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I'd like to see it before I believe it. He very well could be back 100% healthy, though. Right now, I just don't believe it. Of course, Holt probably wouldn't pony up the dough for RJ and Dyes if he knew Manu wasn't coming back strong.
Why do so many of you, Laker fans especially, seem to think Manu Ginobili is done? I've seen everything from he's washed up to there's a 50/50 chance he will come strong, to he will be injured all season etc...
For anyone saying like that, you obviously don't know WTF you're talking about. As of now according to R.C. Buford, Ginobili is 100% healthy and cleared to play. In 2008, he had his best statistical season of his career and won the 6th man award. That was just a year ago, and the games he played in this year before being sat down for the playoffs he was ing beasting. I remember the last game or one of them he put up like 32 points or something on Toronto.
Point is, keep telling yourself that Manu is done or he's too old or he's washed up. Because you're gonna be singing quite the different tune when he's dunking on four of your players at the same time again.
I'd like to see it before I believe it. He very well could be back 100% healthy, though. Right now, I just don't believe it. Of course, Holt probably wouldn't pony up the dough for RJ and Dyes if he knew Manu wasn't coming back strong.
Thinking that he's not gonna be back 100% it's just moronic. Manu will be back, he still at his prime and his first "serious" injury wont turn him into Grant Hill inmediatly. I expect a 2007-2008 seasons star like for Manu, only this time it will carry till june.
Calm down, Lee
Of course Buford is talking positively. That's his job. One should take such pablum with a grain of salt until as Iron states: "see it before I believe it."
And I dutifully hope that we don't end up seeing it. A whole Manu coupled with a stablized Duncan is cause for concern.
Cause they are haters.
R.I.P. 2007-2008 Manu Ginobili. Those years are long gone. Don't fight. Don't fight.
the spurs don't need the 2007/2008 manu to beat NO, an injured manu was enough in 2008.
Oh, you want to take shots? And Manu did fine in that series.
Manu's decline has been somewhat exaggerated but his FG/FTA ratio declined last year and 43% of his shots were 3-pointers, highest ratio ever. I bring these stats up often because they are decent indicators of athleticism waning. With all that though he was still top 10 in PER so when healthy he's still a very good player.
They're just scared.
Scared of what? Their team won everything.
They know with a healthy Ginobili anything can happen. No more easy rides to the NBA Finals.
The Spurs didn't lose to the Lakers in 08 because they didn't have a healthy Ginobili. They were just outclassed in almost every aspect of the game. A healthy Ginobili alone won't make a Spurs-Lakers series unpredictable.
Yeah right. The one game that Manu played like Manu in that series, the Spurs on the Lakers.
Re watch games 1 4 and 5 again.
The Spurs lost those games. They were too old to keep up with LA.
It matters not now, since Richard Jefferson and Dejaun "Malone" Blair are on the team. They will bring some much needed it youth and athleticism.
Manu is just as much done as Kobe is. FEAR THE GREAT MANU ES.
Talk about delusional, my lord.
If Manu is healthy then the Spurs have a chance, if he isn't then forget it. He's what drives this team.
I think if the Lakers lose Odom to Miami and Duncan and Manu stay healthy, Spurs vs. Lakers would be unpredictable.
Ginobili will be back and he will kill any Laker puss pad that gets in his way!! Be afraid Lakers, be very afraid!... i think Kobe is done, i think he will only be at 10% this season, so the lakers will have to waive him. Oh well it was fun watchin while it lasted! ....
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Kobe sucks!
lakaluva, the point is with a healthy Manu that the Spurs wouldn't have had those horrible scoring droughts and probably wouldn't have choked away those huge leads in games 1 and 5, and may possibly win game 4. I know Manu played every game but he clearly wasn't the player he had been during the regular season. I'm not saying it's a sure thing the Spurs win the series with a healthy Manu, but it certainly becomes a 6 or 7 game series.
My view is, that series is irrelevant to the upcoming season, and it would be re ed to use that series to judge what a Spurs Lakers series in the 2010 playoffs would be like. Both rosters have changed significantly since then.
Mavs/Lakers WCF
...just saying things like "lol Spurs fan! You got handled by the Mavs in the first round last year think you can beat us now? lolololol!" is re ed. That doesn't stop them from continuing to do it though.
If all that things happen a Spurs vs Lakers series would be pretty damn predictable: Spurs in 4 or 5.
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