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I don't give a if the media wants to sucks his Congo . As long as the Spurs win, it don't matter to me. Not our fault their team relies so heavily on playing a few guys load of minutes or they become dependent on officiating.
that means serge is "the real mvp"
I don't give a if the media wants to sucks his Congo . As long as the Spurs win, it don't matter to me. Not our fault their team relies so heavily on playing a few guys load of minutes or they become dependent on officiating.
they never really did this when manu was injured in 2011, and that team was build more around him than okc is built around ibaka. this is KDs team wtf can the mvp not do anything but score?
No ing kidding!
Injuries are a part of the game. Spurs could possibly have 6 or more les if not for injuries. Just think about how different the NBA would be if not for injuries. What if Grant didn't injured? What if Duncan didn't go down in 2000? What if Oden stayed healthy? Same for B Roy, D Rose, Yao, and a mul ude of other players. Just the way it goes.
Yeah i agree, LBJ would have shared les/mvps with Rose too. That chicago team would be running the heat into the ground, and highly likely re-aggravating wades injuries. Injuries is a different league.
injuries are why you have got to have a system and a deep bench, with players like sharks teeth, just in rows one after the next. you've also gotta manage mins, those okc players got run into the ground b/c they dont have a bench.
Ibaka's absence is HUGE. I tried to stress this as much as possible before g1 but nobody cares what I say. Ibaka not playing took this from a 6 game series in the Thunder's favor to a 5 game series in ours.
That being said, TNT can talk all they want about his injury. We're winning this series and I don't give a what the national pundits think.
i knew the Spurs wouldn't get any respect with that congolese bas out, but you would think he was their 1st or 2nd best player, not just a solid clog.
Yes, Ibaka is a bigger deal than Lebron James right now.
Replay of Durant swiping his arms and elbowing Kawhi in the face.
Reggie "I want to suck the MVP's " Miller: "what a sweeeeeeet move by Durant!"
game would have been different with ibaka playing, but its pure speculation to wonder JUST how much of a difference he would have made. the spurs wouldn't have gotten as many easy looks as they did, but at the same time he's Ibaka, not Bill Russell.
If Ibaka was playing, the Thunder would still lose.
You guys who use the awful mentality of, "The Spurs couldn't have done some of that stuff if Ibaka was out there", need to stop and think. Would they actually go that hard inside if he was? No, they'd be doing other to abuse other holes in OKC's defense, and OKC would still lose.
Y'all act like Pop abusing OKC's ty bigs is "lucky" rather than completely on purpose.
Stats support OK City much better against the spurs when Ibaka is on the floor.
After all the years of the Spurs limping into the playoffs. Tony with one foot. Manu running around with one elbow and no nose. Tim with one knee. Blair with no ACLs. Boris being so fat.
the Thunder. Abaka and their fans.
While losing Ibaka is huge for the Thunder, no way does one player negate 66 points in the paint.
If you ctrl+F that page "Ibaka", there is like 14 results
Exactly. Tony's hammy injury last year OBVIOUSLY cost us a le, I don't want to hear a thing about Ibaka CRY ME A RIVER!!!!
Injuries are a part of sport, they happen and there is nothing you can do about it. I'm tired of hearing how Spurs have the easy path every year (like last year, where they faced Grizzlies in the WCF), that's bull . Other teams have just as "easy" path as we do. If they don't have a player who could stop 38 year old player, well, that's their fault. If they don't rest players during the season, again their fault. Every team is responsible for their players, and not others.
this "what if Ibaka was playing" , because right now it's irrelevant. He is not playing, but the Thunder got blown out despite having "2 best players of this series" (
While I don't agree about your initial prediction (I think the series was a toss up before the injury), against the Spurs, Ibaka is the second most important player, behind Durant. His defense impacts our offense dramatically, but even more important is his defense sparks their offense, especially in the open court.
Regina is mute button worthy.
For the people that say the Spurs are lucky. What about that stretch of the 3 playoffs (09-11) where the Spurs Big 3 were battling plantar fasciitis (Duncan/Parker), jumper's knee (Duncan), broken ankle (Manu), broken hand (Parker), broken arm (Manu).
That is why everyone wrote the Spurs off. But they failed to realize the Spurs weren't fully healthy in any of those seasons.
Spurs had they share of the injury woes. You can include the early 00's when Elliott, Anderson, Duncan (father's death) and Robinson being out of the playoffs as well. Injuries happen. Magic had to play C against Moses Malone (one of the best C/PF ever) to win a championship when Kareem went down. Injuries happen.
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