Fair enough. But any perceived weaknesses in LMA's or West's defense doesn't seem too important, as long as their close outs and helps are tight. Perimeter D is the premium against Golden State.
As for guarding their backcourt, Curry is a tough cover and Green does alright. The key is Kawhi on Thompson, who often struggles.
I'm very interested, meanwhile, in how the Warriors cover the Spurs' front court depth. Not quite to Memphis levels, but the Spurs have some good post players.
I hope spurs do not play them tell after the allstar break and they can gel first and see what happens
also with more scorers now leonard can just try to stop or slow curry down and not worry as much to save energy for o
not really scared of them. We always play them well.
Kinda like how Mavs always play us well. IMO
It's interesting that the press in the Champs' home area feels the need to write an article justifying why they are still better. Guessing there's some fear going on there...
OKC has me more concerned, tbh...
Good points
Great points, Spurs need to bring in LJC to play perimeter defense. He has enough speed and length to cover Thompson, Green, Barnes or Igodola.
Curry has shown that he can be covered with a guy as untalented as Delevedova. Maybe at scrappy Bertans can cover him and at the same time be a 3 point threat.
Spurs need to bring in an Jarrel Eddie. At 6'7" he has enough size to at least cover a Thomspon or Igodola at the same time be a legitmate threat at the 3.
Yup, its going to be a shooting contest if the Spurs don't have enough quick perimeter defenders to shut down Curry and Thompson. Leonard can shutdown curry and LJC can shutdown Thompson. Let's see how Green can play against a bigger Aldridge.
To me the only reason why I had doubts against OKC was their frontline. Ibaka just takes over the paint and our offense goes to . Now that we have Aldridge, things will be so much easier against them imo.
OKC is a a hadful too. Westbrook is so much better, but Leonard has shown that he can bottle him up. That leaves though Durant, which again you need LJC to give him fits. LJC at 6'9" and 7'2" length has enough speed to give Durant just enough problems.
Green/Kawhi do just fine on Curry/Thompson. Idk what this guy is smoking
Oh and:
Look, none of this is to suggest the Warriors can waltz past the Spurs. I always was convinced the Warriors would have taken out the Spurs had they met in the 2015 playoffs. The Warriors had more speed and agility by a wide margin. They would have ousted the Spurs in five or six games.
Yes, Ibaka only gave the Spurs problems when Splitter was in there just clogging up the paint. With LMA, Diaw, and West on the team now he's not as much a threat as he was before. If Diaw went off for 25+ against him just by spreading the floor...
GS had a cake walk to the Finals no way they can beat us in a 7 game series....the whole NBA is still in hangover mode after the big moves weve made...
Our team city and Organization is en awesome!!!!!!
You're head over heels in love with LJC, aren't you?
Bay Area ignoring the fact that we were a bad matchup for them before adding LMA/West
Did you see him last night??
Hand it over... hand it over NOW
Things have changed on both sides, but between Game 3 of the 2013 playoffs and the end of the 2014-15 regular season, the Spurs are 9-2 against the Warriors (regardless of who is coaching that team). One of those 2 losses was the second night of a back-to-back in Oakland against a Golden State team that hadn't played in 9 days.
It's not like the Spurs have struggled to find success against the champs, even in their current iteration.
Who knows what would have happened if the teams had met in the 2015 playoffs. I'm surprised, though, to read so much chatter from Warriorsland that seems to think their club is the only team chock full of guys with championship pedigrees and to wholly discount just how effective the Leonard/Green tandem has been in those match ups.
Yes, the Spurs still have some work to do to tinker with this roster to optimize its flexibility, and absolutely, the Warriors might still end up being the better team at the end of the 2015-16 season. They're damned good. And everyone, including Monte Poole, is en led to his opinions about these teams and their relative strengths. But the rationale advanced in this piece is just a bunch of rah-rah stuff that lacks much relationship to relevant recent history.
Ibaka is indeed a monster on defense. Aldrige is good enough to be able to back him down and score on him.
Injuries have me more concerned. and since those can't be controlled. I'm not concerned.
Season barely ended and these insecure s are already at it.
Yeah that's only one of the reasons they're a bigger threat. Two alphas that can explode for 40 anytime and you can't forget about the ghost calls.
Jean-Charles was meant to be put on someone like KD..
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