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Ooops... that should be 4-1
As I typed I was thinking "the Spurs beat them in 5 games"
Ooops... that should be 4-1
As I typed I was thinking "the Spurs beat them in 5 games"
Yep and the last thing the NBA needs coming off the off-season scandal with that idiot Referee is any kind of hint of conspiracy come playoff time. The best teams need to make it to the finals, period.
Excellent article.
I agree with the X factor and OV has a point in the suspension of Bowen/NOT suspension of Stackhouse. That looks SO different from Crawford being eliminated from playoffs after ejecting Duncan for laughing on the bench.
I think Stern would like to see some new faces in the finals. As for non US markets, games are at impossible hours with irrelevant commercials. Very dificult to sell to non-aficionados.
For Stern to be able to control his refs to force an outcome is unrealistic. What is slightly more realistic is that the refs can't be controlled at all and have their own personal agendas and problems. Vanity, mob connections, senility, stupidity, blindness to name a few.
Fact of life: Aging superstars no longer get superstar protection.
Anyone think Shaq still gets the refs to look the other way when he bulls THROUGH somebody?
The league, through the refs, turns to the new superstars to pump up ratings and the money. Been there, seen that!
The league worked way to hard to get LA and Boston good again. They're not going to blow it by giving the Spurs an even chance to win a game.
The league didn't do a thing, the GM's for those teams did.
just like last year when they all sucked on dal n phx , Spurs are still the best
Celtics have Garnett and Pistons Billups.
Lakers have Gasol (has yet to win a playoff OR any relevant game in his entire career).
Spurs have Manu.
Pistons and Spurs won't go down without a fight.
he's not going to tell the refs hey you gotta help this team or ruin that other team but he can make you play the toughest month (in terms of amount of games played, quality of the teams you face, quan y of back to back games, and number of games you play as a visitor) a team has ever had to deal with in the history of the NBA.
and isn't a coincidence that the spurs had to face this in march, the month that everybody knows our guys use to get into championship form.
i don't think that the NBA fixes games (i wouldn't be watching it if that were the case) but i do think that some teams have some privileges.
(sorry for the grammatical and spelling mistakes)
I'm amazed he actually thinks we'd get 10 free throws in a game 7 against LA.Prediction: The third seed and a controversial demise in round two after the Lakers benefit from a 65-10 free throw advantage in Game 7.
It doesn't matter who you play ...your demise is expected early this year.
I was thinking the same thing.
He actually doesn't knock the Spurs in that article beyond saying that the league has it in for us. That's his primary reasoning as to why we won't repeat. Considering the no-calls I've seen on the defending NBA champions and their biggest star player this year I'd say he's not far off.
i just don't see the whole ref thing going down.
so? this is par for the course with the lakers.
its also what makes beating them so sweet.
so long as half the roleplayers are coming through for each game, spurs will play some damn good basketball, and that should be enough to take down these new inexperienced teams. no team in the west is as stable as ours, many have made dramatic changes...
in a 7 game series we can learn the hornets and use their youth against them. chandler and bonzi are boneheads and paul is very emotional. besides udoka and bonner, all the spurs are "wily vet" types.
the lakers have jackson and kobe, but we still have a team designed to beat their triangle. gasol+bynun isnt near shaq, and odom is going to make plays for us (the NBA should suspend him for smoking pot before the playoffs, that might help the lakers more than anything else!) bowen will do his part.
in a sense the jazz worry me the most. they have better rebounding and deron + boozer are so consistent. but i think sloan burns his guys out before the playoffs even start, and we killed them last year.
also, if you think of the west contenders coaches, pop has beaten all of them in the playoffs before. avery is the only one he hasnt and hes the least likely opponent for us.
He makes a great point. I think there are going to be a lot of things that have to go favorably in the Spurs way for them to make it out of the West alone. And once they get to the Finals, it's no cakewalk either...Boston and Pistons both have owned the season series against the Spurs this year.
There are so many tough teams in the West, for an old team like the Spurs, going through 3 straight tough matches is going to be tough.
He forgot Finals MVP Tony Parker.......
The best post season player in the history of the NBA.
Wake the up.
the best post season player in the history of the NBA?
i think that's taking it a little too far..
Watch your 2007 DVD and get back to me.
he was clearly joking or at least that's what i want to bealive. he seems like an inteligent guy
yeah... so what? i'm not saying that parker sucks like a lot of stupid fans here but he surely isn't the best playoff player ever.
remember the 2005 finals?
2005 was a long time ago.
2007, Tony Parker destroyed everyone. He is going to do it again. You watch.
i hope so if he plays like last season the trophy is ours 'cause tim and manu will be there the question mark right now is TP.
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