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The NBA section of the forum is essentially the flame/hate area.
That's funny coming from a Mavs fan, whose team's Top 6 players have an average age of 32.1 compared to the Spurs Top 6 at 30.8.My prediction:
Spurs get off to good start, Spurs fans start talking about how they'll fare in WCF against Lakers... then Duncan/Manu fade down the stretch since they're old and brittle and the Spurs get face ed in the 1st/2nd round and we're subjugated to a third straight year of excuses.
Dejavu... and of course next offseason optimism will be back.
By that reasoning, if Manu or Duncan start to fizzle out, that must mean that Dirk, Marion, Terry, Damp, and Kidd will all fizzle out at the same time (since they are all at least 31 or older), leaving no one but a 29 year old injury plagued Josh Howard to carry the torch for the Mavs. Your logic is sound...
The NBA section of the forum is essentially the flame/hate area.
The Spurs section of the forum is essentially a circle jerk/love area.
Thats funny considering Dirk missed 0 games due to injury, Kidd only missed one, and Damp only missed two. Jet missed 8 but before hasn't missed more than two games since the 01-02 season
All those combined don't come close to Manus time missed.
Duncans knees were bad late last year also
Nice try though
Then why are you registered on Spurstalk? Would you care if it was a Laker forum?
Doesn't that mean that the Mavs are due an injury or two??? *Pulls out the good 'ol Louisville*
J/K
NIGHT - LAKER GAME - UPPER DECK
Laker fan from ST: "Hey dude, this game rocks. Reminds me of last night. Man, I totally
owned this Spurs fan on the NBA forum."
Random Laker fan @game: "Really. What NBA forum?"
Laker fan from ST: "You know that one. um-NBAforum.com."
Random Laker fan @game: "Are you ing kidding me? You mean Spurstalk.com?"
Laker fan from ST: "...um...no, I was on the Official NBA forum site on http:..uh, I can
email you the link later, if you want."
Random Laker fan @game: "What the fuk are you doing, man? That's a Spurs website.
I know its the NBA forum part of the Spurstalk site. But
come on, dumbass."
Laker fan from ST: "I-I-am doing a survey and trying to convince the Admins to change
the name of NBA forum side to Lakertalk. I think we can do this."
Random Laker fan: "Poser. I am gonna go trade seats with that wearing the Yellow
and Purple clown wig."
Ladyboy.
You obviously don't frequent that section.
You seem to forget that before last season Manu only missed a total of 15 games the 2 seasons prior (8 in 07-08, and 7 games in 06-07). And several of those were because Popovich held him out to rest hip bruises, even though he wanted to play.
Duncan only missed 7 games last year and only 4 in 07-08, and 2 in 06-07.
The Spurs no longer need Duncan and Manu to be 100% to win, with the additions of Jefferson, McDyess, Blair, and Parker coming off a career year.
Funny how you left Josh Howard out of your argument. If he doesn't support your argument you just forget about him, huh? Josh Howard missed 30 games last year, and looking over his career, he's missed WAY MORE games than Manu in the past 5 years.
Damp had a year where he missed 26 games for Dallas and he's bounced back from it, yet you act like Manu won't be able to do the same? I guess only Mavs players can comeback 100% from injury, right? Damp is older than Duncan but he's gonna make it through the entire season okay and Duncan won't?
You also "forgot" to mention Marion missing 13 games last year and 19 games the previous year.
Let me sum it up for you... the Spurs Top 6 players only had 1 more missed game (55) due to injury than the Mavs Top 6 did (54).
Therefore, maybe the Mavs fans should be worried about their OWN players "breaking down" this year, especially since they are OLDER than the Spurs Top 6.
Nice try...
Nevertheless, it holds little to no interest for non-Spur fans.
Please I didn't include Howard in my argument because i was responding to this "Manu or Duncan start to fizzle out, that must mean that Dirk, Marion, Terry, Damp, and Kidd will all fizzle out at the same time"You seem to forget that before last season Manu only missed a total of 15 games the 2 seasons prior (8 in 07-08, and 7 games in 06-07). And several of those were because Popovich held him out to rest hip bruises, even though he wanted to play.
Duncan only missed 7 games last year and only 4 in 07-08, and 2 in 06-07.
The Spurs no longer need Duncan and Manu to be 100% to win, with the additions of Jefferson, McDyess, Blair, and Parker coming off a career year.
Funny how you left Josh Howard out of your argument. If he doesn't support your argument you just forget about him, huh? Josh Howard missed 30 games last year, and looking over his career, he's missed WAY MORE games than Manu in the past 5 years.
Damp had a year where he missed 26 games for Dallas and he's bounced back from it, yet you act like Manu won't be able to do the same? I guess only Mavs players can comeback 100% from injury, right? Damp is older than Duncan but he's gonna make it through the entire season okay and Duncan won't?
You also "forgot" to mention Marion missing 13 games last year and 19 games the previous year.
Let me sum it up for you... the Spurs Top 6 players only had 1 more missed game (55) due to injury than the Mavs Top 6 did (54).
Therefore, maybe the Mavs fans should be worried about their OWN players "breaking down" this year, especially since they are OLDER than the Spurs Top 6.
Nice try...
And didn't include Marion in my argument because he switched teams during the season so I didn't really know exactly how many games he missed due to injury.
Plus Howard finally got that long overdue ankle surgery, so he should be good to go.
That would be a safe assumption. But it is definitely not a bunch of Spurs fans kissing each others butts.
-----Said the scared Dallas Fan.
RJ hasn't had an injury in 2 years, can drop 20pts. and 6-7 rbs. on anyone--ANY given night, and YOU think we'll have trouble beating you this year???
Duncan has a MUCH stronger physical core, has lost 20lbs, and is healthy, TParks is just now hitting his prime and he OWNS Dallas btw.... Manu owns every other team out there especially Dallas, and is playing 100% finally, and the Spurs have the most athletic P/F and C rotation since D-Rob and Timmy!!
And you think that Shawn Marion is the key to Dallas' le woes? *****NEWSFLASH*******
Since leaving PHX, Marion hasn't had a year where he's shot both above 32% for the field, and last year his 3-pt % was 29%.
WOW!!! There's the friggin' answer that Cuban has been praying for!!!
Marion will be another over-payed, under-played benchwarmer like Ron Artest for the Fakers. Also, DO keep in mind that the Spurs re-vamped roster (Pops words) were "to compete with the Lakers" Not once did he ever mention Dallas as a factor. It's flattering to think that Dallas fans think that they're so much as a 'blip' on the Spurs radar. We want LA, and we'll beat them this year for the right to represent the West in the Finals--granted if Ron Artest doesn't beat them for us first....
Ron Artest = Sabotage
You seem to forget that before last season Manu only missed a total of 15 games the 2 seasons prior (8 in 07-08, and 7 games in 06-07). And several of those were because Popovich held him out to rest hip bruises, even though he wanted to play.
Duncan only missed 7 games last year and only 4 in 07-08, and 2 in 06-07.
The Spurs no longer need Duncan and Manu to be 100% to win, with the additions of Jefferson, McDyess, Blair, and Parker coming off a career year.
Funny how you left Josh Howard out of your argument. If he doesn't support your argument you just forget about him, huh? Josh Howard missed 30 games last year, and looking over his career, he's missed WAY MORE games than Manu in the past 5 years.
Damp had a year where he missed 26 games for Dallas and he's bounced back from it, yet you act like Manu won't be able to do the same? I guess only Mavs players can comeback 100% from injury, right? Damp is older than Duncan but he's gonna make it through the entire season okay and Duncan won't?
You also "forgot" to mention Marion missing 13 games last year and 19 games the previous year.
Let me sum it up for you... the Spurs Top 6 players only had 1 more missed game (55) due to injury than the Mavs Top 6 did (54).
Therefore, maybe the Mavs fans should be worried about their OWN players "breaking down" this year, especially since they are OLDER than the Spurs Top 6.
Nice try...
OOOOH! And that's supposed to prove some sort of point....
Talk about ANOTHER useless thread...
best basketball analysis in here. your prize is reading 50 re ed posts to see if anyone replied.
By staying healthy.
Nice!!!
But, you have no control over that. We're all hang nails on the fickle finger of fate.
You can control (to a tangible extent) the path you choose of least resistance (jump shooting vs. low post oriented offense sets).
I'm with Strike on this one. And to expand on what he's saying, you'd probably turn to your buddy after a Spurs win and say, "Man, WE played great tonight." On the other hand, if you ran into Tim Duncan in the parking lot after a Spurs victory, you would never turn to him and say, "Man, WE played great tonight."
Good to know atleast some people come here looking to talk actual bball =)
, there ain't any other choice now that Bryant rang/sans Daddy. The killer? You all not only lost that sweet advantage (Kobe no ring/sans Daddy) but, by natural default we garnered our 15th. It's like the perfect storm, double whammy, et al, etc..
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