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What happened to all that bluster, son? I thought the regular season doesn't matter.
He didn't over anything in this actually worthy thread. The point still stands without basketball reasons that point out why we should have nothing to worry about against those teams. Maybe you should revise your terrible post...you know with basketball talk rather than just talk?
Last edited by SpurPadre; 03-20-2013 at 05:34 PM.
What happened to all that bluster, son? I thought the regular season doesn't matter.
Denver isn't better than OKC but they are better then Memphis and LAC.
I think DEN can still advance past LAC even if they don't have home court but a series between them and MEM probably come down to who has HCA.
Damn . . . you beat me to it.
If Denver were playing at the sea level, they would have a least a couple less wins.
and if OKC arena was as quiet as ATT center they would have less wins too
I'd be more worried about the lakers more than either of these teams tbh.
lol fearing two teams that can't shoot for .
Denver is 4th in the league in field goal percentage you dumb . Oh well, I'm not going to defend non-Spurs teams all day. If you guys aren't concerned about them, fine by me. Go Spurs!
The Nuggets are a good team. Anyone who believes otherwise is a moron. But if it came down to the Spurs or the Nuggets most people would have to believe that the Spurs would win in 5 or 6.
And 25th on 3pt%, they have such a good field goal % 'cause they get to the paint a lot, mainly on fast breaks, something the Spurs are really good at stopping specially on the playoffs where the game slows down.
But they're 7th in adjusted field goal percentage, which takes into account deficiencies in 3pt. percentage and other shot selection on the floor. 7th means they can shoot, no matter how you slice it. But I see your point, and it's valid.
The Spurs are a regular season and I'm not sure what Denver's past has to do with their present. Denver doesn''t shoot three's well but let's not make things up. They're 3rd in offensive efficiency, 6th in TS%. 1st in fast break points and steals/game (not a good team combination against a team prone to careless turnovers), and third in assists. Denver pretty much gets any shot they want and most of them are at the rim. Denver is also number 1 in offensive rebounds and total rebounds/ game, another Achilles heal of the Spurs. Denver's #2 in pace so their really isn't a need to play half court. And if you don't think that pace can be sustained in the post season, look no further than OKC.
And while they don't have a clear cut superstar, Lawson and Faried are up and coming stars and they do have depth.
Truthfully, the Spurs are a jump shooting team. They can beat any team in the league but can lose to just about any team in the league.
Last edited by Hoops Czar; 03-20-2013 at 07:55 PM.
I would like to see OKC run into DEN and the Spurs draw Memphis. I just don't see anyway MEM can pull off the upset again against this Spurs team. The Spurs are much better equipped to take on their bigs and Z-bo is not in god mode anymore.
Nuggets have only made it out the first round ONCE in the past nine years. George Karl builds/coaches regular season teams. Always has, always will.
Spurs had all these awesome offensive stats last year too(#1 ORating in the league). Didn't help them in the Conference Finals though when their defense fell apart. Spurs were ranked 11th in the league in defense last year. Nuggets are 12th this year.
Depth is overrated in the playoffs, especially if you don't have a closer.
Around 23% of the Spurs points come from three pointers - That's not abnormally high at all. That's the same rate as the Heat.
Which doesn't have anything to do with this year. FYI, Karl led the then Supersonics to the finals in 1996, and guided the Bucks to within one win of the finals in 2001. He also took the Nuggets to the western conference finals in 2009 losing in 6 to the Lakers who went on to win the championship. That's a little more than regular season success. Karl can coach.
OKC was second in ORating and 9th in DRating and stood toe to toe with the Heat. A play here or there and a bad call to end game 2 could have flipped that series.
That's a shame because Parker can't do it by himself. And the only way the Spurs will win is if they get contributions from all around. It wasn't Lebron and D-wade that iced the series for OKC but the lesser knowns like Battier, Miller and Chalmers.
Who's talking about three's? The Spurs shoot a ton of 12-20 foot mid range jumpers. . that's all Duncan shoots these days. Green, Leonard, Neal, Ginobili, Parker included settle for the mid range jumpers. Parker and sometimes Ginobili are the only real threats to get to the rim. I should include Tiago when he's making a cut or being set up by a pass.
Last edited by Hoops Czar; 03-20-2013 at 09:23 PM.
Okc is just not the same team without Harden. He was their best distributor and killed us from 3 land as well as going to the basket.
Denver presents problems but we can slow them down and score easily on them in the half court. Memphis, we got Tiago now and a healthy, albeit less effective Manu to go with Leonard. That loss to the Grizz has stayed in the fans head but not the players thank god.
We are the West Favorites IMO. Vegas has the Thunder...
Its hard not to fear a team where 20+ free-throws a game is a given.........by one player.
And yet they just lost back to backs to the teams I fear more. The greater point is: ALL 3 teams should concern Spurs fans.
We can match up with the Grizz the way Tiago has been playing. He does a killer job on Z-Bo, and they aren't super athletic. All that bodes in the Spurs favor. We'd also do solidly against the Nuggs if we can slow it down. OKC worries me because of free throws
These teams should be fearing the Spurs. Haven't played our best ball, played sloppy in games, best player has been out for the last stretch of games and we're still managing to hold onto the top spot in the west and continue to win. There is a bit of a spark between the big 3, Duncan has been playing at an elevated level, Parker is due back and Manu will get out of this slump plus our wing players and bench are starting to come around and make shots..
Yeah, Tiago may well be the x-factor in that matchup. But with Manu not being the same Manu we all know and love at this point, and if we face the Grizz in the playoffs, I see Tony Allen guard TP and TP will have to make get over that mental hurdle of getting punked by the two guard aka "getting Sefolosha'd". That would be a test for him and the team. Yes, we can definitely slow down the Nuggets but if we give up alot of 2nd chance opportunities and lose the 50/50 battles, it'll be tough to beat them. OKC will get all the help they can get from the refs and Stern, who wants Heat vs. Thunder 2 but if Ibaka doesn't channel MJ like he did that one game last year and Danny Green hits the ing wide open shots he couldn't hit worth a damn last year, I'm certain we will beat them. I think Kawhi is the true X factor in that series, though.
It would be nice if they stop with the sloppy play at least by the final week of the season, though. Too many careless passes they need to clean up.
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