Reply With Quote
#2 is okay with me.
there won't be
#1-Suns
#4-Mavericks
#5-Houston
the Spurs @#2 would only be facing:
#7-Nuggets(?)
#3-Sonics
#6-Sacramento(?)
let the Suns take care of Mavs or Houston in the 2nd rnd.(if they can get through Memphis).
#2 is okay with me.
there won't be
#1-Suns
#4-Mavericks
#5-Houston
the Spurs @#2 would only be facing:
#7-Nuggets(?)
#3-Sonics
#6-Sacramento(?)
let the Suns take care of Mavs or Houston in the 1st & 2nd rnd.
#2 is okay with me.
there won't be
#1-Suns
#4-Mavericks
#5-Houston
the Spurs @#2 would only be facing:
#7-Nuggets(?)
#3-Sonics
#6-Sacramento(?)
let the Suns take care of Mavs or Houston in the 2nd rnd.(if they can get through Memphis
Last edited by milkyway21; 04-18-2005 at 08:28 PM.
kinda like the Spurs did last thursday?let the Suns take care of Mavs
plonk
looks like Houston wins tonight & Sac is struggling though.
bump for 19 Apr
... let's not be too sure if the Mavs can get through Houston & Suns...
Number two seed is nice. I know the Nuggets are playing well but I do not think they are better than Hou, Dallas, or Phoenix.
Sac vs. Seattle will be an interesting series. The Sonics recently got Rashard Lewis back which makes them much more formidable.
The Nuggets I think have come back to earth a little bit, and with Najera more than likely out for the Spurs series, and Camby hobbled by a bad hammy.
The Spurs front line should take advantage.
Nesterovic wont see much time, while guys like Horry, and Mohammed will get alot of minutes.
Mohammed better be ready to board and dunk like a mofo.
Keeping guys like Martin and Nene off the boards will be tough.
Bowen has to bring that championship D,
Manu has to bring that Offensive, and pesky steals.
Parker has to drive the lane and not care about nene or Martin being there.
Nesterovic, Mohammed, Duncan, and Horry, need to also do the little things like setting picks for Manu, Parker, Barry, and Udrih to drive to the hole and get easy layups.
IMO, the guy that is coming to form, and will be big is Glenn Robinson.
His shot is coming back, hes getting in shape hes more and more comfortable in the system.
Him Barry, Ginobili, Parker, Duncan,
should get huge points.
Bring good defense, keep Nene and Martin from the boards, and keep them from easy shots.
Keep them out of the transistion game, and contain Boykins as best as you can,
and you win this series in 5.
If Spurs don't win the first 2 games @SBC, they'll be in deep going to Denver 1-1.
What better way to deflate the Nuggets than pushing them to 2-0?
What better way:
1) to shake up the weak confidence of the Spurs and
2) enourage the Nuggets than going 1-1 @SBC,
... blowing the Spurs HCA and donating the HCA to Nuggets? Split @SBC, and then we have a 5-game series starting with 2 games @DEN, and 3 of 5 games @DEN.
Split in Denver, and come back to finish them off in 5 @SBC.
Counting on Marcus' absence and Voshon's rust (he had a very unrusty stat line last night) doesn't sound like championship at ude to me.
True dat. Mavs and Rockets are more worrisome opponents than Den, Sea, or Sacto, I think.#2 is okay with me.
there won't be
#1-Suns
#4-Mavericks
#5-Houston
the Spurs @#2 would only be facing:
#7-Nuggets(?)
#3-Sonics
#6-Sacramento(?)
let the Suns take care of Mavs or Houston in the 2nd rnd.(if they can get through Memphis
Neither does making dire predictions if the Spurs go 1-1 at home.
While certainly not ideal, I wouldn't bail on the Spurs if this happened.
I completely agree. A lot of people around here put a lot of stock in history -- that the Spurs have never won the le without the #1 overall seed; that this Spurs team has a less-than-stellar road record; that teams that end the regular season hot tend to stay hot into the playoffs. I can't rely blindly on those trends to say that anything is impossible this year.
I don't think a home split would be the end of the world for these guys -- as they become whole again, they might actually thrive on the bunker mentality that a home split creates as a team goes out on the road.
It's been so long since we've seen this team playing as a cohesive unit with a number of games to get rolling -- I don't know that any of us can really know what to expect, and I don't know that it's terribly profitable to jump to assumptions based on much of anything that happened in the regular season.
Well, Spurs better win 2 at home or they will have a rough go to take the series.
Nobody's bailing, just pointing out that if the Spurs SBC dominance is worth anything, the Spurs better exploit it to the max and start 2-0, since if their road mediocrity means anything, the Spurs will have a tough time in Denver if arriving 1-1, meaning they lose HCA and start a 5 game series, with Denver having HCA:
2Den -1SA - 1Den - 1SA.
Tue's games with playoff impact:
Wiz @ Nets,
can Nets hang on to/clinch EC 8 seed?
Celts @ Cavs
Will the Cavs stay alive/die for EC 8 seed?
Nets W + Cavs L means Nets clinch EC 8 seed.
Sonics @ Mavs
can the NWD champs Sonics beat Mavs and gain some respect while having a worse record than SWD-non-champion Mavs?
Good points, but the Spurs have blown games at home before in the first round. They dropped game two against Phoenix in 2003, and went on to win the championship. Its not a recommended path, but then it seems our guys never do things the easy way.
Nuggets may just take this to 7. They are tougher than either the Sonics or Kings. Our first round could be the best series in the playoffs.
I reckon:
Spurs over Nuggets in 7 tough ones.
Sonics over Kings in 6.
Suns over Grizz in 5.
Mavs over Rockets in 6.
Should be an excellent playoffs this season, just wish I wasn't in Japan so I could actually watch them!
Last edited by RuffnReadyOzStyle; 04-20-2005 at 12:51 AM.
"They dropped game two against Phoenix in 2003"
The Spurs opened the playoffs with a loss, split against Suns @SBC. The went to PHX, and split there, too. 2-2 against 8th seed, Spurs won games 5,6.
But the Suns weren't winning at a rate of 36-2 at home the way the Nuggets are now under Karl (a better home record that the Spurs), and the 03 Spurs were a much better road team than the 05 Spurs.
If the Spurs split @SBC, they will be in deep .
Last edited by boutons; 04-20-2005 at 04:22 AM.
Yes, and past results are accurate predictors of....
NOTHING! Thing is, last year we were on a 14 game winning streak, then lost 4 in a row!
Spurs won't take Nuggets for granted, and won't lose to them, whether we drop one of the first 2 or not.
Its crazy how the Spurs' potential second round matchup seems so much easier than their first round opponent. Damn.
Maybe, or maybe Nuggets are overrated. We'll soon find out.
If Nuggets ARE as good as everyone says they are, then it will be a good test.
if not, then will the Spurs breeze into the WCF, only to face a team hardened by the fires of true compe ion?
"we were on a 14 game winning streak, then lost 4 in a row"
It was a 17-game winning streak, 11 season, 6 playoff. But the Spurs sucked on the road last year vs top teams after 1 Jan, under .500, and then lost 3 games @Staples.
I refuse to believe there is a total disconnect between season performance and playoff performance. If season/playoff disconnect were the case, then choose playoff teams randomly with a lottery, rather reward them with playoff seeding based on their season performance.
How many of the road losses were without Tim?
Ok, I'll own up about getting the Stats wrong.
I think you make a good point. I believe the Spurs should just play the Pistons for the Championship, and skip all this Playoff nonsense.
Seriously, the Regular season is over tonight. The seeding has been decided. Once the Playoffs start, we are all tied: 0-0. Then you just have play against the teams that come up, and either win or go home.
Bringing up pointless crap about the regular season (who won what series, and who was injured at the time) is a waste of time. NO ONE knows what will happen, THAT's why we play. Either you believe or you don't.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
