West punching Oberto. He was close tonight...
That's why I am looking for.
I expect us to play that well.
I always watch those last 5 minutes of Game 4 in Cleveland in the Finals!
Execution, baby, it's all about execution in the Finals.
Composure, poise, awareness of the situation, being able to recognize what is available to you. Playing together as a team. The ability to get stops.
Discipline.
Having been there and done it. The confidence that this brings with you.
We will be focused and sharp. I expect a low turnover, high intensity game with crisp cuts, great passing, pounding those boards, getting back on d.
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