Spurs: The Spurs had the easiest path to the finals maybe ever..

[Aztecfan03]

Their excuse is always "coasting", which is complete and utter bull ...

They wouldn't need to do all this flopping if they were coasting.

[spurraider21]

the bulls had more injuries than the Lakers did and the Bucks are just lulz compared to the warriors. grizz/pacers are a wash, but grizzlies were hotter coming in IMO having won 8 of their last 9 coming into the series

[Jacob1983]

Superfriends has only face compe ion from 1 great team(my Mavs in 2011) and 2 good teams(the Pacers and Celtics) during their mini-run. Superfriends has had one of the easiest reigns in NBA history.

[Bill_Brasky]

Didn't Leonard go HAM on the Bulls earlier this season?

[Blake]

Here's why::

They purposely try to avoid the Lakers, in doing so, drop to the 2nd seed..the easier path to the finals..

Meh. Had the Spurs finished with the 1 seed, they would most likely have had the Grizz in the 2nd round and Warriors in the WCF. Basically the same path.

But yeah, they played a 7 seed, 6 seed and 5 seed to get here. It was incredibly easy.

[Jacob1983]

So the Spurs didn't beat any division winners? I wonder if a conference champion has ever done that in the history of the NBA?

[TIMMYtoZO]

The haters/Spurs fans are starting to get that nervous chuckle again as game 5 nears. Once Miami goes up 3-2, they will be ting their pants again.

[ezau]

Here's why::

They purposely try to avoid the Lakers, in doing so, drop to the 2nd seed..the easier path to the finals..

Kobe injures his Achilles and there goes any fight the Lakers have..Kobe's healthy, the Lakers win at least 1-2 games..

The Nuggets lose Gallo which dampers their typical productivity..Warriors catch fire and beat the Nuggets but in doing so suffer an injury to Lee and Curry..

Spurs draw the hot but young Warriors..fluke out a game 1 win and then benefit from Curry reinjuring his ankle..there goes the any fight the Warriors had..

Instead of drawing the Thunder, they draw an offensive mediocre team in the Grizzlies who barely beat the Chimpbrook-less Thunder in 5 close games..a Grizzlies team who also flukely eliminated the hobbled Clippers, a team that should have gone further..


The Spurs are the luckiest team ever, tbh..

Heat drew a d-league level Bucks team and Rose-less Bulls team is no different IMHO.

[rogues]

The haters/Spurs fans are starting to get that nervous chuckle again as game 5 nears. Once Miami goes up 3-2, they will be ting their pants again.

haters in here downplaying Miami's playoffs as usual

[DejuanorwhatDude]

The coasting excuse is funny. Talk about going full re if the Heat really are "coasting". Every game = more chance of injury. Any sane coach/team/organization knows that if you have the ability to crush someone, you ing do it. The Heat almost lost Bosh and James in the same game because of "coasting". So by Heat fans logic, their team is full re .

lol

[Reck]

The haters/Spurs fans are starting to get that nervous chuckle again as game 5 nears. Once Miami goes up 3-2, they will be ting their pants again.

And if they dont?

Get done with Pacers first buddy.

People were also saying Heat would sweep Pacers so yeah..

[Legacy]

Superfriends are getting exposed per par.

[NASpurs]

haters in here downplaying Miami's playoffs as usual

says the got who started a thread downplaying the Spurs' playoffs and then gets shat on when the table was turned on him

Rose on the bench with a knee injury
Deng in the hospital
Noah playing with plantar fasciiatis
Heinrich out
Hamilton didn't play until the fourth game in the series
5'8" Nate Robinson being the starting guard
Milwaukee
21st in offensive efficiency with two guards chuckers
Bulls 24th in offensive efficiency for the season
Pacers 19th in offensive efficiency
playing teams in the bottom half who have trouble scoring

[TDMVPDPOY]

lol coasting against ty bucks and roseless bulls, while getting their pushed for these so called easy wins

[Thebesteva]

OP, I always say usually the team that wins it all gets the easiest route and alot of luck their way(except for maybe Mavs of 2011). If you look at alot of the championship teams, they all have similar stories to the Spurs of this year with the right players getting injured at the right time.

To the Spurs credit, they are usually on the bad end of their players getting injured this time of the year.

[Reck]

says the got who started a thread downplaying the Spurs' playoffs and then gets shat on when the table was turned on him

Rose on the bench with a knee injury
Deng in the hospital
Noah playing with plantar fasciiatis
Heinrich out
Hamilton didn't play until the fourth game in the series
5'8" Nate Robinson being the starting guard
Milwaukee
21st in offensive efficiency with two guards chuckers
Bulls 24th in offensive efficiency for the season
Pacers 19th in offensive efficiency
playing teams in the bottom half who have trouble scoring

Son why is Avante copy pasting you? lol what a re .

[racm]

says the got who started a thread downplaying the Spurs' playoffs and then gets shat on when the table was turned on him

Rose on the bench with a knee injury
Deng in the hospital
Noah playing with plantar fasciiatis
Heinrich out
Hamilton didn't play until the fourth game in the series
5'8" Nate Robinson being the starting guard
Milwaukee
21st in offensive efficiency with two guards chuckers
Bulls 24th in offensive efficiency for the season
Pacers 19th in offensive efficiency
playing teams in the bottom half who have trouble scoring

And yet they're making the Pacers look like a top offensive team.

[NASpurs]

Son why is Avante copy pasting you? lol what a re .

Didn't know what you were talking about until I searched through his post history. wtf, that was random. The old fart is losing it.

[Reck]

Didn't know what you were talking about until I searched through his post history. wtf, that was random. The old fart is losing it.

I was as confused when I first read his post.

[Cry Havoc]

Western conference bias strong in here..Eastern conference is known for teams playing physical and going balls out on defense..you all wouldn't understand that of course

So Memphis is offensively limited, but EC teams are tough and play physical defense. Ok scrub.

[unforeseen]

Small market Heat fans before 2010.

[ffadicted]

lol @ anyone from the east complaining about playoff paths

[Jordanobili2320]

This isn't even a good attempt at trolling?!?!?!

1. LA was hot and on a streak playing well without Kobe(something you moron fans won't admit). They came to SA and their streak DIED. It isn't our fault your future "franchise player" coulnd't lead his team to one playoff game.

2. The Warriors are BETTER without David Lee, so don't give me that . The proof will be in the pudding once he is shipped off his offseason. GS WAS THE HOTTEST TEAM IN THE PLAYOFFS and we cooled them off, shut them down.

3. We faced the Grizz, who up until we swept were crowned "The reincarnation of the 04 pistons" by the national media, no one gave us a chance to beat them. Also, we got the HEALTHIEST team left in the west. How is that in anyway the easiest path? Wouldn't the easiest path be getting the beat up Clippers? or the Westbrookless Thunder? Yeah, instead we got a healthy, streaking, tough team and ing swept them.

This wasn't a TOUGH path but it wasn't the easiest at all. Very dumb post.

[jeebus]

lol heatfan has been running scared for a while; it's showing in this thread with the nervous laughs

[Rogue]

my is BACK!!!!!!, been missing you so bad but i knew you couldn't live w/o ST just like i can't live w/o SJ, knew you would be back someday

and i believe you'll have a lot to contribute to my Scarlett Johansson threads in the Club, i've converted myself from a hardcore misogynist into a SJ admirer, hope you don't hate it too bad

deep basketball takes btw