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Did Curry pass Green's record already? Mother er is averaging like 15 3fga a game
Spurs: 16-32 (50%) vs. the Heatles vaunted postseason defense
Duds: 17-36 (47%) vs. Love/Kyrie
Did Curry pass Green's record already? Mother er is averaging like 15 3fga a game
I watched his highlights and it was like 8 plays that were three pointers and 2 nice layups.
It literally is a 3 point league now. As proven in game 3 when Cavs finally made their 3's which led to a blowout victory.
If you make your 3's you win, if you don't you lose. Thats what these playoffs are about.
Probably to an extreme. Not that I don't like a 3 pt shot but it's OP, and if you foul a shooter it's a potential 4 point play. See how easy it is to call a foul on a shooter vs in the paint for post players. It's too skewed towards perimeter shooting that's why the bigs are increasingly irrelevant. Plus it presents high variance bc perimeter shooting is streaky. There is no end in sight to GSW.
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Alright here we go again. A reason to watch the game tonight for those who are put off by the match-up.
Same opportunity as last year for the '14 Spurs to retain their all-time Finals biggest win margin per game, but it's going to take a lot more luck.
GS is +41 so far - meaning they need to only win games 3 and 4 by a combined 15 points or less for the Spurs record to continue.
A lot of posters have already referenced 2017 GS as another version of that Spurs le team, simply based on the redemption factor from a given-away le the year before.
I tend to side with this pov, meaning the Warriors should easily win these next two games. Durant and Curry are at their apexes so far this Finals.
.....Hopefully James conjures up his 2013 game 7 version of himself and makes it compe ive tonight.
Go Cavs Go!
Yeah, I don't buy the GSW redemption. I mean they added a top 3 player to their roster. That's not like a determined Spurs with aging leaders losing like they did and then coming back with essentially the same team. Spurs story is way more dramatic.
Yeah the redemption story is weak with GSW. They added a top player to a team with 73 wins so there would be as little completion as possible. Once Kawhi got taken out their easy path got even easier. Cavs are not playing tough enough and once again allowing them to shoot from anywhere they want.
Kevin Durant expected to meet with Spurs' Popovich, Duncan - July 2016
Spurs had 67 wins and wanted to sign Durant.
Every team wants to be as dominant as they can possibly be. Folks here act like that's cheating but their teams were in the talks as well and the Spurs have absolutely no room to talk, since they were trying to do the same thing.
Spurs had 67 wins but we didn't just come off of back to back appearances in the finals and literally a minute away from being back to back champs. We obviously had something not right with the team since we couldn't even get passed the 2nd round, even though we won 67 games. Oh and we didn't just break the all time record for best regular season record.
imagine if the 2005 Spurs had acquired dwayne wade or Kobe Bryant. Prime Duncan, prime manu, prime Parker, prime kobe/wade. A really really great team acquiring a hall of fame player lol. That's pretty much warriors situation
Completely off base. Durant joining the spurs would have created a super team. They were not close to being a super team, just had a great system and coaching. Kawhi wasn't a top tier scorer at all. The only scorer they had was LMA, and a fat old SG at point guard. Kawhi evolved into unstoppable offensively this year. Hardly a super team.
He chose to JOIN a super team. The team was already at that super team recognition.
Much like people comparing the heat an lebron. Lebron MADE a super team in Miami. If Durant had joined the heat after he lost to them in the finals, it would be thr closest thing to what he did with the warriors. He joined, not made, a super team.
Oh stop. They were 6 games back of the Warriors. 67 wins is the most the Spurs ever had. They have the reigning DPOY, two Finals MVPs, Aldridge, Manu "the franchise" Ginobili and the best up and coming PG in the league. You cannot tell me they didn't want to stack.
WCF in 2012, Finals in 2013 and 2014, Ring in 2014, Missed Finals in 2015, signed Aldridge and win 67 games in 2016, WCF in 2017
Warriors only acquired Durant. They developed everyone else that mattered except AI.
But yeah we were suffering big time.
Durbeta jumped to a 73 win team, thats the top tier definition of useless championship.
It doesnt matter if they drafted curry green Thompson, they play really well and became a super team. Even though Spurs drafted Duncan Manu and Parker didn't mean we weren't a great team. Adding a current MVP candidate and likely HOF player to the mid 2000's Spurs team would have given the league no chance. That's essentially where the warriors are at.
and Spurs recent success prior to 2015 hasn't been continued so changes were needed. And it's not like awe made finals in 2015 and 2016.
They won the other time because Irving and Love were injured, this time they added one superstar and thats too much for Cleveland.
What if Shaq went to SA in ´00 because he wanted an easy ring? that would be horrible.
Even Durbeta said it was wrong 7 years ago but made a whorish move.
So if a team plays really ty, they can sign whomever and be perfectly fine, but if that team started playing much better suddenly, they cannot draft that same person because now they are stacked.. did I get that right?
The NBA is a watered down league, there was no need to do that pussy move when you could go to the Finals on your own, the CHeat championships aint worth either.
Shaq to Spurs, Barkley to Bulls, Garnett to the CHeat, are pussy moves and even Durbeta said that about 7 years ago.
Is the equivalent to the spoiled millennial buying championships from Amazon, and thats Durbeta who will win an useless championship beating injured teams and hitting high school girlie jumpers during the Finals.
We all have short memories.
In 2001 Spurs came off the best record in the league and recruited prime Chris Webber hard that summer. Things got so far DRob may not have been resigned to make room.
In 2003 Spurs knocked off the Nets and turned right around and recruited the heck out of prime Jason Kidd. They fanned on him but added Horry, Nesterovic, Ron Mercer and Hedo Turkglu.
In 2005 they were the defending champs and on Sept 1st won a bidding war for the recently amnestied Mike Finley who was still a damn good player.
I honestly don't begrudge Durant for his move simply because the Spurs were right there with them even with a super eneven roster in WCF game 1. I think a couple moves and they'll be in the hunt come 2018 or 2019.
And as to the thread, just need Cleveland to lose tonight by 10 or less and the '14 Spurs 14 pt differential per game is a intact.
They had a 40 year old manu and a pg who cants pass? Are you seriously saying old manu and parker are super team material? Thats ridiculous. If one of the best offensive playrers in the league had joined LMA, and DPOY Kawhi, then they would have been a super team. The Kawhi/LMA led team that lost to the thunder and didnt have more than two players able to score 20 points in a game was not a super team man. That's just silly.
You're changing the argument, the argument was that what the spurs and warriors tried to do was the same, which is not true. The spurs were not a super team and GSW were. The spurs had the option of becoming one with Durant, and having three superstars in LMA, Kawhi, and durant. GSW had 4 all stars before durant joined.
Were the spurs trying to get better? Yes, as all teams do. Agreed. Was it the same as GSW? No way.
I don't think winning 60+ alone makes a super team.
In any case, beyond the numbers, Spurs '14 means a lot more. They used coaching, chemistry, resilience, etc, to beat a super team.. it was such a great story. Warriors were not bad as a team when they started rising. They drafted well and all, but this series is about out-talenting.
KD is just proving that given enough talent (and injuries) you can beat anybody
Spurs have been overachieving with their talent level for some time, tbh...Now it is time to get actual good young players
Record could still stand
Spurs Finals performance margin-wise won't ever be eclipsed unless it is total mismatch (Dubs are only +25 now vs Cavs)..Greatest display of ball movement, shooting and execution I've ever seen in my lifetime..
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