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lol, Ibaka still living on that 2013 rep. He's not even that good anymore tbh
sorry, typo error, it should be OKC................
lol, Ibaka still living on that 2013 rep. He's not even that good anymore tbh
people seriously care enough to start a thread about who fat boy chuck picks in a series.
He has a beautiful wife though, something about her looks plus that accent. Gwen Osborne is the truth.
this sucker flip flops all the time they beat an injured Mavs team
His picks are almost always ways wrong so thanks chuck!
News flash: Barkley values post play. The Thunder have an advantage in the post.
Enes Kanter = Penis Cancer
Awesome. Spurs to WCF.
Their 4th best player is Steven Adams. They fired their coach and got someone who is way worse. Nick Collison is playing significant minutes for this team.
Unless Dion Waiters can give them 20 a game, they're toast against SAS. Spurs in 5.
Agreed...wouldn't surprise me at all if it goes to 7 games.
The biggest thing that has me (fairly) confident is that Billy Donovan is a ty coach. People thought Brooks was a bad coach, and he was, but Donovan is 5x worse. I'm expecting/hoping Pop to coach circles around him this series.
What post players do the Thunder have? Kanter, sure. Ibaka doesn't post up much at all (in the regular season, post-ups accounted for 3% of his plays). Steven Adams isn't some monster in the post; if OKC wants to post him up against Duncan/Aldridge I'll gladly take that over Westbrook/KD having the ball. KD is a good post player but it's definitely not a huge part of his game and again, if he wants to post up Kawhi over and over again I'll happily take that rather than him running PnRs.
The Spurs post up far more often than the Thunder. Aldridge has the 2nd most post-ups in the league only behind Brook Lopez. Post-ups account for nearly 40% of Diaw's plays. Post-ups are a bigger part of Kawhi's game than they are KD's. Duncan and West both post up quite a bit. Boban probably won't get a lot of playing time but when he does, he's a great post-up player.
If Barkley is just looking at post play, not sure why he'd pick the Thunder. Unless he's literally only looking at how Kanter will post up the Spurs' bench bigs or something.
Interesting that you say that, because I fear Aldridge taking Ibaka AWAY from the post a LOT more than Aldridge posting him up. Where Aldridge always killed Ibaka (when LMA was with Portland) was that turnaround jump shot from 15-18 feet. That takes away Ibaka as a rebounder, and gets Ibaka in foul trouble.
And on the whole, I just think the Spurs will have trouble stopping Kanter (if Donovan will just pull his head out and give Kanter minutes) and keeping Kanter and Adams off the offensive boards. The way I see the post matchup in this series playing out, I don't count Aldridge (or West for that matter) as a post player. The advantage that I see OKC having in the post is Adams and Kanter against Diaw and Duncan (and Boban if he plays). If the Spurs post up Aldridge and West and Leonard a lot, I think that would be to the Thunder's advantage (taking away a Spurs strength).
That ing show would be so much better without ernie and kenny.
Bring in Lisa Leslie or some to replace those two ing imbeciles.
At first I couldn't stand Shaq but now I think he's the voice of reason, somewhat followed by Chuck but that's it. Those other two just slob on supastahdik and generally reach for low-hanging fruit.
The coaching matchup will heavily favor the Spurs, not to be overlooked for a 2nd round matchup
It will not be easy, but, this will be a great time to step it up another level
I see great things ahead in round 2 and some chippy play between West and the Thunder's legion of mustachio'd thugs
That's good because he's usually wrong.
Especially when he said Kiwi was the best player in the league
spurs in 4 maybe 5 games
Just remember, after sucking the Spurs s all post season in 2003, Barkley picked the NEW JERSEY NETS to win the Finals. THE NETS.
Glad Barkley picked OKC.
Will be fun to watch.
My hope is spurs win both at home, steal 1 in OKC and finish it off at home in game 5.
I'm just hoping here that they don't fire Presti to hire Ferry.
WTF? Kenny is the smartest one on that show.
Exactly, Spurs frontline >>> Thunder frontline.
Ibaka is only a good help defender. LMA is too big for him. These day Ibaka is probably a bigger threat offensivley than on defense. I think Pop knows Timmy or LMA must be in at all times when adams and kanter are in.
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