Kenny "The Jet" Smith: Spurs Don't Sweep

[tmtcsc]

He's neither right nor wrong. Are we taking reality as fact? Then false. We have sweeped. Are we talking metaphorically? Then true. 2012 was redacted, stolen by ibaka. Lakers? Not an nba team therefore not applicable.

Some sweeps are not sweeps. The spurs are classy enough to lose at least once every series, but like Monty last night it takes two to tango and just because a team loses it doesn't mean the spurs win. Even if we do sweep, it's a win because it's a teaching. Like a good spank, the spurs both show the right way while punishing the wrong way.

[DBMethos]

Tim Duncan Era:

1999: Lakers, Blazers
2004: Grizzlies
2007: Cavs
2012: Jazz, Clippers
2013: Lakers, Grizzlies

Spurs also backdoor swept the Nuggets in 2005, 2007.

"Why we can't get 2? Why we can't get 2?" - The very clairvoyant Marcus Camby.

[The Reckoning]

it's just a backhanded compliment that spurs are consistently great and you have to play at your peak to beat them....see Cavs and Pelicans game for example...

[nowitzkikopf]

this

[FromWayDowntown]

The spurs are classy enough to lose at least once every series

Gentleman's Sweep (n.): An NBA playoff series that ends in five games. Defined as "sweeping the opponent, but giving them one, you know, to be polite." Preferably, but not necessarily, a series in which the series-winner wins the first three games, loses the fourth, then closes at home.

[cd98]

It's hard to sweep teams in the west because they have been so good over the years. For example, while San Antonio may have been better than Dallas, OKC, and Portland last year, they weren't so much better that they would sweep them. The west teams are just too good. If the Spurs had a few of those sacrificial lamb 6-8 seeds in the East, then sure, they'd be getting sweeps left and right. It's just hard to do in the ultra-compe ive west.

[LongtimeSpursFan]

Kenny is actually the one on that show worth listening to.

I like his basketball insight as well. Kenny always makes that reference that Spurs play smart basketball and they just wait for you to make mistakes. And I think that has been the same mantra with the Spurs organization while Pop has been at the helm.

[pgardn]

Kenny is a genius compared to the guys who sit at that table with him.

But , they provide entertainment value by making spontaneous, unjustified claims.

Now on the occasion they actually do their homework... they are still horrible.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I do feel the Spurs sometimes sort off toss games, or give up pride games, when a series is in hand. But maybe not more than any others. It's easy to let a team get that one and then let momentum peter out.

I agree with this. They definitely have a higher gear they can go to when they get determined, but they also tend to give up a game here and there that they shouldn't. Losing games they shouldn't in a series has definitely cost them in the past.

I wouldn't say they're always at an 8. They don't appear to get rattled, and they don't celebrate too much or get overly emotional on the court, and because they win the majority of the time that probably spurred Kenny's comment.