1 - Why would I make excuses for the Cavs? Couldn't care less about excuses.
2 - Unlike 99% of the Spurs fans in this board I've been saying since December that the Spurs are underrated and that they're still a top team in the league. Ditto for Manu - I predicted he'd come back at his best level this season when pretty much everybody was saying he was finito. Why would I be dissing the Spurs.
3 - So it wasn't an excuse. It was a ing basketball observation. I don't care much for what teams are playing. It could be the Celtics, the Lakers, whatever, I'd have said the exact same thing. It was a good observation, btw. If Varejao gets injured, it's much easier to flood the strongside vs. the Cavs as Popovich did today. Hickson can do some damage, like he did today (do you know how many points per possession he scored when flashing the post? Of course you don't, you're a bum), but he isn't Varejão. The Spurs won because Manu outplayed LBJ AND because Pop outcoached Brown.