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of course the Spurs have a shot at beating LA. not only have the Spurs played LA well the last couple of years, they've gotten better and are much better equiped to play LA.
this article talks about how the spurs have what it takes to beat the lakers this year.I strongly agree.Our team is alot better this year.
I know some of their writers said spurs wont make it but who are we kidding??spurs are the 2nd best in the west no OKC
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4...e-spurs#page/1
of course the Spurs have a shot at beating LA. not only have the Spurs played LA well the last couple of years, they've gotten better and are much better equiped to play LA.
So let me get this straight...according to Bleacher Report, the Spurs have the best backcourt in the NBA, and will beat the Lakers...but won't make the playoffs?
I know BR is nothing but a bunch of individual writers posting articles, but they should really try to get together on some collaborative effort here.
The dirty little secret no one wants you to know.
Is this all by the same guy?The dirty little secret no one wants you to know.
I wonder what he ranks our frontcourt. : D
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
if we can stay healthy then i dont see why we cant beat the lakers. Pop and Phil know each other like the back of there hands. realisticly we are the only team that have a chance at knocking out the lakers.
Duncan and Manu are older. They're our two best players. We are better with our supporting cast, but 2/3 of our big 3 will most likely be worse. I don't see us getting out of the second round. Hopefully I'm wrong.
I have to agree
He wisely turns down the bravado on the last slide and admits that he just wants the Spurs to win, but that he thinks they'd match-up well against LA.
I'd have to see how our defense and new blood develop this year to be able to agree with that, but besides being thin at the 3, it's not an unreasonable argument to say the match-up would lead to a good series.
As it stands...not a chance. We got swept by the Suns. A team the Lakers had no problem with getting to the Finals. The Lakers biggest weakness was their bench. They got Steve Blake, Matt Barnes, and Theo Ratliff. While getting rid of Farmar and still trying to get rid of Sasha. The biggest plus on top was re-signing Brown. Its apples and oranges. We lose in 5 to the Lakers in a playoff series right now.
Except for Bynum the Lakers are a + 30 team overall. Ditto the Heat! If age is the determining factor, then the Lakers/Heat are toast next season. Ditto Celtics!
The Spurs have a mountain to climb next season. However, it's not about the age of the players on the team. What matters is having your best players ready to go at it in a final 7 game series. If the second unit works out, we will be ready for another run
Really, the only position we have an advantage in is the PG. Thats it. Kobe is better than Manu. Artest is better than Jefferson. And Gasol is better than Timmy right now. And Bynum is better than Bonner or McDyess. Odom is better than Splitter. Matt Barnes, Steve Blake, Theo Ratliff, and Shannon Brown is better than Hill, Blair, and Anderson. I dont mean to be a downer, but it is what it is. We dont have the firepower to beat the Lakers. , I was hoping Phil Jackson wasnt coming back so the lakers might be vulnerable...but he is. They have all their bases covered.
SA is done.
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The Suns were just a match-up nightmare for us, though. And it didn't hurt that they were collectively on fayah the whole series.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not trying to argue anything as ludicrous as that the Spurs could have beat the Lakers last season, but they did match up much better with them than they did with Phoenix.
Seriously why do you guys keep posting Bleacher Reporter crap
Bleacherreport... Ducks could've wrote that. I don't know why anyone takes enough thought into it to even bother posting it.
Offseason.
if you dont think a team with tim duncan and manu ginobili leading the team with a of a supporting cast the best center in europe taller and better than scola, then i dont know what youre thinking because last time i checked the spurs are the only team in the western conference who arent intimidated by the lake show, manu could care less about kobe its kobe who sucks manus old balls all the time and you know what did anyone else pay attention when they stated kobe had KNEE SURGERY & HIS FINGER Could only get worse, i know we can beat the lake show w/out mason/bogans/finley damn that bonnerI have to agree
i disagree w/your tiago and jefferson evaluation. tiago is the best player in europe thats 6'11'' you guys arent giving this guy any credit and are being way to skeptical i promise you phil jackson would trade tiago splitter for lamar odom, and you also forgot to mention all of our bench will murder the lakers and our bench will most likely reach 50pts this year why not? they were at 40 last year with mason/bogans weighing them down, if
IF you think about it...if the Celtics would've won game 7. They had their chance and whether it was gifted or not, The LAL eeked by. So yes, while they are the 2 time defending champs, I ain't deluded into thinking that they're what one would term a dominant team. OK City had them ting bricks for a time. And Phoenix took 2 games from them and with a little bit of for ude might have taken it to 7 games.
I don't need to read an article to KNOW that the Spurs have new pieces that are needed to match up with the LAL. Pop has ALWAYS looked at the LAL as a team he needs to beat. So he looks at his Swiss Army Knife and decides what's missing and them tries his best to get that needed tool. If you think about it, beating the LAL means that winning in the NBA is assured.
You don't go from getting swept by the Suns to beating the champions in one year unless big changes are made. We did not make those big changes.
First please don't get swept by the Suns again. Then we can talk about some real business with Lakers.
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