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He's an upgrade dip .people thinking splitter is a factor
people thinking splitter is a factor
He's an upgrade dip .people thinking splitter is a factor
Spurs sweep imo
I don't think this is that bad of a matchup for them. Al Jefferson will get his, but Millsap is only 6'8 so I don't see him having the kind of impact Marc Gasol had last year.
Anything is possible, but the Jazz are the clear underdog. When one has a big frontline like the Jazz going against the perimeter-oriented offense of the Spurs, you generally want to slow the game down and dictate the pace from wire to wire so your big men can grind them into submission and hopefully get in their heads with big defensive plays.
Unfortunately for the Jazz, it has played out like anything but a slow it down, grind it out game for them vs the Spurs this season: the Spurs averaged 110 pts when at least Tony Parker and Tim Duncan were playing. Not only that, they're having a lot of trouble keeping those perimeter attackers out of the paint: Parker averages 10 FTAs, Manu got 15 FTAs in his single game, and overall with 2 or more of the Big 3 playing Spurs average over 13 more FTAs per contest versus the Jazz than their season average.
The Jazz have their work cut out for them, big front line or no, because their perimeter players are going to have trouble keeping players out of the paint and those big frontliners can't help but foul. And if the Spurs dictate the pace . . . let's just say it might get ugly for the Jazz.
Spur fans under rating Milsap make me want to slap them. He is a VERY talented player and is much better than Blair.
Talented, yes, but not enough.
People are underrating the Jazz. They are a relatively physical team and teams like this usually play better in the playoffs than in the regular season.
The Spurs offense is based on spacing and ball movement. In the playoffs, those things are harder to come by because of:
1) Better prep by the opposing team
2) Increased physicality allowed
3) Increased intensity of opposing team.
Don't get me wrong, I still think the Spurs will win, but these will be hard-fought, physical games with the series probably going 6 games.
There are some really interesting matchups in this series. The Devin Harris-Tony Parker matchup, Harris used to do well in that matchup back in Dallas but I feel TP will be ready for him this time. The Manu Ginobili-Gordon Hayward matchup, if you've seen Hayward play you can see just how similar he is to Manu. It seems like he modeled his game after Manu. And Jefferson vs Duncan should be a battle of post moves down low. I expect the Spurs to win but the Jazz will challenge them. And if the Jazz get confident things might become a lot tougher for the Spurs.
This is a bigger mismatch than 2007 tbh. Still, the Jazz crowd will be good for 1 win like in 07.
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Quality thread
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lol denver
Millsap with 4-17 closeout game goods.
Does that mean you are on your way?
Great Jinx,imo.
Does that mean you are on your way?
Go spurs go
Carrying on the proud tradition of Jazz PFs in elimination games.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...905270POR.html
Yup.Does that mean you are on your way?
rofl dont feel so special. Everyone knew this series would be either a sweep or a 5 game series.
worthless
lol
sup nono
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