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A well-polished team like the Spurs should win in 5-6 games against the Lakers. We solved our Laker problem last year when we inserted Splitter in the lineup. As long as we push the pace, we should be okay against them.
Lets say they make a run and get into the playoffs?
Does that 1-8 matchup with us makes you nervous?
I still think they can be scary if they get healthy and develop some chemistry.
Dont think they can beat us but definitely can give us a good series.
A well-polished team like the Spurs should win in 5-6 games against the Lakers. We solved our Laker problem last year when we inserted Splitter in the lineup. As long as we push the pace, we should be okay against them.
If they're coached by col Sanders, i might be worried, a little. But as long they're coached by Pringles, Nash & Kobe are sieves defensively, and no quick long wing defender to stop TP, no worry AT ALL.
It doesn't matter what our path is this year. We just need to beat who's in front of us and I really don't care who it is. Lakers, Houston, Utah, etc. All of them are talented enough to win a game or two. The Lakers were better with a motivated Bynum. Howard ? That's a clown center, bro.
Bring all comers on.
Fact: Last two Western Conference Champs went through the Lakers.
I have no problem with that. I just hate to see Lakers fans in the AT&T Center. Hopefully they are not such a factor in a playoff game as they are in the regular season, where Spurs fans are kinda quiet in attendance.
NO!
The Lakers would serve as the perfect appetizer for us. This isn't the Shaq-Kobe era Lakers! It would be nice for TP to erase that horrible performance form the 2008 WCF, but that team isn't built for the system Pringles uses. If we're healthy we should beat them in 6.
You do realize youre talking about 6 games to get through? Thats my point.
An ideal 1st rd series for a 1 seed should be 4 or 5 like it could be against uta, hou or por.
So? It's hard to go through the Lakers when they don't make the playoffs. They're not exactly an overly threatening team at this point.
D'Antoni can't coach defense.
Kawhi can contain Kobe but not the other way around ( he even let Green shoot a game winning 3)
The Spurs defense will make Nash look like CP3 earlier today.
Dwight is a glorified Blair on offense these days (seriously, he gets all of his points off being open and getting the ball from Nash/Kobe and putbacks).
Run them out of the building.
Rather face these guys than Harden and the Rockets tbh.
Nope.
Sweeping Lakers in 1st round or Lakers out of playoff.
Unless them getting the 8th spot is somehow a literal fountain of youth.....
Lakers are 3 1/2 games out of 8th place, with 27 games to play.
Today it would be an IH10 first round
Last edited by boutons_deux; 02-22-2013 at 10:52 AM.
I want to avoid the Lakers... but not because I'm scared of them (I think we beat them easily).... I just want to see them miss the playoffs, get a lottery pick, and watch it go to Phoenix in the Nash trade
What did you just say???
^ this
I want the Lakers to miss the playoffs entirely. That way, there is ZERO chance of them winning the le and gifting Kobe with ring #6.
Rather play the Lakers in the first round instead of the Rockets tbqh
There will always be some level of worry no matter which team it was, but I have to admit that Lakers will be a very strong 8. On paper, they are most definitely a top 3 team, but they have under-performed massively due to lack of chemistry. The worry is that they will somehow stumble into that chemistry eventually, and they would be an absolute juggernaut.
If Gasol is healthy, and MDT can pull his head out of his ass and use him correctly, the Lakers are still a threat. Gasol + Dwight is a massive frontline that has both athleticism and skills.
It will probably be a tough draining series.
If the Lakers sneak into the playoffs as an 8 seed, it could very well be a repeat of 2011, especially if Manu breaks his elbow on the last day of the regular season again. The playoffs' emphasis on star power certainly benefits them tremendously, and I think they're poised to pull of a major upset in the playoffs, if they can somehow sneak in.
So I hope they either make the playoffs as a 7 seed, or miss it entirely.
I'd really enjoy seeing this again:
Given what the Lakers have shown so far with Coach Three First Names, I'd be pretty happy to see the Lakers in rd 1... Of course, the Lakers not making the playoffs would also be good - exposing Kobe's legacy of not being worth without the best big man combo in the league...
No worries. I actually think the Lakers are a great first round matchup. Kobe and the Lakers, are one group the Spurs never have problems getting up for no matter what their record is. As opposed to meeting someone like Golden State, who they have no real history with. Tony would feast on Nash. But like others have mentioned, I'd love LA to not make the playoffs, not for fear, but because of the DHoward signing and the loss of the lottery pick to the Suns.
The Lakers are probably an easier matchup than the Rockets. But I never root for the Lakers...even if them winning would directly benefit the Spurs. It's just against my religion.
I do. Avoiding the Lakers in the first round would be nice, their upside is just too scary.
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