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im not afraid, actually excited because we probably match up with them the best but they are a very good team
Playoffs are a different animal though, teams are going to target Parker and get very good shots against him. The Spurs have the personnel to beat them, but it's up to Pop to utilize them correctly, who knows what his match ups will be. He has a history of waiting way too long in the playoffs to make the obvious adjustments, and has also shown a refusal to bench certain players no matter how bad they're playing.
im not afraid, actually excited because we probably match up with them the best but they are a very good team
Just gotta not let Curry or Thompson beat us from 3. Much, much easier said than done, but Green and Iguodala are career 33% shooters from 3. If it comes to it, give them open shots all day and if they beat us we gotta hold our hands up and say they're the better team. We do the same thing with Ibaka against OKC, we give him the open mid range and hope he misses, if he's hot we likely lose.
The odd thing is that I actually don't think they're that great a 3 point shooting team, they are just crazily top heavy. Barnes was a 40% shooter last year and I expect him to do it again but make him prove it in the playoffs, he was only 35% in their playoff run last year which is his career average so far. The Spurs were a better 3 point shooting team in 2014, we had 6 37%+ shooters who played significant minutes in the playoffs (Bonner and Daye were also 40%+) whereas the Warriors last year only had 4.
One fascinating part is that they almost certainly can't play small against us since we'll always have multiple post threats on the court with Duncan, Aldridge, Diaw and Kawhi. Neither Barnes nor Iguodala can defend any of them in the post which could be a game changer for us as they'll have to play Bogut a lot.
What an amazingly dumb take just to demonstrate your hatred of Parker. Lol.
This is what I've been saying all season.
Well said
I agree. On the post game interview vs the wolves he said "that would be nice" when asked about breaking bulls wins record. He will break down chasing 72.
Slow them down, they ain't
I don't even know what the Spurs are capable, or incapable of right now. Much too early and new faces to really tell all the much. Letsee what both teams look like in March/April. But, if you don't understand why some are scared of the Warriors right now...I suggest paying a little more attention. uh...TBH.
If the Warriors keep playing at the level they do now, which mainly depends on whether Curry can maintain a 50-40-90 season while scoring 30+ ppg per 36 and taking 10 threes a game, I'm sorry but there's little anybody, including the Spurs, can do. I'd like to see what effect Kawhi's long arms can have on Steph's personal space to be sure, but facts are facts.
I have a better idea, bring him off the bench or just don't play him. We can't afford to have parker guaring him in the first half this season. He'll get about 40 points. Can't let that man get hot and THEN go with green or leonard to guard him. That's in silly. That almost cost us game 1 of the 2013 2nd round playoffs
give me one pg that parker can guard.give me one PG that Curry does not light up ?
*scoring
Of course he's not the goat, he still has much to prove, but he is already one of the greatest scoring pg's of all time and is the best scoring PG in the NBA right now. I don't take the pre-90s nba seriously, the game is much more difficult today.
Not as much as recent years, but idk. I feel more confident against them I guess, but between the 2, I worry more about OKC than GS. I think LMA helps us tremendously against the Clips too.
how??? With the lack of physical play and shot blockers? Pre-youtube centers challenged dunks to stop points. NOw they just move out of the way to prevent from being on espn's top 10 and youtube. The hard fouls of the 80s and 90s will have you in prison today with the they call flagrant fouls
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It doesn't matter if you think the Spurs are the hot librarian; you pimp the double d'd in the skimpy thong.
The game was more physical back then, but players weren't the size they are today, nor were they as mobile or explosive. Centers back then were slow as molasses, they'd get picked apart in today's perimeter oriented game, especially with no hand checking. The perimeter game has also really evolved, ball handlers are on another level, watch guys like Magic Johnson play and you'll see how basic his offense was. They didn't utilize all the perimeter moves you see today.
Elite perimeter play also gave birth to elite perimeter defenders like Leonard. At 6'7 240lbs he is the size of most centers from the 80's, a man his size defending PGs was unheard of even in the 90s.
I think this picture demonstrates what I'm talking about, this is 7'0 240lb Willie-Cauley Stein back in college defending the perimeter, as you can see, it's hard as . It requires extreme balance and lateral movement, you couldn't find centers from the 80's that could move like this:
weren't mobile or explosive? wilkins, jordan, david thompson in the 70s, drexler, kevin johnson, BARKLEY, . And even more impressive, in the 60s and 70s, they were doing it in chuck taylors. If you can get the chance to, put on a pair of nike dunks and play ball in them. Well jordan played ball in them for a full season(jordan 1s) and other players played ball in them as well. I'd like to see westbrooke play the way he does in chuck taylors. and i don't know what the you're talking about by saying most centers from the 80s were 6'7 240. Moses Malone, Kareem, Ewing, Hakeem, Mark Eaton, Rik Smits, Kevin Duckworth, Bill Cartwright(who had a season in ny averaging 20 a game), Brad Daughtery, Robert Parrish… None of those guys were anywhere near 6'7 240. Whee did you get that information from that most centers in the 80s were 6'7 240?
Playing the same team for 4-7 games in a row is a much different scenario.
Talking about west teams only, matching up an east and a west team that can meet potentially for nine games vs a possibility of 11 is much different.
Spurs will have to improve by leaps and bounds over the course of the season if they want not to get embarrassed by this juggernaut of a team tbh. I really don't care what happened when they had Mark Jackson as a coach and Curry wasn't a top 10 player...
I think we can have a decent shot (as good as anyone can have against a team like that) at beating them assuming Aldridge gets successfully integrated and we're fully healthy, but you'd have to have not watched basketball over the past year to not be worried about playing GS in a series
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