lol wut. Ibaka came back and played at 100% (roughly at his regular season level) and wasn't ever really badly injured in the first place.
Some fans will stick to that crap unfortunately and make an excuse or somehow try to justify us beating them lol. Let them, it means nothing because they won 2 with him in there and one on their home floor without TONY in the second half. Spurs just flat out took it, period.
ibaka seemed just fine when he was goaltending shots in the closing minutes of game 6
the real question is how will the NBA divide up Durant's FTs to Westbrick, Jackson and Ibaka.
Another trick from the Presti playbook of bull . Durant will be back earlier than expected.
But of course any severe injuries to the Thunderefs are most welcome
The first two games were very close, Spurs with a fully healthy Derek Anderson, that could have changed the series. I'm not sure if we would have won it, but those first two games could have been wins with a fully healthy DA.
Tim Grover (Jordan, Kobe, Wade's trainer) said 8-10 weeks is an aggressive schedule for complete return.
It's amazing how many devastating injuries OKC has suffered the last 3 years. The Spurs continue to be the biggest beneficiaries of these injuries.
Now there is absolutely no excuse for the Spurs not to finish as the #1 seed in the West. Coming into the year, I feared OKC was the one team that could beat us in a 7-game series, and that they would be increasingly more likely to do so with HCA. But with this injury, the Spurs should take advantage of this opportunity to finish above OKC in the standings, in the event of a playoff meeting.
^^Clippers are probably the favorites for the #1 seed, tbh, they are purely a regular season team that will thrive during the season and will be chosen by morons(Reggie Miller, etc) to win the West based on their effort level(compared to the Spurs, who will be coasting) prior to the playoffs..
OKC is going to finish 4th or 5th IMO, which is fine for the Spurs from a bracket perspective..
Path to the finals in the West is never clear. He will be back in fine forms by the playoffs hopefully anyway. Apart from OKC you have the Blazers, Clippers, Rockets, Mavericks, Warriors, Grizzlies. The path to the finals is never clear in the west. (we've 'only' won the west 6 times so it's never a guarantee)
Can't root for injuries and you want to beat them fair and square but let's put a stop to this "KD is a good guy" bull we've been fed all these years. He's a phony and let's not forget his bitter talk about Kawhi via twitter when we won number five.
The Clippers are the Spurs only threat for the West. Although Chris Paul is overrated, Griffin will challenge for MVP this season with Carmelo, LeBron and Anthony Davis.
Clippers aren't an actual threat to win the West, they don't have the criteria for a le team..
When you've accomplished that, those "only because he was hurt" excuses go out the window.
Yeah, I have to admit that albino is the real deal, tbh.
Guys dont forget Portland.
You lost me at Carmelo. Davis won't win either as is his team will struggle to make the playoffs.
Don't get me wrong on Melo - I think he had an outstanding and underrated season last year, but he won't be in the discussion unless his team gets to 48-50 wins. Otherwise, why didn't Love win during his years in Minnesota?
Melo was pretty efficient last year despite being the only real option on that team, and actually rebounded very well for the SF position (helped that they were playing small ball and that he's not a lockdown defender getting taken out of rebounding position ... Kawhi for one is right behind him). He could win an MVP on the right team, but the Knicks are total garbage.
Or the Jim Carrey-coached Mavs team.
Chris Paul's knee causes him to miss time every year, and they suck without him.
I'm more worried about the dubs than the paper clips, tbh.
Well yeah but is not that easy, look at Kobe and Yao they did the swimming the running, and Wade is like a 33 y/o grandma, he is not a doctor KD is a big skinny lamp I bet fragile as so giving exact return dates is not very serious.
Dude look like a politician in that avatar.
Yeah, remember he dominated ¨The Claw¨ in Liar Liar.
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