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Less. Timmy/Tony/Kawhi/Green/Splitter all regressed
He's the 10th man on a team that won't go 10 deep in the playoffs, or will go with another player in that limited role. I find the obsession over such a minor piece of team to be bizarre
Less. Timmy/Tony/Kawhi/Green/Splitter all regressed
If Errors is the 10th man on this team and is going to play limited minutes in the playoffs the Spurs are ed. But it's cool tho know that other bigs are Bonner and Baynes... ing pathetic.
Yeah I would be very surprised if Ayres plays a lot in the playoffs. It's gonna be interesting to see which of Mills or Beli is gonna be in the rotation in the playoffs. One of them is gonna lose minutes. My money is on Mills.
Mills will lose some minutes right off the bat as Tony's minutes increase. The real question is if he can hold on to those 10-14 mpg throughout the playoffs. The decisive run in the 3rd quarter of the Detroit game featured a guard combo of Manu/Beli.
Keep in mind that we limped into the playoffs last year. I think we went 10-10 in our last 20 games, Parker was out for a while, came back at the end of the season and was a complete s of himself. Ginobili was out and only played like 10 minutes in the season finale, which was his first game back from injury. Diaw was hurt to begin the playoffs and didn't come back until the GS series iirc, and Tiago Splitter got hurt during the first round... and we made out of it just fine.
Would be nice if we could be healthy for the stretch run to try to grab that top seed. As long as we have our guys, I'm pretty confident in our playoff ability. We're still a better team right now than we were in '11-'12. Our playoff rotation likely won't include many minutes from Ayres or Baynes. Duncan-Splitter-Diaw will be the guys and Bonner will be in for certain matchups (he helped us against the Lakers and Grizzlies last year). Last year Duncan averaged 35 minutes per game in the playoffs, and I'd expect similar numbers again this time around. We will also probably have a lot of lineups with Leonard at the 4. The big man rotation isn't worrying. Marco is an improvement to Neal. As HH37 said, the biggest key is to get Tony back on track. He was playing at an MVP level last year, we need him to at least approach that again, because opposing point guards are going to be tough. Conley, Curry, Westbrook/Jackson, Lillard, Paul are no joke
All true, but their 1st round opponent this year will almost certainly offer more resistance than last year's Lakers.
Let's revisit this question April 16th at 9:30pm.
Yeah, we won't be getting a first round bye again, but we were also really beat up going into those playoffs. As long as that doesn't repeat this year, I think we'll be ok. Dallas or Memphis would be the ideal first round matchup, tbh. I also think the inexperience of Phoenix would make them a target, though I don't like facing playoff Dragic
Yeah, Memphis would be ideal.Yeah, we won't be getting a first round bye again, but we were also really beat up going into those playoffs. As long as that doesn't repeat this year, I think we'll be ok. Dallas or Memphis would be the ideal first round matchup, tbh. I also think the inexperience of Phoenix would make them a target, though I don't like facing playoff Dragic
Hard to say right now. It has the potential to be better than last year's team.
I'm not convinced that the West is so much stronger this year. I am very confident that we get back to the conference finals at least.
Easily less confident compared to last two seasons. It's nice that out role players are doing well and all that, but you need your big guns in the playoffs. That's Tony and Timmy. . .the two guys who have decreased in performance the most this year. Timmy okay yeah his numbers are still good, but the defense has definitely dropped a bit too. You could attribute this to the lack of having Leonard and Splitter on the floor as much as last season though and him having to do too much and getting tired from it.
But yeah, if Tony isn't playing MVP level and Duncan can't put the cape on for us 2-3x as often as he has been, we're not winning. Marco and Manu are NOT going to carry us through series. Neither is Kawhi and Boris. We're going to need not only our health but most notably Tony to get back into top form. I think maybe we can't expect Duncan to keep putting the cape on and supermanning it for us at 38, but Tony simply has to.
We won't win unless Tony plays like an MVP again. He needs to cement his legacy this year if we're to have a chance imo. I hate to put it all on his shoulders since he's still one of our better players even with how he's playing now, but at this point I think everyone else is either too old or simply not capable of stepping their games up enough to get the job done except for Tony. Basically has to go near perfect for multiple other guys if Tony doesn't get back to borderline MVP form.
I got a feeling this spurs team will be ringin in June.
not feeling confident at all. that game 6 has haunted pop, and tony. they just let it get to them. duncan and tony has regressed substancially this season, i dont think tony cares. They had the best chance last season when tony parker was playin out of his mind.
If Pop unveils "Operation Post-up" (Diaw/Kawhi) in the playoffs I'll be really confident.
Beli has ways to score when teams pressure the 3 pt line (movement off the ball/cuts to the basket/doesn't always shoot 3s off screens/looks to pass for easier baskets)
Way less confident. Everything lined up perfectly for us last year including playing the Lakers in the 1st round with Kobe going down for the year with an injury...then Westbrook down with an injury...then facing a slow Memphis team in the WCF's. No way that plays out to our favor again. Houston got stronger adding Howard...the Clippers got stronger adding a real coach in Doc...Portland is playing lights out...and OKC is healthy again and they will get it going in a zone soon with Westbrook back(don't even think for a minute they are better without him...last years playoffs proved that).
Way less confident not because "things lined up for us last year" which is bull imo. The path is the path and I believe the Spurs make the Finals last year regardless of the Westbrook injury or whatever else. The biggest difference this season is Parker. He's not close to what he was last year when he was being called "the best PG in the league" even by "analysts" who typically hate on the Spurs. Unless he's in peak TP form, there is no chance. Last year this team was humming...we'd win by 20 points without breaking a sweat. No rhythm at all this season.
Excellent point. We need more points in the post, it's the most PO proof way to score, especially since we don't go to the line that much...
More, improved play of Ginobili/Diaw, addition of Mills/Bellinelli
I am less confident simply because our compe ors have improved significantly this year
The centerpiece.
Honestly, about the same or maybe a little less confident. I don't know, it's been a while since we've seen our team completely healthy. When everyone is back and we're playing good ball, I'm sure I'll gain some confidence.
Last edited by SupremeGuy; 03-01-2014 at 12:28 AM.
our core is where the strength is. splitter, diaw, leonard, green, belinelli, mills are all going to have to fill in the gaps of the big 3 and the deep bench.
spurs have depth and really didn't have to make a move. I wish they would've just for backup sake but we really are pretty solid, as is we were a bounce from the lob.
so i think after seeing how we took care of it in the playoffs last season, after being pretty meh towards the end of the reg season there and a lot of doubt from the board, i feel good this year. same components as last year, some upgrades ie: beli, mills and diaw stepping up, and how effortlessly we turned it on last season? yeah spurs are right where they want to be this year.
gotta start the war room to watch the seedings that is where the magic happens. pop will drop some games inexplicably and it's to help a team move in the seeding so as to make our road easier.
Funny because Pop used to always say that if this is the worst thing in life that will happen to you then you will have a good life to his players after tough losses and performances etc., then he goes and lets that get to him severely it seems which would make that hypocritical now if he said it! He now is letting that loss haunt him IMO and you can just tell in interviews etc. when he speaks on it! What happened to that positive Pop? Tony is banged up and tired, we will see how he looks when he returns to the team. Tim has not regressed that much IMO, he still plays at a high level on most nights but yes I agree not like he did last year.
I agree on last year as well, they had their best shot then IMO but I hope I am wrong.
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