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Size wins when it matters most. The better defending and rebounding team almost always wins in the playoffs.
These are facts.
Wonder which is more overblown: That size means nothing after the Spurs whipped the Lakers, or that size means everything after the Lakers whipped the Spurs. If the Lakers can win four of seven, power to them.
Size wins when it matters most. The better defending and rebounding team almost always wins in the playoffs.
These are facts.
Lakers win the rebound battle by 6, Duncan has a bad day and it's back to the size issue.
Hilarity.
Celtics are dead then since they are lower the spurs in rebounding.
how convenient that you omitted their insane defense.
Moving along...
Like Pop didn't change his MO this year?
Gasol is more of an offensive player than Bynum so that makes Duncan more likely to get into foul trouble guarding Gasol.
So you're saying the Lakers' last two championships are statistical abberations then?
Yeah, his zero personal fouls in this game made all the difference.
You mean when the Lakers outrebounded Boston by an ungodly margin to win Game 7?
good one, scro.
You're doing a piss-poor job of rationalizing a thoroughly dominating performance. It's personnel, you dumb . Some teams have the right ones for the playoffs, some don't. The Spurs don't, get over it.
Life goes on.
You accuse me of rationalizing for calling this a playoff game for the Lakers, then you say the exact same thing. Nice job.
Accuse? you're in full spin control, all I see is your name next to last post in each thread
How convenient that you got called out for your "aberration" comment and are attempting to deflect now. Btw, in case you forgot about that aberration, a shooting guard had 15 rebounds in game 7 of that series...a ing shooting guard
Perhaps you need to look up the word "aberration".Accuse? you're in full spin control, all I see is your name next to last post in each thread
How convenient that you got called out for your "aberration" comment and are attempting to deflect now. Btw, in case you forgot about that aberration, a shooting guard had 15 rebounds in game 7 of that series...a ing shooting guard
You seem to be saying that the Lakers can't be beaten because they have more defense and rebounding than the Spurs, but then you give an example of the Lakers beating better defense and rebounding teams by outrebounding them in big games.
I'm sure all the Laker fans appreciate a Knick fan in here fighting for the honor of their team, btw.
Actually, I take back part of what I said earlier. I do take something away from this game and that is, this fan base, as a whole, is pathetic. Four time champions, two times they've defeated the Lakers in the playoffs (should have been three), three straight times they've beaten them in the regular season entering today, twenty-two game home winning streak, eight fewer losses than the Lakers entering today, 3-5 game lead on the entire league for much of the season. Yet despite all that, all it took was one lopsided loss for you idiots to revert to your usual "we can't beat this team, we're the little team that can't" act.
When are you clowns going to show some backbone and stop acting like this franchise is the Mavs or some other non-championship winning franchise? Speaking of the Mavs, their fans have more confidence in their team and carry themselves with more swagger and did I mention that they've never won a championship? You wonder why Lakers fans act like arrogant pricks and treat you like you're their ? Because you enable them. You play into this whole "small town, small team, can't compete with the big boys" crap, with your defeatist at ude.
I am not worried, the lakers were butthurt by all of our ass whippings. so they had to prove they could play well against us. one quarter was all they could give us......do that in series and maybe that would impress me, but for one quarter with TD only scoring 2 pts.........the fakers are dreaming.
TD hasn't been a factor on offense in ANY Laker game. In case you hadn't noticed, the Lakeshow held the Spurs to 52 points through three quarters. When you talk about the ass whipping, are you talking about the 15 point s fest when the Lakers were reeling or the Dice tip in only after the Spurs bricked the first four attempts and blew an eight point 4Q lead?
Your team is trash and has been, why are you even talking bro? I am serious too! Bron left your team for dead
That post should be sticked on this board so everybody would read it !
WOW.. that put me in my place. Your so delusional, you can't even stay on topic. Or maybe its just reading comprehension that's failing you.Your team is trash and has been, why are you even talking bro? I am serious too! Bron left your team for dead
Has been? Cleveland's made it farther in the playoffs the last two years than the Spurs have.
A classic case of living in the past. NOTHING since 2007.
Hope you have recordings of those games. They're gonna need to last you a while.
Mental pictures last longer than recordings.
There's no such thing as a second place prize or San Antonio would get top billing.
Length wasn't the problem vs Lakers.
It was the Lakers shooting extremely well for 3 qtrs, with the Spurs shooting extremely poorly (including multiple missed layups and put backs).
Splitter's too weak a rebounder to help much. Maybe they can work with him this summer they way they worked with RJ last summer.
If the Spurs had shot +/- a couple %age like Lakers from the beginning, the too-short Spurs would have probably won.
LOL wow, and this year what are they doing? YOUR FUTURE IS WHAT? HAHAHHAHHA OKAY THEN, Spurs with the best record this year, your team with what this year and next year and beyond? THINK about the present there bro, period.No that would be your team in 07, the only time they made the finals and got swept by SA bro.....
You will not win here, don't try it.
BTW 4 les idiot, why are you talking about 2nd place there for this team?
I agree, Splitter held his own defensively and is long enough and can bang and rebound against big men. I really do think Pop should lean towards giving him a few more minutes against teams with bigs.
I'm not saying we will lose to LAL, I'm confident this team has what it takes to beat them if we face each other in a series. But the Lakers length can prove to be too much especially when your starting center is 6'6 Blair. Splitter can definitely help in these situations. Gasol and Bynum can shoot right over Blair with ease, so at times we will need to go big and match Duncan with McDyess/Splitter to help on rebounding and to be able to defend their bigs.
I don't see why it's hard to see that. Their will be days when we absolutely need 2 big men on the court. Some days we'll be shooting really well and playing good defense that we won't need Splitter, but their height advantage is too much on most nights.
Also, I am a bit surprised that Anderson hasn't been able to get just a few real minutes, not in garbage time. He showed amazing promise at the beginning of the season, can hit the 3 and is a pretty decent defender. Yesterday on a few possessions, he guarded Kobe pretty well and kept with him and got a hand in his face, something Hill sturggles to do while guarding Kobe.
Why not give him just 5-10 minutes to see what he can do in real minutes, he's definitely better thank Novak as an overall offensive player and on defense he's much better, faster and more athletic. I like Novak as a 3 point specialist, cuz that's what he is, but not for anything else.
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