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Hornets and Lakers in the WCF. Pistons over the Lakers in the Finals. '04 all over again.
There are so many good teams in the west that any team can win it all.....
Hornets and Lakers in the WCF. Pistons over the Lakers in the Finals. '04 all over again.
Corrected, but nice take.
I like our chances against the Laker or any other team in the west if we can get Barry and Horry back. Without both of those guys I still think we can win, but our big three would need to be perfect.
I do like our matchup against the Lakers regardless. Bowen does a great job on Kobe and Timmy does a great job on Pau. Their two biggest offense threats are meeting two of the best defenders for their repsective positions in the league. The Lakers can't possibly ask for worse matchups from an offensive standpoint.
Our toughest matchups will come from the east and the Hornets.
The Jazz cannot win away, the Mavs can't guard any of our big three, and the Suns will choke once again.
Boy are you wrong...
I admit we lost to a better team in the Mavericks even with Manu fouling Dirk with the and one... but everyone that was watching the series knew who the better team was that year and it was clearly the Spurs....
Even the Lakers knew it that year... but that shot Fisher hit just killed the Spurs confidence.. it reminded them of who the Lakers were and it just killed their focus..
They were weak minded after that and got finished... but I have no doubt in my mind that we would've atleast finished off the Pistons in the finals if it wasn't for that shot.
I have a hard time seeing anyone taking out the Spurs in a 7 game series.
If i HAD to pick someone I'd say Lakers have the best chance...but even with that matchup I'll take the spurs to win 4-2 in that one.
So apparently the Spurs were so good in '04 that they allowed one shot to completely destroy their confidence and cause them to lose two games in a row? That means they WEREN'T as good as you thought they were because if they were they wouldn't have crumbled and folded. Go back and hide under your rock idiot.
Championship teams rise to the occasion when called upon. The Spurs didn't do it in '04 and did not deserve to be champions that year.
Lakers probably have the best shot but Mavs have the most animosity and that can go along way in a series, even if the matchups are bad.
I still wouldn't be surprised if Mavs or Lakers beat Spurs but it would be tough, not impossible.
I would say the Suns have a very good chance at knocking out the Spurs. They definitely have a chip on their shoulder from last year and now that they have Shaq it really changes the makeup of that series. Tomorrow should be a good game, if the Suns can win out I wouldn't take that team lightly if I were a Spurs fan.
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No the reason you guys lost is because Phil took Tony out of the series. The Lakers started mugging him and he disappeared. For everytime I hear spurs fans cry about .4, they never bring up that Duncan also hit an impossible shot over Shaq.
I agree. Bynum is also a very smart player and a very good passer. He will fit in seamlessly with the new Lakers. I'll be surprised if it takes more than a few games for him to fit in.
Anybody can take these mofos!
Why does it bother you that spurs fans always bring up .4? Ofcourse we will always remember it as the BS shot. I can say Duncan's shot was BS to. If we had won the game and Laker fans were the one's crying about that shot I wouldn't care. We won the series. The only difference is that Duncan's shot actually counted before time expired.
Utah is only team that can beat Spurs this year. And if they do, then I hope they win it all. Jerry Sloan deserves a le, IMO.
at your sig about "Jonathan Chow"
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The Lakers didn't do it in '04 either, they got exposed by the Pistons for the lucky team they were to even make it that far...
Don't know if they are the "only" team that can, but they certainly would be the one that would worry me the most.
I think their road record is a little bit misleading, and we know they are beasts at home.
And yeah, if they knock off the Spurs, then I would pull for them to go all the way also.
At least they GOT to the Finals in '04. The 3-peat Lakers were far from lucky, winning 3 in a row means you're ing good. You should know better, your team hasn't even repeated yet.
good use of the "yet"! You know its coming don't you?
The 3-peat Lakers were 2000-2002, what does that have to do with the 2004 version of your team? Going by your logic, the Lakers should have won in 2003 also but they were handled in 6...
what happened to the lakers when they "played" the pistons in the finals?
You just said the 2004 Lakers were lucky. Lucky would be beating the Spurs in Game 7 off of a 0.4 second shot. That didn't happen, the Lakers trounced the Spurs 4-2. That's not luck, that's called flat out beating your opponent.
They weren't champions that year. We all concede the Pistons were the better team in that series. Funny how you talk about the Lakers that year when they ing whooped your team 4-2.what happened to the lakers when they "played" the pistons in the finals?
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