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As long as Duncan rings.
Even if they win a championship, we'll have to factor in how silly they make Lebron's team look.
They're gonna need to top 2014 on that.
As long as Duncan rings.
This year's team is the most talented but it hasn't rung yet so my vote is still for 2005 Spurs - big 3 in their prime, deep, versatile. 2007's role players were a little long in the tooth.
I am so in love with you.
I also didn't know you vaped.
The Blazers lost their 4 of their starting lineup; the Mavericks struck out badly in free agency; the Rockets got rid of Josh Smith and came out flat, getting their coach fired; Memphis and New Orleans are ing MASH units; the Suns, Timberwolves and Lakers are competing for ping pong balls.You might be right, but these are professional basketball teams we're talking about here... How can they be so bad?
Nine teams last year won 45 or more games in the west. This year, it'll probably be four teams.
Also I just want to say, everyone who said the Spurs were "done" as early as 2008. Eight years later, we're still having this conversation. (Mostly referring to the media, but also some gots on the forum)
I'm with the camp that says that the wins record is inflated by a weaken league, especially teams 3-6 in the West.
Everyone else is so bad because they don't have the infrastructure the Spurs and warriors have now. Teams are run by the players and prima Donna star players get away with murder. Aside from that a reliance on athletiscism instead of basketball iq has sunk most teams futures. It only takes a few pick up games at the local gym to realize that Michael Jordan has ruined basketball and even lacrosse. In my experience playing lacrosse at a very high level in college the teams that beat us played just like the Spurs while my team and most others relied on the greatness of one or two players to get it done which is not sustainable. Team games are just that, team games, and the Spurs and warriors understand that while everyone else is just groping around in the dark.
It can only be decided in the postseason.
If we win a championship, then we are in consideration.
It's a great defensive team and probably the deepest. Prior teams always had unplayable guys at the end of the bench. In this team there are no unplayable guys. End of rotation players like Bonner, Boban and Simmons can give a few minutes of quality play. Boban and Simmons are projects with potential so they kill benches in garbage time. It's made for a great point differential.
But it doesn't mean anything if you don't ring and for that maybe the depth isn't as important as whether the top players can dominate.
In 2014 or even 2013, the Spurs won games against good teams like Bulls, young GSW...resting the Big 3.
Sadly, our 2016 supporting cast isn't as good as I thought.
All the doubters and naysayers who expressed a "something seems off about this team" feeling were more or less right--even if they salvage this series..
I think they are a good team --their defensive Peak is historical indeed-- but it is clear that they have fattened the record by beating up on mediocre compe ion in a down year for the league (especially early in the season)..
Their lack of signature/dominant wins against Top 5 teams all year along was pretty ominous..
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Yep, product of a ty, low talent NBA season. The fact that Heat/Raptors and Thunder could be in the final 4 just confirms that. And like was said above, Spurs didn't have one dominating win on the road against the top teams in the regular season. Even the 2010 Spurs had more impressive late season wins.
Not bad for basically a 1st year team considering LMA, West and Fathead are fairly new. There's also Simmons, Martin and Miller, Boban and for a time, Rasual Butler. These guys never played together but somehow they won a lot of games. The vets contributed less this season than ever before. All in all it's a pretty decent transition year, if that's what it is. It could be worse.
Clearly not.
Welp.
FINALLY.
I've been saying this all season. This Spurs team couldn't hold a candle to 2013 or 14, or 2005 and 2007. The offense was never good enough and the defense goes MIA at times.
I admired this year's team but something always felt off about them.
I agree - LMA and KL can win a lot of games for you next year. Unfortunately, the decline of the big 3 this year has been too much to overcome. Those three guys could put so much pressure on an opponent in the past. Now they are now just above average players when healthy - not their fault, this is just a fact.
I thought the Spurs would get their wake up call against the Dubs which would have been acceptable with the season GS is having, but it's happening against ing OKC
Not even that regular season win against the Dubs was impressive considering Iggy, Bogut, and Ezeli were all out and the Splash Bros were a no show and the Spurs still barely escaped.
That was the scariest thing about that game man. We forced the dubs to play exactly to the tempo we liked, made them shoot like crap, and they were missing players...and we barely won.I thought the Spurs would get their wake up call against the Dubs which would have been acceptable with the season GS is having, but it's happening against ing OKC
Not even that regular season win against the Dubs was impressive considering Iggy, Bogut, and Ezeli were all out and the Splash Bros were a no show and the Spurs still barely escaped.
Even when the Dubs didn't break 93 points in the second matchup in SA and shot like ...they still won. I HATE OKC, but I may have to take some solace in the fact that had we faced Golden State, it may be a little bit like the 2001 Lakers series.
Yeah probably better for the NBA to see Thunder/Warriors. Would be a sweep but it would be four compe ive games. The way we play, Dubs would get off to a quick 15-0 run.
I just hope the 67 win season doesn't fool PATFO to mostly stand pat. They desperately need upgrades. Keeping leftovers from the 2014 team isn't an option anymore.
Yup, especially our backcourt which desperately needs to be overhauled.
Wish we were somehow able to keep Belli
Beli for his offense for sure but imo CoJo was the bigger loss, especially the way he's been breathing life into the choking Raptors and DeFrozen.
The Western Conference is much worse this year. The Spurs took advantage in the RS. But this is the playoffs and there's not much you can do when the Thunderefs decide to show up.
Don't have to tell me about it, I was at Game 2 of the Raptors series and while it was fun....it was also some of the worst basketball I've ever seen.
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