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No jinx but if we get home court throughout playoffs...it's gonna be damn hard to beat us.
CIA POP. Going for #1 Seed knowing this year it's an advantage to have home court in the Finals.
GO SPURS
No jinx but if we get home court throughout playoffs...it's gonna be damn hard to beat us.
It will be hard to beat us, Miami or OKC with HC in the playoffs. Flip a coin.
How it should be
If we go up against Miami or Indiana... Even with the changed format I am positive that the NBA will find a way for it to go 7. The NBA is going to try to maximize it.
I don't know, the refs weren't a factor in the last season finals. The Spurs just passed the opportunity to win the 'ship in game 6.
You're right. The refs were unbelievably fair in my opinion. Game 6 was a fluke as well as a missed opportunity. I can't stand to hear people say Lebron willed his team to victory in that game. Run the same 26 second scenario ten more times and the spurs would have won every one of them. No chance that would happen again and that's what bugs me the most about game 6
Yup. It boggles my mind thinking how lucky the Heat are that LeBron completely air mailed that 3 ball. If it hits rim, it shoots into the air and wastes the precious few seconds they needed to get a quality look.
exactly. i was surprised how fair and balanced the refs were.
Lol, how quick people forget ginobili getting mugged when we were down 1 at the end of OT in game 6... And then Green getting mauled by Bosh shooting a 3 as the game ended
Probably the most fair finals I've ever seen called
One or two plays here and there don't matter. Compared to the series we lost in the year before against the Thunder, the Finals last year was called amazingly well and fairly. vs Thunder we got ed over left and right by the whistle. In the Finals, you could scarcely pick out 2-3 whistles per game you didn't agree with.
Tbh, if you're not a fan of the Spurs, you could make a case that the refs actually were biased in favor of San Antonio.
158-118 FT-advantage over seven games. Thats 34% more FT's for us.
Last year the Spurs just ran out of gas as a team IMHO. And the Heat being the younger and more athletic team picked up momentum at the right time, having home court helped at the end, the refs had nothing to do with that.
Yeah last season's finals were incredibly pure. It was a joy to watch.
i agree. i didn't complain about the officiating once during the finals. there were a lot of things that we repeatedly did over and over(leaving mike miller open all season, ginobli turning the ball over, ty subs utions) but officiating wasn't one of them. even the no call on ray allen at the end of game 6 was a good no call because ginobli took 4 steps before turning the ball over.
Wow. They actually decided to do it ... and that's all I'm going to say.
and i stated this as well to people. we were getting a lot of whistles that miami weren't. so i can't even blame punk ass crawford for the finals loss
it happens when the lakers are not involved tbh
Agreed, O'l Sport.
Unfortunately, that doesn't mean Silver, his "undercover" boss Stern, and the ref goon squad, won't have the Spurs swept out of the playoffs in the first round.
We just have to wait and see.
You're right about momentum, but the Heat were definitely not a young team that outran us. They had a lot of aging players that did us in in that series by just shooting the ball in catch and shoots. Ray Allen ended our chances, and Shane Battier killed us in game 7. Don't forget about shoeless Mike Miller, either. We didn't lose because of the youth of the Heat or anything at all.
If anything, terrible rebounding was the biggest problem in that series, as well as a lack of defense. LeBron could have scored 40 each game and we would have still won the series if we contained everything else.
Who cares about the finals? We've got a tougher challenge in the WC playoffs.
Did you really watch the finals last year? Cos I really doubt you did.
We pretty much lost when Spoelstra decided to start Mike Miller and take Haslem out of the rotation. We didn't have a good counter. Before game 4, we had the much better offense and defense. Just look at margin of victory in game 3. In game 4 and later our defense got worse in part due to Splitter playing less. His presence wasn't just missed on defense. His ability to open up our shooters with his pick and roll game was missed. In games 6 and 7 our defense got better our offense never really clicked. I think we averaged 13-14 assists the last 2 games. That's alot of hero ball and not Spurs basketball.
Miami decided they weren't going to let Danny Green get open anymore. This gave Duncan easy opportunities to score, and he did.
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