Between Dallas, Memphis, and Phoenix? I want to see Phoenix the most, I figured their magical run would end at some point and it looks like that's happening now. I still think they have an outside chance at making the playoffs simply because of how difficult Memphis's remaining schedule is, but I still think Memphis sneaks in the playoffs over Phoenix. I think it's a safe bet to say Phoenix is the least talented and threatening of those three teams, and come playoff time, a young and untalanted team will never be able to beat a team like San Antonio.
The team I least want to see is Memphis. I know SA swept them last year, but Gasol and ZBo still scare me a bit. ZBo isn't near what he used to be, but for all we know he could go off again and make three's with his eyes closed. But still, having those two big guys makes me a little uneasy. Additionally, Memphis has some shooters who are capable of having great shooting nights like Miller. If the SA bench doesn't show up and the Memphis bench gets hot, the Spurs could be in a real battle with Memphis.
Right behind Memphis is Dallas. Dirk and Vince still scare me, old guys but they can score like crazy sometimes. I think SA's size would be too much, but if Dallas gets super hot, that could be dangerous for SA.
What are your thoughts?
Phoenix is by far the most dangerous imo. Goran Dragic is the team leader...need I say more?
Memphis is a great matchup for the spurs now. After 2011, the holes in the spurs' defense were addressed, RJ was traded, Diaw and Kawhi acquired, Green and Patty Acquired, Splitter acclimated. The spurs have way too much firepower for them to deal with now.
Dallas could give some trouble. Ultimately, I don't think any of them would pull off the upset.
Doesn't matter. Prob either phoenix or Dallas just to avoid the physicality of Memphis.
Don't care. There isn't a bad matchup in the bottom half of the draw if we're healthy.
From best to worst matchups:
Grizz
Suns
Mavs
First round doesnt care, all are flawed teams that the Spurs can beat even if they aren't on their A game. Im more rooting for a tough matchup for OKC than wanting the Spurs to side step a team.
i don't care. none of these potential first round matchups are threatening. memphis peaked in 2011
would rather face mem, they seem like a s of the team from the last few seasons. after that, dal because they match up better with us than the suns, and lastly phx because they are fast young and have athletic shooters and dragic is spurs poison tbh i would want to face phx the least, that would actually be a tough first round relatively speaking.
Bye week. Srs.
I hope it's Dallas so we can annihilate them. We gifted them a le in 2006 and I'll never forget it.
Any of the three teams will be a 5 game series max though so it doesn't really matter.
My favoured path for the Spurs -
Round 1- Spurs vs Mavericks.
Round 2 - Spurs vs Warriors [Warriors beat Rockets]
Round 3 - Spurs vs Clippers [Clippers beat Thunder]
Finals - Spurs vs Pacers [Pacers beat Heat]
I just don't see Memphis posing a serious threat to us anymore at this point. Could be wrong.
And Dirk can still pull a great game out of his ass every once in a while
I would have been very comfortable with Memphis until just recently but unfortunately they are now better than last season and the Tony Allen-Prince lineups that the Spurs tortured have been removed from their arsenal. Instead Courtney Lee and Mike Miller are in the mix and we all know about Miller's shooting helping remove what was a gigantic Grizzlies weakness while Nick Calathes have also really started to come along and is better than what used to take place with Bayless on the court.
I think we own Dallas much harder and if they go for it Memphis since Gasol came back (and with recent history surely they are not gonna tank for the Spurs again!) should be too good to stay 8th (and possibly 7th) anyway.
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I want the Spurs to face Portland, Houston and Okc on the way to winning the le. I don't think OKC makes it that far though. I also hope the Spurs end up facing Miami in the Finals.
Oklahoma's 3 pt defending has gone to pieces lately and become awful. It will be almost too good to be true if they don't fix it at least somewhat but really hoping they can't.
It's ironic. I'm pretty sure they were going to let Thabo walk this summer. They were shopping him at the deadline. That usually means the team thinks they can't/won't resign the player. Now that he's out injured and their pedestrian defense is being exposed, they may want to think twice about that.
Although I think they can handily beat all three, this is my preference - Dallas, Memphis, Phoenix.
I think the Spurs will not look past Dallas. Of the 3, they will be the most focused against them, and will take them out the easily.
Memphis, tough, grind it out team. Tough out for everyone else, but the Spurs have their number and they know it.
Phoenix, imo the most athletic of the 3 teams, and the team with the least to lose. They will play loose. The Spurs need to be careful not to look past them.
I don't see Grizz/Mavs/Suns upsetting us so it doesn't matter who we face. So much time left though, Golden State is only a game up in the loss column from Dallas/Memphis and Portland is 3 ahead games and struggling. I'm not as concerned with Portland as I once was after watching them play the last time.
Gotta beat the Mass on the way to a le
Suns, just because the Big 3 has never won a le without beating them.
Can't think of a better one outside of someone upsetting the top two in the East.
Agreed. If the Clippers can somehow pass OC for the 2 seed, they would have that much better of a chance of making the WCF. Maybe Portland in round 2 instead of GS.
Yeah I don't see how you can put Golden State in an ideal run...
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