For the Spurs to win the 16-17 Championship...

[GSH]

[SnakeBoy]

They need Kyle Anderson, who is going to see his minutes go up, to shoot 3s south of 40%.

Pretty sure Kyle can shoot south of 40%

[Hoops Czar]

I agree. The Warriors will dominate just like the 2013-2014 Denver Broncos did with that unstoppable offense. They have their 2 Peyton Mannings in Durant/Curry. NBA= ed.

That unstoppable Broncos offense got curbstomped in the Super Bowl by the Seahawks 43-8.

[T Park]

Warriors shooting needs to fall back to earth.

Warriors need to have locker room issues, which I think may happen.

Warriors need to have a couple injuries.

I think their shooting near the end of the year and playoffs did. Maybe not.

I think they're due for injuries as well.

[spursreport]

That unstoppable Broncos offense got curbstomped in the Super Bowl by the Seahawks 43-8.

BOOM! Which is exactly what will happen to the Warriors in some kind of form or fashion. Unless they get injuries to other teams and another championship handed to them, they won't ring with 2 Peyton Manning's leading the way. It just won't happen.

[Kikoluna]

1. Leonard averaging 26 pig
2. Aldridge averaging 24 pig
3. Manu and patty playing at 2014 level
4. KYLE NOT PLAYING AT ALL.

[skulls138]

Let's be realistic.. Nobody gonna win the next championship except Warriors.

Deja vu all over again. I know...this time you mean it.

[alpha_HaZE]

Pretty sure Kyle can shoot south of 40%

Yes, 38 or 39% would be neat.

[alpha_HaZE]

If Cavs have 3 that means you think Kevin Love is top 15 player in NBA?

I think he is, and he played like one during the finals! It's just that his stats are down, which is normal since he plays with Lebron and Kyrie, two high usage players.

[HarlemHeat37]

I think he is, and he played like one during the finals! It's just that his stats are down, which is normal since he plays with Lebron and Kyrie, two high usage players.

[SuperCam]

the more i look at it the less i am impressed with the warriors. green had a great game7 but dissapeared in some earlier finals games including getting mentally rattled by LeKing and also vanished during half the WCF. Wardell shrinks during the post season because of his frail little waif morphology. and thompson despite killing the thunder if you look at this stats are rather pedestrian he's a coattail rider, tbh.

don't think green can put too many minutes as center in the playoffs when they cant afford to put that scrub dallas center they signed in. MVIggy is probably too old at this point to dominate like he did in 2015, tbh, especially if he's starting.

and durant is the biggest beta ass in the game right now. whose shots is he taking in which the margin of his efficiency is going to be so much greater than what he's replacing? don't tell me just barnes because you know he has to eat more than that. and he's supposed to do this while defending LMA or LeBron?


they got no answer for the LMA Gasol front court tandem. watch the finals without bogut once they stopped getting offensive rebounds their offense decombusted.

[look_at_g_shred]

Pop needs to shave

[Strategic]

Mills need to shoot like this is a contract year. (Believe it is) TP & MG need to play like its three years ago. Oh , it goes on and on. It's possibles

[playbonner15]

Pop needs to shave

Shaved Pop == Give-a- -Pop

[cutewizard]

Now that I'm old and have a little perspective, looking back at the Spurs since the late 80's, I see that winning a championship is really a very hard thing to do. The Spurs had good teams in 2004 and 2006, and 2000 before Duncan got hurt, but they didn't win championships. It takes a combination of playing great basketball, having a HEALTHY team, and a little luck with match-ups and the playoffs and injuries to opponents. When Golden State won last year the Cavaliers were injured. Pretty much every year injuries play a big role.

The Spurs should be a top 5 team next year so they definitely have potential to ring.
1. Leonard is still young enough to continue improving
2. Gasol should be an upgrade over Duncan
3. Aldridge in his 2nd season with team will be more comfortable
4. Green is a ? in my book, but he is in his prime
5. Patty Mills is in a contract year and might go off

That being said the bench is a huge mystery and the Spurs seem to be a few pieces away from putting it all together.

Pop will have to take a chance and play some of the 1st year players, since so many players left after last season. He will be forced to play some new guys.

Of course there's also Parker and maybe he'll go to Italy for 3-4 weeks, receive "treatments" from an old man wearing sunglasses, and return with increased speed, strength and agility like a 25 yr old. It happens all the time in sports these days.

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thanks bro, great post!

please do tell us more about this "old man and his treatments"

enlighten us more, thank you!

[cutewizard]

the more i look at it the less i am impressed with the warriors. green had a great game7 but dissapeared in some earlier finals games including getting mentally rattled by LeKing and also vanished during half the WCF. Wardell shrinks during the post season because of his frail little waif morphology. and thompson despite killing the thunder if you look at this stats are rather pedestrian he's a coattail rider, tbh.

don't think green can put too many minutes as center in the playoffs when they cant afford to put that scrub dallas center they signed in. MVIggy is probably too old at this point to dominate like he did in 2015, tbh, especially if he's starting.

and durant is the biggest beta ass in the game right now. whose shots is he taking in which the margin of his efficiency is going to be so much greater than what he's replacing? don't tell me just barnes because you know he has to eat more than that. and he's supposed to do this while defending LMA or LeBron?


they got no answer for the LMA Gasol front court tandem. watch the finals without bogut once they stopped getting offensive rebounds their offense decombusted.

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totally agree with you man

kudos and more power!

[EIC]

Warriors shooting needs to fall back to earth.

Warriors need to have locker room issues, which I think may happen.

Warriors need to have a couple injuries.

I think there is a strong possibility all three happen. The law of averages says Curry and Thompson cannot both continue shooting ~45% from beyond the arc. And, Curry's issues aside, they have been relatively lucky on the injury front. And there are a lot of big personalities in that locker room now, including Kerr's.

[lilbthebasedgod]

We need to tank to have a chance in 2017-2018 because we certainly don't now and its only gonna get worse.

We're not going to because we're too good. But for the next few years the reality is that unless our bench comes out of nowhere and is good, then we just have to get through being a decent playoff team and nothing more.

[EIC]

the more i look at it the less i am impressed with the warriors. green had a great game7 but dissapeared in some earlier finals games including getting mentally rattled by LeKing and also vanished during half the WCF. Wardell shrinks during the post season because of his frail little waif morphology. and thompson despite killing the thunder if you look at this stats are rather pedestrian he's a coattail rider, tbh.

don't think green can put too many minutes as center in the playoffs when they cant afford to put that scrub dallas center they signed in. MVIggy is probably too old at this point to dominate like he did in 2015, tbh, especially if he's starting.

and durant is the biggest beta ass in the game right now. whose shots is he taking in which the margin of his efficiency is going to be so much greater than what he's replacing? don't tell me just barnes because you know he has to eat more than that. and he's supposed to do this while defending LMA or LeBron?


they got no answer for the LMA Gasol front court tandem. watch the finals without bogut once they stopped getting offensive rebounds their offense decombusted.

Scurry is a little Peter Pan twink (NTTAWWT) that disappears in the playoffs. GSW is gonna trade him for an elite center a year from now. Book it.

[cjw]

I agree. The Warriors will dominate just like the 2013-2014 Denver Broncos did with that unstoppable offense. They have their 2 Peyton Mannings in Durant/Curry. NBA= ed.

Except the Broncos defense is what won them their only le this century, and Peyton was awful his last two years. I'd LOVE for Durant and Curry to be Peyton when it comes to sucking in the postseason.

But yeah Peyton was good in 13-14 but defense hadn't reached those heights yet.

[Kawhitstorm]

I meant favorites vs. the Warriors..

I don't really buy the Cavs, though..they essentially needed every single possible break to win the championship(Draymond Green suspension, Curry and Thompson going ice cold, questionable officiating in the game where Curry fouled out, getting "good Kyrie" for 3 straight games, Iguodala getting hurt, Bogut missing the end of the series)..they also relied heavily on 3 super-human Lebron performances, which will become less frequent each year moving forward as he continues to pile on the mileage..

Cripples are stock piling on ball handlers who are going to run circles around Porker/Patty/Manure so I would say the Cripples would give the Spurs more problems than the Cavs as long as CP3/Blake/Re are healthy. (Hopefully, GM Doc breakups the team:)

LeBron is the only guy on the Cavs that can check Kawhi so he can't play help defense nor help out much on the boards & Love would have to play b/c Jefferson/Frye can't boxout Pau/LMA (Love can't guard 'em either:)

Probably need Dedmon to give the team 10-15 minutes & play the Hibbert role since LeBron has no regard for LMA/Pau in the paint.

[Kawhitstorm]

the more i look at it the less i am impressed with the warriors. green had a great game7 but dissapeared in some earlier finals games including getting mentally rattled by LeKing and also vanished during half the WCF. Wardell shrinks during the post season because of his frail little waif morphology. and thompson despite killing the thunder if you look at this stats are rather pedestrian he's a coattail rider, tbh.

Too bad Softridge will bend over & get butt ed by Gaymond. On the other hand, Klank Thompson should revert to his postseason choker mode against Danny/Kawhi.

[Chinook]

1. A Warriors injury to Dominos, Curry or Draymond, which would make the Spurs' favorites
2. A Warriors injury to Klay Thompson, which would give the Spurs even odds
3. Parker needs to undergo a "special" procedure like Peyton Manning and Kobe did
4. Kyle Anderson needs to become legit
5. Need 1 competent bench big
6. Green needs to be 2014-2015 Danny, not last season's

Pretty much this, but I would say the biggest thing is that the Spurs need to be healthy and locked in defensively, especially Gasol. I think the starters are much more even than people think due to the fact that GS can't guard the Spurs down low. You get eight guys who are playing their hearts out, and I think they have a great shot no matter what. Would also want someone to come in a play defense off the bench.

[SAGirl]

Spurs need SHOOTING,

They need Kyle Anderson, who is going to see his minutes go up, to shoot 3s south of 40%. He is already better defender than Diaw, and has higher free throw attempt rate when attacking the basket. If he improves his shooting, he will be an upgrade over Boris!

Tony and KL, already shoot 3s near or above 40%, if Danny Green is going to have a bounce back season, offensively, he is a solid defender year in and year out, and all three of them shoot north of 40% beyond the 3 point line (and it can happen for a playoff series, fellas) with LA, and Pau, who also shoots a respectable 35%, we would be hard to stop.

They will also need Patty to re-gain his shooting touch, and be able to produce on nights that Tony, who is going to be on minutes restriction, won't.

That's not a long shot, with the addition of Pau, who is good enough to carry the offense for short stretches, Patty and Danny will have more space to shoot next year. So I expect them to have better years all around. Also I expect Kyle to make the jump that is so typical of a 2 year to 3 year Spurs player.

The problem is that they only have the starters + Patty + KA + Manu, who is a liability on defense and has become a liability on the offensive end as well. His opponents know he is "looking to pass" on the pick and roll. We will need at least 2 of the new players, not named Pau Gasol, to be key contributors of the bench. Maybe it will be Jonathon Simmons and a big, or Dejounte sees minutes and Bertans shoots well.

Time will tell if that would happen or not. It's a long shot right now, to be honest.

Good assessment. Harlem had a good one too, but I agree that considering the monolith we are facing, we need Jon to give us something or for Bertans to be reliable (and this is aside of Kyle expected to become a solid and reliable player now)

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Kawhi needs to pull a 2003 Duncan.
Kyle should be able to hang with the Warriors.
Perhaps a mid-season trade for a PnR guard.