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Don't worry, the Rockets aren't going to beat LA.
Is it just me or would the Spurs have matched up damn well with these Rockets? Even without Ginobili. They don't have anyone with history of defending Duncan well. They traded away their player who defended Parker well. Battier and Artest are great defenders but neither player can defend Duncan or Parker.
Defensively, Duncan guards Yao very well. Kurt Thomas defends Yao well. Udoka was born for the sole purpose of defending Artest. Parker can stay with Brooks. Bowen could guard Wafer or whichever perimeter player gets hot. You-Know-Who would have a big series but one matchup advantage wouldn't overshadow every other Spurs advantage.
I wanted the Spurs to play the Rockets in the first round and I still think it was the best matchup. The Rockets very well could be a top three team in the NBA right now but damn the Spurs match up with them about as good as the Mavs match up with the Spurs.
Ah well
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What I don't want to happen is for the Rockets to beat the Lakers and then Pop and RC think to themselves "lol rockets, we could beat the Rockets by simply bringing back the same team!"
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Watching the Rockets with Battier and Artest reminds me of the good ol' days when the Spurs used to have multiple above average one-on-one perimeter defenders. Oh how I miss the '99 Elliott, Elie and JJackson or even Bowen and SJackson of '03
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Nice trade, Spurs. You've successfully helped a division rival not only leapfrog San Antonio but perhaps even the whole damn Western Conference. Take You-Know-Who away from the Rockets and they'd be damn near a lottery team.
Don't worry, the Rockets aren't going to beat LA.
@ trying to use reverse mojo to help the Unspeakable One.
i actually wanted these guys in the 1st round aso they would of matched up well with the rockets IMO also
good thread
Nah, I really think they won't beat them. They don't have enough fire power to beat the Lakers.
eh bonner, fin, and the rest of the reserves would have still had to step up and after that first round showing, i really cant give them the benefit of the doubt.
I'm not going to lie, I'd love it if they do, but they won't. They'll get one more win out of the Lakers max.
plus LA looked like they thought they could just score whenever they wanted against the rockets...
obviously the rockets showed you cant really do that but i still think LA wins in 6 just cuz i think they took the rockets for granted tonight...and they played terrible
Just can't agree more.
what is scary is to think that houston could use the useless 20 M they use for T-Mac.
Can you imagine these Rockets with one more 20 M player, or two 10 M players or whoever these 20 M can bring them ?
is there a way they could get rid of T-Mac, because damn, that would be scary.
Woulda coulda shoulda.
Time to move on.
The Spurs would have lost 4-1. They only showed up for one game. That wouldn't have changed, no matter who they played.
The spurs would not have beaten anyone. They stumbled badly down the stretch this season.
Probably
It really does not matter. It's better that the spurs lost after 5 games. This days off could be benificial.
Could we beat Rox in round one? I doubt it and still we would face Nuggs in the second. And Nuggs are not that great of a matchup as for us well.
And F it, if you are better you are better no matter the matchup, you always find a way to win the series.
Damn these Rockets looked legit yesterday.... and to make timvp's day even worse...
LS probably is their x-factor... a guy that shows them how to play relentlessly all the time and puts the betterment of the team in front of his ego... i don't remember any other player on that roster that could inspire the rest of the team like that...
Damn even Brent Barry who is playing yet more Playoff Basketball this year said he is a taller Ginobili
Just as well the Spurs got eliminated early rather than later on.. greater risk of injury to TD or Tony.
It's just you..... Hater.
actually the rockets are oustanding coming playoffs time and we are just plain bad.
Rockets win the series in 6
No. The Spurs would not have matched up well with the Rockets. The Spurs sucked. The Spurs were not a good team. Phoenix would have beaten them. Minnesota would have given them a run. Oklahoma City would have taken them to 6 or 7 games. Stop deluding yourself into thinking that the Spurs outside of Duncan and Parker were anything other than a steaming pile of dog unfit to wear a uniform that has graced several champions.
Dallas looked like a good defensive team against them. Dallas. Denver is going to wipe the floor with Dallas. The only team the Spurs could have beaten was New Orleans, because the Hornets suck even worse and intentionally quit on their coach.
Houston is good at defense. Houston would have let Parker get his 30, Duncan his 20, and held every other player combined to 25. In that Game 3 apocalypse, the Spurs would have flirted with the all-time record for failing to score if they were playing the Rockets. It would have been like 89-57 or some such thing.
This is what I am worried about. I am worried that given a few weeks away from what happened on the floor, the front office will start thinking that maybe Dallas was just a bad matchup, but that really the Spurs are fine bringing back most of a supporting cast that is totally incompetent at the sport of basketball.
Exactly. Though if really there is a chance that a front office that sucked so bad at putting decent talent around its stars is simultaneously so filled with hubris that it thinks, despite the Spurs' getting their asses handed to them by a completely pedestrian has-been Mavs team, they could hang with any part of the West's elite, then frankly it is well past for R.C. Buford to be given bus fare to South Dakota to look for a job as a dish washer or window cleaner.
Lottery team?No. But yes, they handed away a starting-quality power forward with a flair for coming through in the clutch to a division rival.
Ever since Sam Presti left, the Spurs' front office has looked like the Bulls circa 1998 when Jerry Krause had completed his transformation from savvy brainchild of the Bulls' dynasty to the laughingstock who said, "Players don't win championships. Organizations do."
So do we really think these same guys are suddenly going to get it together and find six quality players so that Tim Duncan doesn't end up spending his last three seasons on an extended farewell tour and Tony Parker isn't announced in 2011 as the new point guard for yooooooooour Los Angeles Lakers? Not freaking likely. R.C. is a victim of his own hubris, Pop has lost his edge, and everyone else has one eye on their own retirement in three years.
dear jonathan,
hi it's me, the past. stop dwelling on me, it is time to move on. all things happen for a reason.
Ironically, was it not the intention of the Spurs after 2006 to structure the team to match up with Dallas?
I also know that despite what you wrote , Pop would have still started Bonner.
Given the physicality this HOU team can play with, as shown on last night's game, I don't think we would have been even close. Duncan couldn't impose his physicality with Dampier, and how do you ask Bonner, Mason or Finley to be tough, when they haven't been ever?
Udoka would have played more, and he would have defended well, but would Pop go long stretches with him when he can't buy a basket and when Mason is sitting on the bench?
I'm sorry, I don't see it.
Rockets would have swept the Spurs. We couldn't even score consistently against a poor Dallas defense, no way we do it against a Rockets defense that is one of the best in the league. We would have set records for offensive futility in a playoff series...
oh Presti you inconceivable fool.
I totally agree with Jeff on whatever he posted in this thread, Mavs are almost the toughest match-up for Spurs. Rockets woule be beaten to if they were playing Spurs but not Lakers or Blazers.
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