Spurs, guaranteed to win the NBA Finals?

[DazedAndConfused]

SA is not expected to win by any means.

3pt chuckers that play slightly better D than PHX Suns of old. Not a recipe for playoff success, but definitely a way to win a lot of regular season games.

[rayjayjohnson]

Nice win against the cavs, lakerfan.

Oh, wait...

[ChrisRichards]

Pretty sure the Mavs were 45-9 at one point during the '07 season.

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Mavs actually went 52-9 before they registered their 10th loss.




ESPN fail

[ChrisRichards]

SA is not expected to win by any means.

3pt chuckers that play slightly better D than PHX Suns of old. Not a recipe for playoff success, but definitely a way to win a lot of regular season games.

Pretty sure having Popovich as a coach makes a difference.

[Ashy Larry]

Nice win against the cavs, lakerfan.

Oh, wait...

[mikeschy55]

Doubts? There hasn't been a team with a 6-7 center to win a championship in 40 years....but hey you never know, it could happen.... i guess

[rascal]

I am a doubter that you know what the you are talking about. The Spurs are 46-10.

Best regular season record has a poor history of winning the Finals. How's that jive with the BSPN "oh yeah" stats?

They were 46-9 at one point.

[DMC]

They were 46-9 at one point.

The thread was started today at 1:40PM. It says "San Antonio Spurs are currently 46-9".

Put that goalpost over there.

[Seventyniner]

SA is not expected to win by any means.

3pt chuckers that play slightly better D than PHX Suns of old. Not a recipe for playoff success, but definitely a way to win a lot of regular season games.

Spurs are #9 in 3-point attempts per game. Being #1 in 3-point shooting makes shooting many of them a good thing, I would think.

Spurs D-Rating (according to basketball-reference.com): 103.6, 7th in the NBA. The Lakers D-Rating in the last two seasons: 103.7 (4th) last year, and 104.6 (6th) the year before. I hardly see a difference.

Just for reference, the Lakers current D-Rating is 105.3 (10th in the league). The Spurs play better defense than anyone in the West, and the numbers back it up.

For the Suns:

Season  D-Rating Rank
07-08   108.1    16
06-07   106.4    13
05-06   105.8    16
04-05   107.1    17
03-04   105.5    24

I guess I'll just lump you in with the other ignorant fans who looked at the Suns' high PPG allowed during those seasons and concluded that their defense was awful. Their D was merely average, unlike the truly awful defenses of the last few years fielded by the Raptors and Warriors.